Tag: Christmas

The Salty Quilter - Home for the Holidays - Finished

Home for the Holidays

General Info

Start Date  Nov 25, 2014
Finish Date  Dec 7, 2014
Status  Finished
Size  Approx 18″ x 15″
Pattern  Hometown Holiday quilt kit from Fat Quarter Shop
What it’s for  Gift for Bill and Karen.
Batting  ?

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

I don’t know why, but I struggled with the pieced border. It took me three times to get it right. I thought I could strip piece it and messed it up.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Quilted with invisible thread and Gutterman cotton.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Home for the Holidays - Kit

The Salty Quilter - Home for the Holidays - Stitchery

Guess where I ran out of thread?

The Salty Quilter - Home for the Holidays - centre after machine applique

The Salty Quilter - Home for the Holidays - Qulit Top

The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Finished

Poinsettia Quilt

General Info

Start Date  Sep 29, 2013
Finish Date  Dec 6, 2013
Status  Finished
Size  Lap
Pattern  From Keepsake Quilting
What it’s for  Christmas gift for Mom
Batting  Cotton

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

The pattern was not great. It’s a shame they don’t include instructions for a length wise outer border. If alternating colours of scrappy blocks, make sure 10 start with colour A and 10 with colour B. The pieced border should end with the same colours length wise, and the other colour width wise. The amount of fabric listed for the backing will only give you approx 2″ overhang on the top and the bottom of the quilt. If you are sending to a longarmer, recalculate the backing requirement.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Quilted from the back, using the Poinsettia print fabric as a guide for quilting.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Finished

The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Quilting from front

Quilting from front

The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Quilting from back

Quilting from back

The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - Quilt top The Salty Quilter - Poinsettia Quilt - label

The Salty Quilter - Silver Wreath

Silver Wreath

General Info

Start Date  Dec 10, 2011
Finish Date  Dec 10, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  15″
Pattern  My own design
What it’s for  Christmas decor
Batting  N/A

After our move I couldn’t find my snowman wreath (I’m sure it’s somewhere, I just didn’t want to dig). I had a wreath and bought some ribbon, plus used some left over ornaments. $5 + 10 minutes + glue = wreath.

 

 

The Salty Quilter - Snow Star Table Setting - At the table

Snow Star Table Setting

General Info

Start Date  Nov 25, 2011
Finish Date  Dec 10, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  15″ x 18″
Pattern  Handmade magazine
What it’s for  My Christmas table setting
Batting  Iron on pellon

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

The placemat pattern that was in Handmade was using the left overs from a tablerunner featured in a previous issue. Some of the pieces did not make sense (sew a 4.5″ rectangle to a 5″ square, huh?). I rang the designer, Angela Bradbury of Sew Bright Quilts, and she promptly emailed me the entire pattern, free of charge! Awesome service!

I still ended up cutting my pieces down and using slightly smaller vertical borders, due to a fabric shortage, but they still turned out nice.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

The coasters I made using left over fabric and my square in a square ruler. I used my new Janome MC660P to embroider each family member’s name on one, so that they know where to sit and which drink is theirs. I used Gutterman metallic thread with a 90 topstitch needle with a 50wt cotton Gutterman thread in the bobbin. I still had some issues with the thread tangling on the back, so I got some 100 metallic needles to try when I quilted them and they worked much better. I only did straight line quilting – not FMQ.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Snow Star Table Setting - At the table

The Salty Quilter - Snow Star Table Setting - Placemat

The Salty Quilter - Snow Star Table Setting - tops

The Salty Quilter - Christmas Tree Ornaments

Christmas Tree Ornaments

General Info

Start Date  Nov 14, 2011
Finish Date  Nov 14, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  4″
Pattern  Online Quilt Magazine 2010 November(?) issue
What it’s for  Annual family Christmas ornaments
Batting  N/A

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

So easy and cute!

The pattern has you sew the circles together and turn them right side out. I was lazy and just zig zagged them together and pinked the edges. I used a CD-R for a circle template. I made six in 45 minutes.

Progress Pictures

 

The Salty Quilter - Cross Stitch Ornaments

Cross Stitch Ornaments

General Info

Start Date  Jul 30, 2011
Finish Date  Nov 9, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  3″
Pattern  Kits
What it’s for  Sent to various family members for Christmas 2011.
Batting  N/A

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

First pic: Found $2 Jaylynn Christmas cross stitches at Spotlight. I wanted something that I could carry to do in the car while we moved. Never actually did them in the car, but they were nice portable projects.

Second pic: Stitching Garden cross stitch kit.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Cross Stitch Ornaments

The Salty Quilter - Cross Stitch Ornaments

The Salty Quilter - Penguin Ornament

Penguin Ornament

General Info

Start Date  Oct 23, 2011
Finish Date  Nov 9, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  4.75″ x 5.25″
Pattern  Kit
What it’s for  Gift for Nanny Betty
Batting  Iron on pellon

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

$1.50 cross stitch kit. Originally said “North” but there are no penguins at the north pole, so I changed it to “South”.

I noticed after I took the picture that I used the wrong shade of yellow on half his sign. *not wearing glasses*

Quilting Notes/Techniques

 

Progress Pictures

 

The Salty Quilter - Winter Wonderland Panel - Finished

Winter Wonderland Wall Hanging

General Info

Start Date  Nov 12, 2010
Finish Date  Jan 3, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  Approx 30″ x 30″
Pattern  My own design
What it’s for  Gifts for Grandma Lois, and Uncle Terry and Aunt Alyce
Batting  Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Used Winter Wonderland panels and added borders.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Free motion quilted with monofilament.  Used 50 wt Gutterman cotton thread on first project and 50wt Prescensia cotton thread on second project. Quilted around designs, practiced following lines, echoing, background fillers.  Had issues with skipped stitches on second panel.  Thought it was because of the different thread brand, but now I think it was a machine issue.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Winter Wonderland Panel - Close up

The Salty Quilter - Snowman Door Hanger - Finished

Snowman Door Hanger

General Info

Start Date  Aug 21, 2010
Finish Date  Jan 3, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  36″ x 12″
Pattern  Cold Hands, Warm Heart by Pam Bono
What it’s for  Made two: one for me and one for Grandma MJ.
Batting  Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting.

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Modified table runner pattern. Added an extra snowflake block and made two. Used skinny heart shaped buttons for nose.  Added star burst beads to hanging loops.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Ditch quilted snowman body, then free motion quilted loops inside body using 50wt gutterman thread.  Probably should have done outside channel quilting first, and more densely, to help prevent distortion.  This project would have greatly benefited from trimming, but I didn’t think to do it, and blocking, which I didn’t know about then.  Attempted to use silver metallic thread in snowflake, but kept shredding.  Need to use larger topstitch needle next time.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Snowman Door Hanger - Finished

The Salty Quilter - Snowman Door Hanger - Snowflake close-up

The Salty Quilter - Snowman Door Hanger - snowman close-up

The Salty Quilter - Snowman Ornament

Icicle Snowman Ornament

General Info

Start Date  Dec 24, 2010
Finish Date  Dec 24, 2010
Status  Finished
Size   7″
Pattern  Happy Hollows
What it’s for  Christmas tree
Batting  Iron on pellon.

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Was bored on Christmas Eve so went to Sewco and picked up this Espresso kit. It was pretty expensive.  Pattern was easy.  Would be good option for annual Christmas ornaments one year.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Snowman Ornament