Flower Garden

After completing paper-piecing, I added a border...

and started basting the materials together for quilting.

I started quilting the flower pots and then quilted the flowers.  I did use decorative stitches for some of the quilting of the pots.

I'm now working on the borders by quilting them to look like a picture frame.

Spring Splash!

These are the fabrics for the quilt project that I'm working on now.

A coworker asked me if I could make her a quilt that looks similar to this one. She only took a screen shot of the quilt, but didn't link me the website.

I tried googling and searching Pinterest for this image, but I couldn't find it. So, I made up my own paper piecing patterns.

I started with the flower pots since I already had a pattern for flower pots from a previous small quilt. I just enlarged that pattern to make a 10" square.

All squares are done. Now comes the assembling of squares to from columns. I plan to make a border around the large block of flowers by using the blue background fabric and the pink batik fabric that will be used for the back of the quilt.

Ready for Spring!

I didn't plan on finishing this quilt a couple of days before Easter, but I just did. I started this baby quilt in January. The top was completed and quilt basted in the beginning of February; and then, I hit a quilting wall. I didn't know how I wanted to quilt it. So, the project sat beside the sewing machine the rest of February and most of March while I planned and went on camping trips.

Well, a light-bulb moment came to me. Actually, it was an inspiration. My sister informed me of the wonderful news that my niece is expecting her first! That bit of news jolted me back to finishing the quilt. I was so excited for my niece and her husband that I had the quilt finished in a week.

Which happened to be just in time for bunnies, Spring, and Easter. I'm saying good-bye to winter, and hello Spring!

Simple Things Take Time

I have been working on a baby quilt. I'm hoping that this quilt will be a shower gift for my niece. Unless she's having a boy, then I'll be making another quilt since this quilt screams girl.

Scottie Dogs and Scraps

Finally finished the scrappy quilt yesterday! Since I was dragging from getting the flu shot the day before, I didn't feel like doing much over the weekend. So, I finished off the quilted quilt that had been sitting for weeks on the sewing machine waiting for the scrappy binding to be sewn onto it.

The back of the quilt has a Scottie dog and newspaper theme. I made sure all those cute Scottie dogs were well taken care of with the center square being a fabric with newspaper motif.

After completing the quilt, I then curled up in the warmth of the quilt and watched my favorite you-tubers for the rest of the day.

Scrappy Jean Quilt

I been indoors staying cool this past weekend. Way too hot, temperatures were in the high 90s. I started this quilt top a couple of months ago. I then ignored it while I went on camping trips, visited family back East, and worked on some gardening projects. There are 360 small squares and 30 jean squares that I had cut and needed to be pieced. Well, this weekend I felt motivated to assemble the quilt top. I had seen a similar quilt made with jean material on Pinterest. When I saw that quilt, I knew that I wanted to make that design since I could use my scrap materials along with the jean material from my stash.

The backside will be the doggie and newspaper print fabric. Next, I will have to figure out how I want to quilt it.  

One Totally Scrappy Quilt

I thoroughly enjoyed this project. Assembling and quilting each block created from scraps of fabric and batting scraps was an extremely rewarding process.

Just knowing that my huge scraps of fabric and batting piles were dwindling as I worked on both sides of the quilt brought me enormous joy. Those piles had grown so large that they took up the entire half of a closet. Yes, there were enough scraps of fabric for both sides of the quilt.

I even found leftover binding strips in my pile of scraps that I was able to use to bind this quilt.

I'm now down to one large bin of scraps.  The scraps of batting has diminished, but I still have enough to use in a future quilt-as-you-go project. 

A Peek

I'm almost finished the Garlic Knot quilt.

I thought I would share a couple of photos of the work on the border.

Three different machines were used to assemble the borders and then attach the borders to main quilt. Here are photos of just two of the machines used, Davis and Singer 224.

Transformation of the Garlic Knot

The next step in assembling the quilt was joining the quilted garlic knot blocks together. By using sashing strips that were pieced together to form an additional pattern, the quilt design changed from just the garlic knot pattern to the present design.

Black strips of fabric were used for the back of the quilt's sashing. Since the focus was on the placement of blocks for the front of the quilt, the back of the quilt's pattern just turned out this way. 

Next assembly will be the borders. 

42 Blocks

Assembling a garlic knot block doesn't take very long.  

Setting up a sheet as a reference for the order of the squares that make up the block was very helpful.

After some thought, I decided to add a border around the garlic knot design of the quilt. I really like the look of Bonnie Hunter's quilt. So instead of 56 blocks that I had planned on making, I now have 42 blocks that form seven rows with six blocks to a row. 

With all the blocks done and positioned in rows, the design looks like chain link fence.  Now I need to work on the sashing strips that are used to join blocks together and will change the look of what I presently have done.