Caravan/Trailer Quilt - A Cute Camper Quilt

Thanks, Jenny and the team from Missouri for the original pattern. I download this free pattern from Missouri Star blog and changed it up a bit by adding two wheels instead of one, window with curtains, striped borders, I also added silhouettes of Australian animals to some of the blocks.

I made 20 blocks all up. I used leftover scraps of fabric. The plan was to have 4 caravans blocks across and 5 caravan blocks down. Below is a picture of some of a pile of blocks with the second striped border attached.

It was important to sew the middle part of the wheel hub (grey circle) and the outer wheel (black circle) together before they are ironed in place, then I arranged the other pieces of the caravan/trailer onto the background fabric and ironed in place.

Blanket stitch all the way around the outside of the caravan doors, windows, bunting etc...using white thread.

 

 

I started stitching next to the wheel and sewed around the wheels and come up around the top then all the way around the caravan/ trailer then back around the wheel in white thread. I used Jenny's trick and used a black sharpie permanent marker and coloured in those little tiny white threads that were showing around on the black wheels so they don’t show.   

To make the second border for the caravan block I cut the striped fabric into 1½ ̎ x 10̎  strips and sewed them to the two sides of the block, then I sewed 1½ ̎ x 1½ ̎  black square to the top and bottom strips of 1½ ̎ x 10̎  striped fabric. I added black sashing 1½ wide to sew the rows together, and then I added my last border which was 8-inch.

 Next step was to load the backing, wadding and quilt top onto my longarm and quilt the three layers together.

 I love this quilt,  I usually float my quilt tops.

The above picture is Qbot stitching the first row of the quilt pattern,

 

Striped binding to finish the edge. Now it's ready to go into our caravan.

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Caravan/Trailer Quilt 

Quilt top measures 76-inches height by 84-inches width

A total of 20 Caravan/Trailers Blocks.

(5 rows across and 4 rows down)

Each finished block measures 12.5" x 12.5".

Started December 2019.

Finished September 2020.

Nordic Fireside Quilt

This was a free Block of the Week (BOW) Program which I began in January 2020.  Thank Debbie for letting me join this project, from Piecing the Past Quilts.  I have enjoyed making this quilt and I have helped me pass the time through this awful COVID-19 pandemic. 

Center paper pattern 

• I am going to use the "Applique sheet Technique". This technique requires you to place the pattern template (see above) on the ironing board, and cover it with an applique sheet. The applique sheet (mat) allows you to see the design and place the cutout sections together then lightly iron the fabric pieces together and assemble them into bigger shapes, without the fusible webbing adhering permanently to the applique sheet, once it's cooled simply peel off and place on the background fabric and iron in place. If you don't have an applique sheet you could use baking paper. 
• I had to assemble the small pieces and make sure I positioned the underlapping pieces first then Iron them together lightly. 

Once the bird shapes are completed and cool to the touch, I peeled the birds from the applique sheet and position them onto my background fabric. And the final step is to iron it in place. This technique is very easy. 

This center has been fused appliqued and will be blanket stitched using a machine.

  

First and second borders are sewn onto the sides

Third-side borders are sewn onto the sides of the main panel.

Third borders are completed.

Quilted on Qbot

Quilt Name: Nordic Fireside Quilt

Started in January 2019.

Finished in August 2020.

Dresden Plate Quilt

Another finish from 2018. Dresden Plate Quilt

I quilted this quilt for my brother and sister-in-law for Xmas 2018. The Dresden plate pattern is one of the most popular traditional quilting designs, the center of my Dresden plate quilt featured one black center flower with 20 blades on each block. 

The size of my Dresden Plate quilt blocks is finished at 12" x 12".

This quilt was finished and given to my brother and sister-in-law for Xmas. Sorry I didn't take a photo of the finished quilt.

Until next time
Happy quilting
Anne