Happy Memorial Day and to all that serve(d), Thank you. My father was in the Army Air Corp and my late husband Derrick was in the Army. I miss them both dearly. The army Air corp is what brought my parents together. My father was stationed in Germany when he met my mother. They are all awesome people to remember on this day.
I made this quilt for a lady I work with. She is having a baby in July. I love babies so anytime I can have an excuse to make something for a baby, I am going to do it. I also think a lot of this person. There has been only a couple of times I have met a young person and thought to myself, WOW, they have their act together. This lady is one of them. Super smart, knows what she wants personally and professionally and is not going to let anyone stand in her way. She is having a boy and the nursery will be Ohio State (another reason to like her, LOL).
I needed to experiment with batting and minky after the last quilt I made without 
batting. I like it much better with the batting. This one has minky on the back. It does not seem overly heavy, so I think I prefer it to have batting.
About Minky…. For me, there are good things and bad things about using this on the back. You can see none of the quilting on the back. In this case it is good, because I quilted the babies name into the quilt. If you could see it on the back, it would be backwards. Love how soft it is for the baby.
Something I did not like…For whatever reason, I found this very difficult to move while quilting. My shoulders hurt for three days after I finished. I thought it would move more easy. Nope. I have my slider that I put down and it works perfectly for every thing else I quilt, but this was crazy. Maybe between the slider and Minky it was too slippery and did not move at all? I have no idea.
I really like this patter (see previous post for link). IT is quick and easy. I think it is also a great way to practice new quilting designs.
Happy Memorial Day
Happy Sewing
Happy Quilting
Treasure your Family
don’t think I like the no batting part. What I love is how the quilting looks on the back. It looks good even when I am not. It seems that fleece will hide a lot. Honestly, it looks even better in person.
but I struggled with what to do. I felt I needed to do something simple in order to get it completed in time. So, I chose this simple pattern from “Block” magazine.
done before, so I am making some loud happy placements for my dining room. I will use them to practice the quilting for my paint chip challenge quilt.
and happy. It makes me smile. I love the flamingos and pineapples.
So, I did practice my quilting and I was very happy with how the quilting came out, so I figured it was at least worthy to give away, even though it is odd. I used my “star” ruler and then made angle lines. There is a lot of quilting in it, but I enjoyed using it and it looks pretty good.
finish the Star Wars quilt. Quilt and bind. That is the plan. I hope it finishes better than the photo. Not to fond of it right now. I plan on quilting stars with my ruler. We will see what happens.
So, I needed a gift, so I created this table runner. It was actually a challenge I started last year about this time and never finished. I don’t do well with quilting deadlines. I used those cupcake papers (Like the layer cake ones, only for charms).
meander for my quilting. Oddly making sure I kept the meandering small and similar in size, was not an easy task. I kept having to check myself to make sure I was not getting bigger as I went along. I used a light variegated thread and I did not quilt any of the prints (except background fabrics). I wanted to give the blocks a bit of a 3-D look. It worked for the most part.
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