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June 2005
Cotton top, cotton flannel back, polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted.
The fourth quilt in the Nieces and Nephews series, this is one is for my nephew Paolo. The first one I've made for a boy, and my first attempt at paper piecing.
I don't know if I'm getting better at doing the hand stitching to secure the binding, but I'm certainly getting faster. It's the part of making a quilt I was always afraid of, and when I first started quilting I always tried to find ways around it. But now that I've gotten a feel for it, I find I really enjoy it.
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Crooked Log Cabin - "It's Like Herding Cats"
December 2004
Cotton top, cotton flannel back, polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted.
Third quilt in the "Nieces and Nephews" project. This one is for my niece, Christina. I wanted the log cabin blocks to have a randomness to their angles, so they'd have a kind of wandering feel to them.
The quilt itself isn't crooked, though it looks like it in the picture to the right.
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November 2004
Cotton top, back, and batting. Machine pieced, assembled in "quilt-as-you-go" fashion.
A while back my husband spotted the book Bargello Quilts by Marge Edie, and became interested in designing one of his own. He graphed out the pattern, picked out the fabric, and got as far in the quilt construction as sewing strips together into tubes and cutting the tubes apart into new strips, all numbered and ready for final assembly. Then the project dropped into quilt limbo.
I began work on the quilt when it became clear to both of us that Joe had lost interest in finishing the project, and without outside help the quilt was destined to remain a UFO (unfinished object.) I got lots of practice matching seams on this project, and we both got practice "un-sewing" when I sewed a strip in upside-down, and didn't catch it until several strips later.
We're both quite happy with the completed wall hanging, and have found the perfect spot on our wall for this joint project.
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Sawtooth Star - "Sleepy Stars"
November 2004
Cotton top, cotton flannel back, polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted.
This quilt, the most complicated quilt I've tried to date, is for my niece, Bailey. It is quilt #2 (of what will be 8 total) in the "Nieces and Nephews" quilts project I'm working on. I fell in love with the fabric with the snow-capped mountains, and the rest of the quilt was built around finding a way to use it to good effect. So far both of the quilts I've made for my nieces have had dragon flies and butterflies somewhere on the quilt, more because they happened to be on fabric I liked than any kind of plan.
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September 2004
Cotton top, cotton flannel back, polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted
With this quilt I begin working on quilts for all of my
nieces and nephews. At current count, that means quilts for 5
girls and 3 boys. A quick check with the parents of the
girls old enough to have color preferences tells me I'm going to be
using a lot of pink in this series. That puts me a bit out
of my usual color comfort zone, which should be a good experience for
me. Also, I'm going to try not to repeat quilt patterns, to learn
as much as I can from the process. Finally, having fun is
definitely part of the plan.The hummingbird fabric was the first fabric selected for this one. I picked the basic Churn Dash pattern because it had a central square big enough for the birds, and it is a pattern I've always liked. I think the pink triangle corners sort of mimic the opening of the petals of the flowers.
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August 2004
Cotton top, cotton flannel back, polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted
I received Ricky Tims' book Convergence Quilts as a birthday present, pieced this wall hanging using Timm's technique and fabrics I already had in my stash. Well, I did have to buy the backing fabric, but that hardly counts :) This is one pattern I'll be experimenting with more in the future.
I also tried my hand at free-motion quilting for the first time on this quilt. It turned out alright, but I'll be practicing quite a bit more before free-motion quilting on any quilt I intended to give as a gift to a loved one.
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