My First Finish of the Year!

Oh happy day, happy day!  

I'm singing because it's Friday and I have a finish to share! My first finish of the year!  This is my version of Cultural Fusion's Free-form Rail Fence. And it's a big one, finishing at 112" x 112".  

I made it for my king-size bed, but it is pictured on the queen bed in my guest room.

I pulled this project from My Quilty Bucket in October, which means it took me approximately 4 mos to complete. Of course, I'd like to produce a quilt a day, but I'll take a finish whenever I can get one!

I quilted it with this lovely orange thread called Firestorm by Glide and the Malachite pantograph from Urban Elementz. 

Here is a close-up of my quilting. I'm still wobbly on the longarm but I am getting more confident in my abilities. 

I won this wide backing from Pineapple Fabrics on IG in June 2020. I was so excited to finally use it in something!  I did have to add to it to make it big enough though.

 Here are a few more pics to ogle. 

Thanks for stopping by. Until next time, Happy Stitchin', and God Bless! 

A Thread for Life

The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed. Proverbs 11:25 NLT

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WHOOMP There IT Is! #30 - It's Been A While

Long time, no see. I've missed you. I honestly can't believe it's been almost a month. When I decided to start doing my WHOOMP There IT Is! linky party 1x/mo (first Fridays), I didn't intend to only blog 1x/mo!  But that's about where I am. I do plan to blog at least twice a month though.

The month flew by and even though I had a few finishes, I don't feel like I've accomplished much. Maybe because the last couple of quilts were very simple patterns? Who knows. Truth be told, I've been in some kind of mood lately and I really hope it passes soon because I don't like feeling this way.

I finished the commission for 2 baby quilts. A friend/coworker ordered a quilt for each of her grandsons who will both be turning a year old in August. She got the quilts on Tuesday and is very pleased and excited to present them in August.

And here's my other finish.

When I get to the end of a piece of fabric, 7" or less, I usually strip it down into strings ranging from 2.5" - 1".  Well one day, a long, long time ago, I got a wild hair and decided to sew all my 1" strings together (in jellyroll race fashion) and this is what it yielded. Too thin to be a lap quilt, and too wide to be a table runner, I'm calling it a bed runner. It sat as a flimsy until last month when #4 was chosen in our UFO Challenge 2016, and now it's finished!

One last thing I want to share before the party is a pattern test I'm working on. It's a pattern called Scrappy Litter Blox by Lillyella. The pattern will be included in the June Stash Builder Box.  I usually like to get all the cutting out of the way first, but not this time. I had to put at least one block together to show you.

I've quite a bit more cutting to do but the block goes together rather quickly.  I'll finish cutting tonight and hopefully get most of the quilt together this weekend. And speaking of this weekend, it's supposed to get upwards of 117° here in Phoenix! So yeah, I'll be indoors ALL weekend stitchin'!

Eeek! It's going to be a long summer. =( Maybe I can come visit one of you this summer. Anywhere is cooler than here!

So what have you been stitchin' on?  I'd love to see it!

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A Thread for Life
Make Your ways known to me, 
Lord; teach me Your paths. 
Guide me in Your truth and teach me, 
for You are the God of my salvation; 
I wait for You all day long. 

Trunk Full of Quilts 2015 - Online Trunk Show Linky Party

Thank you Lara for posting about the Trunk Full of Quilts 2015 Online Trunk Show linky party. 

Such a wonderful idea AND a chance to win awesome prizes just for participating!  So I'd like to send a big Shout Out and Thank You to Soma for having the idea and putting the show together! The linky party started on November 10th and will close on November 18th.  Click on the link above or the badge below for full details.

I'd like to show and share about several quilts I made during my 1st couple of years quilting that are still in my home. The 1st three were made before I even started blogging.

This one I made for my son Joshua.  It's a pattern called Cottage Square from Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting magazine.  It was such an easy pattern that I planned to make several more...but I stopped at two. His is the 2nd one I made.  I stitched in the ditch but he insisted I tie it as well. As you can see by where I placed the ties...I had no idea what I was doing. But he still loves and uses it daily.

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This quilt I made for my son Justin.  I actually designed it.  He requested the African flag colors and the zebra border; I chose to add the blue. This is the 1st border I ever did.  I didn't want to wait for instruction from my quilting teacher and I didn't refer to the internet either. I just did what I thought needed to be done. You can't really tell, or maybe you can, but the border is all ripply and wavy.

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Even though they both love their quilts, they are anxious for me to make them another since I've gotten so much better.

This scrappy beauty is the 1st quilt I made for myself.  I followed this Strips & Strings Log Cabin tutorial by Mary Johnson to make this liberated wonder. I really disliked binding in the beginning. I made this a quilt w/o binding...by using the envelope or birthing method.  I didn't receive any instruction, nor did I follow a tutorial for this either...because how hard could it be right?



Well, it really is a hot mess! It's quilted in a straight stitch "improv" style, AND the batting doesn't even go from edge to edge!  But I made it and I love it!

Edited w/the auto adjust feature in Pic Monkey

This last quilt is a One Block Wonder.  It's the 2nd I've made.   I used Alexander Henry fabric on both. This one is called Koto.  I fell in love w/this fabric the 1st time I saw it but wouldn't even dream of spending $12.99/yd. One day I was visiting Joann's red tag clearance sale and ended up getting it for $3.50/yd. I bought the entire bolt!

It took over a year to finish because I wanted to make it big enough for my king size bed and added overly generous borders and hated them. It then sat in a closet for many months before I decided it wasn't going to be a king size quilt after all. I pulled it out, made my revisions and viola!

I entered it in the Bloggers Quilt Festival Fall 2014 and it made it to the Top 20 Viewer's Choice!  I actually gave it to my mother but she recently gave it back saying it was "pretty, but too heavy". So now, it's all mine!

That's all I've got folks!  Be sure to check out the party and link up!

A Thread for Life
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. - Jules Renard