Now that Odie has received her quilt, I am very excited to share it with you! The quilt pattern is Fandango by Stacey Day and Tula Pink and you can find it at FreeSpirit Fabrics. All the fabrics are Tula Pink as well. The quilting is all hand-guided custom and some ruler work. Enjoy!
Here are a few sneak peeks of some edge-to-edge quilting on Cindy's quilts. This first one is the quilt pattern Chandelier by Lella Boutique. Fabrics are all Corey Yoder. I quilted Echo Blossoms on it.
I've mentioned before that one of the guilds I belong to makes quilts for fundraisers for local charities. This one will raise funds for a foster care agency. I quilted it with Winterfest.
Moving on to my own projects, I was preparing binding for the Civil War quilt I shared last week. I found it really weird that this fabric has a printed selvedge on both sides. I can't remember ever having another fabric like that. It's great if you're buying a fat quarter. I always get the side with no identifying information!
Remember my selvedge yarn balls from last week? Cheree suggested that I weigh a certain yardage to estimate how much "yarn" I have. That was such a great suggestion. I made several five yard lengths and weighed them. The average weight (and also the mode for you math people out there) was .8 ounces.
When I ran out of selvedge strips, each ball was around two pounds, 14 ounces. Using a proportion with like terms (5/.8 = x/46), each yarn ball is approximately 287.5 yards!
One last thing--I may be crazy, but I decided to participate in Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt again this year. Last year's Frolic just needs to be quilted, which I am hoping to get to next week. I only made it through the 1st clue on Unity this spring. I wasn't going to finish it, but I loved the fabrics I had pulled and I loved my friend Annie's finished version. I was planning to work on it over the next few months.
But (imagine me saying that all stretched out--buuuuuutttt), I had a fabric pull that I really wanted to work with and couldn't quite make work with any of my other planned projects. It's way different than her colors, but I only needed to buy a few pieces to get up to the full yardages needed. I will probably end up with a bit of extra, but since I am fabric shopping online only these days, sometimes things that match on the screen end up being really bad together in person. Is anyone else joining in this year?
One more last, last thing. Speaking of ordering fabrics online, I ordered background fabric for my guild BOM. I received it and it is so not what I was hoping. It will work, but I don't really love it. So I ordered another piece and am anxiously awaiting its arrival. I hope this one does the trick, because that's a lot of yardage to mess up twice.
Until next week--
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Oh my goodness you are getting so much done--and such pretty quilting, too! I'm just not "feeling it" right now and have three quilts waiting. :o( I'm glad that method of measuring seems to be working! It looks like fun knitting--aside from the bulk and the tangles, of course.
ReplyDeleteKona color chips idea: Can you put grommets in one corner of each chip and put them on a big O ring? I understand why you cut it apart. I was spoiled by fabric companies in my interior design days; they would send me unlimited memo samples of any fabrics I was considering so I could move them around, match them up to things, compare one color to a similar one. I hate the tiny little squares of fabric glued to a card and find them very difficult to work with! Next -- oh my gosh, Anne-Marie -- Odie's quilt is gorgeous and she must be so excited! If I could quilt free motion swirls and ribbon candy as well as you do, I wouldn't have needed IQ at all!
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