September 2015 – Page 2 – The Quilting Shed

I made two more pillow covers for my girls, since I decided they needed matching ones for quilts I had made each of them before, and I again had patterns I wanted to try.

Meaghan has a grey and purple quilt, so I made hers to match. And of course I still had fabric scraps. Wow, that was January, 2012.

Sarah has a blue and white quilt, but I had to scrounge a bit because it look like I either used up what I had then or since. There’s a lot of blues in my quilts. Turns out it’s yet another quilt I didn’t blog about tho I remember I took loads of pics. Luckily, I made a blue and white quilt Flickr album.

So, here’s a shot of both pillow covers. Once again I used Jaybird quilts patterns – Jawbreaker and Candy Dish.

I know they are in a shot with other things here. For the blue one, Sarah’s, I did FMQ around each hex. The backing is just a plain blue and white strip with a zip closing. For meaghan’s I did straight line quilting 1/4″ from each seam. A zip closure here too, but with a strip on the back of extra hexes. The back isn’t quilted.

As I sat here trying to schedule the next couple weeks, and figure out when guild meetings where, I realized that I barely had any total finishes I could share with the guilds I am in. I also realized how far behind I am in posting any finishes (just tops or even complete quilts) to this here blog. And I really should – not for any audience, but to make sure the quilts to get catalogued somewhere.

I post pictures to my Instagram and Flickr and tweet about them, but that seems so temporary and scrolls by very quickly. I’ve always seen my blog as a digital archive – a place I can go back to and dig around my faulty memory.

So here I go again!

I’m a member of two guilds in the area, the Fredericton quilt guild (I started going in early spring) and the Keswick Ridge guild, since it is near my new house. Both groups have a great bunch of ladies and both put on great quilt shows this spring. I even helped out with the Fredericton guild show and totally did not blog it. Bad me!

I do have a list of all the quilt tops and finishes I really should write about. They are all in a draft post. The list has 36 items, but I figure I can combine a few.

Not like I can stop sewing to catch up, right? Even last night, I entered my sewing cave later than usual, partly because it was still hot upstairs, I hadn’t played with fabric in two days, and hubby was still out.

So I grabbed one of my project bags – a bag with all the fabric needed and directions for a specific quilt – and I started just cutting out the pieces needed. I’m also on the Lori Holt bandwagon, but I just got her first book, Quilty Fun, and started the apple quilt from there. I’ll have pics when I get closer.

It’s super relaxing for me to do something like just cut and prep fabric. It’s my happy place. I spent maybe just over an hour, but it was enough.

Month: September 2015

Two more pillow covers

September, and back to guilds