Blogger's Quilt Festival - Throw Quilt

My 2nd entry for the Blogger's Quilt Festival over at Amy's Creative Side, is called Sound Check.

Although I have entered this quilt in the Throw Quilt category, in our home it will be hung on the wall in my husband's office/music room.

I always wanted to make a plus quilt and when I got these fat quarters, I couldn't decide what to do with them.  After a few weeks of indecisiveness, I thought I would give them a try with this kind of pattern.  I took out my graph paper and began to draw.  I am so pleased with the result!

When my husband saw the quilt top completed, he decided it would be his.  The last quilt I made for him was a gift on our wedding day, over 11 years ago!  Since he liked this one so much, I decided he could have it.

As I said before, this quilt will hang on the wall in his office/music room.  It will help with the acoustics in there and that is how he came up with the name Sound Check.

I gave myself a challenge with this one and decided to quilt it myself on my mom's Gammill.  It is only the 5th quilt I quilt on the longarm.  I was a little more nervous than with the last quilt but I think it went fairly well.

So here are some quilt stats for you:

Sound Check

measurements: 60"x70"

Pattern designed by Ginette Vallières

Machine pieced by Ginette Vallières

Free-motion machine quilted by Ginette Vallières

Thank you so much for visiting my little corner of the World Wide Web.

Blogger's Quilt Festival - mini quilt

I have been seeing all of the lovely stuff going on at quilt market over on Instagram. Instead of wishing I was there, I decided to participate, for the first time, in the Blogger's Quilt Festival!

 

So my first entry is the mini quilt I just completed for the Dreaming of Spring Mini Quilt Swap.

I had so much fun making this mini quilt.

The pattern is from the book Fat Quarter Quilting by Lori Smith. I love the mix of machine appliqué and piecing. I machine quilted it as well.

 

Quilt stats:

Quilt measures 16" x 20"

Techniques: machine piecing, machine appliqué, machine quilting all done by ME

Entering this in the mini quilt category for the Blogger's Quilt Festival.

 

Thank you so much for stopping by. For more inspiration, please head over to the Blogger's Quilt Festival, Amy puts on a great show!

 

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TGIFF - Baby Quilt and Spring Mini

As promised earlier this week, here is a look at the baby quilt I was commissionned to make.

The pattern is Baby Charm Quilt by Elizabeth Hartman.  I used fabric from the Walk in the Woods line by Aneela Hoey.  

I decided to quilt it on my PFAFF using straight lines at half inch intervals on the red and pink fabrics and one inch intervals in the white sashing.

I thought these pink dots were really cute for the back, and the binding is a Riley Blake fabric.

I also finished my Dreaming of Spring mini quilt for the swap hosted by Michele from the Quilting Gallery.

This pattern is from the book Fat Quarter Quilting by Lori Smith.  I love this book because it mixes applique and machine piecing and all of the quilts in the book measure 16" x 20".  

Here is a picture of the label I embroidered.

I love this quilt and am a little sad to have to send it off.  I truly hope my swap partner will like it and giving it away just gives me an excuse to make another!!

Have a great weekend everyone!  It is Mother's Day here on Sunday and I will be spending a part of the day with my mom at a quilt show!!  

Linking up to TGIFF at Quilt Matters.  Head on over and check out some great finishes.

I am still here!

Wow, it's been a while... I have been quilting but with all the busy-ness of life lately, I haven't gotten around to blogging. I do want to tell you that I am on Instagram now and have been posting there as quiltingprincess. I also have a new Facebook page: The Quilting Princess. Please feel free to like my page, I have been posting pictures of what I am working on and love to chat with all of you.

So up until last night I was working on binding 4 quilts! Yes 4!! I am on a mission to finish stuff.

Last night I finished the binding on the baby quilt. I just need to affix the label and I will be able to share it on Friday for TGIFF.

Next up is my Dreaming of Spring mini for the swap hosted by Michele of the Quilting Gallery. I have to mail that one on Monday, the plan is to have it done this week so I will be able to share it on Friday too!

Of course Rosie has been keeping me busy too.

 

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Quilting

Well, I have been doing some making but no finished projects.

I have been doing a lot of quilting. I started quilting this baby quilt last week on my domestic machine.

I love straight lines on these little quilts! I have about a third of it done. Shouldn't take long to finish it.

Yesterday I went to my mom's and quilted my plus quilt on her Gammill.

This is just a sneak peek. I will get more pictures when it is done. It is really dark and dreary here today, hopefully by the time I finish the binding, it will be a nice sunny day.

Since it is so yucky out today, I thought I would work on my mini for the Dreaming of Spring Mini Quilt Swap hosted by the Quilting Gallery.

 

My mom was lucky enough to go to MQX East / New England Quilt Festival last week. she brought me back some goodies, thought you might like to see them.

A beautiful bundle of yummy fat quarters!

And these "perfect scissors" by Karen Kay Buckley. We have been eyeing these for some time now and I am so glad to finally have a pair! They cut through fabric like butter! Seriously, the fabric doesn't slip so your cutting is a lot more accurate. It is thanks to the micro serrated blade. These are the small ones. I am going to order the medium and large sizes too, probably next month...need to save a little cuz they aren't cheap!

She also found the perfect backing for my Colour My World Challenge Quilt. So glad she will be able to get that one quilted soon too!

Off to appliqué that spring mini!

 

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A pouch and some progress

Well, I got a little bit of sewing done this week. I have been wanting to make a zipper pouch for a while and I found this awesome tutorial by Noodlehead. It was so easy to follow and I managed to make it without making any mistakes (I was worried about putting in a zipper...)

I also made some progress on my medallion quilt from the Handstitched class. I finally finished my EPP squares.

I am a little sad that I cut off some points but I will live with it. Only 2 borders to go before I get to the hand quilting!

For those of you who are wondering, Rosie is doing very well. She only gets up once during the night now and she doesn't bark when we put her in her gated enclosure anymore. She has taught herself to go up the stairs, which I am not so sure is a good thing but I am trying to stay positive!

Have a great weekend!

 

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Rosie

I was so busy sewing and quilting for the past 2 to 3 weeks, but all of that has come to a halt. It may be another couple of weeks or so before I get back to my sewing room.

It is my pleasure to introduce you to our new family member, Rosie.

Rosie is our new 2 month old puppy.

She has been with us since Sunday and she is adjusting very well. I am spending most of my time with her so as to train her and help her get used to her new family. We are all totally in love with her.

I am doing a little bit of sewing, mostly hand work. So I hope to be back soon with some quilting news. I am really looking forward to finishing that Itty bitty twister mini!!

 

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