I Have Quilted Alot of Things . . .

I have quilted a lot of things, but I never would have guessed I would quilt my own shoes.  I have!  S invited me to a class, at The Quilt Crossing, last weekend.  I finished those bad girls up today.  I used Tulla Pink fabric for the uppers, and more yellow fabric with colorful buttons for the tongues.  I put bias binding on, in HOT pink.  S had ordered a sweet box of multicolored eyelets, so we did not have to use bronze or silver on our amazingly colorful one-of-a-kind shoes.  I used several different colors of eyelets to bling up my shoes.  

I topped them off with artful Monet shoestrings, I purchased last Saturday, at an art consortium store in where the A&W Market used to be in the 1960s-70s.  I am not dating myself.  I thought they may be too long, but they are just right!  

Nothing says "amazing shoes" like bright yellow and hot pink with cats and buttons!

Dr. Seuss Quilt

A friend was wanting something special for her first grandson, who is due on the scene in January.  She contacted me to see if I could create something special.  I had seen the new Dr. Seuss fabrics on-line at Jordan Fabrics, and I heard they were to be had at The Quilt Crossing.  She loved the Dr. Seuss idea.  So, I proceeded with a Jelly Roll from Jordan Fabrics and yardage from The Quilt Crossing.  

The fabric I had for the binding, "Oh, The Places You'll Go" was not quite what my eye wanted for the binding.  I looked through my bright stash and found this fabulous fabric, I got in the sale section of the 'Sew and Soak' website a couple of months ago.  It is perfect!  All it's colors are in the quilt!

My binding turned out perfect.  The red and white stripped outer border is from the Dr. Seuss collection that was released around 2013.  I had bought some down at The Quilt Barn (Kimberly, ID) way back then.  I had used about 3 inches of it, so I had plenty to add to this quilt.  

It is bright, fun, and soft and fluffy, just like a baby quilt should be.  She wanted it a little on the big side, so it is 51.5" by 51.5".  It is busy in just the way Dr. Seuss would expect it to be.   My friend loves it!

What's on the Design Wall in Late November?

That pumpkin quilt top is finished; the one that I posted on November 6.   I need to make the backing, buy that spooky panto, and get it to a long arm quilter.  This is the first time I have done two "What's on the Design Wall" posts in the same month.  Of course, the one that was on my wall in July stayed up there through most of October.  I have finally got a move on it.  This is the Buggy Barn quilt, that I got the book for at a Fall School House event at the Blue Bird Quilt Shop, in Nampa, back in, dare I say 2012???

Then in the next year, I bought the fabrics. Then it lay there until February of 2017, when "Buggy Barn Janet" came to the Quilt Crossing and did a two day class on completing our Buggy Barn stack n whacks.  I was so glad I took the class.  She was wonderful.  I finally got all my horse blocks done, in September 2017.  I know this because, I posted a photo of all twelve blocks, on 09/14/17.  Then they sat there until last week . . . when I discovered I need nine horse blocks to make the quilt, but I actually made twelve horse blocks.  That's how I roll.  Now that I look at the photo I posted in Sept 2017, I am wondering if I should use all twelve in this quilt.  Anyway, I have the barns finished and now I need to make the fence sashing and borders.  The green I have is not going to work, so I am waiting for my green to arrive in the mail.  

I have been resisting several amazing fabrics that have been calling to me all the way from Connecting Threads.  I put the green (mini spots and squares) in the shopping cart, then decided I should buy a couple of those fabrics on my wish list, so I can get the free shipping!  I bought Anjalina, Georgiana, and Margaret from the Jane Austin line, and Marpesia from the French General line, and some tea time fabric to top it off!  I am so excited, I can hardly believe it.  I confess, I am a fabric junkie.

I got all the eyes and nostrils cut out and appliqued on, this last weekend. Whew, that was a chore I did not foresee!  I am ever closer to crossing the finish line, just waiting on the right green fabric for grass:

More Traditional

Greetings,  My friend, Elverta, and I attended a beginning quilt class in February of 2001.  She got her quilt done pretty much by the end of class, which was three weekends in a row or something.  It turns out I get the newsletter from this quilt shop and they still teach the same quilt today as they did back then.  It is an Ohio Star quilt.  I had some trouble figuring out how the sashing and cornerstones were supposed to fit on this quilt, so I gave up and put it away for 19 years.  It has been on my To Do List for about nine years.  In May, I finally dragged it out of the cabinet and managed to use up all the fabric that I had with it.  I got it finished today. Binding on and done.  D said she doesn't feel so bad about having old unfinished projects now, since it took me nineteen years to get this one finished.  I'm glad to be an inspiration to others.

One thing that spurred me on is Donna, a beginning quilter, who said she had signed up for that class for this Feb of 2020.  In January, when she told me, I knew I had to get the lead out and get my quilt finished or she would beat me!  A little competition goes along way with me!  Here is my finished quilt . . . it is not as big as Elverta's, (and likely not as big as Donna's).  However, it has an amazing flying geese boarder that it would not have had, had I finished more than a year sooner.  Phyllis taught me about flying geese and I love how it added additional traditional features to this quilt.

quilted by Sid Mooney