Bloggers Quilt Festival - Bed Quilt

Here is my second entry for Bloggers Quilt Festival.  I am entering my Flight of the Seagulls quilt into the Bed Quilt category.  This quilt looks so pretty on a twin bed in the summer, perfect nautical quilt.

This quilt was made for the bonus challenge for Project Quilting, Tradition Times Three.  Here is the original post.

There are 6 sizes of flying geese in this quilt and I love how they all move around the quilt.  The name comes from the flight patterns of seagulls, it has been shown that they have no rhyme or reason to how they fly.

It is quilted with a repeating wave pattern that just goes all the way down the quilt.

The photos were taken at a local marina and on my father's boat.

Quilt Stats:

Flight of the Seagulls

54" x 75"

Pieced by me on my Brother machine and quilted by me on my Simplicity machine with Coats and Clark machine quilting thread.  The batting is Pellon Nature's Touch cotton batting.   

Bloggers Quilt Festival - Quilt Photo

It's that time of year again over at Amy's Creative Side.  It is time for Bloggers Quilt Festival.  This post is for Quilt Photographer.

I have chosen to enter my All Framed Up on the Jersey Shore quilt. (Original post here).  I loved this pattern and how it really lets the fabrics stand out.

I took these photos at a little beach down the road by my house called Butler Beach.  Seemed like the perfect place to show off this quilt that features batik fabrics made to be sold right here on the (real) Jersey Shore.

It is quilted by me on my home machine with wiggly lines and waves.  

And it backed by another batik print that has a sea grass feeling.  

This quilt was given to my Dad as his 69th birthday gift just a few weeks ago.  It was the first quilt of mine that he had seen and reacted to so it was perfect.  And now I can say each person in my immediate family has had a quilt made for them.

 Quilt Stats
All Framed Up on the Jersey Shore
52" x 52"
Pattern - All Framed Up by Melissa Dunworth at Sew Bittersweet Designs
Free motion quilted by me on my home machine using Coats and Clark thread.
Pellon Natures Touch 100% cotton batting.

Wedding Gift

I had another wedding this month and decided to make the bride and groom a little hand stitched project.  The bride, Aggie, is originally from California and the groom, Steve, is from New Jersey.  I have seen all over Pinterest and in stores state items so I decided to make the project with their states.

I started by printing out outlines of the two states and then I pinned them to the fabric.  Then I stitched around the states with a chain stitch.

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I added in some dashed lines, their names, and the wedding date to finish the project.

I cleaned up the back with another piece of the grey fabric that I pressed and stitched a finished line around. At that same time I machine stitched the tag to the back with a note to the happy couple.  I whip stitched it to the back for a nice clean finish.

It was a fun wedding that apparently I didn't take any photos at :(  Oh well.

So one more wedding in a couple weeks that I won't be able to make, but I need to whip up a project for that, too.

Modern Trees

A little while back I saw that Christa at Christa Quilts was holding a quilt along for Modern (Christmas) Trees.  She was using the Tri Tool by EZ quilting which I just happen to have in my collection of tools.  I wanted to join in but had so many other commitments that I wasn't sure I could.  I mean I still have my quilt along from Polly's Hexies by Halves cut out and sitting next to my machine, waiting to be pieced.  But after last weeks Talknt chat on twitter I was hit with inspiration.  It was mentioned that a Christmas quilt with lime green and pink would be fun, it's my colors!  So Thursday last week I set to pulling fabrics and started on a Christmas quilt just for me.

I cut strips of the two green fabrics and then sliced diagonal lines into it randomly and sewed varying widths of pink into it.  Each green had two strips so I was able to have the diagonals going both ways on the trees in the quilt.

These practically flew together.  All the fabrics are batiks, I loved the texture that they all add to the quilt.

By Sunday I had the top together.  I honestly chose this layout because it had no corners to match, I was not in the mood to make sure I had perfect corners, haha.

Now to choose how to quilt it.  I am not sure exactly how I want to yet.

Loving how it looks from the back with the sun shining through.  It looks like stained glass to me.

So after spending some time away from my machine it was nice to get back to some sewing and even better to have such a fast fun finish.

A Little Hand Stitching

Last week I had a little down time from sitting at my machine and being able to move too much so I sat and finished my goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes.  I completed the stitching part of project that is a wedding present for a friend whose wedding I was in a couple weeks ago.

Now to clean up my edges and finish off the back.  I will be adding a ribbon to hang it by that was on my bouquet from the wedding.  Can't wait to mail it out!

Congrats to my friends, Kayce and Brad and their little one Orion.  Such a happy family.

And the obligatory college friends picture needed from any wedding :)

A Lovely Year of Finishes - October

A Lovely Year of Finishes - October

This month I have decided to finish a smaller project for my A Lovely Year of Finishes goal.  I have a few other things going on so I figure a small thing is a realistic goal.   I am working on a hand stitched project as a wedding gift for a friend.

It will be a tree with french knot leaves in fall colors.  It will also say their names and the date of their wedding, 9-28-13.  Yes it is a little late, but I did make it to the wedding so that was a pretty good gift too ;)

As a bonus finish, if I get a little sewing in I am planning on trying to finish my double wedding ring top.

A Lovely Year of Finishes - September finish

Wooo... September ended so quickly that I wasn't sure that I was going to make it with my A Lovely Year of Finishes goal.  But... I did it!  Last night I was able to finish my project of making a bunch of pillows by cutting up a quilt.

My ALYoF goal photo

I had started this pillow project a couple weeks ago.  First I had to take off the binding so I could save it to re-bind what was left.  I then drew out all my lines so I could cut out all the pieces I needed.

From the king size quilt I made 2 euro shams, 2 standard shams, 4 throw pillows, and re-bound the quilt to make it a throw of 54" x 60".

I up loaded the photo above at the wire to make sure I made it in on time, but took the photo below today for a better view.  I am super happy with how they all came out.