{Post #66} Washed, Dried, Finished!

Just pulled Susie's 9-patch out of the dryer.  It's a good size for her, and the quilting turned out just lovely all scrunched up.  


This measures 58-1/2" x 65-1/2".  

{Post #65} Quilting Finished!!!!!

Just finished the quilting on this.  I was using a disappearing ink marker at first for the vein of the feathers, but it disappeared before I could finish quilting.  So I was hesitant that it would work out, but I marked it as I rolled the quilt ahead.  Next time, I will mark it before I pin it on the frame.


Here is a close-up of the border (so you can see the finished feather as well as the curlicue C's as I call them that span the muslin and blue border):

Now a pic of the whole thing, still pinned to the top of the frame:

{Post #64} Machine Quilting on 9-Patch

I got carried away and started posting on my regular blog.  This AM I started machine quilting Susie's 9-patch quilt.  I am hoping that with continued practice I won't have to think so hard to get some decent quilting done, but I am happy with how this is going.


Here are some pics that speak for themselves.  I am doing a feather in the muslin border, reverse "C"s on the muslin and blue inner borders (treating them as one) and 8-petaled daisies in the cream alternate blocks, extending them into the 9-patches to leave just a little area unquilted.  I like it so far.


The first picture shows feathers on only one side of the "vein" down the center.  The other picture must not have truly been taken.  There will be more to come!

{Post #63} 9-Patch Top Finished

Just finished this top a few minutes ago.  On to the quilting!  I want to get this finished and put away into hiding until Susie's birthday mid-November.  I think I can do it!


After the majority of my family leaves Saturday AM, I need to go through a couple more laundry baskets of stuff in my sewing room.  I am looking forward to having that done and out of there.


Measured this top while I was downstairs and promptly left the numbers down there.  It's about 63" x 68" or so.

The cream is muslin.  This top is very lightweight as compared to one made of Thimbleberries or a heavier weight fabric.  It will be a nice throw once quilted.


~Joan

{Post #62} Center Finished on 9-Patch

Here is the center of my 9-patch.  Came up to cook supper. Will clean up kitchen then go down and trim then border with muslin.  

{Post #61} About Half Pieced!

The 9-patch on point is about half finished.  Not that I'm all that speedy...54/56 blocks were already pieced.  All I did was piece 2 blocks, cut the muslin squares and trianges and put the pedal to the metal.


Here it is...I'll likely finish this as far as I am able tonight.  Tomorrow I am going to get a blue for a thin inner border, backing, and binding.  Will need to determine yardage for this.


This picture includes 3 of the 4 corners for the quilt.  This part will measure 46" x 52" when I am finished.  I was thinking of a muslin border, then a blue strip, then a wider muslin border.  Susie's room is blue.


I've already sort of picked out a quilting pattern, too.  An 8-petaled free motion flower in the cream squares extending out into the 9-patches.

Time for a little nutrition and then some more sewing.  It's my laundry day, so that is in there somewhere, too.


~Joan

{Post #60} Finders, Winners

My blog post title is a take-off on Finders, Keepers.  If you read my regular non-secret blog, Keeping you in Stitches, you know I just did a huge sewing room rearrange, declutter, discard, etc.  One of the things I found was a stack of 5" '30's prints 9-patch blocks.  Susie really likes these.  I just had to make two more (although we used up all our '30's fabrics on her rail fence quilt, including the backing--well, we thought we did).  


Here is one of the two identical blocks I made:

Here is a favorite block:

The whole center of the top laid out:

I am trying to piece and quilt this while Susie is in South Africa.  She drove to and then flew out of Washington DC last night.  She should be in Paris, France now!  

Her birthday is in November, and I hope to finish this secretly and have it ready to give her then.  

Only one son and I will be home from Saturday until next Sunday.  Can you say take-out?  Hahahahahaha...  You can be sure I will be spending plenty of time at my sewing machine.  I would like to make 5 jumpers for myself then, also.  My wardrobe is getting nastified.  My cotton jumpers are wearing out.  That is a catastrophe of monumental proportions!!

TTFN,

~Joan