Design Wall Monday- December 3, 2012

It's almost Christmas again and Clayton's Row Quilt is back up on the WALL.  This Row Robin was started back in 2008-2009.  A few of the rows didn't get back to me as promised.  I have had to add a lot of the Ornament fabric in rows of Friendship stars and Snowball blocks to make enough rows to fill in. Here I am pinning the rows up so Mary C can take a picture. I divided the blocks Mary C made into 2 rows, they are in the center (rows 4 & 5).

There is a lot of "Christmas" on the Design Wall at Thread and Bolts.

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Design Wall Monday- November 26, 2012

A little late in posting this week.  I wasn't home on Monday and neither was Mary C. I had a Dr appt on Wednesday also so today is the day that things get caught up a bit.

Julie H from Mesa came to pick up her Apple Cider Quilt.  I quilted Apples on it.  The fabrics she used are so primitive looking and scrappy!  It was almost finished quilting when she came.
Here I am doing my favorite part---cutting it off the leaders.  

A close-up of one of the apples.

 The backing fabric has recipes on it.  So perfect for the back of this quilt.

The count for the Step Women's Shelter Pillowcases is up to 57 now.  Almost to my goal of 100.

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Design Wall Monday November 19, 2012

I had a Jelly Roll of a Batik that has been on the shelf a while and one day decided to do some mindless sewing.  I sewed and then made these three sections.  I'll figure out a Border and then this one will go to our Local Women's Shelter.    What color would you add to this for a border?  I'm thinking Grey.

It was nice to just sit a sew a few days this past week-end and make Pillowcases for the Shelter.  There are pictures in my Previous posting HERE.

I've been busy quilting for Customers and haven't had much time to sew for myself.
Here's the one on the Frame now.  Quilting Pattern is "Drifting Snowflakes" from Quilter's Niche.

A close-up of the snowflakes.  This is the only kind of Snowflakes that we have at Thread and Bolts.

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Design Wall Monday- November 5, 2012

Two of the Baby quilts made with this panel are on the Long Arm. The backing for these two will be the same so it is easy to quilt them at the same time. 

The Christmas Celebrations class had the last session on Halloween. Many of the ladies got at least one of their wedges complete.  Here is mine.

  I have changed my focus fabric again. I got one of the wedges done and didn't like the solid piece of fabric in the area directly under the 1st row curved Flying geese from the center. 

Here are two of the fabric options I tried.  Jerry and Mary C both weighed in on the decision making process.  Then I had an idea to mimic the striped pieced from above the 1st row of Flying geese and came up with these fabric choices.  What do you think???  I may have to call and order more fabric from the GLITTER website I bought the fabrics from to make the placemats I wanted to make to match this table cover. :)

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Design Wall Monday- October 29, 2012

                

I had a lady come into the Shop who requested that I make some baby quilts. I showed her the Panels I have that make up very quick and she chose fabrics to add to it that suited her liking. That means that on my DESIGN WALL are 3 versions of the same quilt using this Nursery Prayer Panel. When I make three Baby quilts I can line them up on the Long Arm and quilt them all at the same time as long as the backing is the same.  There is one with a Navy and small Yellow pinstripe for the sashing between the small blocks in the border. A second with a matching green, a third with red.  (you can click the pictures to make them bigger) Which one do you think looks best?   The outer borders aren't cut for these at this point.  The color of the sashing will also be a 3" outer border. Thanks for stopping by.  With Christmas coming I'm suddenly very busy.

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Design Wall Monday- October 21, 2012

Last week after Design Wall Monday this quilt was posted HERE.  It is just getting started.   Some Progress has been made. This is a Judy Niemeyer pattern called "Christmas Celebrations".

 It takes almost an hour to do one of the Curved Flying Geese sections.  The next class is on Halloween.
My Colors at Christmas are Silver and Blue. Blue is also my favorite color.  This will be fun to have done in time for Christmas, only 64 days left to go.

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Design Wall Monday- October 15, 2012

The quilt for Clayton's Birthday finally got on the frame and quilted.   Mary C came out and got pictures of it so we could post on DWM this week.



It was so fun to use the Go Acuquilt Cutter to add the words to the borders.   Seattle Seahawks is on two sides.  The top and bottom say his name and Super Fan.  Clayton turned 30 this year.  He loves the "Seahawks"!  He hasn't seen his quilt just yet. Lynn will show it off at Guild in November first.

Made with the Disappearing 9-Patch pattern and Quilted with the Square Doodles.

