Quilty Sunday

This weekend was so nice, after a blizzard day last week and a snow day that was awful, it was nice to see sunshine and warmer temps. I was so excited to be able to get outside and enjoy the weather. It also meant Paul could finally work on the door for my dad's crawl space on his house. A trip to Dad and Ann's ranch means quilting for me!
First up on the agenda was Mikaela's Wanna Be a Cowgirl quilt. She helped me sew it this week and it went together so quickly on Friday night that I was ready to quilt it on Sunday. The front and back are a bit different, but they go together well. The back is minkee. It quilted up very nicely!

Here's the top after quilting. I used a warm and natural batting and pink/brown King Tut with a medium pink Bottomline. The quilt is 60.5"x 72.5". I stretched my limits with the minkee, so a bit of the seam is on the back.

Paul was still working, so I loaded my mom's Loralie quilt. This is the back. I used a dark red King Tut and red Bottomline. The sashing is all red hearts. I need to get my Loralie fabric stash out and figure out what will work for the binding.

This is the front. I loaded it sideways so it was a quick quilt for me to do. It's probably in the 60x70 range as well. I finished it up after lunch while Paul was taking a nap.

Since Paul was still sleeping, I loaded this Giant Starburst quilt top. It's made with Green Bay Packers colors and I'm not sure where it will go, but it will be done. It's backed with a scrap of minkee as well. I love to quilt with minkee as the backing.

Last night I trimmed up this one as well as the Pink one and started working on the binding. I'm so excited to have them done. I am down to only 2 BIG quilts left to quilt on the frame - Scrappy Swoon and Merry Go Round. It's time I got busy working on a few others.

I worked on my Scrappy Trip Around the World on Saturday night, but it was getting late, so only finished one. I have another ready to sew together. I also got partway finished with 3 Winding Ways blocks.


I felt so productive getting that many quilts quilted. I also got the Scrappy Swoon quilt loaded and it is ready to quilt when I get back out there. It's so nice spending time at my dad and his wife's house in the country. The kids get to play outside and spend time with grandpa and grandma, free of mom and dad, and I get to spend some time quilting. We had such an enjoyable time. After I finished quilting I helped them with their ipad and we did some stuff in the yard/garage. Such a fun day. The kids were exhausted and so were Mommy & Daddy.

Loralie Quilt Tablerunner

I have been setting the tension on several machines and while I was doing so, I sewed together this quick little tablerunner. I finally got the top finished on Sat. night. It was supposed to be made out of a charm pack, but I didn’t have one, so I used scraps from my Loralie quilt. Since it’s all from the same line, it goes together well. I changed the way I did it and used what I had, but I’m pleased with how it turned out.

I quilted it with a black Bottomline thread as I was testing the tension so I could quilt another project with Bottomline. I did black loops and then later this evening put the binding on. I just need to do the hand stitching on it now.

Moda Bake Shop

Since I found out about the Moda Bake Shop, it has become one of my regularly read blogs. This week I saw this cute tablerunner Petits Fours made out of a charm pack. Since I don't actually own any charm packs, I used the next best thing... my Loralie scraps. I cut 80 1.5x5" strips last night from my leftovers. I'm planning to sew them together when I get home tonight, so I can test the pattern and see if I like it.
We have this new line by Moda "Objects of My Desire" by Sandy Gervais and we got both charm packs and layer cakes as well as coordinates from this line. I'm really looking forward to using this charm pack, but I want to check out this pattern with scraps before I make it out of a charm pack. I'm thinking a purse for my MIL out of it too. We'll have to see if she likes it.
This is the charm pack.

This is one of the coordinates to go along with it.

Loralie Quilted

This quilt has been a long time in the making, literally! I've probably had most of the fabrics for 2+ years. I would collect more each time I went to Sioux Falls and mom would collect too. During quilt retreat in Jan. we both designed a quilt using the panels and accent fabrics. The girls made me sash mine, but because of the red heart sashing, I finally conceded and did sashing. I finished the top at retreat, but had yet to quilt it.
I put a bunch of blocks together for the backing and finished the back Thurs. night. I loaded the quilt Friday night and did a pass, then more on Sat., more on Sun. and I finally finished it tonight. I used Isacord verigated black/gray/ white on top and masterpiece black on the back. I was having lots of tension issues, so finally switched to bottomline on the bottom. In reading Jill's post, I remembered I had black bottomline and then I talked to Jen and she suggested using it. It made all the difference in the world. It's not perfect, but I'm happy with how it turned out. I think I'll go back to my King Tut.

Here's a bit of the up close quilting.

My Big Retreat Project!

Mom and I collected these Loralie Designs fabrics for the past couple years. We planned to spend the Hunters Widow weekend making the quilts, but the blizzard waylaid our plans. We worked on them together this weekend. I was going to do blocks with the ladies in them and then blocks of plain fabric, but it was too busy and the sashing police (everyone who was there past 10:30 Sat. night) came and told me I needed a sashing. I hate sashing with a passion, so this was my least favorite option. I tried red, black, yellow, and purple and finally decided on this red fabric. It turned out really nicely and I'll use the big squares of fabric for the back. I was the very last person sewing at 4PM Sunday, but I got the borders on the quilt.