Quilt as you Go Festival Quilt

Good morning!  I've had several quilters ask how I quilted as I went my Bullseye Blossom quilt that I entered in the Fall Bloggers Quilt Festival. So I've decided to give a little info on that. 

I cut a center backing 2" bigger than the final piece would be and cut a piece of batting to fit it. I then sewed a row of flower squares with the flowers only pinned on top of each block. Then I positioned the row where it was suppose to go on the partial sandwich of batting and backing, and quilted each layer onto the block it rested on. Some of the leaves I had to leave loose because they overlapped onto another square. I did this for each row working from the middle out. That way I worked with roughly half of the quilt under the machine. Made it a lot easier to quilt. Then I sandwiched each border and attached them and quilted the bullseyes and the remaining loose leaves.

I've attached a photo of the back in case the above doesn't make sense - LOL.  Let me know if you have any further questions.

Design Wall Monday 12/13

Something new on my design wall - now that doesn't mean the rest are done - LOL - just had to do these to be ready for next week's LQG meeting.  They will be used as examples for the BOM for January.  These were quick and easy to make  I used 3 wof for building them.  I made 4 from those three strips.  Took me about half hour counting even the cutting time.  I like how one can set them in several ways.  The BOM queen called them Irish 4 patches.  They measure 8 1/2" unfinished.  To see what others are doing, check out Judy's blog.

Stash Report 12/12

Despite the depression last week, I did use some fabric

1 1/4 yds out
"0" yds in
Woohoo - my stash did not get bigger.

Did you apply to be part of the Quiltmaker Scrap Squad?  I did and now I'm wondering what was I thinking, but no matter, I probably won't get picked.  You can learn about it at http://www.quiltmaker.com/index.html  They have a pretty cool site.  One of the requirements to the application was to submit a scrappy quilt you have made.  This was one of my three:

My question to you is do you think it made color sense?  That's one of the things they're looking for.  I just went for bright with this.  Bet there were thousands of applications.  Just pushing my envelope.



Late again, but Some Progress was made

Well, I got into my quilting corner and actually finished a project.  It is a table runner for an upcoming exchange.  I just pulled out my scrap batting, zigzagged a piece big enough for this runner, found backing, and got my bag of scraps strips.  I then pulled out strips and quilted as I went to finish this table runner.  I can't say I'm a fan of this slap-sew method, but if I'd stopped to think about it and arrange the order, it wouldn't be done.  Next time, I'll go through the strips and take out anything that really doesn't go with the others and then do the blind picking- might come out more to my liking, but it's okay.  Measures about 16 1/2" by 32.  Actually, the hardest part was choosing fabric for the binding.  The back is an all over floral with a black background, and that's what made choosing a binding so hard.  I could have used black, but the black didn't look so hot with the front.  I would have used a solid green, however I've used it all up this year. Only 21 days before I can just go shopping for fabric. I started this thursday, so I'm counting it as thursday progress.