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Design Wall Monday- September 24, 2012

This is Lynn's "Easy Does It" Quilt on the Design Wall at Thread and Bolts.  It is made from the Midnight Garden line of fabrics.  There are a few  more Kits available to make this fun quilt.

There are two more seams to finish this quilt top.  Watch the Blog to see what fun Quilting Design is used to finish this quilt. 

The Farmer's Wife Quilt that was on last weeks DWM is still on the Big Wall at Thread and Bolts.  Getting closer to being finished as well.

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Design Wall Monday September 17, 2012

There was more progress made on the Farmer's Wife Quilt.  Sewing the cornerstone and 2 sashings on each block like this makes it EASY to assemble. Tuesday and Wednesday are the Farmer's Wife Days at Thread and Bolts.  Won't they be surprised to see this hanging on the wall in the shop?!! 

Only two more months of this class.  

We will start a new Block of the Month in January.  Maybe TWO Blocks of the Month.  12" blocks this time.   There are new Marti Michell Blocks of the Month ready to go.  Using the same Templates we already have from making the Farmer's Wife.  

Below is the D9P made from the 3.5" Y2K Swaps with Orange as the constant. This Quilt is for Michelle.
Kimmy and Tammi sorted them and matched them up when we were still sewing in the basement 6 years or so ago.  The quilt top was found when she was searching for the BOX of "Bears Need Homes, Too" fabrics a few weeks ago.  A couple of borders and it will be ready for Quilting.  It looks good on the Long Arm.

You can Link up with Judy Laquidara HERE. Lots to see on Design Wall Monday.

Design Wall - a bit later than Monday

Monday was a holiday so No group sewing happened at Thread and Bolts!  Tuesday the Photographer/Blogger; Mary C came out and we took the first Picture auditioning the sashing and cornerstones for the Scrappy Farmer's Wife Quilt. That was going to be the Monday Posting. I've sewn all the blocks from the Scrap bin.  

 I cut the Sashing and cornerstones at 2" to make my quilt bigger.  (I need a King size).  By sewing the sashings on with a cornerstone it is easy to lay the quilt out on the Design Wall.   The order doesn't matter and I have a few duplicates to make the quilt longer as well. I plan on an 8 x 8 row setting on-point. This arrangement could change.  I already see I need MORE BLUE in my Blocks!   The Setting triangles with be a white tone-on-tone and the outer border will be the same fabric as the Cornerstones.

The fun part was figuring out the orientation the blocks should be set. 

Must have the birds all flying in the right direction, you know.  LOL

Mary C got to un-sew a few of hers while I got my sashings sewn on.  Next Farmer's Wife Group meets in two weeks.  Won't they all be surprised if my Farmer's Wife Quilt is up on the wall?

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Design Wall Monday- August 27, 2012

It was time to open THE BOX!  

Yes, That BOX, the one with my Dear Mother in Law's and my last project in it.  

Funny that it still smells like her and brings back the good memories of sewing, 

collecting and trading fabrics and patterns.

I'm making the Evelyn Sloppy Quilt "Bears Need Home, Too" again.  This time all in shades of Blue.

Here's the stack to be sewn into the claw parts of the Bear Paws.

I was drawing the line on the back of the lights when Mary C came out this morning.

 Here are the pies of Creams and Whites with the pile of Blues next to it. 

You can tell it is my favorite color.

More 108" backing arrived in the shop recently.  

a Civil War print and nice Green and a 30's calico print.

These come with 18 yards on them so first come, first serve. 

2.5 yards of the Blue is MINE!

We are linking up with Judy Laquidara again this week.  Click HERE, Please!

Design Wall Monday (on Tuesday) August 22, 2012

On the Big Design Wall at Thread and Bolts this week is our favorite Disappearing 9-Patch pattern made with a favorite Football team's LOGO on it.

 There are 3 more blue borders to sew on then some Accucut Die Cut letters will be added to each side, top and bottom for my son Clayton. The lime green kicker Border is the same color as the eye of the Seahawk. Watch and see next week what I put on it with the ABC's letter.  He calls the team the "Hee-Hawks".  When I gave him the "Eye of the tiger" Quilt he asked why this one wasn't done yet.  We had just bought the fabric the day before.

Here's a close-up of the D9P Block.  I made the 'Seahawk' fabric go all around so it won't matter which angle you look at it from.

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Design Wall Monday- July 30, 2012

This is what was on my DESIGN Wall today when Mary C arrived.

 TRENDS has issued a Challenge for the upcoming show and this is part of the beginning of the design in my head.  Just a sneak peek if you zoom into the drawing in the left top corner.   This is a big secret I get to keep until it is shown at Trends in September.  I only have until August 21st to get it finished and shipped there.  Wish me lots of Luck.

