This Baby's quilt is made from leftover blocks and appliques.
annequiltingforfun
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Baby Quilt
Friday, December 20, 2024
Individual place-mat setting
One Table Placemat.
These individual place-setting mats' will be used to protect the dinner table from water marks, food stains, and heat damage.
This is my scrap placemat with a pocket for the cutlery. My children and friends love receiving these as gifts. They are easy to make and look stunning and best of all I use leftover batting and fabric to make them.
The finished measurement is W17.5" x H12.0"
The pocket measurement is H7.5" x W4.5"
Happy quilting until next time
Anne
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Antique Lace Quilt
I am in love with this quilt! And the name Antique Lace fits it perfectly. Thank you Missouri Star for this lovely pattern". When I was assembling these blocks I was also surprised and thrilled to discover the secondary block that appears out of nowhere!
Below is a photo of one of the unfinished blocks before it was sewn together.
Cut 2 white strips 2½̎ x Width Of Fabric (WOF)
Cut 2 colored strips 2½̎ x WOF
Sew 2½̎ strips of the main color and 2½̎ of background color together to form a tube.
Each completed block will need 32 Half Square Triangles
First Unit Pin Wheel make 1
Take 4 half square triangles all seams to the center sew light-dark. And make the center pinwheel.
Second Unit Flying Geese make 4
Cut 8 x 5½̎ x 3̎ Rectangles Back Ground (BG) Fabric (white)
Sew 2 HST together BG (white) blocks facing each other to make a flying geese block (Make 4)
Sew one x 5½̎ BG (White) Rectangle to each end of the flying Geese.
Third Unit Corner Blocks make 4
Cut 16 x 3̎ x 3̎ Squares from the BG fabric (white)
Below is one corner of the block you will need four corner blocks makes one complete block.
Bearadise Quilt a Block of the Month
This Xmas block was not in the original pattern although Suzy at SuzysSitcom.com had these guys in a table runner pattern. I just loved the pattern so here it is.
The bubbles were interesting to stitch by hand, they look amazing and I loved the number plate on this block.
Last block.
Affairs of the Heart - Finished 2021
Yippee Affairs of the Heart is finally finished. It has been on my UFO list since 2013. The original quilt was designed and made by Aie Rossmann. Aie's original quilt had 36 appliqued blocks composed of hearts and lotus flowers on a back background with a very pretty heart border which I loved.
Finished October 2021
Seagulls Paradise quilt
This quilt is a fun and happy quilt called "Seagull Paradise" by SuzysSitcom.com. This BOM started on the 24th Dec 2020. I am late in starting mine but I will get it done, my quilt will not be the same but the plan is to make my own interpretation of this quilt by changing some of the elements on some of the blocks.
This quilt has a bunch of adorable of silly seagulls set in a nautical-themed setting and I fell in love with their quirkiness. I choose to applique mine using the fusible webbing method, originally the quilt measured 52" inches by 68" inches, but I plan to make mine bigger and modify blocks and add more blocks and sashings.
To Make the background landscape or seascapes for some of the blocks I tried the following technique using scraps from my fabric stash.
Using a rotary cutter, I freehand cut a curve through both overlapping layers of background fabric making sure that both fabrics were facing right side up and overlapping, cut a slightly curvy gentle line about 1 inch into this overlap of both fabrics. The most important thing is to remember not to make the curve too deep or it will be hard to piece the two curves together.
How to sew the curves together.
Turn the piece of fabric over onto the other fabric so they are right sides together, and align the curves to the top edges. Sew the pieces of fabric together very slowly, stopping to adjust frequently sewing a straight line all at the same time. It's important to remember not to pull or stretch the fabrics just let the feed dogs do the work. Make sure to hold the top fabric in my left hand and a-lining the bottom fabric with my right against the 1/4 inch guide to sew the curve. A tip I followed if I thought I was going to sew a pleat, was to stop, lift the presser foot with the needle down, re-arrange the fabric, presser food down, and slowly keep sewing. I found that the key to success was to follow the golden rule and go slowly. Trim to the correct size and start appliqueing. This process of making your own background fabric out of your fabric stash was very interesting and I will use it again. Loved the result.
Entwined Illusion Quilt
“Illusion Quilt” or other names are Escher or Entwined.
I don't have a pattern so I am going to wing it and design this one myself I needed to make two trapezoid units (which consist of two blocks) one right-facing triangle and one left-facing triangle.
I am using a partial seam, meaning you don't sew the whole seam to join one piece to another right away - you just sew part.
Cutting Instructions to make 304 trapezoid units:
Cut 34 strips of the dark fabric, sub-cut the strip using a 60-degree triangle place the bottom on the 4-1/2 line and the top on the 2-3/4 line, and then cut 304 isosceles trapezoid pieces, each strip will produce 9 units. See the photo below.
Cut 34 strips of the light fabric, sub-cut the strip using a 60-degree triangle place the bottom on the 4-1/2 line and the top on the 2-3/4 line, and then cut 304 isosceles trapezoid pieces, each strip will produce 9 units.
Cut 34 strips of the medium fabric, sub-cut the strip using a 60-degree triangle place the bottom on the 4-1/2 line and the top on the 2-3/4 line, and cut 304 isosceles trapezoid pieces, each strip will produce 9 units.
Cut 9 x 2-inch strips of red (feature) fabric to make the 2-inch triangles for the centre of the triangles. I will need to cut 304 units. I marked all edges 1/4-inch triangles.
All seams must be pressed open, this will cut down on the bulk at the intersections and give a better point when joining units together.
Practice pieces
Backing the quilt.
I plan to cut the backing fabric in half and piece three rows of boxes joined by a ribbon through the boxes in the middle of the backing.
Below is the Label and the Black and White striped binding.
Until next time
Happy Quilting
Anne
Start date: 20 June 2022
Finish date: 24 August 2022
Quilt Size 88.5" Width by 75.8" High
Posted Jan 2023