Tag: 1930s

The salty Quilter - Hazel's Pinwheels - Finished

Hazel’s Pinwheels

General Info

Start Date  Sep 18, 2011
Finish Date  Mar 17, 2012
Status  Finished
Size  Twin
Pattern  Carnival Dance
What it’s for  Gift for Hazel
Batting  ?

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Using self-modified version of “Carnival Dance” pattern to use 5″  charm packs. Adding in extra borders to help increase size. Used Red  Pepper Quilts hour glass block tutorial. Had some issues with stretching on the  bias. Needed to pay more attention to making sure seams would match up  when sewing them into four hour glass units.

Used formula for  side triangles from Quilter’s Academy Vol 2. Tried to follow their method  for trimming the quilt, but was not very successful. Next time need to  measure out from centre.

Made  matching pillowcase with left over fabric. Used “The Quilter” pattern,  but modified to use a French seam on the inside. Needed to take a deeper  second seem to avoid the first coming through. Needed to hammer the  cuff joint to make it more flexible to sew through.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Center ditch quilted with Rasant cotton  wrapped poly thread. Quilted a large spiral in the pinwheel blocks with  King Tut 40wt variegated thread (Cleopatra). Quilted running spirals in  yellow sashing with free motion X through red cornerstones. Quilted  curls in white setting triangles, piano keys in red border, double loop  in white border, “l” loops in yellow border (with the name “hazel” in  cursive in one corner), and open spirals in blue border.

Progress Pictures

The salty Quilter - Hazel's Pinwheels - Finished

The salty Quilter - Hazel's Pinwheels - Over a chair

The salty Quilter - Hazel's Pinwheels - With pillowcase

 

The salty Quilter - Hazel's Pinwheels - Folded

The Salty Quilter - Open House

Open House

General Info

Start Date  Apr 2, 2011
Finish Date  Jun 2, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  20.5″ x 16.5″
Pattern  My own design
What it’s for  For Nanny Betty
Batting  Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting.

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Started in Susan’s machine applique class at Sewco. Added border from left over fabrics from Sunny Stars.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Quilted with Gutterman 100% 50wt cotton for free motion and stitch in the ditch.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Open House

The Salty Quilter - Reproduction Pumpkin

Reproduction Pumpkin

General Info

Start Date  May 2, 2011
Finish Date  May 12, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  20″ x 18″
Pattern  My own design
What it’s for  Entered in 2011 Goomeri Pumpkin Festival patchwork show.
Batting  Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting.

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Used left over fabric from “Sunny Stars” quilt plus oranges from stash and Sewco.  Added double fused leaf and small yo-you butterfly.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Used walking foot to quilt around borders and pumpkin, plus the curves inside the pumpkin. FMQ’ed pumpkin vines and border. Thread – Gutterman Cotton 50wt.

Progress Pictures

 

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Finished

Sunny Stars

General Info

Start Date  Apr 7, 2011
Finish Date  May 1, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  56″ x 70″
Pattern  Sunny Stars (from magazine)
What it’s for  Gift for my sister-in-law
Batting  Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Used a kit from the Fat Quarter Shop with “Everything But the Kitchen Sink” 1930’s reproduction fabric. The kit had tons of fabric, probably 30% more than I actually needed, so I got lots of scraps.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Quilted flowers in the four patch blocks with Mettler 12wt variegated thread “Easter Egg” with 90 topstitch needle. Thread left a lot of lint in machine. Quilted leaves in white sashsing, large flower in yellow cornerstones going into yellow diagonal corners on sashing, vines on solid green border, looped “l’s” on white border and flowers in green print border all with Gutterman 100% cotton 50wt thread.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Sashing quilting

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Block quilting

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Quilt on my machine

The moment I figured out the maximum size I could quilt with my Bernette.

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Block layout

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Piecing the quilt with my helper bulldog

Sarah the Bulldog being very helpful.