Melinda Quilts etc
I have finished a couple of customer quilts recently so thought I would share some photos of them.
First is a beautiful applique quilt by Sharon.
It is always a pleasure to work on her quilts.
Here is one by Hildegard. It will be a gift for a young girl.
Melinda
My design wall has a almost completed quilt on it. I won these blocks about a year ago on the Block Lotto and decided to finally get it done so I can donate it. I think it just needs a small white border all around so that the blocks look like they are floating.
If you saw my stash report you can see that I had a busy sewing week. Unfortunately I didn’t take photos before moving the quilts to the “to be quilted” pile but I got a lot done.
For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times.
Melinda
Here is my stash report for the week. I am finally in the black.
Used this Week: 36.25 yards
Used year to Date: 54.5 yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Added Year to Date: 53.25 yards
Net Used for 2012: 1.25 yards
I finished up a lot of projects this week. Most of them still need to be quilted but they are down in the quilting studio waiting their turn.
Reunion quilt 5.0
Reunion backing 4.0
Stitched in color quilt 4.5
Backing 2.0 (cuddle which is 60 inches wide)
Jelly Roll Quilt 3.0
Backing 2.25
Fruit and Veg quilt 7.0
Backing 5.0
Pink and Green 2.0
Backing 1.5
Are you impressed? I am.
For more stash reports, go to Patchwork Times.
Melinda
We had another great guild meeting yesterday. Here are just a few of the show and tell.
After show and tell, we had a speaker about Barn Quilts. Suzi Parron wrote a book about barn quilts and gave a wonderful presentation about the barns across the country. I would love to make a small one to put on my house above the garage.
Melinda
My design wall has a quilt for shop hop on it.
Busy, isn’t it! The center of the quilt is a single piece of fabric. I still need to finish the four patch border and add the outside border. Hopefully this week.
I went to the Atlanta Modern Quilt Guild meeting and took this block I made for a challenge we are doing.
We were given four fat quarters and could choose any solid background. We will be making 3 different blocks that can turn into a table runner or wall hanging. I didn’t think I liked the fabric much but it is growing on me.
For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times.
Melinda
Here is my stash report for the week!
Used this Week: 3.75 yards
Used year to Date: 18.25 yards
Added this Week: 12.5 yards
Added Year to Date: 53.25 yards
Net Used for 2012: -35 yards
Well, another week of more coming in than going out. I bought 2.5 yards of Prezzy Prints, 3 yards of Kaffe, 2 yards for the backing of my Stitched in Color quilt and 5 yards of Denise Schmidt.
I used 3.75 yards of fabric for the pillowcases and sleeves for the two quilts going to a show today. I need to sew faster!
For more stash reports, go to Patchwork Times.
Melinda
At the guild meeting last week, the yearly challenge was revealed. For this year the challenge was Make It Do! The rules said that you could not purchase anything for the project. You could beg, borrow or steal from your friends but nothing new could be bought.
We had 28 quilts shown but I didn’t get photos of all of them. Here are about 1/2.
It was very inspiring. For the next year the challenge involves architecture – should be fun!
Melinda
The East Cobb Quilters’ Guild made a beautiful quilt for donation to CCYA – Center for Children and Young Adults. They have a large fundraiser every March and auction many wonderful things. Late last year we were asked to make a quilt for the auction. Many members of the guild helped with the quilt and it was given to me to quilt. It was amazingly flat and square and a pleasure to quilt.
Here it is, all finished.
It is a large quilt – about 100 inches square. It is based on a Judy Niemeyer pattern called Crown of Thorns. Judy kindly gave us permission to use her pattern. It is mostly paper pieced and is beautiful! You can’t really see my quilting but here a couple more photos that show a little of it.
Our version of the quilt is called Circle of Light – good name don’t you think.
Melinda
I forgot to post the photos from the evening class last week! Here are the wonderful quilts.
Didn’t they do a great job?
Melinda
I have something new on my design wall today. This is the border pieces for my second shop hop quilt made from the wonderful line called “Stitched in Color”.
I finished the Reunion quilt and it is in the “to be quilted” stack.
I had planned on using the plaid for the first border but it is so wonky that I don’t think it will work. Instead I will use it for the corner blocks and use the one on the right for the borders.
For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times and check them out.
Melinda
I finished the reunion quilt top and got the backing pieced so I used 9 yards this week, 5 yards for the top and 4 for the backing. I didn’t buy anything so made progress in the right direction.
Used this Week: 9 yards
Used year to Date: 23.5 yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Added Year to Date: 40.75 yards
Net Used for 2012: –17.25
For more stash reports, go to Patchwork Times here.
Melinda
I got back to Georgia last night – uneventful flight but the full body pat-down at the airport did give a bit of excitement to the day.
Today is the last of the 7-week Beginning Machine Piecing class. The morning class did a wonderful job and I got some great photos of the students and their quilt tops.
Aren’t they great – both the quilt tops and the students. I loved teaching this class.
Update: Danielle is scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning.
Melinda
Here is a photo of my friend Danielle and me taken a few years ago – obviously at a quilt show. Danielle is in Little Rock at the University of Arkansas medical facility. She has a brain tumor and the best neurosurgeon in the world will be operating on her this week. Dr. Yasagril is highly recommended and Danielle is grateful that he has agreed to accept her as a patient.
Lynda and her husband are also in Little Rock to give support to Danielle and her husband. She has an 11 year old daughter who is staying in Georgia. I will be at Danielle’s house during the evenings, shared with my other friends, to take care of her and get her off to school on time. This week is a school vacation so she is staying with friends. We hope that Danielle will be able to travel back to Georgia for her recovery in less that two weeks.
Please pray for a good outcome and that all goes well.
Melinda
My design wall is in Georgia and I am in California so I have a design floor today. I finally finished the fly stitch on my Winter Wonderland top – the embroidery is completely done. Next are the star blocks for the borders. I have most of the cut out and in little kits for each block. Perhaps at retreat next month I can devote the time to work on them and finally get this top finished.
I know it is wrinkled and will look much better when pressed but I am pleased that it made it this far. I worked on it on the plane and then finished it on Saturday here at my daughter’s house.
By the way, my grandson is sewing – here he is.
He is making hamster stuffies.
For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times.
Melinda
I bought quite a lot this week but it is all for specific projects – well almost all.
Used this Week: 1.5 yards
Used year to Date: 14.5 yards
Added this Week: 17.25 yards
Added Year to Date: 40.75 yards
Net Used for 2012: –26.25
I finished up the table runner and the back. Unfortunately it is small so there was about 1.5 yards used for the front and the back. It isn’t quilted but is waiting patiently for it’s turn.
I had two quilts accepted into the Bulloch Hall Quilt Show next month. Neither has a sleeve or a pillowcase so I bought enough for that. The pillowcases are about 2.5 yards and the sleeves are about .75. The shop also got some new black and whit batiks and I got a fat quarter of each. This is the part that I don’t have a plan for. It was 1.5 yards.
I got another kit for a shop hop quilt made from Reunion fabric – 20 fat quarters = 5 yards plus the backing of 4 yards. Hopefully I will finish it this week and be able to count it next week. I have the top all made in two sections. Just have to sew the last seam and make the backing.
Lastly, I counted my other shop hop quilt. I didn’t pay for the fabric so was going to skip it but it did come into the house so I am going to add it in – another 3.5 yards.
When I get home on Tuesday I have a quilt to finish quilting that needs to be done for the guild meeting on Friday. After that, I hope to get the shop hop quilts done next. Be sure to go to Patchwork Times and check out the other reports.
Melinda
