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February Progess

A few years ago was the start of this ufo. My local Little Red Hens group chose a member each month to make a block for. For my month I chose a 12" finished " jewel box" block to be done in 30's reproductions and wow or cream backgrounds. You can find a 16" finished block pattern
 at Quilter's Cache (click here).

I had sewed my blocks together a while back. Earlier this month I decided this was going to be my February ufo.

 

After auditioning several fabrics I decided to add a pink border. Then I layered and basted my quilt. The batting is 4 oz. polyester batting. Backing is a pretty blue fabric with little blue birds in small hearts. So I knew I wanted little birds and hearts to be part of the quilting.

I began by quilting the chain squares with a freehand curved echo inside each square.

 

 

Then using a stencil I marked the little birds and freehand drew the loops in the white areas around the larger 4 piece squares and quilted them. On the larger 4 pieced squares I decided to free hand quilt hearts with 2 echos. I quilted the border with loops and hearts that I learned this last year in the FMQ challenge over at SewCalGals blog from Ann Fahl.

 

 

The I chose a pretty pink on pink for the binding  cut 2 1/4 ' wide. Folded in half and machine sewed sewed it to the right side. Then I hand sewed the fold to the back.

 

 

Then I trimmed all my thread ends and rinsed out the marks.

 

 

 

I also made a couple of wonky star blocks.

 

 

Tutorial found (here).

 

And I made the small quilt 17" x 13.25"

This was from a demonstration that Sharon gave at the February Little Red Hens meeting.

Mine is a little wobbly where the seams are sewn on the diagonal. So I have it pinned to help get the wobble in control.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day

 

 

Blocks made by members of Little Red Hens Bee

 

Not so quilty

Last month, one of my son's friend sent 2 potholders home with him. The pot holders were crocheted. I studied them for a while trying to figure out how they were made, but couldn't.  It has been quite some time (years), since I've crocheted.
Well, at my Thimbleberries/Moda bee, my quilt bee. One of the ladies was working on her potholder the very same crocheted pattern and was able to  show and tell me how to make them.

I am hooked (ha ha).  Here are two that I made since along with their Hand towel.

 

And for a little quilty ~  here are a few scrapy blocks

 

 

 

January ~ family and sewing

The Lord blessed me with a new grandson this month. He had a slightly bumpy start but is doing well now. Here he is with  his 2 brothers and my husband (PaPa).

PaPa and I have gotten to spend some time with with Anthony and Brady at the park in Floridatown.

The boys loved walking by the water and riding the plane.

 

I have gotten a small amount of sewing in

 

HOF for a TBL2 friend's new great granddaughter

 

 

A pillow cushion cover for a 1 on 1 swap in TBL2 group swap

 

Two post cards for swaps

 

This one is for the FMQ PC swap

it features trapunto the flower is puffed up.

 

This one is for the Feb PC swap for TBL2 and features Stupendous Stitching

taught by Carol Ann Waugh over at Craftsy

 

 

Last is my ufo project for January. It is Grant's baby quilt. It will not be finished for January but maybe in the next couple of days. I made the blocks with my local Little Red Hens bee a couple of years ago. A few days before Grant was born I decided to make a quilt for him with the blocks. I finished the top before he was born and basted the layers on his birth day (12th). I have been hand quilting it as I can since. 2 more blocks and the border to quilt and then the binding.

 

Thank you for stopping by and taking a peep into my life.

Tina

 

 

 

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Proverbs 14:1



FMQ Post Card

Free Motion Quilting Post Card

For those that are interested in making postcards from their FMQ samples I will try to show you how easy it is to do. Here is my sample I am going to use.

   This was my Tiles sample from July that AngelaWalters taught at Sew Cal Gal. Click on names to find out more.

 Next I rough cut my piece to about 4 ½” x 6 ½”

Also cut a piece of muslin and with my stiff inside (I am using Floriani Stitch and Shape double side fusible) I have used a heavy interfacing and steam a seam in the past.

Next, I ironed my muslin to the back of the stabilizer

 and my sample to the front side.

Then I trim my post card to 4” x 6”

 Next I satin stitched around the edge with a narrow stitch.

 I then stitch around it again once or twice with a wider satin stitch. It doesn’t have to be done this way. It is just how I do it.

 I then do any final details.

 And then finish the back.

A few more post cards I have made.

Bonus FMQ by Teri Lucus

December's bonus free motion quilting at SewCalGal was given by Teri Lucus. It was on using a software program Kaleidoscope Kreator 3 Software and its feathered package. It looks like it would be fun to use. Teri/SewCalGal provided a pdf to print out to do the challenge, but I don’t have the extra ink. So I printed out the outline drawing and then enlarged the print. I was going to use it to do my piece. But then I decided to go back and read the tutorial again. In the very last part it has handout with instructions to create feathers I used this and folded my piece of paper for a snowflake. Then I drew my feather on one sixth of the snowflake.

 Then I took my fabric and folded it into quarters and pressed it. Next, I took and traced the section on my fabric six times giving me a beautiful spiral of feathers. Not exactly sure it is a kaleidoscope of feathers. Then layered and quilted my piece.

 

This is the front with some of  

 

the tracing showing.

 

 

 

 

 

Back of my piece.

Thank you SewCalGal and Teri.

I have had a blast with this tutorial.