Quilted Flannel Blanket.

Started this project a while ago and finished the tacking last night. Piece measurements 44x 63 inches.

This was a fun project to put together. Hope Little Evie will enjoy it for many years.

Cowboy Quilt

So, I finally finished this Cowboy Quilt.  I did all the hand quilting stitches.  It took a while but it was an enjoyable experience.

Closeup of the individual scenes.

Back view

Baby Quilt

Finished project

Found this beautiful fabric that would be perfect for a bay quilt.  Love the warmth of the light yellow.  A yellow gingham worked well for the back layer.  Lucky for me, I had yellow gingham bias tape for the binding.  Tried to be creative with the quilting stitch so I made rows of connecting hearts.  Not bad for my first attempt at a free hand machine quilting stitch.  Normally, I use a series of intersecting lines.  This was much better as it shows the love that went into making this baby quilt.  Finished measurements about 44 x 45 inches.

  Here’s a close up the front (top) layer.  Loved the little animals on the light yellow background.  You can see a bit of the heart quilting rows.

  The finished blanket drying after removing the quilting lines.  Good think the pen used water based ink.

  Gingham background allows the heart quilting lines to stand out.  Just a light pressing and its ready for the craft fair.

Quilting Projects

Shifting sewing projects to home décor, I decided that it was time to return to my machine quilting projects.  Hunting through my fabric stash, I found fabric for the following projects.  Some of these will go toward Project Linus while others will be either sold or given away as presents.

 

   This lap quilt measures 44 x 44 inches.  The top layer is a field of bumble bees.  It is trimmed using yellow extra wide double fold bias tape.

  The next quilt was made using a princess motif top layer and a pale pink bottom layer.  Medium weight batting was used as well as a hot pink double fold bias tape trim.  This quilt went to our grand niece to use during name time at preschool.  She loves her fairy tale princesses.

  I stumbled across these two Sunbonnet Sue quilt blocks so I attached them to a red printed fabric, from my fabric stash, and then used this new fabric piece for the top layer of a Sunbonnet Sue lap quilt.  Then I used a mauve printed fabric piece for the back panel.

  You can see the quilted lines on the reverse.  All quilting is machine quilting.  I simply used the squares from the front as my template for these quilting lines.  I used brick red double fold bias trim for the edging.

Now, the finished product looks like this ….

  The entire piece is about 44 by 45 inches.

I then found this floral flannel fabric and decided to make a two-sided flannel quilt for Project Linus.

       I used a medium weight batting and  lemon yellow double fold bias tape for this one.  Machine quilting was done in simple vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines.  This quilt is about 44 x 44 inches.

My next two projects were constructed using pre-quilted fabric so all I had to do was cut the desigred length and add mataching bias trim.  These are abour 44 x by 72 inches.  I thought these would be good for teenage boys.  Here is what the royal blue quilt looks like.

  The flip side looks like this.    I actually have enough fabric to make another one just like this.  I could only make one because I ran out of bias tape.  The stores in Hilo did not have any to match.  Meant a trip to the fabric store, JoAnn’s, when I’m on vacation, to pick up more bias tape.  Ahhhh, shucks!

I have the following green pre-quilted fabric to make similar size quilts (like the blue ones above).  I just need lime green bias tape.

Here’s what the green fabric looks like.    I think these will turn out nicely as well.

Happy Sewing.