Sharon's Half-Square Triangles

Here's another quilt that Sharon made. Very colorful, don't you think? I'm not sure if she used a pattern, or not. She just called it Half-Square Triangles.

 Simple custom quilting, including continuous curves and elongated loops. Hobbs 80/20 batting and PermaCore lime green thread.

Just look at all those half-square triangles. Sharon presses her seams open and they match up perfectly. The few times I tried to press open, I had a hard time matching those points. I would rather have them nest up against each other, but sometimes that makes for a very thick seam. Maybe I'll try it again....

Sharon's Chevrons

Sharon made this adorable chevron quilt using half-square triangles.

 I wanted to try something different on this one and decided on some ruler work. Straight zig-zag lines in the white and elongated loops in each of the colored triangle pieces.

 I love how it turned out and makes me want to try a chevron with half-square triangles myself.

I used Omni white thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.
I got an email from her after she picked it up and she was so happy with it, she said she is making a twin size with the same pattern.

Pam's Zippy Strippy Quilts

These two 1600 quilts were made by Pam also.

The first one has a thin flannel as batting. I believe it's going to Arizona, so she didn't want it real heavy. Also, she had started quilting a meander on her machine, in the center, of course, and it was about a quarter done. I loaded it and then started quilting at the top edge of her quilting and worked my way up to the top edge. Then advanced it to the bottom of her quilting and continued to the bottom.

 

I love the black squares she put between the strips!

This one has Hobbs 80/20 batting and I quilted it with Flower Child by Apricot Moon Designs. I think it's perfect for the fabrics.

Pam's 10-Minute Blocks

It's no April fools joke, I'm back! First post in 2 months, whew!

I post pics of quilts on Facebook as I'm working on them but have neglected by poor blog. I'm probably just talking to myself now, but oh well.

Here is a quilt that Pam made using the 10-minute block technique.

She just wanted simple quilting with the exception of the block centers. I almost caught the sunlight just right to show the quilting in those centers

You can see the center design pretty well on the back:

Snow Days

We had 10" of snow here last Sunday and then on Monday and Tuesday the temperatures were way below zero. Purdue University and The National Group was closed for business, so that meant snow days for us.

 I still considered myself and Mabel on vacation, so I didn't do any customer quilting, although I could have gotten a lot done. Instead, I rearranged my sewing room so that I could see my new flat screen TV (Christmas gift from Dan. Thanks honey!)

While rearranging and sorting through things, I came across a bunch of little projects that I thought I could whip out really quick.

This I-Spy quilt just needed the small yellow borders attached. They were all cut and ready to go. I wonder why I didn't do that before?

These pillowcases were ready to stitch together too, so I got out the serger and they were finished just like that and they are ready to donate.

On Facebook, one of my friends shared this idea.

What is it you might ask? It's a room heater, made with tea light candles, a meatloaf pan and clay pots. My sewing room doesn't have a furnace vent and it gets really cold in there. After having this going for several hours, the temperature was 2 degrees warmer than the living room. Pretty amazing! Here's how to make one.

I also spent quite a bit of time playing Candy Crush, that dreaded time-sucker that I love! I posted on Facebook asking my friends how many levels they passed during the snow days. My friend Peggy said she was assembling her row-by-row quilt. Oops, I forgot about that quilt, which is to be shown at this month's guild meeting on January 15th. Yikes!!! I had barely even looked at my rows since we finished passing them months ago.

I decided on the sashing fabric and was auditioning the borders here. I'll show you the whole thing after the meeting next Wednesday.

 For those of you that might not know what a row-by-row is…
There were 7 quilters in our group and we each supplied our own fabrics, made the first row and put them into a tote. Each person selected a block to use to make their rows. So, I made the same row of blocks, just used a different quilters fabrics each month.
Here are some of the rows I made:

More Minkee

I made these two minkee quilts for Andrew and Elizbeth and finished them just in time for Elizabeth's birthday party last Saturday.

I bought the Dr Seuss minkee in Shipshewana at the Cuddle Corner in the Davis Merchantile. The black, red, blue and white are from Joann's, bought either on sale or with a coupon.

I stitched the strips together with the serger, just like Julie did and like Calise's. It is so much easier to have that mess all contained when I loaded them on the longarm.

I used the same panto, Turbulence on both and they have Hobbs 80/20 batting.

Elizabeth's has red minkee backing and red thread

And Andrew's has blue backing and blue thread. I LOVE this Dr Seuss fabric I got at Joann's for the binding.

I just rolled them up and tied with a ribbon and Liz opened hers first. We told Andrew to open his and he said, "It's going to be just like hers!" They are very similar, I must admit.
Look at the cute Nana labels I added.

Celtic Solstice, The Reveal

At midnight on New Year's Eve, Bonnie posted the reveal to the mystery quilt. It's very pretty!
I'm happy with my color choices and looking forward assembling the blocks.

Here are the pieces that will fit on my design wall.

Here's a closer look at my fabrics.

We are having a major winter storm and I didn't have to go to work today. I must admit that I sent way too long playing candy crush. I did rearrange and clean my sewing room this weekend.