Archive for April, 2009

My Second Quilt

My Second Quilt
Hollow Cube & Fly Foot Wall Hanging
Machine Pieced-Hand Quilted

While I wait to finish our film roll-witch has a picture of my Seascape Wall Hanging in its finished state, I’ll move onto my next project. For this one I wanted to do something a little bigger and a bit more entailed than the first one. I settled on four 8″ blocks. They are the same pattern, with variations in opposite sides. One block is the Hollow Cube which I got from Penny Halgren”s Quilt block library. The other one was called Fly Foot. To be honest I’m not sure just were i found it, it may have been Free Quilt Patterns.
The next thing I knew the sophomore jinx hit. I’m not sure how many lines of stitching I ripped out and redid! I finally got the two hollow Cubes done only to find out that one was a bit larger than the other(used the same pattern honest!) That was when my “in house” expert offered to applique the cubes onto a back round material that I was going to use to square up the cubes. She must really love me because we found that one was not set on the block correctly and was then re-appliqued.
The drawing is of the pattern I worked up for this project.
Next time the “Thangles”

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My Seascape Part 3

Seascape Part 3
Wall Hanging

After sewing the top together I made my sandwich of Top/Batting/Backing and pinned it in place. I then hand quilted in each segment. With the sky and water I quilted using the color swirls as my guide. With the rocks and light house I quilted around rocks, shoreline, lighthouse. I made a footprint pattern that I used for a pattern in the two small “sandy” areas. Lastly I used the homemade pattern on the two L shapes (pinned in place in second picture). I suppose I should have made-clam-fish-etc. patterns for the edges but that didn’t happen, maybe another time!
Next time finishing off and the binding.

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My Seascape 2

Seascape Wall Hanging

Phase 2

Working with the right then left halves of the top I machined each half together. The only tricky part was the “set in” when it came to putting the two halves together.
I sewed 1 & 2 together then added 3 to them. Next was 4 to the end of 1 & 3. Last was 5 to the end of 2 & 3. I repeated the the same steps for the left half. Lastly I combined to two halves, with the set-in in the middle to complete the quilt top. I then added the border.
The picture shows what i used for the backing. Its a piece of the kids old window curtains – last used in NC I think.
Next time pinned together and I start hand quilting.

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