I've been sewing, but I fell behind on my photography, so hold on to your hats--lots of stuff in this post! 😲
First up are two flannel scrap quilts for donation. I wrote about this process
HERE and showed my first results
HERE.
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| 48" x 62" |
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| Lots of kids' prints |
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| Back and binding (detail) |
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I have two more nearly done--they are a bit larger at 62" x 74", and they are not made with kids' prints. (I hesitate to say they are made with adult prints--that sounds a bit risque! 😮) I'll post when I finish them.
Next is a mystery quilt. I've posted quilts before made from mysteries engineered by a friend on a forum I visit. (You can see some
HERE.) The instructions for this one were designed to make it scrappy, but I've been wanting to use a blue fabric I had in stash, so I went with a more limited color palette.
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| 78" x 78" |
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| Three fabrics (detail) |
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| Back and binding (detail) |
I had it pieced for quite a while, but I couldn't decide when I wanted a border on it or not, so the quilt sat in time-out for a bit! I finally pulled it out and finished it. I quilted with straight-line quilting.
Finally, I have finished Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt--Good Fortune. I have done several post about the steps in making this. (If you look in the "Labels" section on the right-hand side of the blog page, click on "Good Fortune," and they will appear on one page for you.)
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| Good Fortune 74" x 74" |
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| Good Fortune (binding and backing detail) |
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| Wide variety of fabrics (detail) |
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| Even more fabrics! (detail) |
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| A bunny, a goose, kids, peppermints, etc. (detail) |
This was a fun project to piece. I substituted yellow/gold for the orange in the original instructions, but all the other colors were the same as the original. The quilting was difficult. For some reason, I kept shredding thread (I think it was the abundance of seams!), and it took a long time to complete. I'm not really happy with the quilting, but as the saying goes, "Finished is better than perfect."
I'm trying to get things finished up before Spring Break because I have a new pattern I want to try... 😏
