I was in the mood for a nice summer quilt and when I was looking at inspiration for my bird quilt, I saw a quilt that had a little bird near water, so I decided to make a beach scene.
I pieced the background, added a strip for the waves. Then I added the birds and the picnic.
I used my usual method of sandwiching first and then securing the applique with quilting stitches.
I quilted some waves in the water.
As per my usual M.O. , I finished this quilt late at night so these photos are taken with artificial lighting.
And as usual, I did not quite finish the quilt. I still need to add the binding. I might add some other things too to finish up.
I will post better reveal photos when the quilt is actually finished.
I hope you enjoyed seeing the quilt. I enjoyed making it.
I posted the links to all of the other participants yesterday. Please visit them and comment to let us know what you stopped by.
It is time for the monthly blog hop. The theme for this blog hop is For the Birds. The project is simple, and just needs a bird on it. My day is tomorrow, so be sure to come back tomorrow to see my quilt.
When Carol announced that the theme for this month's blog hop is transportation, I was really excited because I have a trip around the world quilt that is waiting for applique. My plan is to add a train, a plane, a car, a covered wagon, and other applique around the border of the quilt. But I had to decide which direction all these motifs should go.
This picture does no show the wide border.
Should I add them all up in the same direction so that it would look good in a wall hanging?
Or maybe I should have all the wheels be close to the quilt top so it would look good on a table.
How about putting them close to the binding so that it would look good when draped off a table.
Plus I have to find motifs that look like they belong together.
Since I am working right now, I didn't find time to make all of these decisions. But I recently came across this postcard I had made a while ago. So I made a decision to make a small postcard. This will be a good warm up for the border. I think I am going to use a different, slightly more complicated plane.
I added batting between the front and the back, but to give it some structure, I added a piece of cardboard.
Here is the finished postcard.
This is the back just to prove it is a postcard.
I am hoping to continue with the UFO so that I can make more progress on it this year, but for now the postcard will have to do.
Thank you for visiting. Please be sure to check my last post for the list of all of the other participants in the blog hop.
I made a quilt for the April Showers blog hop. A list of all of the participants are in my last blog hop. Be sure to look at them after you are done admiring my quilt.
After making a few bigger quilts, I am back yet again making a smaller quilt. It is a fun applique pattern that adds to my collection of elephant quilts. Doesn't everyone have one?
I ran out of time making this quilt so I didn't finish it, but it wasn't from lack of effort. I even made it during my lunch and breaks from my job. But it is a great quilt and all I have left to do is to bind it. I want to take the time to make it right, so I added all the spokes on the umbrella, the eye and head piece of the elephant as well as the blanket.
I echo quilted around the shapes with some big stitch free motion quilting.
These pictures were taken at night so they may be dark, but I will take better photos when it is bound.
Here's the schedule for the April Showers blog hop. Be sure to check everyone out to see what wonderful projects they have made for you! Come back tomorrow for my quilt!
This is a pajamas doll quilt I already showed you. When Project Quilting announced the challenge to make a quilt out of clothing, I decided to make one out of my old pajamas. I also decided to make a YouTube tutorial about how to make an on point quilt while I was making this quilt, and it was difficult to move pieces around easily on a design wall. I started with big pieces so I could make it quickly but I decided that a big lap quilt is not something I could make in a week on my work schedule.
So I finished this doll quilt for the challenge. Then I started putting the video together, but my microphone did not work on so many of the videos. I recorded the video clips again after replacing the battery but again they didn't have sound. I could do voice-overs on a lot of the videos, but not all of them worked with that, and I hadn't finished all of the questions I wanted to answer, so I cut up more scraps to be able to experiment and show something.
Instead of using pajama scraps, which I wanted to save in case I needed it for the big pajamas quilt, I used bright colors from the last two quilt tops I made.
The end result of all this is that I got through the video even though I had to spend a lot of time editing this video and that took away from sewing time. Since this is a tutorial, I wanted it to be the best it could be since it is a search based video.
I also created a chart for this video. It tells you the measurements to cut the square for more measurements than I have seen in other charts online. It goes up in quarter inch increments from 1 to 30 inches finished size of blocks. Here's the direct link to the free Triangle Measurements for On Point Quilts Chart by Quilt and Color: https://ko-fi.com/s/be9453f507
And finally, it means that I started three quilts and finished one. I can argue that the scrap squares I cut up would be for the video and not a quilt I was actually starting, but I really like the way they look and have decided I am going to go ahead and sew it up.
15 Minutes to Stitch 2024
This week, I broke my streak of quilting every day this year.
