Title: Provence
Pattern: Log Cabin
Size: King
Colors: Blue and Yellow
Hand quilted – machine washable.
It was also featured as a Work in Progress.
Author: GloucesterQuilter
Finished Quilt – “Hollyberries”
Title: Hollyberrys
Size: Queen
Colors: Cranberry and Olive
Hand quilted – Machine washable
Next on Deck October 30, 2011
I am feeling green these days! I pulled these fabrics this morning.
My quilts on Etsy.com
I sell some of my quilts on Etsy.com as Dot’s Quilts. Here is a sample of my listings so you can see some of my finished quilts. I name each quilt I make.
TARTAN SQUARES – flannel, machine quilted, queen size
SPRING GARDEN – queen size, hand-quilted
CHERRY’S JUBILEE – hand-quilted, queen size
God Bless Bernina
Here is my machine that makes all that quilting magic happen. Bernina is the BMW of the quilting world.
Potholders
This is just a sample of my potholders which will be on sale at Alexandra’s bread on Main Street in Gloucester. They are made with extra batting so your hands will be safe. Machine washable. Many colors and designs to choose from. AND they make excellent Christmas presents!
Two Baby Quilts
I also make baby quilts. These are two completed projects. People like to see the back of the quilt as well. All of my quilts are machine washable.
Work in Progress: October 24, 2011
Started making a new one from those fabrics I pulled the other day.
Yesterday (10/23/11)
Today (10/24/11)
Next on deck: October 22, 2011
Sometimes when I am close to finishing a quilt, I start thinking about the next one. It’s kind of like how I have to find a new book to read before I’ve finish the old one. I start by thinking about the color palate and I go into my sewing room and start picking out fabrics. From there I build piles. Each pile represents the colors that will go into one Log Cabin square.
Here is what going to go into the next quilt:
Building the Border
Once I have the top of the quilt finished, I move on to making the border to frame the pattern. I typically draw upon the fabrics in the quilt to make the border so there is a balance, but sometimes I make other selections to jazz it up.
I take strips of the fabric and then cut them into squares and sew them to the background fabric, which in this case is light and white.
I then sew the color+white blocks on the bias to form a strip.
And the strip is trimmed to make the diamonds that make the boundary of the overall quilt.
Next steps are to tack the batting and hand stitch the trim that links the back of the quilt to the front of the quilt.
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