Baby Quilt for Church

Whew! I volunteered to do the quilting on this quilt a year or so ago... finally it's done! The batting is Hobbs 80/20 - quilting done on my Juki TL98Q. Thread is my favorite - King Tut!

This will go to our babies dedicated at church - we give them one at their dedication service.

The quilt was actually pieced by quilters from our church quilt group - Cherice and Lori did the majority of the work on this one! Nice use of flannel scraps ladies!

Here's a close-up of the quilting.

Syncopated Rhythm - 1st UFO Finished!

Well! First finish of the year! I'm glad Judy over at Patchwork Times picked a small quilt ... I'm sooo out of practice.

Here's a picture of the back, where you can see the quilting a little better. But don't look too close!



Several ladies in my quilt group want to UFO along with me... should be fun!

2012 UFO Challenge

Wow it's been a long time since I've blogged. Life sure took a different turn - and totally derailed my quilting of any sort. Well, we're in a new house, kind of settled, it's a new year, and maybe time to get quilting again. I've been reading about it tons... just not doing any!

Time to join in Judy's 2012 UFO Challenge! Some of these are ones I didn't get to last year, and some are new. Some are fairly small, and a couple of them are huge! Could be interesting!

1. Baby Flannel for Church

2. Bright Valorie Wells Flowers

3. Coffee Quilt

4. Jar Quilt

5. Syncopated Rhythm Batik

6. Syncopated Rhythm Kids

7. Turning 20 40's Laundry

8. Chinese Lanterns/Courthouse Steps

9. Nine Patch a Day (back, border and quilt)

10. Hawaiian Charm (back, border and quilt)

11. Lilac Quilt (back and quilt)

12. (Nine Patch Exchange (back, border and quilt)

Almost Finished UFO

Almost Finished UFO, a photo by theercs on Flickr.

Argghh! I almost made it - just finishing the binding. But it's been one of the more wild months I've had in my life - so I'm thinking that what I got done is more than I expected.

I liked the quilting pattern I did. Had trouble with the thread breaking constantly. Tried different needles, different threads, etc. Finally, after MUCH breakage, and quitting for the day, I discovered that it could just be that I'm trying to go to fast (imagine that). I did the last section more patiently and slowly, and guess what... no breaking!

I'll post another pic when it's all done... but this will have to do for now!

Replacement finish!

Replacement finish!, a photo by theercs on Flickr.

My #9 UFO for Judy's challenge was NOT going to make it this month. I didn't quilt it early in the month, and the end of the month brought unexpected travel. My friend Sherri suggested swapping out for something I could actually accomplish. What a wise woman! Hand't thought of that.

This is just "lazy baby stitch" with minkie back folded over as the binding. I already had it basted, so it only took me a couple of hours! I'm so grateful for quilting friends to help you along!

Baby Quilt a la Stack & Slash

It's been a crazy busy month, so I was grateful that Judy selected an easier (read "smaller") one for me this time - #4! Someone at my quilt group had originally started this one. I made some more blocks to make it big enough, and this month I quilted it! I used freehand butterflies out of the book "Laura's Little Book of Machine Quilting Designs." I've really enjoyed this book for giving me ideas for quilting... I get so stumped on that sometimes!



Here's a close up of the idea... the butterflies have echoed wings, and most have antennas. I can see that I still need to work on my spacing when I'm going freeform, but it was pretty good.



I was trying to use fabric that was in the "Baby Quilt Bin" from our group and of course, ended up with a pieced back! It'll help the baby learn more colors, right? :-)



Four for four! A miracle for me! But moving on my UFO's has helped because 'an object in motion tends to stay in motion', right?

Betsy

Getting There!

Getting There!, a photo by theercs on Flickr.

The quilting is done on this little baby quilt. I started out thinking I was going to just do the "lazy baby stitch." It's the loose zig zag that I've done on several baby quilts - fast and easy! However, because of the angles and rectangle shape of these blocks, I couldn't picture it looking very good in the end. If I did it from corner it just added too many more "angley" lines. If I just did it on the horizontal and vertical lines where the blocks line up... kinda boring, and I'm not sure it would be enough quilting.

So back to free motion it went, which went pretty well. I kind of liked the "enhanced" butterfly design - adding a second echo around his wings and adding antennae most of the time (although I see a few in the pic that don't have them) added a little pizzaz to the butterfly.

I'll post again when it's completed... just trimming and binding to go! Yeah!

Betsy