June Project Quilting - Out to Sea Quilt

Yay, I finished up my June off season Project Quilting Challenge.

I went from this panel and box of scraps, (and a little bit of stash)

to this mess on my wall.

And from there to a completed top.  And now, a totally finished quilt! 

I did some wavy quilting down the length of the quilt because I felt it fit the Out to Sea theme I was going for.

The back is pieced with navy Kona and a fun nautical flag print that looks like they are blowing in the wind.

The binding is a red stripe with little red anchors dotted through it.

This quilt was quick and fun to make.  I really enjoyed digging through my box of nautical scraps to find the right pieces for each spot.

Out to Sea Baby quilt

34" x 40"

Multiple lines of 100% cotton fabric

Pellon cotton batting

June Project Quilting

It is off season for Project Quilting and this month is the Panel It challenge.  All you have to do it take a panel and make a cool quilt or quilted item out if it and link up by June 30th.  

Amazingly, I have more panels than I would have thought when I pulled them all together.  I decided on the fun nautical panel that I realized I had 2 of in 2 different spots (at least I know I liked if if I bought it twice).  I pulled my nautical scrap bin and a couple pieces from my stash and went to town playing.

This was totally done free form, with a log cabin inspired frame around the panel sections.  It was fun to just play around with the bin of scraps that really doesn't look like I pulled from it at all even though almost the entire top was pieced from it.  I am kinda amazing at the amount of nautical inspired scraps I have, but it probably has something to do with living on the shore.    

Now off to piece the back and get quilting, the end of the month is coming quickly. 

Stash Bee

This year I joined Stash Bee, an online bee of quilters from all over the world.  There are 12 different hives of 11 great quilters.  I am in hive 4 and this is my month.  I asked for circle blocks from my bee mates.  (My month post)

 I chose a low volume background and bright fun colors for the circles.

I love reverse applique, which is how I created my blocks I showed as examples.

I can't wait to see the blocks my hive mates create! 

Half way through the year...

I can't believe that it is already June.  Where has this year gone?  So lets see, this month has been a bit all over the place, but I have had my sewing to help relax me and take my mind off of all that has been going on.  I feel like I am finally back in my groove from taking most of May off to heal.

A while ago I started an I-spy economy block quilt.  Most of the blocks were made and just hanging out on the bottom layer of my design wall for months.  I have been in a finishing kind of mood so I decided to finish up the last 5 blocks and sew them all into a top.

The I-spy center squares are 4" and came from my fave I-spy swaps hosted by Polly.  All the outer pieces came out of my scraps.  I love the mix of colors in this top.

The crabs on the newspaper might just be my favorite block, though I do love them all.  The next step is deciding on the backing and then quilting, which I already have planned.

June - A Lovely Year of FInishes

I am jumping back into A Lovely Year of Finishes hosted by my friend Melissa at Sew Bittersweet Designs and Shanna at Fiber of All Sorts.  I know I missed the last couple of months, though they were for good reasons I am ready to jump back into sewing which makes me so very happy.

So my goal is to complete my Michael Miller Challenge for the Modern Quilt Guild.  I finally finished my top so it needs to be backed, quilted, and bound before the deadline.

I know, not the best picture, but my camera has gone mia, ugh.  The back is already pieced so I need to clean off the dining room table to baste it.  Still on restrictions; no bending, lifting, twisting, reaching... so this will be interesting.  At least I am able to be back a my machine from almost a month off.