A Pressed Bouquet in Fabric & 2015 finish!

Chester County Criswell Quilt Block #29

Chester County Criswell Quilt Block #29 Maria Criswell is finished! It is an odd little pressed flower bouquet.

I am on the way to finish CCC Block #30 (Elizabeth Crosby) by the end of the month, in time for the new block! Can't wait!

          Chester County Criswell Quilt Block #30

Modern Baby Grandmother's Quilt dated & FINISHED! 2015
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A Little Embroidery

Just need to add the date! (and figure out how to make pictures turn the correct way). How about that green and purple together? I like it! Very fun. Next,... plan some quilting this weekend after a VERY busy Spring Break of triple work. 

Update - no one said a word about my misspelling! YIKES - "Embroidery" is corrected now :) And, the date is added :) WOW! A complete finish! Photo next time.

"Grandmother Quilt" almost ready!

The quilting is finished I am making good progress on the binding of this quilt. It is for little "George's" grandmother. I will probably never meet George or his mother, but his grandmother is a very important person in my life these last three years who had helped me achieve a major life milestone that I will never forget! This baby-sized quilt (43 &1/2" X 33") is for grandmother (and for George when he visits her). I am very happy with how it is turning out and can't wait to deliver it to Indiana in a few days!

Adaptation of "HI" quilt pattern

Peek at green swirl backing and binding is coming along!     Good bye Ms. Amaryllis

BIG Block #13 Chester Co. Criswell!

The BIG center block #13 for Chester County Criswell quilt (from Oct. 2013) is finally finished! It hung on the design wall in various states of completion for quite a while (over a year!) and now it is there again... completed!I am very close to getting caught up now with all these blocks - now that I purchased additional background fabric. It was a dreary dark day when photographing so color is a little slimy. I'll redo when the sun is out...but did not want the dim day to diminish my excitement on sharing this achievement!

CCC #13

Design wall is curved - on a curved wall behind curved stairwell.

Amaryllis is in full bloom with 4 flowers. Stunning!!

Another bright spot in this grey drizzly day!



Modern Baby was basted and is ready to machine quilt! I starting pinning...but this was not going to be satisfactory so I spray basted (indoors) due to bad weather. This was a little risky proposition due to the over spray potential (on glass dining room table - so easy enough to clean) AND the fumes (requiring quick spray bursts and leaving the room to air out for awhile). However, the benefit of this basting method are proving them self as the machine quilting is going very well!

I am quilting a quarter inch down the sashing lines on each side. I am quite happy with progress being made. I will have not problem meeting my desired completion deadline so I can take this quilt to Indianapolis with me soon!

Various projects in Progress

Bible Quilt -Jonah's Block

Last week I worked on various projects. It is fun for me to pick up whatever strikes my fancy and fits into the time I have. I paper pieced the sun for Jonah's block in my Bible Quilt. I am very happy with it! (It has a center that will be appliqued on too).



I also recently finished the red cutwork block that I began some time ago. I think it was Chris maybe who helped identify it as a block from Sentimental Stitches Just Take Two (2012) Red Quilt. I have collected many of those patterns when they were offered as free block of the month, but have only made this one block. It just spoke to me at a time when I am working on the Chester County Blocks.



The other project I worked on this weekend was basting the modern baby quilt. This is another item that began awhile ago (Dec. 2013) and is getting my attention now becasue I know exactly who it will go to now.  I am very excited to deliver it on March 3rd - a very important date in my life that has been a long time coming! I made the binding for it recently, a little narrow, but had to be this small to fit the fat quarter I had to make it out of! However, the quilt is small and the batting is warm & natural white - so fairly thin. I will MAKE it work because it is the look I want.

Modern Baby Binding

Miss Amaryllis is AWESOME today !

Spreading some quilt love!

I just sewed down the binding on a quilt that is on it's way to tornado victim family. This gave me an opportunity to practice my machine binding skills (I am getting better!). I was especially happy to do something of value for my community to help those still recovering from tornado damage.

The project was in collaboration with a sister guild in California who made the quilt tops and sent along pieces of backing fabric, and labels. Then our guild added batting, quilting, and binding to finish and deliver. Our local guild has given over 40 quilts to local families to show support and offer a small comfort to those who lost so much! I did not take a photo of the quilt, as it was quickly on it's way out the door, but had this label photo in my phone.

The other photo is of progress on the modern baby quilt that I worked on a few weeks ago. Here it is laid out ready to sew sections together. It was inspired by the photo of the quilt "Hi"by Tony Jacobson in Quilty magazine. But, then I made it based on different sized fabrics that I had on hand. This made me change width of all pieces (I was working with some 10 " squares...then wider sashing strips were calculated to make the shapes fit together and... and so on! When will I just get a pattern and follow it? HA!
Anyway, it was fun playing with some of these bright greens and blues and chartreuse!