That didn't happen, but there's always next year! Have a Happy New Year!!!
The background is Free Spirit's Nugray - my new favorite gray. The fabric is soft and smooth and the color is perfect!
I paired it with lots of scraps - many snagged from a door prize and scrap swap at our STL Modern Quilt Guild - in aqua blue, lime green, yellow, orange and gray.
I tried to stay away from anything floral and stuck with geometric patterns and some fun fabrics - like these toasters and measuring cups...
Some cool ducks...
The back is a wonderfully soft flannel of gray with white dots and the binding is a Joel Dewberry herringbone blue.
I've been trying to find the perfect quilt for my city-boy son for a while and when my friend Mary Claire showed hers at our guild - I knew that's what I would do. I hope he loves it!!
This is a zig zag ~ the stripes are not as long between the angles and can be made with triangles.
I've been strip piecing my chevrons. Start with a strips that are all the same width or vary in width - doesn't matter. Sew the strips together, off-setting each strip based on the finished size of the strip you're sewing it to. These strips are cut 1" and finish at 1/2". Each strip is off-set 1/2" as they're sewn together. If your strips vary in size the off-set will change based on the size of the top strip.
For each chevron you'll need to make a second set the same way, except that it will "step" in the opposite direction creating a mirror image set.
Find the 45 degree line on you ruler and place it along one of the seam lines of your strip set as close to the off-set edge as possible.
Trim the end - creating a 45 degree angle.
Your chevrons can be any width. In this example they are 1 1/2". Cut your chevron units parallel to the 45 degree edge whatever width you chose. Do the same with the mirror image set.
Sew your sets together alternating the two directions. then trim the top and bottom evenly.
This set was used for the eyeglass case I made.
Here are a few tips:
And here's the result. You can see too that I alternated the background color in this example. It required 4 strip sets - 2 with color and white and 2 with color and gray.
Remember the pillow I made? The strips were varied in width on this one...
Here's my chevron quilt also. The colored strips were cut 2 1/2" and the white strips 1". Since this was a long quilt, I made the chevrons in sections, by doing about 6 colored strips and 6 white strips at a time. That way the section wasn't any longer than my ruler. Then I sewed the sections together to make long rows.
And this was my first attempt ~ Stella's quilt.
Hope that makes sense! Please feel free to email me or comment if you have any questions!!
I used this Alexander Henry floral as my color inspiration. (Just love that piece!)
Pulled more from the stash...
And decided to throw in one piece with some aqua in it.
It's a fun quilt to make and a beautiful one to own!
Pencil cases for a couple of school age girls that belong to my hairdresser. I'm thinking glitter pens may be the perfect filler!
Sweet Zip for my sister. I'll fill it with some nice toiletries ~ all natural, of course.
The Dumpling Zip pouch will contain a Target gift certificate for my hairdresser.
And while I was at it I stitched up some new oven mitts for myself!
Follow the links for tutorials. What did we do before all these wonderful free instructions??
And I added little chevrons to it.
Then this pillow had me working into the night! More chevrons, but you'll notice the sizes vary.
There's been lots of interest in my chevron quilt top. I plan to share a bit more info on how I'm making chevrons and some tricks I've learned through trial and error. Stay tuned! I have another idea to try first!
Oh... there's a little interview with me here :)
I also have some little projects to do ~ for some little girls...
And for some big girls...
Yes, it's December, I've got the holiday spirit!
First, you need to draw a pattern. This part may scare you a bit, but I assure you that anyone can do it! The best part of the drawing is that it's imperfectly perfect. You can't make a mistake!
Here's a better picture of how to start. Just draw quickly and without too much fussing about how each petal looks as long as they're kind of echoing the previous one. You can see in the picture above that I then numbered each one, starting in the center and working out concentrically. I had 72.
Then grab a pile of scraps, big prints, small prints - anything goes - and some fusible web. Flip the pattern over to get the reverse and draw each petal onto the paper side (a light box helps). Fuse to a scrap of fabric, cut out. Place the background over the right side of the pattern and put your petals in place (a light box helps here too). I started in the center and worked around drawing and fusing about 12 at a time.
For the stitching, I layered my top with batting and a piece of backing. You can do any type of stitching around each petal - blanket stitch, straight stitch, zig zag. I wanted a kind of funky look - so I went with a small zig zag and very fine 50 wt. Aurifil thread in light yellow. The width was 1 and the length was 1.5 for the zig zag on my Bernina. The stitching tacked down the pieces and quilted it at the same time.
I added some cording in the seam for the pillow. It's the gray and white scallop stripe from Ruby.
The back is a 15" square with some 1 1/2" strips added log cabin style.
There you have it! Feel free to comment or email me if you have any questions.
pillow progress...
now some stitching.
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