Bonnie's 1600 Quilt

Bonnie is a guild member and relatively new quilter. She attended her first retreat in March 2012. She wanted to try her hand at making a 1600 quilt and I remember her strip being stretched the length of the hallway at the hotel in order to untangle it.

She has since added borders and gave it to me for quilting.

I chose Hearts and Roses because of the hearts in some of the fabrics. Omni white thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

 

1600 Quilts

One of our customers here at the National Group, Dick Funk, is a huge fan of my quilting. He asked me to make 4 quilts for Christmas, one for each of his daughter-in-laws. Thank heaven he chose an easy pattern, 1600 quilts.

I purchased jelly rolls at Rossville Quilts and backing fabrics there also. I added narrow borders from my stash and bought the outer border and binding fabrics at Joanns.

I hope they were pleased with his gifts!

Peggy's 1600 Quilt

I think this may be the last of the 1600 quilts that I'm quilting. Peggy and her Pit Crew made this one in lightening speed.

I chose Double Rose Vine as the quilting design, as I think it fits very well with the calico fabrics.
Very pretty calicos!

PermaCore Dyed Natural thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

Next up just might be Peggy's Celebration quilt!

Janet's 1600+ Quilt

Janet made this cute 1600+ quilt for her son and daughter-in-law to use when camping. I call it 1600+ because I'm sure it was much longer than 1600 when the strips were sewn together. It spanned the length of her house several times and I helped her wrap it around a tupperware pitcher, which turned out to be not such a good idea.  At least the strips were contained a bit. It is 75" square and cute as can be.

Square Spiral panto, PermaCore dyed Natural thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

I just love all the different camping themed fabrics. I had no idea there were so many out there.

The backing is 2 flannel camping prints.

Cathy's 2nd 1600 Quilt

Here is the 2nd of Cathy's 1600 quilts from our guild jelly roll race. She used all batiks and I can't imagine what her batik stash looks like. I'll bet she has 100's of different ones.



I used Angel Wings panto because it was on the table from when I quilted Caren's, which I didn't get pictures of, darn it.



Mother Goose PermaCore thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.

Carla's 1600 Quilt

Carla was a guest at our guild meeting a couple weeks ago and she helped Mona with her quilt. Then she went home and cut some childrens novelty fabrics and made a 1600 Zippy Strippy quilt. She wanted something fast and easy as she is donating this quilt very soon.



I quilted it with Angel Wings panto because the border fabric has butterflies. Hobbs 80/20 batting and Omni Pearl White thread.

Just look at all these cute fabrics. It's going to make some youngster very happy.

Common Threads Guild 1600 Quilt Race 2012

Here's a slide show of our guild 1600 Jelly Roll Race at our January meeting.

Some members started in the Fast Lane by sewing their strips together before the meeting and some started from the beginning after Viki blew the whistle. The Peggy's team finished in just 32 minutes. Boy, what a system they had....one person sewed, one pit crew member took the newly sewn strips, opened them up and then layed them nicely in a stack and then the stack was handed to the other pit crew member and she kept them coming to the sewer.

Tammy started from scratch and still finished her quilt in less than and hour and a half.

They each received a jelly roll, a chocolate bar and a crown.

My Retreat Projects

I started working on a very old mystery quilt from Becca's blog.

I cheated!, there, I said it! I looked at the last clue. I decided that I didn't really care for it in the fabrics I had started with. When I pulled the pieces out of the tote, Janet asked if it was a Chinese Coins quilt and that got me thinking about it. I spent WAY TOO LONG figuring out how to make it look random. But, I love the outcome!



Then I pulled out these lotto blocks that I won at Spring Break at Mardi Gras. I added green sashing, setting triangles and a couple borders. I may quilt this one and donate it to the guild auction next year. Or I may decide I want to keep it.



Saturday afternoon I worked on my Zippy Strippy quilt, which still needs borders.



I also put together four 10-minute blocks. I picked up a few fat quarters from the boat at Lolly's to make some more.