Quilting Design- Shells

How long does it take to quilt an entire quilt? It all depends on the size of your quilt and the overall of your design. It goes a lot faster if it's a simple design, contrary to a more intricate one. This quilt took an average of 10 hours with only two simple designs: Waved lines & Echoshell.  The combination of both of these designs gave the quilt movement.

  Waved lines & Echoshell.

                              This was quilted on my Juki 2010 sewing machine

Sewing Binding

 It takes me an average between 3-4 hours to sew by hand the back of my binding. That was fine when I was making one quilt per year, but now I'm quilting many quilts per year, so I'm going back to sewing the binding with my machine.

                               Back of the quilt. You can see the binding was sewn nicely

                               Beautiful fabric for the back of this quilt.

Free Motion Quilting Design Gallery

Quick Method for Binding: Jordan Fabric

Jeans Bag

There are many tutorials to make a bag with used jeans. Some were pretty purses or big bags, I wanted a small shoulder strap bag. They were not many tutorials for it and when I did find one on Youtube, it was in a foreign langue. No worries, the women had her measuring tape, so I could follow pretty much all her instructions.

My first attempt with a pair of children's jeans failed because there wasn't enough fabric above the pocket for a seam allowance and the pocket was set on an angle.

This is an adult pair of jeans I purchased at a thrift store for $6. You can make at least two little bags and some extra fabric jean is left for another project. Again, I didn't' account for the flap on the pocket, so I need to improvise. Hey, so much more fun!

You also need another piece for the back of the bag. You also need fabric for your lining, a button, and few strips of jeans for the shoulder strap.

 The pocket-jeans and lining are sewed together and turned over. The excess of fabric was trimmed off.

                                 I used masking tape to round up my corners and trimmed off.

                                  This was a very easy little bag to make and cute too.

A big thank you to Craft 2315 for their Youtube Video

May I do This?

This week I sew little but managed to precut all the pieces for quilt #17.  Our hot but was moved from the deck to a concrete slab. The previous owner had requested that the hot tub was installed on a deck.  I tilled my friend's garden with my Mantis, small tiller and I will be plenty my beans and other things there. I will also have a smaller garden in my backyard. And many yard work is done too.

On top of that, I stained my son's wooden coat hanger that he gave me and organized our shed. Ouf!
Oh yeah, I asked my husband to readjusted our curtain rod in our bedroom and we moved four of bookcases in our master bedroom. Yeah, it's big enough for that and it looks really nice.

And I wondered WHY  I didn't have time to sew this week. This afternoon, I started to sandwich one of my quilts and this is the quilting plan I have in mind.

Quilt #16- Giddy Gridlock

Point Pelee is a nice national park to go for a visit, both for bird-watchers, bikers, or simply for a leisure walk in their many trails.  Those chairs are usually a good spot to rest, but not this week.

I started my number 16 quilt, using pretty much the same colour fabric the designer suggested.

                 There are 56 rectangles in this quilt that have been framed with a white print fabric.

         When I put all my finished squares on my design wall, I didn't really like it. To blend and plain.

                 But when you add the black prints, it does change the entire flow of the quilt.

                                                    Designed by Tanya Finken
Giddy Gridlock

Framing Rectangles

It was so enriching to write my testimony. I had realized how much God has worked in my life through so many trials that made me a better person. And I feel so honoured to have been asked to share my testimony next week at a Ladies' brunch.  I'm looking so forward to that day.

And now I can go back to my favourite hobby- quilting & sewing!

I started working on another quilt. It has 56 rectangles, framed with a white fabric. It's the beginning of a fun weekend.  Also, I love being outside when spring comes around. My goal it's to complete those last 3 top-quilt before September. That's my personal goal.

How much sewing are you planning to do during spring-time?

Precut all my pieces from my stash. Green, orange, and cream. White and Black fabric for the background. 

                                                             56 Framed rectangles.

Time to sew more of this quilt.