I just had to start and finish a Christmas project in July. I had some of this fabric left from when I made tabletoppers in 2011 and 2013 and I made one similar to the ones I made back then. I used machine quilting and hand quilting.
The back of the mat is Debbie Mumm fabric.
Here is a photo of half of the batting cut off close to the stitching. I used the backing as a binding. I cut it 1" from the outside of the mat and folded over halfway and pressed. Then I clipped and pinned and did a machine stitch around the outside edge. I used #332 on my Bernina. That is the same stitch I used to quilt down the center and across the middle.
Here is the little quilt I got so excited to start back in June when I watched an old show on TQS. I blogged about it
in this blog post I was going to make it larger but changed my mind. It is really difficult to piece something not straight and then try to get the outside fairly straight! I thought improv making up whatever I wanted would be easier....but there has to be some kind of plan! I am hand quilting it....fun....fun! I am calling it Not All Solids.
I decided to do some big stitch quilting on this rail quilt that I had machine quilted about half so far....many many years ago! I needed some hand work to do. The tutorial I watched is
https://crafty.house/big-stitch-quilting/ I will go back to machine quilting when I practice some more....I have gotten very rusty with not doing it!!!
This photo is from my 2019 Artfully Inspired Life journal with the class I am taking with Joanne Sharpe. It is the January page (she says we are NEVER behind)....and under the window shutters are my goals I wrote out for this year. I had written them in January and just copied into my book this week! The little shutters were made using my sticker machine and the acrylic papers I had painted and cut into tiny strips!.
I am so excited that I am NOW able to see The Quilt Show and my ruzuku classes on our big TV screen in the living room using Amazon Fire Box. Really a great way to watch and get my steps at the same time. Healthy eating and getting my walking exercise every day is a very important part of each day!
Linking to
http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/2019/08/oh-scrap-new-color.html
Smiles and hugs....Caryl
Beautiful projects. Thanks for sharing them with Oh Scrap!
ReplyDeleteThank you Cynthia!
DeleteSuch loveliness! Yes, I know what you mean, trying to get something that is improvisational or crazy-pieced to finish straight and square. Last time I squared up something like that it kept getting smaller and smaller as I kept trimming and just when I got one side square, suddenly the other side was crooked again!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rebecca....and that is exactly what was happening to me. I kept trimming off more and more....and finally stopped...added a little piece to make it square!
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