Melinda Quilts etc
My design wall still looks the same. I have been concentrating on quilting instead of piecing. Here it is.
The one project I have pieced a little on it Bonnie Hunter’s Easy Street.
I have made a couple of things that are gifts so can’t show them today. One is going to a party tonight so I will be able to share it tomorrow.
For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times.
Melinda
Tiny Stitches celebrated turning twenty yesterday. The shop has moved a couple of times many years ago and since being in this shopping center, it has expanded so that we now have four storefronts, three connected together in the main store and the newer quilting studio one shop down.
For the celebration we had a birthday cake!
Unfortunately Publix apparently can’t spell so Stitches was misspelled but the cake tasted good anyway.
After the mob scene at Saturday Sampler, we had the first of two birthday sew-ins. We had 30+ people in the shop sewing on Turning Twenty quilts.
21 people were in the regular classroom with another 10 or so down in the Studio.
Everyone was jealous of Patrick’s featherweight setup. He got a bargain on his featherweight, but want really got everyone excited was his extension table.
Isn’t it beautiful? If you want one of your own (I do), you can find it here.
I am off to the shop for the second Turning Twenty sew-in. It started at 9 am and I am due there at noon.
Melinda
Unfortunately it is today and I will be working all day at Tiny Stitches. The gift exchange this year is a pin cushion. I made this one and Pam is taking it and exchanging it for me.
It is wool on cotton. I bought it as a kit and had a great time making it. I filled it with fiberfill and walnut shells. The walnut shells give it some weight. Here is the back
You can’t see it in the photo but I did sign and date the back. It is about six inches square.
Here it is wrapped up.
I used a Christmas fat quarter and Moda twill tape.
More parties next week and more gifts to share!
Melinda
I have been tempted by Easy Street but don’t have much time to sew. I gathered up fat quarters and scraps to use and decided to start each clue and just take baby steps. Finding green in my stash isn’t hard.
I didn’t have as much purple and turquoise so picked up some fat quarters.
I have even more white and black. I seem to use them all the time. I didn’t have grey so picked up a couple of yards. Here are the first few four patches.
I am using these as leaders/enders so hopefully they will just appear over time. How is that for a plan!
I used the rulers that Bonnie recommends and cut the first few flying geese parts. I only got four of them put together but I think I will like this method.
Lots of sewing to be done but no time – baby steps!
Melinda
Here are the quilts from the evening class. I realized while looking at the photos that I completely missed taking a photo of one of them. Hopefully she will bring it by and I can get a photo.
Aren’t they wonderful!
Melinda
Isn’t it fun to see the quilts almost finished. I love each and every one of them.
Sue made another quilt also. She loved the Dresden plate block and made a whole quilt out of it.
I can’t wait until this evening when the rest of the quilts will show up.
Melinda
I know it is late in the day but I haven’t missed a design wall this year so here it is.
I finished quilting the ECQG Raffle Quilt and we got together this morning/afternoon and trimmed it, bound it and got part of the hanging sleeve on it.
It took a while but careful trimming ended up with a very square quilt. Pretty amazing for a quilt made by 50+ people.
Here it is with finished binding.
You can see the binding in this last photo. The back is another Kaffe print that is yellow with large flowers on it. It is beautiful. I forgot to get good photos of the quilting up close but will do that next time I see the quilt.
For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times here.
Melinda
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I picked the winner of the traveling stash and it is Vroomans' Quilts.
I have sent her a message and will post the box as soon as I get an address.
Melinda
I have a design stool today because nothing is going on with my design wall. I am working on a Christmas present and having fun with EPP.
For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times.
Melinda
At Quilt Festival I bought two kits to make miniature quilts. John Flynn has die cut kits that I couldn’t resist. Here are the photos they let me take at the show.
I liked the quilting on this one.
Here is the Winding Ways quilt.
Here are the kits I bought.
and the fabric in them.
Did you notice the finished size of the quilts? One is 12”x 15” and the other is bigger – 14 1/2”x18” I hope I can sew accurately enough to make these.
Melinda
I received the Traveling Stash Box #1 last week and have finally had the time to go through all of it. That takes a while since it was quite full. Here is a photo of what I unpacked.
That is a lot of stuff to put in one box.
I am picking out a few things to take out.
I found a few things to fill the box back up.
Several 1/4 yard cuts of shirtings, several fat quarter of black 30’s fabric and a few patriotic fab quarters. Also some basting tape, 3 small stilettos I made and four patterns. I had a few more things but they just wouldn’t fit.
If you want to be the next person to receive this box, please leave a comment on this post. I will pick a winner on Tuesday, November 20 in the evening. Here are the rules.
RULES:
As it states in the rules, you must have an active blog and I must be able to reach you. If you are a no-reply blogger, please leave your email address in your comment. Also, please tell me your favorite food for Thanksgiving.
You can check on the status of all the traveling boxes here.
Melinda
Great classes yesterday. In the morning we got sashing on many of the blocks. Two of the morning students came to the night class so the morning one was quiet and small.
Here are a few of the blocks with sashing.
The evening class was larger than usual because of the two morning students. First here is the homework.
Here are three of the quilts on the floor, before sashing.
They are all so different with the wonderful fabric choices. I can’t wait to see them in two weeks. We are skipping next Wednesday because of Thanksgiving so they have an extra week to finish any blocks and get the sashing on. Most were able to cut the sashing and cornerstones last night.
Melinda
I taught an all day class on Sunday at the shop. The topic was Make and Take for Christmas gifts and decorations. We started with bagels and cream cheese at 9:30 and started the first project – a Christmas screen tote bag.
We then moved on to a tiny bag that is just the right size for gift cards or to hang on a tree. It is made from 5 charm squares.
As we were working on other projects we started making yo-yos for the little Christmas Tree. Everyone got some yo-yos made but I don’t think anyone finished their tree.
Next was a paper pieced mug rug. I took a big bag of selvages for them to use to decorate their trees.
The last project was the most complex one. It will be a log cabin pillow when finished. Here is the top of one of the pillows.
The pieces were all precut so it went together pretty fast.
At lunch time we had pasta, breadsticks and salad. Sue (one of the students) brought wonderful cookies and an apple cake. I had purchased some of the frozen eclairs and cream puffs. We had them in the afternoon.
By 5pm we were packed up and ready to move on. A good time was had by all, including me.
Melinda
My design wall is pitiful. It still looks the same as it has the last couple of weeks.
The never-ending zig-zag quilt.
For more interesting design walls, go to Patchwork Times.
Melinda
