Showing posts with label fabric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fabric. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2026

Charming: Independence Trail

I spent the week quilting this charming quilt by doing a couple passes a day. I love how that texture shows up with afternoon light. 
The quilting is subtle as I used a matching cream colored thread. 
Quilted and trimmed. Now for some binding. 

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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Charming: Independence Trail

After assembling my quilt center, and adding a narrow border, it was time for the wide border.
There was some miscalculation with the wide, outer border but I didn't let that discourage me. Those borders are pieced, but just a little bit. Then I got it loaded onto the longarm frame and ready for quilting. This one will take a few days.

In case you missed it, here is a link to Bonnie's free pattern for Four Patch Fun so you can make your own blocks. 

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Charming: Independence Trail

I got around to sewing the four-patch fun blocks into a quilt. 
I popped over to my local quilt shop to pick the perfect border and some backing fabric. I also grabbed some of their marked down remnants and a few yards of that fun green for charity quilt backing. 

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Friday, October 10, 2025

Charming: Independence Trail

I've been making blocks, very slowly. Here are the handful I've managed to piece so far. I think this one is going to be a winner.

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Monday, October 6, 2025

Charming: Independence Trail

I've had these charm squares for a silly amount of time. Time to cut them up and use them!
The charm packs don't have enough light colors to do what I want, so I am going to add this print that I picked up recently to pair with the darker fabrics. What block did I choose? A simple block by Bonnie Hunter that works great with two fabrics and I can make one using just four contrasting charm squares. Here is a link to Bonnie's free pattern for Four Patch Fun. 

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Fabric Acquisition

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to buy fabric without a plan. And every year I buy fabric without a plan because the deal was just that good. Or, the fabric was too awesome to leave behind. A local quilt shop owner retired and the shop changed hands. 
New ownership means new fabric lines and aesthetics. That means the old fabric needs to go and the discounts were great! They bundled several 1-yard cuts together and I couldn't leave them behind. I pulled two with Halloween prints and one with mid-winter prints.
I also picked up some neutrals (2-3 yard cuts) and a handful of fat quarters. Close to 20 yards of fabric in total. Now, to pick some patterns and get cutting!

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Fabric Acquisition

Friday afternoon I zipped over to the closest fabric store (they were having a sale) and grabbed some essentials. From the bottom up, backing for my BBMQ, three yards of blue floral because it was in the clearance section, three yards of light gray solid for an unplanned quilt, and four fat eighths. They are like candy in the check out. 

I've been trying to decide what my next big quilt project will be. 

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Quilts for Kids

On Saturday I dropped off eight quilt tops to Annapolis Quilts for Kids. I've been piecing these when I can. The computer for my long arm went on a vacation (the hard drive failed) so I haven't been able to use the robotics. This changes the time commitment for charity quilting so I haven't managed to get any quilted in about a month.
I also picked up a stack of fabrics to mix in with the scraps I have. I'm cutting out blocks for even more tops. 

If you want to contribute but don't have the time or skills, you can support the national Quilts for Kids by going directly to their website and clicking DONATE. I don't earn anything from this link. 

If you want to support me indirectly, I do include Amazon affiliate links to products I use on my other blog posts. If you purchase the items I recommend, or anything else, after using my links to reach Amazon I receive a small payment from Amazon. I added my yearly income from these affiliate links to the sidebar if you want to see how that commission adds up. 

My personal goal is to quilt at least one quilt per week throughout the year. To that end, check out the Epoch Converter for 2024 to see how I'm stacking up.

2024 Charity Quilt Count: 160
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Stamp Collecting

A while back I picked up some fabric from Allison Glass to make stamp blocks. I settled on the green for the stamp background/border fabric. 
I have slowly been piecing the blocks. 
I really like some of the stamp fabrics. So whimsical.
Not all of these are perfect and that's just perfect. I have dozens more to make. 

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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Odds & Ends

We went away for the weekend so this post will have some of everything. I did some crochet in the car. this is Red Heart All in One Granny Square. This is one of those love/hate yarns. It may take some practice to get the square to come out perfectly.
We went to New Jersey and attended DexLite by Double Exposure. This gaming convention is a great way to try out new games and play old favorites with like-minded people. Everyone gets a set of dice at check-in and I picked these. 
The hotel had a pride display up in the lobby.
Before I left I used the Creative Grids Stripology XL Ruler to cut some binding. I have so many quilts to bind.


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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Pieces of Love: Quilting (again)

For my second try at quilting this quilt, I decided to use Echoed Curves from Longarm League. 
I admit I'm a sucker for an edge-to-edge that filles the space and doesn't hint at where one row starts and the next starts. Echoed Curves is one of those. 
It quilted out beautifully and I think it added great texture to the quilt.
Here it is, trimmed and ready for binding. 
I grabbed this fabric from my collection for binding. Binding is cut, sewn, and pressed. I just need to get it attached. My new favorite ruler for cutting binding is the Stripology XL. It makes cutting binding super fast and accurate. I don't think I'll ever cut binding with another ruler. 

Pattern: Pieces of Love

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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Pieces of Love: (Un-)Quilting

I picked this beautiful color thread to quilt my Pieces of Love quilt.
I loaded it up and ready to quilt.
I quilted two rows of this delightful all-over feather. And hated every stitch. It was too dense. It didn't come close to what I imagined this would look like stitched out on this quilt. 
Then, over the course of the week, I spent over four hours ripping out those two rows of quilting. It was back breaking, exhausting, and sad. 
It made quite a mess. And I ripped more than a couple holes in the backing fabric. Thank goodness I bought the wide backing. 
After all that ripping, I spent more time cleaning up the threads and pressing the quilt top, with starch, to get it smoothed out enough to quilt again. My Pieces of Love quilt will get quilted. Just not with these fancy feathers.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Pieces of Love

As I was working through the adult joy that is filing my tax return, I told myself I was going to buy myself something when I finished. That something was a copy of the quilt pattern Pieces of Love by Whole Circle Studio. Did I need another quilt pattern? Absolutely not. That didn't stop me. I bought and downloaded the pattern and starting thinking about the fabrics I wanted to use. 
A friend gifted me this bundle of Kona cotton solids. This is the Kona Cotton Fat Quarter Bundles 12 Pieces Peacock (affiliate link). I paired it with this blue-on-white print I had in my collection. I think I bought it as backing for a small quilt and decided to use a different fabric for that project. I added a couple purple-on-purple prints to the mix. This turned out to be the perfect sew my stash project.
The cutting instructions are great. I cut all the pieces, ordered them and started sewing.
The heart is pieced by making several smaller units first.
Then you piece the smaller units together until you have big units. 
It took some time but then it all came together. I think it came together rather quickly. 
I squared up the center and then added some borders. The quilt didn't need borders. I wanted to use up the rest of that background fabric. The top is now folded up and ready for the trip to the fabric store to pick out backing fabric. I already have a quilting design in mind and I'm excited for the next step.


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