Autumn Maples Leaves Quilt ~ 2013 Blogger's Quilt Festival

My goal was to make it look as if the Autumn Maple Leaves had been scattered randomly over the quilt top.

This is a close-up of the Maple Leaves pantograph, quilted by Janiel Miller.

The quilt measures 94" x 94".  It would work on either a Queen or King size bed. 

It's listed in my etsy shop, here.

I always piece my quilt backs, and this one is no exception.  I had a fat eighth stack Lizzie House's Castle Peeps.  The prints that didn't make the cut for the quilt top, were used on the quilt back.

 

May your bobbins always be full,

The Very Busy Scrappy Quilt.

Are you like me, you love each and every quilt you make?  I really love this scrappy quilt.  It's all finished and listed in the shop, here.

May your bobbins always be full,

Mostly White with Red Patchwork Quilt.

 I think this is such a fun quilt, now it's ready to go to a new home.  I've listed it here.

May your bobbins always be full,

The Feather Quilt

This is my entry to Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival.

I like how different it looks, when it's turned the other way!

A close-up of the quilting pattern, called Beach Party by Anne.

I finally got the binding on this quilt.  Life just keeps getting in the way.  I've listed it in my etsy shop, here.

May your bobbins always be full,

In the mail.

I put these in the mail, last week, for the three lovely ladies who signed up for my Handmade Pay It Forward.  I posted the PIF, in August, I had 365 days to complete it, but I felt late!  These are 10" square hotpads.  I used a lot of the selvadges I've been saving.  I thought selvadge hotpads would be perfect for quilters.  I added the bamboo slotted spoons, because the hotpads, didn't seem like enough.  Anyway, I sure hope they like them.

May your bobbins always be full,

WIPs need binding

In the past month I've picked up four quilts from Janiel, and put them aside.  It's so great that my fabulous long arm quilter lives only a couple of miles from me, within walking distance!  Life and my little Christmas project kept getting in the way.  Now, my goal is to get the binding on these four quilts, before I start my next scrappy project.  Bob and I play cards each Tuesday evening and dominoes each Thursday evening, and next week is our turn to host both games at our home.  You know what that means, a major cleaning!

When I sorted my scraps I ended up with a whole stack of 2 1/2" WOF scraps, those will be my next focus, I'm thinking something like this:

image from Fancy Tiger Crafts.  Pin

That'll be for next week, after the Game Nights are over.

May your bobbins always be full,

Scrap Queen

 My long arm quilter, Janiel, called me the Scrap Queen, the last time I dropped off two quilts, ready for quilting.  That really does describe me, lately.  I've been really busy using up the mountain of scraps I've accumulated.

After sorting my strip shaped scraps, I decided to make some potholders.  These are large, 9", so I think they'll be great for hotpads, too.  I used my walking-foot, love that thing, to stitch parallel to the seams when I put them all together, backing, layers of batting and the front.

I had fun choosing FQ's that I thought would co-ordinate with the scrappy fronts.  These are really just mini-quilts!  For the binding I used an extension of the back, cut to 1.5", then folded in half.  I used a zig zag stitch  to add a little extra when I stitch the binding down.

Then I moved on to the tons of selvedges I've been collecting.  I saved the really long pieces for a future project, and used all the strips that were a little over 10" long.  I had 5 layer cake pieces, in my scraps, I used them as foundations for joining the selvedge strips together.  Again, I had fun choosing FQ's to co-ordinated with the fronts of the potholders.  I also used the same binding method of wrapping the backing around and stitching it down with a zig zag stitch.

These were a lot of fun, most are being saved for my Christmas giving project.

May your bobbins always be full,