Author: Coral
Pampered Path
July 17, 2011
General Info
| Start Date | Jun 6, 2011 |
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| Finish Date | Jul 17, 2011 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 81″ x 81″ |
| Pattern | Quilt for Baby from McCalls Quick Quilts magazine |
| What it’s for | Gift for baby Evelyn |
| Batting | Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting. |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Striped and flower fabric left over from table centerpieces from Grandma MJ’s 80th birthday (including some chocolate cake stains on some bits). White homespun from Sewco. Other misc fabrics from Spotlight sale table. Used a Victorian Textiles 6.5″ drunkard’s path template. Blocks were coming out very uneven, so ended up trimming down to 6.25″ to make them square.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Used Gutterman 50wt thread in white for ditch quilting and straight line quilting. Used King Tut “Cleopatra’ thread for free motion feathers.
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Flowers & Feathers
June 7, 2011
General Info
| Start Date | Apr 22, 2011 |
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| Finish Date | Jun 7, 2011 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 25.4″ x 24.5″ |
| Pattern | My own design |
| What it’s for | Spring wall hanging for Grandma MJ |
| Batting | Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting. |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Wholecloth middle with borders added. Border fabric was from table coverings from Grandma MJ’s 80th birthday celebration.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Vase, flowers and flourish quilting design by Diane Gaudynski from “October Morning” in Choosing Quilting Designs, Rodale’s Successful Quilting Library, edited by Jane Townswick.
Free motion quilted with Rasant cotton/poly thread. No weight listed, but much thinner than my usual Gutterman 50wt cotton. Feather border hand drawn by me and quilted with Gutterman Sulky 100% cotton 30wt variegated thread.
This time I sprayed the quilt with water to remove the water soluble marker. I didn’t want to soak it again and get the level of shrinkage that I got in “Humble Harvest.” Hopefully no marks will reappear in the future, but will be a good test.
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Open House
June 2, 2011
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.
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Humble Harvest
May 16, 2011
General Info
| Start Date | May 1, 2011 |
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| Finish Date | May 16, 2011 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 24″ x 20″ |
| Pattern | My own design |
| What it’s for | For me. |
| Batting | Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting. |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Wholecloth plus borders.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Quilting design based off my own drawing. Machine quilted with Gutterman cotton 50wt thread in matching colors. Used pre-washed homespun and cotton batting, but still got quite a bit of shrinkage after washing. Stippling was too big to contrast with the rest of the design. Still like it though and put it up for Halloween.
Progress Pictures
No flash.
With flash.
Reproduction Pumpkin
May 12, 2011
General Info
| Start Date | May 2, 2011 |
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| 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.
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Sunny Stars
May 1, 2011
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 moment I figured out the maximum size I could quilt with my Bernette.
Sarah the Bulldog being very helpful.
Points of Pride
February 14, 2011
General Info
| Start Date | Feb 8, 2011 |
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| Finish Date | Feb 14, 2011 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 24.5″ x 24.5″. |
| Pattern | Points of Pride from American Patchwork and Quilting magazine |
| What it’s for | Gift for Aunt Pam. |
| Batting | Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting. |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Sewing machine had issues with monofiliment machine quilting. Had to switch to coats and clark polyester thread for corners.
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Owl Softies
February 13, 2011
General Info
| Start Date | Jan 8, 2011 |
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| Finish Date | Feb 13, 2011 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 4″ to 12″ |
| Pattern | From Bebe Bold |
| What it’s for | Gifts |
| Batting | Poly fill |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
“Hamish” sized made for Jordan, Ella and Zac for Christmas. Door Stop sized made for Hazel, Alyce and Kailyn and embroidered with their first initials. Used felt for smaller pieces instead of double fused fabric.
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New York Beauty
February 6, 2011
General Info
| Start Date | Jan 28, 2011 |
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| Finish Date | Feb 6, 2011 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 24.5″ x 24.5″ |
| Pattern | Points of Pride from American Patchwork and Quilting magazine |
| What it’s for | For my sister Pearl who lives in NYC. |
| Batting | Matilda’s own 100% cotton batting. |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
First quilt with curved blocks.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Free motion machine quilted with monofilament and 50wt Gutterman thread in bobbin.
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California Poppies
February 6, 2011
General Info
| Start Date | Feb 4, 2011 |
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| Finish Date | Feb 6, 2011 |
| Status | Finished |
| Size | 12″ x 10″ |
| Pattern | Perfect Poppies |
| What it’s for | Gift for Rachel |
| Batting | Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting. |
Quilt Top Notes/Techniques
Used left overs from Tree of Life Quilt. Used bias binding purchased for Tree of Life, but not used. Ironed binding into french fold before using.
Quilting Notes/Techniques
Free motion quilted/machine appliqued at one time.
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