This is my last finish for this weekend.
These were my dryer sheet string blocks.
I don’t like the border on this one. The border in itself is fine, it just doesn’t work on this quilt. However, it is now a finished flimsy ready for quilting, and I am sure it will find a home where it will be loved just the same. 🙂 Not every idea in my head turns out like I think it will!
This is my second finish for this weekend. I have had the luxury of spending my time this weekend working on my own projects. I have been “making hay while the sun shines”, making full use of the opportunity.
This quilt is now quilted (using my new Swirls template) and bound.
Detail of the quilting.
I have been asked what I did to alter my quilt from Debbie Mumm’s pattern.
Debbie Mumm’s quilt is crib size, finishing at 46″ x 58″. That size was a little too small for my needs so I enlarged the pattern to 51″ x 75″.
This is the layout from Debbie Mumm’s pattern.
If you compare this diagram with the photo of my quilt you will see that I have added…….
….one extra row of blocks and….
one extra strip down the side.
My handwritten notes indicate that you need to cut the following numbers of strips of the different fabrics:
6 – 3 1/2″ strips of Fabric A (blue)
5 – 3 1/2″ strips of Fabric B (pink)
4 – 3 1/2″ strips of Fabric C (green)
5 – 3 1/2″ strips of Fabric D (yellow)
2 – 6 1/2″ strips of Fabric E (orange)
3 – 3 1/2″ strips of Fabric E (orange)
First border: 1 1/2″ strips (green)
Outer border: 6 1/2″ strips (print)
Binding: 7 – 2 1/2″ strips (pink)
This pattern works up fast and will definitely be one that I do again.
Last week I received my newest Circle Lord Template, “Swirls” for my long arm.
This is a customer quilt that I just finished using that template. Isn’t a wonderful design!
This quilt does not have a quilt bat. Rather, the customer brought me a wool blanket (that had been washed several times) to use as batting. Even though the blanket has virtually no loft, the design of the quilting still shows.
I can see lots of quilts using this template in my future!
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Last week was a week for gifts.
I received these cute potholders from Phyllis as a thank you for quilting the following quilt for my quilt guild’s We Care Committee. The quilt was far too large for the ladies to manage to quilt easily on their domestic machines. I told them that I wouldn’t mind doing the quilting for them. I returned the quilt to Phyllis (one of the We Care Committee coordinators) on Wednesday night at our guild meting. The piecer has the quilt back to put the binding on. Once the quilt is bound and labelled it will be donated to a new hospice starting up in our community.
I love anything with snowmen on it. I collect snowmen. I love snowmen! I thought to myself, what a wonderful gift. I asked Phyllis, how she knew her gift would be so perfect and she whispered to me, “I read your blog!”. What a perfect lead into my presentation on blogging that night!
This is the quilt that will be donated to our local hospice.
