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.

Kim's Applique and Pieced Quilt

Another one for Kim and just like the last one, she wanted a meander on this one also. A lot of work went into piecing this quilt and she did a great job.



I chose PermaCore Mother Goose thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting. This is another one that I would love to make. But I think I would add some borders to it to make it fit my bed.




And the back:

Stashbusting 2012 - #3

Fabric Added this week - 10 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date - 10 yards

Fabric Used this week - 0 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date - 1.5 yards

YEAR TO DATE STASH USED: -8.5 yards

I went to Joann's yesterday with Janet and was hoping to spend $50 so I could get a 30% off card for this week. Their clearance fabric was 50% off the clearance price so I picked up some for backings. The football will be for charity quilts and the brown and pink for my pineapple quilt. They also had Kona on sale, so I got 3 yards of it for making the Starry Eyed quilt. I bought some other things and used my 20% off coupon on my phone. My total before tax was $51, so I have the 30% off coupon to use this week.

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.

Perfect Stitch and an Antique Quilt

No, not the stitch on one of my machines, it's the name of my husband's business. He took sewing machine repair classes last spring and has been servicing machines since June. He's learned a lot and it really amazes me how much he knows about them. He buys lots of machines, services them and then sells them. Santa brought him a sand blaster for Christmas this year and you have go to see what he has done with a very ugly, old machine.

The Antique Quilt
Betty brought me this grandmothers flower garden quilt and wanted it finished. It had been hand quilted and had about an inch of yucky batting sticking out on all sides. I said the only way I would fix it is to add a facing and turn it to the back and stitch it down. She said that would be fine and that's all done and now I will wash it. The difference in color really isn't as noticable as it looks in the photo.

Another one for Carol

I loaded and quilted this 30 x 34" quilt for Carol B. It's another one of Carol Hopkins patterns, this one is called Lizzie's Tents.



Warm and Natural batting for these last 2 and PermaCore Mother Goose thread.


I quilted one of these for Carla here, so I was pretty sure how I was going to do this one.



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Carol's Quilt

This quilt made by Carol is from the Carol Hopkins pattern Abigail's Gowns. Very cute quilt and I was in the mood for a little custom, so today I spent an hour quilting, then an hour working on a jizsaw puzzle, and then an hour on hand stitching the facing on a antique Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt that belongs to Betty Frank. Maybe I have a bit of A-D-D.



The pieced blocks have continuous curves with a loop in the flying geese blocks. On the solid blocks I drew diagonal lines from corner to corner and then quilted 3 loops in each section. It makes a great design and I was able to do a row of the setting triangles, one row of pieced blocks and 1/2 of a solid row with one start and stop. (Unless, of course, I run out of bobbin thread, darn it!)





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