Curved Quilting Lines

Don't ask me when I started this table runner.  I remember fighting with it.  The printed blocks aren't square.  They are really rectangles and that made for some interesting piecing.  I didn't realize I never finished it until I found it. 

In my quest to use up stuff, I used some white fleece for the batting.  That I won't do again.  The basting spray isn't very effective and I ended up with puckers.  I quilted curved lines.  That I liked and will do some more.  

The back does make me smile.  This is vintage 1970s fabric.  It came from my quilt from college.  A number of years ago, I took apart that quilt and sent the wool out to be recarded.  The top was thrown away.  The backing was in really good shape and I washed it and put it away.  I have used pieces of it for baby quilts and now for this table runner.

Nancy

What Happens When I Talk to Store Clerks

So I stopped at the Joann's in Green Bay.  I had seen Clover makes a pen with some liquid in it that treats the fabric and you get a nice fold.  I had earlier in the day given up on ironing binding that I cut on the bias.  I couldn't get the fold to happen consistently in the center.... 

Nah, Joann doesn't carry such an item.  I did buy sewing machine needles as they were on sale and a rotary cutter blade that makes a wobbly line.  I of course end up talking to the clerk that checks me out.  She wanted to know what I was going to do with the funny rotary cutter blade.  I explained that I make cards and since Joann was going to tempt me with one that was 75% off, I was going to try it.

I end up getting the clerk's address and made her a card.  No I haven't broken out the new rotary cutter blade yet.  The purple is cardstock, the other items are all fabric.

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Nancy

2018 Valentine Cards

Last February I had batting scraps in the waste basket and somehow that translated into Valentines. 

The batting heart was stitched onto a piece of paper.  The paper is then stitched onto a piece of fabric.  The entire card is backed with watercolor paper.

Of course I ended up with a few that were just on a paper base.

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Christmas Pillow

I am on a kick to use some stuff up.  High on the list of stuff to use up is batting pieces.  I have made 3 large quilts in the last year.  That translates into having a lot of batting pieces. 

Somewhere in my travels, I acquired a Christmas panel.  It consists one of large square and two rectangles.  The rectangles I will use in table runners.  The large square makes a wonderful pillow.

Since the panel is so detailed, I did a very, simple quilting.  

The best part is that I made a pillow envelope.  This is not a permanent pillow.  This is a Christmas pillow that slips over an existing pillow for Christmas.

Catch Up Post: 2018 Easter Cards

For Easter this year I did some fabric collage.

There was a series of Easter Eggs.  The eggs are fabric scraps that had fusible adhesive on them.  The background and the letters are paper.

There was also some Easter bunnies done with the same technique.  The bunnies and eggs are fabric scraps fused together and the backgrounds and words are all paper.  The second one had used stitching to enhance the card.

Nancy

Sophie Kurszewski's Quilt

Tom Hughes started this.  Last spring, I made a quilt for his daughter who was graduating from high school.  This year the quilt is for his niece.  

These memory quilts end up reflecting their owners. 

Sophie is an athlete – she ran cross country, she played soccer and she swam.  So there were t-shirts from sports and of course soccer jerseys.  Add in the assortment of t-shirts from camps and schools and events and you get a memory quilt. 

She was adopted from Guatemala when she was 3.  A part of her quilt is the dress she wore when she was adopted which has very, cool embroidery.  Her mom also came home from Guatemala with a hunk of hand woven fabric.  The fabric is now in the quilt and I made Sophie a pillow. 

Once again I was invited to the party and had several people tell me they will need a quilt in the future.  

I don't do anything special for the quilting.  I simply do long runs through my machine and make sure that no more than a 6 inch square is left between lines.

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Nancy