Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Lil' Baskets

Posted by Strlady at 5:00 AM 6 comments
At the Dallas quilt show, earlier this month I picked up a couple of kits. One of them was a small quilt designed by Lori Smith. The quilt is called Grandmother's Baskets and it's about 16" x 20".

I thought it was the cutest thing and had to give it a go.


I made the 12 mini baskets from fabric to finish in about 4 hours.
This past weekend I decided to finish it. 


I wasn't crazy about the tan that came in the kit but decided to go with it and not lose sleep over it.


In no time at all, the top was finished! 
Since I had some "extra" time, I thought I'd just quilt it too. 


I'm not brave enough to do it on my own,
so I marked it with that FriXion pen everyone raves about. 
Sooo easy! 


After the main quilting was done, I thought I'd add a few "big stitches" to this small quilt.
 I loved the whole big stitch process, I just struggled with the hoop... it was definitely the right size, but for some reason I struggled with getting the stitches on the needle. I guess I need to practice more.


After all my experimenting, I finally attached the binding. It's only waiting for me to stitch the binding down but I thought I'd leave that for when I traveled in a few weeks. Gives me something to do on the plane.
BTW: The fabric in the kit is from Minick and Simpson's new line for Moda - Indigo Crossing

Monday, March 18, 2013

Fly Away Home finished.

Posted by Strlady at 9:46 AM 6 comments
I finished this one a couple of weeks ago but had not posted the final pics. Last time we talked about this quilt I had just finished the top and my machine had died. You can read about it here.

 I really needed to finish this quilt because it was going into the special exhibit on the Dallas Modern Guild at the Dallas Guild show earlier this month.

After piecing my backing (which I had to order twice because my first attempt at grey backing turned out to have a cream undertone), I proceeded to one of the most hated parts of quilting... Basting.


I knew I was doing a very straight forward design so I didn't have to MARK the quilt (which I always do because I'm not talented enough to wing it). I did practice a bit on the swirl design I was going to use on the geese units.


Then I started the lines on this one...


and more lines...


and every once in a while I needed to check my progress and measure how much I had left to do!


Until it was done!


Pretty darn happy with how it turned out.


Sweat equity that pays off


And after a failed attempt with the backing, I was actually loving the back too


I incorporated the label in the back.


This one should be coming home at the end of the month. I didn't get a chance to pick it up after the show so one of the organizers is holding it for me until the guild meeting. I'll be happy to see this one fly it's way home.. sorry, couldn't resist the pun.


 

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