The Week Of Quilts - Finished WIPS for Every Day of The Week...Monday to Friday that is!!

I know that's a grandiose blog header but I'm aiming to document a week of finished quilts!!...just so I cover my butt I'll change it to include quilt tops??!!

I've finally starting moving my stash up from the garage into my new sewing space (baby son's old room ) and I'm slightly mortified at the size of the stash and the random UFO's I've been unearthing!

Meanwhile a new cuzzie baby boy was born down the coast ( East Coast of the North island ) and he needed a quilt....cue this ridiculously cute Monster print from Robert Kaufman at my LQS.

So a stack of Kona Cottons in Blue and Grey....

Aaaaand a 60 degree ruler later we have a pile of 6" triangles....ready to test the point matching skills of any die hard triangle quilt fan!

I thoroughly enjoyed the repetitive nature of this type of sewing and with the company of some Netflix...how did I live without this before???....the top was busted out in two nights.

A wee while back I was the lucky recipient of a giveaway hosted by my Gorgeous Sparkly Boy, Molli, and the sponsor was Ms Midge, who you all know is an Aurifil brand distributor.

I chose this sexy variegated silver/grey thread for my topstitching from my winnings and it slid through all three layers like a hot knife in butter...divine...barely any lint even though I used a flannel for the backing.



Here it is all bound and yummy looking



I did a basic 1/4" quilt outline from every seam



Which showed up beautifully on the backing



I machine bind most of my quilts now but particularly baby quilts so they can be washed multiple times without fear of the binding coming loose.

Bound and labelled ready to be loved...which after hearing from the Mumma it is very much.:)

These bibs were also found in the ridiculous stash/hoarding downstairs and all they needed was a bit of velcro...too lazy for snaps LOL

OK peeps one quilt down and hopefully four posts to go?!

Finishes Yay - And Two Have Moved Out Already

Lots and lots of pictures coming up...you were warned

So it seems I have been doing some finishing amid the shambles that is my routine at the moment...yay!

 

Feels soooo good to look at these all together and feel like I've accomplished something this week and made some other people happy too...doesn't get any better...two of these have already gone to new homes!

 

 

 This baby quilt was done so quickly ( 2hrs)  that I didn't even get time to take any quilty stats about it.

Eldest son's "Someone Special" has a new nephew arriving any day now and when she saw the other baby quilt come back from the longarmer she fell in love....how could I not offer to make one as a gift??

They were both flying out in a few days to Aussie for 3 weeks so I knew I wouldn't have time to quilt it myself...work, kids blah blah blah...so I quickly text my Quilter and she said sure drop it off 3 day turnaround!!

 

 

Machine quilted binding, scrummy chenille backing

 

 

And gorgeous hands quilted all over

 

 

Too perfect for a wee boy me thinks, last of my Sweetwater Reunion and a little Mormor to round out the primary colours

 

 

 

I couldn't resist a pic of a pile of quilts ready to be bound and snuggled

 

 

Binding ready to go

 

Baby quilt of Triangles that somehow dropped on the floor and got missed from the other Triangle Quilt, so in the spirit of not wasting anything I sewed them together used a skinny white border and had exactly the right amount of Chez Moi by Moda that I have had for far too long...done dusted

And just scrumptious, it's quilted all over in a Fleur de Lis pattern and has softened up beautifully after the dryer

 

No home as yet for this one

Quilt size 36" x 49"

 

Little OWB is growing up too fast and obviously observing her Mumma all the time she knows exactly how to turn Lady Muck on even if I switch her off at the wall!! Not even 2 yet...scary

 

These were early morning photos when wee one was asleep so they are a little bit off in colour.This was purely an exercise in triangle sewing and a colour combo I was stuck on....pink,orange and low volume prints

 

Once again it washed up beautifully and I love that I used up some of the prints in a scrappy binding...I feel oddly satisfied when a fabric is all gone? Except of course for my must haves then it's PANIC and I must buy more...weird

 

 

Finished size is 40" x 63"...also no home as yet

 

Last but certainly not least the custom baby quilt for Dear Friend's first Grandchild!!! She's only a couple of years older than me but it seems frightening when I have a toddler....AAAAAGH

 

Mum To Be chose the colours and I really enjoyed pulling from my stash to match her paint chips

I hope she's just as pleased

 

If you got to the end of this post well done....it was looooong, have a lovely weekend and catch you on Sunday for Fabric stashing....

 

Linking up with all these lovely peeps

 

AmandaJean over at Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Up Friday

 

Lindsey@ Fort Worth Fabric Studio

 

 

And Sarah over at Georgia Girl Quilts who's hosting TGIFF

 

 

 

 

Finish It Up Friday

There are actually some photos of two blocks from this quilt in my sidebar but I have only just officially finished it, with binding.....I loathe binding

 

It came from this publication

 

And is a Sarah Fielke design...I love her work in case you didn't know, it's a really great exercise in colour placement and practising your point matching as all the pieces are cut individually, not strip pieced and then cut on a 45 or 60 degree angle like most ' hexagon type' stars.

So a block at a time is really quite fun if you cut a whole lot of scraps or strips in one go and then play around with it

 

 

 

Binding is a DS print in black and orange, perfect against the Kaffe Fassett Roman Glass print

 

The border down each side I designed myself but I should've oversized the outer triangles to allow for bias stretch and being quilted by the longarmer ...it was a mission to bind without losing any points so some allowances are a very scant 1/4" with a few back and forth stitiches

 

If you've been here before you know I have a love for chenille bedspreads as backing but it's not often they still have an original tag, this one did and I laughed at the colour Jaffa?!!.... as it really is a Jaffa colour (red, round crispy coated lolly with chocolate inside that tastes like orange)

 

 

Linking up with Amanda Jean@ Crazy Mom Quilts and TGIFF

 

Christmas Is Coming

Christmas is coming and I WILL have a new Xmas Christmas quilt ready to be hung...in actual fact she says being a real smarty pants I will have three!!...Well one is a table runner but I'm counting it!

Warning another picture heavy post...

 

 

These are all Kate Spain fabrics bar the red and white one below which is Michael Miller.

 

Confession time......these projects were pieced last year BEFORE Xmas but only quilted this year and bound this week....I think the fabric is even older since I couldn't even locate the free pattern sheet on the Moda Website ....shame

 

 This is a table runner that I just made up, which was quite obvious when I didn't measure correctly and had to unpick two blocks...seems in my head I have a giant's table...probably from all the food I seem to have to cook to feed the people who keep appearing to eat....Teenage boys!!!

Michael Miller border again...must love it since I still have yardage??

 

Fabric in the square is Riley Blake, I think?

 

 

 

  This Xmas Tree Quilt is humongous..there is still another column of trees to the left which I couldn't fit into the camera screen....but I love love love it...pattern is by Basic Grey

 

Long story short, the trees are supposed to be 3D but after doing one I decided that although the technique was cool it was wasting too much fabric and since I knew that I was sending it out to be quilted my longarmer would have kittens trying to navigate the raised edges within the quilt for a panto...custom would have been fine but I save that for smaller less expensive quilts.

 

Jingle bells quilted all over

 

 

The one and only 3D tree

 

 

Congratulations! You made it to the end!!....Maybe next year I will have my Grinch quilt ready for Xmas 2014!

 

Linking up to Amanda at Finish It Up Friday