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Forest Friends Finally Finished!

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You can read about the beginnings of this quilt HERE!   I started it for our little guy a few years ago.  He will be 4 this year and very soon will move into a twin size bed so I decided it was time to FINISH! I only had some quilting left to do and to my surprise there wasn't much left that needed done.  Hurray! I loaded it all up in one layer and began the tough part of deciding what to do for each block.  I had started out on my treadle doing something different for each one. I was super excited that I was able to find the scraps left over which included some already measured and made binding (way to go me!!) in our still full basement.  It really was a quick finish. It was fun to watch our boy take in all of the animals again!  He really loves animals! I still love this one! Here is some of the quilting. I did notice I didn't finish the top of the rabbit's ear but I am not loading it all up again just for that little bit.  Maybe once my sewing room has walls and stuff

Baby Quilt Revived

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My mother in law found my husband's baby quilt while they were sorting through things. It was well used and in much need of some TLC. The wife of a man who worked for his parents made it for him all those years ago.  She had  just tied the quilt and it had even been re-tied in a few places.  Around the edge she had put a simple cotton rope piping.  The piping was hanging off in several places.  The actual fabrics had held up pretty good, with just a few spots that had ripped open from use. I started off by just cutting off the edges with my rotary cutter. I was actually thinking of leaving the batting inside and just hooking the layers together on my quilting machine and giving it a quick quilt...but. The old batting looked more like cobwebs!  I knew I just needed to undo the tied spots, separate the fabrics and give it new batting. That I did!  And then I loaded it all up on Miss Vivian. I haven't been too adventurous with my quilting so far since I had to send them on and did

An Earth Tone Batik Beauty

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Some friends got married in a small ceremony a few months back.  I didn't have time to get a quilt made for them but the plan was for a big reception this month...that gave me time! Without telling them what I was planning I asked if they had any color schemes preferences for their bedroom.  She mentioned that she generally likes neutral/earth tones. Here is a screenshot of my inspiration quilt: I went with batiks due to a recent acquisition of mine.  You see, I have an online auction problem. The first step is to admit you have a problem, right?!  Anyway, there was a local auction with lots of sewing items on it.  The final lot was the fabric contents of a lady's sewing room and I won it.  It was huge!  We nearly filled our horse trailer when we went and picked it all up! Yikes, but my husband is wonderful and said at least I do something with it. Due to the state of my sewing room, non-existent yet, I haven't even fully gone through it all yet.  But in going through some

Temperature Blanket of 2023

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Last year I decided to jump on the temperature blanket wagon. I chose a Caron brand yarn, got all my colors chosen and knitted away. When I went about trying to find a good website to tell me the temperature for each day I didn't want to just do the high for the day. Silly me, always making things more complicated! Haha!  Instead I chose to do one half of the row with the low for the day and the other half for the high temperature. First I started out doing two rows for each day. My first stitch I used was the seed stitch and I quickly realized that at 2 rows a day this afghan would be ginormous! One row it was! So, doing the same stitch for an entire year sounded mundane. I decided to do a different stitch for each month! January and July:  seed stitch February and August:  linen stitch.  This stitch was by far, my favorite! March and September:  one row stitch April and October:  cross stitch May and November: garter stitch June and December: bamboo stitch And here she is! It was

Memories turned Lap Quilts

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Several months back I was contacted by a gal I made 10 t shirt memory quilts for about 8 years ago. This time they were for her sister's in-laws. She wanted 4 lap quilts. Here is the first one, I had five shirts to work with. I did a simple patchwork for the alternating blocks with the leftover fabric.  I have no idea where my knit fabric interfacing is so I skipped that step this time. It didn't really affect it except a little more movement in the quilting. This is the first t shirt quilting I have done on Miss Vivian.  I like it! Now I opened the second bag of t shirts and it required a bit more thinking...it only had 2 shirts in it! I finally came up with a design that worked to highlight those shirts and used the scraps for the rest. I used the faux chambray fabric from Connecting Threads for all the sashings. I used it on her others and they still carry it, which is wonderful! The third bag only had 2 shirts as well so I did the same pattern. There were two denim shirts t