What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

I started this Tropical Fish quilt for the July blog hop, but I wasn't able to finish it before my post date. Since then, I have finished quilting and binding it, and it is now ready for its grand reveal.

Ta Da! I finished the Beach Picnic quilt that I made for the June blog hop. Joan from Moose Stash Quilting and Carol from Just Let Me Quilt take turns hosting a year long blog hop. They chose a different theme for each month. 

The theme for the June blog hop was For the Birds. The project is simple, and just needs a bird on it.

I made the quilt in June, but I had not finished binding it. 

I posted the unfinished project here in June.

Now it is finally finished.

I added a pole with directions to other ...

Very nice.

As the Virtual Quilter I have to admit that the design above is a variation of a quilt I have made.

Love this one!

 I finished another journal quilt this week. It is a quick project made with leftover strips of fabric from my blog hop project I will be showing you on Thursday.

It is a great ...

It's time for another Project Quilting Reveal! This week, the challenge is to:

PQ 15.3 Inside Out

For this week’s project, I want to see what’s normally hidden!

 

Make a project with exposed seams or a raw-edge finish. Take on a bag pattern or other project that is constructed inside out and then literally “birthed” as part of the process. Or use this as a theme and demonstrate your unique inside-out perspective.

Rule One: Some part of your project must thematically or literally be inside out.

I had decided before the challenge was announced that I ...

It's time for another Project Quilting Reveal! This week, the challenge is to:

Take inspiration from the colors of the sky, but exclude or use less than 10% of the usual blue.

It's my day for the Just Let Me Quilt blog hop challenge. The theme for the week is White Rabbit.

It is a perfect theme, because I was just gifted a pair of embroidered white pants.  I had seen a couple of quilts that were animal shapes that were cut out of some embroidered work with batting inside them. I thought about doing just that and having a quilt that was not a rectangle, but I still had house on my mind and wanted to make sure ...

Every other week for the first three months of the year, Kim's friend, Tricia Franklin, posts a theme. Quilters then make quilts based on this theme. The quilt cannot be started before the challenge is posted, and must be finished by the deadline, which is only one week later.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character ...

For the young at heart!

May we all find some new toys to play with in the year ahead!

I finished the quilt formerly known as Tuxedo Vest. Since the name is based on the fabrics on what is now the background, I am changing the name to African Garden to refer to the applique which is now the focal point.

This was the quilt as I left it in 2021. It was supposed to be a simple baby quilt, but I don't know anyone who would want it as a baby quilt. I thought about keeping it, but I would need a lap quilt so my original plan was to add more columns and make it larger ...

Lovely, and interesting.

These quilt designs started with a layout created with a pieced block with just squares and rectangles. In a real quilt the background colours could be the same all over, or could use pale, low contrast fabrics to show the original block in large scale.

 I finished the portraits quilt I showed you in the last post.

I used the index card portraits as my inspiration, so I used background fabric that would result in the same size as the index cards.

I used fusible applique to add the body and the body parts: hair, whites of eyes, eyeballs, nose (optional), mouth, and clothing.

I decided to use the binding fabric as a border instead, and since it looked like a frame, I decided to birth the quilt instead of bind it.

I used embroidery stitches to stabilize the quilt instead of stitching in the ...

So pretty and dainty. I think I may be repeating past comments about the designs in this project file.

More of the same … dainty and pretty, and in my late Mum’s favourite colours.

Electric Quilt allows users to play with blocks of many shapes, including mixing squares and diamonds which can lead to playing with baby blocks. Because I have grown up I added floral arrangements to the blocks to replace the toys or letters of the alphabet on most baby blocks.

I love the first of these two designs but like the addition of pieced blocks on some sides of the blocks.

Minimal colour, but I love the design above.

Love the added quilting, but I would be very tempted to use thread very closely matching the background.

Sadly, the quilt is lost, but here is a lovely story of an historical quilt.

 This past week or two found me spending quite a bit of time bringing a couple projects to quilt top stage. The first one 'The Mountains Are Calling', has been in the works for a long time. First, I cut out a whole lotta free-cut strips and started in on the back of the quilt.

Tags quilt

Well, I'm definitely going to blow up this post with waaay too many pictures of Ormes Inspired! It's totally finished now, a true blue finish. And wowsers, it looks so much better with the hand quilting! Why does it always, always surprise me to see the difference between a flat looking quilt top and one with yummy texture from stitching? You'd think I'd learn by now.

Ormes Inspired is done!

Very interesting, and I like it!

Love the centre part, and find the outer blocks form an interesting texture, though not sure that I like it.

For some today is a continuation of the Christmas celebrations, for us Christmas was as quiet and refined as my selection of designs for today.

Just five of us spent the day just sitting around a table chatting about absent family and friends, eating too much for lunch, sharing memories of each other and and those close to all of us or just some of us.

Then we shared too much food again!

I hope you enjoyed your Christmas, and wish you all a great new year leading up to another merry Christmas.

Love the first design!

Cut out as many bells as you like, place them anywhere you like, to make any size quilt you would like.

Or keep the project small enough to fit in a small blank space on a wall.