Second Kit Finished

I can't even remember getting this kit.   It's been "resting" with quite a few friends in a huge bin.  This little wall hanging really brought home that I need way more practice with raw edge applique.  Don't ask me to colour between the lines!

The quilt does hang straight and even.  You wouldn't know it from the photo.  Guess I need more practice taking pictures as well.

Now on to the quilt kit challenge

All the quilt tops are now finished!  What next?  Quilt kits!   Over the years I've acquired a number of quilt kits.  Some simple, some not.  This past weekend I broke out one and got it done.

This is a raw edge applique quilt.  Because of my vision issues, I had difficulty stitching down the edges of all these little pieces.  I just could not see the edge and would totally miss stitching down most of the points.  Out came the Crayola Washable Markers.  I traced the edges that needed to be stitched down.  After the quilting and binding was finished, with fingers crossed, the quilt was tossed into the washer and dryer.  Would the dark blue markers wash out?  Yes! 

A few points were still missed, but feathers and leaves do not lay flat, so that just adds to the quilt....right?

Now to decide which kit is opened next.   A cat quilt perhaps?

Quilt tops are now quilts

During a clean up of my sewing room, I came across a number of quilt tops in need of time on the quilting frame.   Some of these were quite well aged.

Last year I finally quilted the roman tile bed quilt.  That was years in the making.  I got carried away making the blocks and the top would have covered a king size bed with a twin bed beside it.  I removed a number of rows, quilted the queen sized quilt and it's on the bed.  But what to do with the left over blocks?

Here's the queen size:

And here's what I made with the left over blocks:

The quilt was finished several weeks ago.  Now for the rest of the "found" tops.

A little four patch to practice quilting:

There were a lot of HST's left over, so they were cut down to the same size and this baby quilt is the result:

 Wish I could remember where the pattern is for this one.  I'd like to make another:

I posted photos of my stash and asked the hearts2hands to pick the fabric and the border to put around the centre of this quilt.  There is a border a month.  This was back in 2016 if I remember correctly.  It's finally finished!  

 A close up of the quilting for this one.  So mindless and fun!  I had a big stupid grin on my face the whole time I was quilting it!

 Another quilt from left over blocks (orphan blocks). 

This is a very scrappy quilt.  When I ran out of white on white, I cut up an old bed sheet my Mom had given me.  It works and there's fabric out of my stash.

A simple 9 patch for quilting practice.  A good baby quilt size.

All Caught Up

There has been a lot of quilting/sewing happening.  Here's a few photos and descriptions. 

We've all seen the bowl cozies - soup bowl size.  These are serving bowl size.  So much easier to pass around hot food without worrying about passing around the pot holder as well.

 I found this little wall hanging top at the bottom of pile of fabric.  Time to get it quilted and on the wall for Christmas. 

 This panel was given to me and I had no idea what to do with it.  So there it sat for a long time.  It's been quilted and gifted.  Done!

I think DS was teasing when he said he wanted a Disney Christmas quilt.  But I took the challenge.  No Fab Five character prints at the fabric store.  So I pulled out the embroidery machine and did a whole lot of embroidery.  It was ready before December!

Next post will be of all the quilt tops forgotten about and recently re-discovered.
They are all finished!