. The Long Arm is busy with a couple quilts waiting to be quilted.  A couple were done and gone before the pictures could be taken. The following are a couple of quilts that haven't been shown on here

A Floral beauty for a Fellow Guild Member.  I think the pattern is called Slideshow or something like that.

A Nine Patch with pretty Border Print borders.

                                            Panels set in the center and pretty borders all around.

Julie H will have to tell us the name of the patterns when she comes from Mesa next month.

Click on over to see all the fun Postings at Patchworktimes  HERE

Design Wall Monday- July 23, 2012

Stitching the blues away on Glenda's Quilt.  I have the quilt top all together now, but want to keep an element of surprise until the big reveal when the quilt is delivered.  This is an Evelyn Sloppy pattern.  I started the sewing exactly 2 weeks ago when I first posted on DWM.  Enjoy the sneak peek and leave your comments.  Thanks to Mary C for helping put it up on the design wall and taking pictures.  It made us see a dark patch that needed to be un-sewed today.  I'm ahead of deadline on it and am thinking of how/what to 

'quilt' on it now. It is making me want to get out that Box of the Blue one that was started with my dear MIL-Alice, Glenda's Mother.  There are nearly enough leftover strips to make another Earth-toned one.

 

I had visitors in the Shop on Sunday.  Two of my grandchildren came and played with the scrap bin.
This small quilt was designed by a 11 year old grandson Kamren.  Can you tell he likes the color - ORANGE?

I'm linking up to Patchworktimes, Click HERE to see more Design Wall Monday Postings.

Design Wall Monday July 16, 2012

 This past week has been a very difficult one for me.  The saying goes that "Sewing Soothes the Soul".  With the passing of my Mother, I have done a LOT of sewing. I'm glad for friends who care and have come to offer condolences. I spent most of my week-end in the Quilt Studio and made enough of the Bear Paw Blocks and Log Cabin Blocks to finish the center of Glenda's Quilt. Staying busy is the best thing to do.

 It took a bit to find the four Log Cabin blocks for the Center with no repeating fabrics.

The rest of these Log Cabin and Bear Paw Blocks will go in the final border.

The cutting of the off-center Log Cabin Blocks has begun, then the quilt can be put all together to be Quilted. I am amazed that in one week I've made so much Progress.  I'm liking the way the Log Cabin and Paw Blocks are looking. The shading from the variety of fabrics helps a lot for a scrappy look.  

I'm linking up with Patchworktimes again this week. Click HERE to see more Design Wall Postings.

Design Wall Monday, July 10th, 2012

I know this is a day late.  But the new project had a slight delay.  There was a lot of cutting to get these small Log cabins made. They will be made into Bear Paw blocks.  This is the beginning of a Commissioned quilt for Glenda, my husband's sister.  She requested a quilt for herself using a pattern that I made with her mother, Alice.  It was a hard choice, but this quilt is talking to me saying, "MAKE ME"! It is a perfect quilt that combines Log cabin and Bear Paw blocks. The pattern is "Bears Need Homes, Too" from Evelyn Sloppy's book 'Log Cabin Fever'.  Glenda requested earth tones for her quilt.  My blue version of this last quilt we worked on is still in a box downstairs. 

Last week's DWM quilt is now in the Longarm being quilted. I decided to go with the Green border and the Red stripe is on the back. It emptied a bolt with just enough to make him a matching pillowcase.

Thanks for your nice comments last week. 

  I'm using black thread on the back and white on the front.

The pattern being quilted is by Anne Bright called "Swirling B2B".

There are many more links over at Patchworktimes.

Design Wall Monday- July 2,2012

"Eye of the Tiger"

                                  

A Swap from back in 2008 with the Online Yahoo WASIQ (Washington State Internet Quilters)Group that I hosted from June to September.  Many of the 4-patches are in here, I had to make a few to fill in the colors in the corners.  This quilt will go to my Son when it is finished.  I'm calling it "Eye of the Tiger" because there is a 4-patch with a Face of a Tiger in the lower left corner.  The background fabric is KONA White. So many of my quilts go to Charity and Customers, it is nice to finish a UFO of my own once in a while. Today, the Center is finally together and I am auditioning for the borders. Please choose from one of the 3 fabrics pictured below. 

1- Green

2- Red/Black Stripe

3- Green/Gold stripe

This is my first time to link up with Judy Laquidara's "Patchwork Times" Design Wall Monday Post.  Please Click HERE to see more Design Walls.  Please leave a comment and Vote for the Border you think is best.