My Favorite Quilt

March 2, 2013 by 4 Comments
  
Welcome to Jedi Craft Girl!  Family Ever After is hosting SEW-VIVOR and I am so excited to submit this post as my entry.
I love sewing and quilting more than anything!!!  I have been sewing since I was in junior high when I learned to sew myself shorts.  I have been quilting for the past 14 years and I don’t even want to count how many quilts I’ve made.  It was hard to choose “my best work” to submit….kind of like choosing which child you love best 🙂  I decided on this quilt.  It hangs in my entry way and I see everyday.  It makes me feel happy.
The quilt measures 57″x73″.  The blocks are pieced and the flowers and leaves are machine appliqued.
 
I don’t own a long arm quilt machine, so the quilting was all done by me on my regular sewing machine.  This is about the largest size I will quilt at home.  It gets too bulky.
I was so happy with the quilting.  (It took 3 hours and my back hurt for 2 days.)  I did tight meanders on all the white fabric.  The blocks have flowers and loop-de-loos quilted on them.  
 
The binding is hand-sewn.
A quilt on a windy day is so much fun!!
    
Here is where it lives most of the year.  It’s the first thing people see when they come in my home and it is a good representation of who I am.

“I cannot count my day complete, ’till fabric, thread, and needle meet”

Amanda

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Strippy Table Runner

February 19, 2013 by 7 Comments

 I bought this fabric last year in hopes of making a table runner for the dining room.  It finally happened and I love it so much.  The fabrics make me happy when I look at them!!!  There is no real rhyme or reason to the pattern.  I figured out how I wanted it and cut various widths of fabric then sewed them together.  I sewed crocheted lace on the strips of solid grey.  I like the feel it gives it.  For the quilting, I did straight line quilting every 3/4 inch.  I love it!!!

Amanda

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Chevron Mini Quilt

February 13, 2013 by 3 Comments
I pieced this mini quilt in the summer.  I needed the safety pins that were basting it together so I decided to finish it!!  I love it.  It’s bright and happy. 

It’s made from half square triangles (HST).  Half the squares are white and the other half are color.  I love HSTs because you can arrange them in so many fun patterns.

Amanda

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Beginning Quilt Project – Table Runner

February 13, 2013 by 2 Comments
My friend is learning to sew and she wanted to learn how to piece a small quilt.  I found this free pattern for a table runner – it’s a great beginner project!
  
We were inspired by Valentine’s Day and choose fabrics that were pink, red, and white.  She came over and I helped her cut and taught her all about the basics of quilting.  She did great!  Here is the finished project!  (we ran out of time so I quilted it for her….that will be the next lesson!)
 


Amanda

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Red & Pink Love Baby Quilt

February 9, 2013 by 4 Comments
My sister-in-law is here visiting and we are sewing up a storm.  Her friend is having a baby this month and we thought a a Valentine’s inspired quilt would be perfect.  We choose pinks, reds, and whites but nothing with “hearts” or obvious Valentine’s motifs. 
We were both fighting over it by the time it was quilted!  I don’t know if it will make it to her friend!  The binding isn’t finished yet.  My sis was leaving today and going to hand stitch it in the car.  I was sad to see her and the quilt go!

Amanda

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Blankets for Moroccan Orphanage

February 8, 2013 by 1 Comment

 Today my friend came over and we sewed flannel blankets for an orphanage on Morocco.  She is organizing a charity event for her elementary school.  The children will be able to use a needle and yarn and put ties in the blankets we prepared.  It is such a fast, easy way to make blankets – and they are cute and feel homemade.

We used 1 yard of flannel for the top and 1 yard of flannel for the bottom.  Layer the two pieces RST and place on batting.  Sew around like you would a pillow leaving a small opening.  Turn and topstitch.  Now it is secure and the kids can add “ties” as the quilting.

Amanda

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Alpine Wonderland Update – Free Quilt Pattern

January 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment

I was looking around on allpeoplequilt.com and I came across the pattern I used in my Alpine Wonderland quilt.  You can download it for free!  Click HERE to check it out!

(This is the photo from the original pattern)
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ABC Baby Quilt

January 21, 2013 by 3 Comments
My friend had her baby 7 weeks early.  They are now doing well and are home.  I made little Max this baby quilt.  I had planned to make more of a pieced quilt but when I went to the fabric store I fell in love whit this alphabet panel.  The colors are darling and the animals are cuter than any other I’ve seen!  It’s called “Aldo to Zippy” by P&B.

 I cut the panel out then sewed a 2″ white border, a 4 1/2″ polka dot boarder, and a 1 1/2″ orange boarder. (those are the cut sizes)  It’s bound with turquoise polka dot fabric.

Here are a few close ups of my favorite animals:


 The back is soft grey flannel with a strip of the coordinating fabric. 

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Alpine Wonderland in the Making

December 5, 2012 by 2 Comments
I’m working on a quilt!  My friend and I decided instead of giving a Christmas gift to each other we would have a sewing day.  So we each ordered fabric from the Riley Blake Alpine Wonderland line, found a pattern, cut it all out & started sewing together.  So much fun!!!

 I found the pattern in Better Homes & Garden’s Quilts & More Winter 2010.  I like our fabrics better than the ones pictured 🙂
 It’s always fun to lay it out and try and figure out where all the colors should go.

 Here it is all pieced together.  Now I have to figure out what I want on the back.  I LOVE this pattern.  It is so much fun!

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Quilted Halloween Pillow

October 23, 2012 by 2 Comments
I made this Halloween pillow for a friend.  I love how it turned out.  I love making pillows with lots of different fabrics.  I cut random strips of coordinating Halloween fabric and sewed them together.  Next I trimmed the finished piece to measure 17″ (to fit a 16″ pillow form).  I quilted the pillow front in vertical seams 1″ apart.  I added a black jersey ruffle (from an old T-shirt) and sewed a gathered flower!  I could make 100 of these!!


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