After exchanging the summer rows last week, I arranged them a few different ways and I think this is how they look the best. The top row has a large open white space so I have something in mind to put there. I’ll have to play around a bit to see if it will work. I’ll also have to decide whether to put a sashing between the rows or just sew the rows together as is. Decisions, decisions……….
Oh we’ll, here’s my wall……
To see more design walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
Thursday night was our Summer row by row exchange at guild. Everyone had their rows there to exchange. We had four groups with 6 in each one. There were sailboats, ice cream comes, pineapples, beach scenes, watermelons and flip flops just to name a few.
Group 1. This is my group. I sure am glad I got mine done! 🙂
Group 2.
Group 3.
Group 4.
Everybody did a great job of making rows. Some of them were so creative and cute! Now I need to come up with another fun idea for an exchange……
That’s it for now.
Theresa
They are done! Yea! Good thing too, as they are due tonight! I sewed the last blocks together last night before going to bed. What a relief…….
My original plan was to make yo yo’s to go on each flip flop like I did on this little wall hanging that I made years ago.
Ok, let’s see, I have 6 rows of flip flops…..5 pairs in each row…….5 x 6=30…….30 pairs x 2 flip flops=60 yo yo’s…….I wanted 2 yo yo’s per flip flop….holy smokes! I needed 120 yo yo’s!!! With 4 days left until the exchange. I made 3 yo yo’s………
Ok, after 3 yo yo’s I decided, that’s not going to work…..no way can I make 120 of them in 4 days………so I came up with the idea that I could cut out little flower shapes from felt and sew them down on each flip flop. 60 flower shapes with 60 little round centers……that became the plan……..but I thought if I had some Steam a seam…..maybe I could just iron them on and forget the sewing part. 🙂 that would save me some time. Of course I couldn’t find my Steam a seam……. I just happened to be in Walmart on Monday and thought that maybe by some huge miracle, they might have some……….but NO they didn’t………but ……..I saw some cute buttons……..just the right size!!! I had thought of buttons earlier but didn’t want to spend $40 getting enough buttons. But these packages were only 88 cents each and I needed 2 packs of 6 different colors. There were 2 sizes in each package. Woohoo!! That’s less than $12…..Miracles do happen!! I came home Monday and started sewing all the buttons on. Then Tuesday and Wednesday I sewed the blocks together. Now it’s Thursday, the day of the exchange and I’m all set and ready!! Hope the ladies like the rows I made. I can hardly wait to see what they made!
That’s it for now….
Theresa
I now have all the flip flops ready to be stitched down. Let the blanket stitching begin!!
Have a good day!
Theresa
I spent most of the weekend quilting. I quilted 2 small quilts with pantograph designs. I used a holly design on the Christmas one.
This one got a butterfly design.
This one was a fun quilt! Turtles!! I think it’s cute. The girl that made this is 9. She did a great job on it!
I even got a few more flip flops made. 27 down and 3 more to go!!! My design wall is covered with these….
Off to get some more quilting done today and hopefully the last of the flip flops!! To see more design walls check out http://www.pathworktimes.com
Have a good day!!
Theresa
I often wonder when choosing an all over design just what will look the best on the quilt. Today I had a quilt that had long white background strips with turquoise strips in between. The long strips of color are actually rectangles, in a variety of shades, as we’ll as the whites. I decided to go with a circle pattern in the quilting. I love the way it looks!
I quilted it with pale aqua thread color.
I can’t show much of the custom one I’m working on. Just a peek…..
That’s it for now. Thank goodness tomorrows Friday! It’s been a long week!!!
Theresa
Here it is Monday again! I have 2 projects going on, on my wall right now. I got a few more flip flops made. I now have 18 pairs. I decided that if I use 5 pairs in each row instead of 6, I will only need to make 30 pairs instead of 36, so that’s what I’m going to do. That means 12 more sets to make before they get appliquéd down. Hope I make the deadline!! LOL!!
I worked on the pieced sashings that will go on the English Paper Piecing project that I’m working on. I have all the components made just need to appliqué them into the background squares.
That’s it for my wall. So see more check out http://www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
I have a new addition to my workspace! I got a Bernina 830 thanks to my friend Pam! She had 2 and decided to sell one , so now it’s mine! Yea!
Not that I need another sewing machine……
It has a few attachments. I have no idea what a couple of things are in there….
I want to take it out of the case and play with it, but I need to spend time getting some more quilt tops quilted.
That’s it for now!
Theresa
My friend Joelyn Feverly decided to enter the AQS “GO challenge” contest. Here’s her quilt.
She brought the top to me to quilt and I was like “oh wow…….what am I going to do with it?
As time went on and the deadline for entry drew near……… I finally came up with an idea. I tried several different things but with the hearts set as they were and not much space between them, I was very limited on putting designs around the hearts. I ended up going with feathers here and there. Some hang down, some don’t………….
With the heavy quilting in the center, I had to have something for the border, so I quilting lines, and lines and lines………
After giving it back to Joelyn, she scalloped the borders and put a piping on it. Here’s the pic she sent me.
I am proud to say that it WON the “Out of the box quilting” award in the contest!!!!! I really did go out of the box trying to come up with the quilting designs for it!! I was afraid it would look like %$#%$^$ but it didn’t. It’s making it’s debut at the AQS Grand Rapids quilt show this weekend. It will then travel for the next year or so to several other AQS shows. So if you go to an AQS show where they have the “GO have fun challenge quilts” check it out!
Ok that’s it for now……..
Theresa
I finished the quilting on the guild opportunity quilt, I haven’t taken time to show how it looks with the quilting. I did lots of feathers on it. I knew I wanted feathers in the purple points around the center block.
After doing all the purple pointed areas, I put in a background fill of just random stuff. I did the outside border next because I knew I was going to run a continuous feather all the way around the quilt.
That left only the side setting triangles left I quilted and I wasn’t sure what to put in those areas. Finally I decided that since I love quilting feathers……..yep, I put feathers in them! LOL!!
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed seeing the pics. Ticket sales were great at our quilt show last weekend. The drawing is in November. I hope I win!! LOL!!!!!
That’s it for now………..
Theresa
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