Low Volume Love

I got my  low volume quilt done! 

 

 

I started this in July when we got back from CA.  I was blog hopping and saw all the lovely light colors in quilts and it appealed to me.

 

 

I started with scraps, then decided I wanted to make it big, so I sorted through my FQ and short cuts  in my stash to use too.

 

I love all these fabrics! 

 

My helper was getting tired, sorry there are not better pictures! 

It is not quite a queen size, but will be perfect for the end of the bed to pull up on cold nights!

I am sharing at Show and Tell Tuesday!

Chevron Love

While tracking down some fabric that I 'needed' at a local quilt store, my daughter picked up a pre-packaged stack of fabric that she "LOVED" and "NEEDED" a quilt for her dorm room out of. 

 

Well, the package was for a baby quilt and that was not going to work, so we tracked down most of the bolt and some substitutes a picked a sample quit off the wall as out inspiration.

The sample quilt was for a class offering, but the lady who made it pointed me to the book she used, Chevron Love by Sweet Treasures Publications.

 

 

I know there are lots of chevron patterns out there, but this was better than any I have seen online.  The quilt came together in a couple days and she had it ready to take to dorm move in this last week!

 

 

 

In fact, it was so super easy, I was able to make 2 in a 10 day time period.  My oldest who wanted the quilt already had 2 quilts more than her sister, who had requested a quilt for this years band show, specifically the bus ride to Indy they will be making in November.  I had found the snake material which fits the show theme and had a stack of fabric thinking a disappearing nine patch.  So happy I went with this instead!  The back is a lovely red flannel.

 

 

I can not believe that it is August, I am working on band flags again, and I still had time to put these to together!  Now it just needs to cool down enough to be able to use them.

 

Sharing at my favorite Friday share place, Confessions of a Fabric Addict for a Whoop!

Make Life Baby

Wow, was June 3 really the last time I posted here?  Hmm... well, I have done a couple things so I better get to sharing!

 

I made this for a friend who just added a baby boy grandchild to her family. 

 

I had the blue/brown stashed away that were extra from my 'Make Life' jelly roll quilt done several years ago and I had a couple pieces that I had picked up on sale that I was able to use for the end pieces and backing.   

 This pattern, Little Man from Camille Roskelley's first book worked great to use what I had.  

 

 

I am working on a couple more things that I am super excited about including a new queen sized Low Volume quilt that I look forward to sharing.  I hope it will not be 2 months before I share again.

 

Today I am linking to Sarah's Woop fest to celebrate a finish and a post!

iPad cover, done!

 

I started on this about a month ago when my daughter got an iPad from her Grandmother for graduation.

 

I used a tutorial from  one shabby chick and over all am very please with it.

 

I may make the external cover 1/2 inch larger for the next one,  since there are 2 layers of batting the internal sleeve bunches up a little inside.   This one was the tester, made with some Amy Butler Love home dec fabric and the lining is Sandi Henderson flannel, both from my stash.  I am now ready to bust out and make a bunch of these (maybe 2) for graduation gifts!

It was a stormy night..

Sounds like a Gothic novel...

It was a stormy night in Texas, I am sure you saw it on the news this morning.

All of the storms were to the south, north and west of us, we just got some rain.

 

I was at home by myself sewing (messing with blocks) on my Piece of Cake 3 and got a little bored, so I started something new ... shocking I know....

 

I used the scraps from cutting my blocks to make this up, the start to a little wall hanging from Camile's new book,Simply Retro.

 

I will probably let it sit in the corner of my design wall for awhile before working on it further, but it was a fun little exercises while watching breaking storm news all evening.  My daughter came in and told me I just need 19 more to make a quilt! (the daughter that does not sew)

 

Sharing with Show and Tell Tuesday! 

 

WIP 5/15

 Completed!

 

T shit quilt is done.  I am pretty happy that it is done, and my daughter loves it!

I will say that the backing fabric was one of the best buys ever!  The orange ties into the colors well and the gray dot is perfect, allowing me to bind and border it in grey kona which I think grounds the lighter/brighter colors. 

 

 

New!

 

 

 

I started the Craftsy Class and am about 1/2 way through the first project, Piece of Cake 3 using my hoarded Katie Jump Rope fabric.  The missing block is reserved for the fabric I had to order.   Although there have been no ah-ha moments, the class is enjoyable to go through and it is motivating me to do a project I would not have otherwise.

 

 

 
Olds list ot WIPS I think are some where in my sewing room :
 Rainbow blocks, Chubby Stars QAL, American Jane blocks, Round & Round, Pinwheel Sampler, postage stamp, Swoon, Arcadia, scrappy trip

Katie - MIA

 

I was asked by a friend this weekend if I found myself hoarding fabrics. 

I had a hard time not laughing at the question. 

One of my largest hoard jobs has been Katie Jump Rope line by Denyse Schmidt.

 

 

I expect it is because I started quilting soon after it came out and the frenzy regarding

Flea Market Fancy had already started and it was impossible to find. 

 

 

After my first quilt with Katie made over 3 years ago (above) I found I loved the soft texture and kept promising myself I was going to make myself a quilt with it.  I started 'collecting' it, trading on line for it when available until I had all prints in the line with the exception of the elusive green basket weave.  I did pride myself on not giving in to the urge to pay an extraordinary amount for the green, and allowed myself that I could do without that particular print, as long as I had the rest of the line.

 

Days, Months, Years pass....  I use the prints I have lots of here and there in projects, particularly the orange and turquoise, but I have lots so it was ok, when I got ready to use the whole line I had plenty.

 

Fast forward to this past week, I decided I needed a kick in the quilting pants and signed up for the Craftsy quilting class done by Camille Roskelley and after much thought decided to use the Katie Jump Rope for the first project, Piece of Cake 3. (note: both Piece of Cake 3 and Swoon patterns are included in the class, so if you are thinking of buying either, consider getting into the class instead)

 

I started cutting into my stash madly, deciding to make a queen size requiring the 36 blocks, 54 10x10 inch blocks.  Having found a couple other charm square patterns I thought I would make next I cut 4 squares of those prints I had yardage of  and 2 of those I had FQ of so that I had the rough equivalent of 4 layer cakes.  I started counting and was coming up short.. the line had 36 prints, I was missing the green basket weave, so I should have 35... but I only had 33. 

 

Research found that I had used up all of my orange bandanna and orange stripe...  (it was perfect in the OSU quilt I made for a graduation gift last spring) I only had a couple spare tumblers left.

 

 

UGGGHHHH!!!!

 

Lucky for me I found both available for a fair price on etsy and I hope to have FQ's by end of the week.  So, lesson learned, if collecting a line, do not use ANY of it until you have your primary project done.  I don't often use a full line of fabric for a quilt, but when I do, I want it all, so let the hoarding continue.

 

Is there a line you hoard?