Paula's posterous

Still another finish

Here's another one.  Somehow it didn't make the Joy in the New Year list.  It is based on a pattern in Rosemary Wilkinson's Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend.  Actually, this is the second time I've made this pattern.  The first version was for Kevin's mom, back in the pre-digital camera days.  I took a couple of photos of it last time we were visiting.  This go round I forgot the border cornerstones and quilted it entirely by machine.  There aren't many (any?) fabrics in common between these quilts.  

New:

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I remember purchasing a bunch of blue 30s prints at the New England Quilt Museum for the newer quilt. 

Old:

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Streak of Lightning

Finished my first Christmas quilt.  (Actually, it is the second - the first was a gift for a friend back in the pre-digital camera days.)  I started back in the fall of 2008 with a charm pack of a Mary Englebreit Christmas line and made half-square triangles and quickly settled on a streak of lightning-setting and then put it away when I lost direction after Christmas.  I found a jelly roll on sale sometime in 2009 but didn't have much of a plan beyond thinking I might use it for borders or binding.  Joy in the New Year inspired me to just finish it already in Fall 2009 and a year later, here we are.  Finished is better than perfect, but I'd like this to be a little closer to perfect. It looked like it would lie flat but once I hung it on the wall it is kind of wonky.  Oh well.  Made from a charm pack and a couple of strips from a jelly roll, original pattern, machine pieced and quilted.

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More progress on the blue sawtooth star

The blue sawtooth star is all quilted.  It took me forever to decide what I wanted to do in the sashing.  I finally found a cable stencil that I liked and then it just took me a couple of weeks to do the quilting.  All that awaits is binding.

 
 

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Sawtooth star progress

I've done all the quilting in the stars, but am stumped about what to do in the sashing.  I'd long planned to do a little cable in the sashing, but can't find a stencil that would fit the space and haven't been able to make a satisfactory stencil of my own.  Maybe it is time to move on to something else.....

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A Finished Object!

I finally finished something!  Yay!  It is Emma's 100 Days Quilt from Kindergarten.  For quilting, I did straight lines 1/4 inch from each seam.  This is the world's worst binding and I should have probably ripped it out and started over, but I am trying to fight those impulses. 

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Joy in the New Year

I think I'm going to join the Joy in the New Year challenge. 

Here's the list:

  1. Blue Sawtooth Star quilt I started 15 years ago when we moved to Las Vegas.  Just needs quilting in the sashing and then binding.
  2. Pink Aunt Sukey's Choice from 10+ years ago.  Needs hand quilting in sashing and binding. finished 9/20/10
  3. Purple Irish Chain (with Thimbleberries ecru fabric purchased in Jackson Hole in 1996).  Needs hand quilting in border and binding.
  4. Max's I-Spy quilt.  Needs piecing, quilting and binding.
  5. Emma's 100 Days quilt.  Needs basting, quilting and binding. finished 12/7/09
  6. Matthew's baby quilt.  Needs more piecing, etc.
  7. Jacobs ladder from In the Beginning Quilts block-of-the-month kit.  Needs border, basting, quilting and binding.
  8. Kaffe Fassett coin quilt.  Needs assembly, etc.
  9. Mary Englebreit Christmas streak of lightning table runner.  Needs assembly, basting, quilting and binding. finished 12/2/10
  10. Other Christmas quilt.  Needs piecing, etc.
  11. Repro lemoyne stars.  Just blocks at this point. 
  12. Pink H-block from Ursula Reikes design.  Needs basting, quilting and binding.
  13. Scrappy strip-pieced blocks.  Still assembling blocks.
  14. Blue variable star and cross-country blocks from Marsha McCloskey's Block Party book.  Still making blocks.
  15. Pink batik from American Patchwork & Quilts pattern.  Can't decide if it needs borders or not.
  16. Black and neon square in the square block quilt.  Still making blocks.
  17. Me and My Sister charm square quilt.  Needs basting, etc.

I'm itching to start some new things so I'm sure I won't get these all finished, but a start is a start.