Busy times for me.  I have been cleaning off my sewing table...a huge task.  I have many pieces of batting that were just waiting around so I went through some of the tops that were just waiting around and matched them up. I then prepared backings and basted a bunch of quilts-- so many I lost count. I know that I did three yesterday and two today.

The red hearts quilt I cut out and sewed using flannel that was gifted to me. It was quilted yesterday and is ready to have the binding sewn on.

 

I have also worked to finish a few more tops. For the next few days I think it is going to be quilting time. I prepared bindings already for a few of the quilts so I should be having some finished quilts soon.

 

The Ashley quilt was mailed off to its recipient today.

Quilt Factory

Back of the Orange Pinwheel quilt.

Back of the Dr. Suess quilt.

This one is a take off of a pattern we did in quilt class- Modern Logging.  I took it way farther and imagined what would happen if Dr. Suess built a log cabin. I am planning on quilting it in a crazy way. I already started to quilt it. Undecided about the binding.  I can go with a darker blue and aqua binding or go crazy with yellow plaid and such.

These are "After Quilts". As I was cleaning up after making the Angela quilt I noticed that there were many pieces of the right size to do another Parker's Square Quilt. Just enough to make this large crib sized quilt.

When I was doing the 36 patch quilt I cut two wof at 2.5". I only needed about 45" so there was some left over.  I assembled four patch units and had enough for this crib sized quilt.  I quilted it and bound it today.

 

So, you see it does seem like a quilt factory around here. I went to Joann's today and bought 40 yards of warm and white- had to do it since I only have enough left for one more quilt and hey,  it was on sale 50% off and then I had a 10 % student discount on top of that. 

 

What will tomorrow bring????

 

Works in Progress-

 

I basted two quilts today. First there is my 36 patch.  It is pretty wild and I like it.  I am still thinking about how I am going to quilt it.

 

The pink one is for a girl in foster care who likes pink and hello kitty.  She also likes music.  I had a hard time with choosing fabrics for the back to get the music fabric in but it turned out fun.

Why is it that if I am laying out a quilt I get a grey helper every time?

 

Parker's Square

I made two different quilts using this pattern. The green one I made many more blocks than the pattern called for.  The purple one I followed the pattern and made it to size. Used the embroidery fonts to embroider initials. Used wavy stitch to quilt the border. On the green one- A's dorm quilt I quilted circles.  They reminded me of cells.

 

Big Red is Busy

I wanted to use Big Red to quilt the Alge quilt, so I practiced a few different motifs on my practice piece.  Since it was all set up to do embroidery I played around with some initials for the purple quilt I am doing. My plan is to quilt the huge Alge quilt today.

Alge Green Cells.  A quilt for a bio major.  I basted it today and plan on starting to quilt it this weekend.  It is about 80 x 100" and very heavy.  It will have a black and grey dotted binding.  The deadline is September 16th. 

Pink Cuddle Quilt

 

This is a DNP quilt for a houseguest.  Check out the heart applique done with the Go cutter and the program to embroider it on. 

 

 

 

Quilted it with stippled hearts.  The back is a solid pink flannel.

Prom

Youngster on his way to prom.

Baby Quilt

I finished this one today.  It is for a friend's relative's new baby. People wrote or embroidered or decorated a square, then  I embroidered two of the squares on my machine. Sewed it all together and quilted it. Fast quilt to make.  It got me into the sewing mode, so today I started working on the borders for my scrappy trips around the world quilt.

Dorm Quilt

 I finished up a huge quilt, 70 x 90. This is for a high school senior who is graduating.  Friends and family each contributed a fat quarter or larger of fabric that represented something about the student.  There was no coordination of  theme in the choices- just that they represented the student.  My task was to sew it into a quilt.

The front I added the black in the intersections. The back I wanted to make tamer in case he wanted to use the back of the quilt as the top on his bed in the dorm.  I embroidered the gps coordinates of where the student had lived, as well as the stripes being an interpretation of the flag of South Korea where he was born, and adopted from.

A community baby quilt that I am assisting in assembling was two blocks short... so Big Reg got into action.  Embroidery sure is fun.