olympics twist

Happy Spring from High Road Quilter

I was looking for a flower quilt to celebrate the first day of Spring, and came across this Thirties Boro tree quilt which will work with all the floral fabric in it. I made it in August 2020 completely by hand.

2022: 15 Minutes to Stitch Week 12

After a couple of weeks where I did not quilt every day, I decided to make a more concerted effort to get to the sewing machine. I continued quilting the Olympics Twist quilt. I quilted the outside edge of the twist blocks and, sewed down the other side of the inner black ...

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2022: 15 Minutes to Stitch Week 11 from High Road Quilter

I took the coloring chart for the Aunt Daisy quilt and added colored in the blocks, using a different color for each kind of block. As you know, my version, Jazzy Blues, is made with blues. The program I was using does not have a lot of choices for colors, so instead of different shades of blue, I just added different colors that might be the same value. Then I tiled it so I could see what it would look in the quilt. The different colors just exaggerate the effects the fabric will make on the quilt.

In my last ...

added by Shasta Matova 2 years, 9 months ago. under 15 minutes to stitch , jazzy blues , olympics twist , quilting

2022: 15 Minutes to Stitch Week 9 from High Road Quilter

2022: 15 Minutes to Stitch Week 9

I spent my week working on the Olympics Twist quilt. The quilting for the body of the quilt is pretty much done. I just have to do the half snowball blocks. I will just be stitching in the ditch like I did the full snowball blocks.

I pressed and cut the fabric for the new inner border, and have started to sew it down, raw edge. Instead of straight stitch, I am using a different stitch my machine can make. This is a little scary because I broke a machine while using an ...

added by Shasta Matova 2 years, 10 months ago. under 15 minutes to stitch , olympics twist , quilting

Problem Solving the Olympics Quilt from High Road Quilter

Now that I have been working on quilting this quilt, I like it better now. I want to apologize to it. I think the sandwiched quilt is the ugliest stage, and I left this quilt in its ugliest stage for 20 years. I can see beyond the ugly stage now and see its potential.

I have a conundrum about the border for my Olympics quilt. When I pieced the quilt, I added borders to make it big enough for a twin bed. To do that, I pieced a border, but didn't have enough fabric to go around the quilt ...

added by Shasta Matova 2 years, 10 months ago. under 15 minutes to stitch , olympics twist , quilting

Olympics Quilt from High Road Quilter

This is the quilt that has been hoarding my safety pins for DECADES. Which isn't a big deal since the new safety pins I bought were curved and I like those much better.

In my last post, I told you the quilt was started in 2007, but I looked on my old blog, and it told the story of the quilt. Here's what I said at the time.

Olympics Quilt Story

I always mean to tell the story of a quilt when I finish it, but I generally tell it earlier, while I am procrastinating finishing it. So ...

added by Shasta Matova 2 years, 10 months ago. under olympics twist , quilting

2022: 15 Minutes to Stitch Week 7 from High Road Quilter

There are a couple of interesting dates coming up. 2-20-22 and 2-22-22. I am not interested in numerology but I do think it would be nice to finish a quilt on one of those dates. I was hoping to finish Lansing Leaves by one of those dates, but since I am working, I am not sure I will be able to finish piecing the back, sandwich, quilt and bind by either of those dates.

Those new quilts do tend to push in and disrupt plans. I spent more time this week with Jazzy Blues and did not work on Lansing ...

added by Shasta Matova 2 years, 10 months ago. under jazzy blues , lansing leaves , olympics twist , postage stamp quilt , quilting

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