I finished my Love and Stitches quilt top! Just imagine a 3 l/2" border in Kona snow, around the quilt below.
Thanks for following along :)
I finished my Love and Stitches quilt top! Just imagine a 3 l/2" border in Kona snow, around the quilt below.
Thanks for following along :)
My 2017 Basket Sew Sampler quilt top is finished! The pattern is from the 2017 Sew Sampler boxes from Fat Quarter Shop. In 2017, I made 5 of the blocks, you can see them here. I guess life happened, and I never finished the other 7 blocks. The baskets are designed by Lori Holt. My solid colored fabric collection isn't very big, mostly fat quarters or from leftover projects. I decided to make the baskets out of solids and use different background fabrics for each block. I made the 10 1/2" blocks, the quilt finishes at 56 1/2" X 71". The quilt called for about 2 l/2 yards for the background. I'm using fabric from my stash, and I don't have too many pieces that large. Luckily, I found this Heather Bailey fabric from her Nicey Jame line and It adds a lot of sunshine! It feels so good to see my stash slowly get smaller...
My friend took this photo of me in my sewing room, showing off the quilt. I used a Michael Miller fabric for the inner border. This quilt was a hip replacement recovery quilt, lol! I still can't bend over to pin the quilt and prepare it for machine quilting. That time will come soon.
I just finished week 3 of this quilt along.
I'm finding it easy to keep up, the hearts are big and are fun to sew!
Megan Collins has the cutest rainbow quilt that I'm going to make,
you can find it on Etsy here.
I had to trim each piece down to size.
This is the order that I like my hearts.
Do you think I should make any changes?
Oops, I just saw 2 navy hearts on the same row!
I had to place each piece on the floor with a "reacher", a tool that is very handy for people who can't bend over, lol!
I took the blocks apart with my nifty seam ripper and squared up the blocks.
Now it fits perfectly!
Have you heard of the Fat Quarter Shop? It's an online quilt shop.
Kimberly and Kevin Jolly are the owners, and Kimberly has a YouTube video every Friday morning. It's full of new pattern releases, sew alongs, new fabric lines and so much more! I love watching it.
They contacted me and asked if I would like to make a quilt for their release of "Half Yard Jam" pattern in the Short Cut quilt series. I said of course! and was able to choose any half yard bundle they had in stock. Boy, was that fun!!! I love anything to do with Little Red Riding Hood, so I chose "Little Red in the Woods" by Jill Howarth for Riley Blake. I'm going to add this quilt to my "grandchildren pile".
It's really big, 90" square. Did I mention that this quilt pattern is free on their blog, Jolly Jabber?
Here is where you can find the free pattern.
This is where you can find the quilt kit.
Thank you Fat Quarter Shop! ❤️
I saw this quilt along advertised on Instagram, and loved the quilt! It has a modern flair to it and I love the bright, happy colors.
My friend Nedra helped me choose the fabrics from my Cotton and Steel collection. I've been dying for a quilt pattern to use my pretty fabrics. The hearts are really big on the pattern, and there is curved sewing around the hearts. I've never done curved quilting, but I sure have in garment construction.
The first week is choosing fabrics, and the second week will be cutting out the pattern pieces.
Follow @megancollins_a if you're interested in quilting along.
There is a giveaway every week :)
An update on my total hip replacement surgery, it went really well! I barely feel any pain, such a contrast to before surgery. I have my two week checkup with the surgeon on Thursday and will begin taking Ibrance again, the chemotherapy pill. I'm really looking forward to walking and skipping and exercising and dancing again :)
I worked really hard on this quilt, knowing that there would be times that I had to put it away, and let life take over. After all, we can't quilt 24/7, right? Well, maybe we can!
I had my hip surgery and am not feeling as much pain as I was before, which is great! I'll be using a walker for a couple of weeks and can twist my body or bend down. I'm at the mercy of my caretakers, lol! My husband is doing an excellent job of taking care of me, and so are my kids :)