Modern Christmas Placemats

With my Creative Pops Ruler III, I put together these placemats based on a quilt pattern I had used - Simple Modern Christmas by Susan Madu.

My 2 1/2" squares when joined together for patchwork, sometimes go a little wonky, so I discovered a way to keep them straight.  By ironing the squares to a piece of one sided fusible interfacing, I can then sew them with a 1/4" seam and voila -  nice neat rows of squares.  This Youtube video uses a preprinted grid and shows the process. Shabby Fabrics Video

Draw a grid of 2 1/2" squares on the interfacing.

Iron squares to interfacing.

Fold and sew 1/4" seam.

 

 

Trim a very scant bit and press seam open.

Fold lengthwise and sew 1/4" seam.

 

Quilted and ready for binding

Line Dance Quilt

 This quilt was made during a QAL by Monika @pennyspoolquilts.   Fabric was mostly from stash and quilting was done on my domestic sewing machine.

Line Dance  55 x 74

Fabric selection from stash

First block on design board

Sewing strips for the scrappy binding.

Pieced backing with Kona solids

Scrappy Quilt with Heart

 

There are always lots of scraps from previous projects and scrappy quilts are the perfect way to put them to good use.  

This quilt has a scrappy heart in it and different look from some other scrappy quilts I've made.

The Scrappy Binding Tutorial.  was very useful for making the binding.  Takes a bit more work than a plain binding but, it suits it perfectly.

Bauhaus QAL

 Bridgette of Zen Chic designed the quilt and ran the Bauhaus QAL in 2022.  The quilt top sat for a while but I finally got it quilted and hand sewed the binding.

I used her Spotted collection and the Modern Background Even More Paper fabrics.  Fabric was sourced from 3 different stores - Mad About Patchwork, Fat Quarter Shop, Dinkydoo .

Weeks 1 and 2 for for prepping and cutting the fabrics.

Week 3 was for piecing the straight line blocks.

It's handy to use weights for holding down templates or ruler, when cutting fabric.

 

 Squaring these large blocks was not going to happen with this ruler, so purchased a much larger one for the job.

 

 

Bias cuts was the objective of Week 4

It's difficult to quilt such a large quilt on my domestic machine, so I had long armer Michelle do the quilting.

Always like to label my quilts.

Funny Squares Quilt

Funny Squares 39 x 48

Participated in a quilt a long in January 2022 with Ekaterine Bessarabova better known on Instagram as @katybess68  

The colors on this one really caught my eye and I decided to use the same palette.  Why reinvent the wheel!  Fortunately, the gals at Mad About Patchwork are fantastic at picking colors that I request as I wasn't going to the store itself.  So with a screen shot of the colors in hand,  they chose the Kona solids for me. 

Over four weeks I constructed the quilt.  Chain piecing came in handy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Design board layout.

July 2024 - Finally got around to putting the quilt top, batting and backing together.  Quilted with my walking foot attachment.  Added the binding and hand stitched to backing.  

Pieced backing made from quilt top scraps.

A big thank you to @katybess68 on instagram for the quilting lines info.  So nice to be able to quilt on my domestic machine.

Burst Baby Quilt

A while ago I took a Zoom workshop with Leanne Parsons @thedevotedquilter to create the Burst quilt.  

I learned a new technique - foundation paper piecing with freezer paper.  Great technique with no tracing and reusing freezer paper.

Trying to use my domestic sewing machine to quilt, I decided on the Spiral design.  Using my walking foot and going in a clockwise direction, I was able to successfully quilt it.

I pieced a backing with fabric from my fabric stash and some sample pieces I made during the Hole Punch Quilt workshop with @pappersaxsten.  

I washed and dried the quilt after completion.  I like the puckered old-fashioned look it give the quilt.

Here's the freezer paper I used.  You can print the design with your printer and use each piece many times.  No paper to tear off at the end and no sewing through paper.

Calm Waters Quilts

 I saw the fabric Calm Waters by Bernadett Urbanovics at Quilty Pleasures and knew I had to make a quilt out of it.  As it turned out, I ended up making 3 lap quilts of various sizes and had to source material from different shops.  One in particular  was Adventures in Fabric. They shipped quickly and their prices were great.

This first quilt is called Sail.  The pattern is from Homemade Emily Jane   The nautical themed fabric and the pattern were meant for each other.

The second quilt is a pattern from Zen Chic called Winter Windows.  It wasn't until I was taking pictures of the final quilt when I realized I hadn't followed the pattern exactly.  Oh well, it still made for an interesting pattern.

And the final quilt pattern is Little Miss by A Bright Corner.  

Although the same fabric was used in these quilts, each quilt has its own personality.