Saturday, June 13, 2015

Quickie Baby Quilt


My daughter asked me last Tuesday if I had an extra baby quilt.  I have been trying to make a couple of baby quilts to get ahead, but I have not been able to get any extra quilts completed.  I pulled out a preprinted panel on Tuesday.  I went to my bee on Wednesday and pin basted it.  On Thursday I quilted it, and on Friday I trimmed it and bound it.  So I started and finished it in three days.  My daughter took it to the baby shower today and gifted it to her friend.

Wow!  Three days!  I cannot remember if I ever made a baby quilt in three days.  Agreed, it was a preprinted panel.  I had not done any machine quilting in years and was not sure if I remembered how.  Things went along okay until I started to apply the binding.  When I turned on my sewing machine my light was out.  It was not an easy task to sew on binding totally by machine without a light.  I tried to pull one of my Ott lights over the area, but I could not get any light on the sewing area without the light being in front of me which caused me not to be able to see the sewing foot.  What fun!

Today I took my machine in for servicing.  I need to pull out a Featherweight  machine in order to have a sewing machine to use for the next two weeks until I can pick up my other sewing machine.

Happy Quilting



Wednesday, June 10, 2015

A two color quilt



This is basically a two color quilt.  I took a class at the Queen Bee Quilt Shop in Antioch, California, USA, with two friends last summer.  This pattern is by Linda Ballard.

When I had this quilted, the quilter said it was a nice looking two color quilt.  Actually, both fabrics have little designs of different colors throughout.  The light color fabric has little hearts in it.  The light purple fabric has little colored dots in it.   Both fabrics were enjoyable to work with and worked together very well. 

This quilt was fun to make and I am happy that it is "finished". 

Hugs - Pam