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The Golden Year

Aug 30

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The Golden Years Quilt
Original Design: Ellen Marie Mislo
Block Quilt, Machine Pieced and Quilted including 12 Embroidered Blocks

The Quilt is made up of 21 – 10″ blocks.
12 of those blocks where made by starting with a 6″ embroidered rectangle. A 2″ red patterned border was sewn around the block and then another 2″ block of background fabric was added to create the 10″ block.
The other 9 – 10″ blocks were cut from a repeating design patterned fabric,(They could be created by sewing together strips of fabric).
The assembled quilt was created by starting with 3 embroidered blocks, then  alternating rows of embroidered/patterned/embroidered then patterned/embroidered/patterned.
A 4″ complimentary red border was added around the entire quilt, then finished off with a gold/green/red binding, tying the quilt together. The finished quilt measures approximately 39″X79″.
Ellen Marie has shown with this creation that very simply made blocks can become something very unique.

The Golden Years

The Golden Years

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Lady of the Lake Quilt

Aug 15

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Lady of the Lake 1980
Wall Hanging: Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted
Pattern: Georgia Bonested’s Lap Quilting and More Lap Quilting

Georgia Bonested’s books have a similar basic pattern called Saw-Toothed Square. The Lady of the Lake uses more colors.
This wall hanging predates, rotary cutters, and any easy half-square triangle sewing tips or aids. With today’s easier more accurate way of constructing the half-squares you can get a much more uniform resulting squares. I know if I was to do this pattern wall hanging or bed quilt again now, lots more of the points would match up better! Not all of them mind you, that never happens!
The concentric squares of quilting result from throwing a “square” rock into the center of the lake.
Again if you arrange the half-square blocks differently and use a different color theme this would turn into a completely different quilt, so think outside the “square” as it were and have fun!

lady of the lake 286x300 Lady of the Lake Quilt

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So you want to make a Quilt?

Aug 2

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The Quilt Pattern-Where it begins

I have been trying to come up wit h a theme in Quilting, since starting this site over a year ago, to give me something to write about for these posts. At the moment I have caught up with all of the quilts that my wife and I have made, a wall hanging and bed quilt still in the works. So what I am going to attempt to do is walk through the making of a quilt from beginning to end. Along the way I hope to provide you links to other sites I have found in my searching for information and references. So here goes……..
Every quilt has a pattern, whether it’s highly intricate or very simple there is a plan that is followed to come up with the final quilt. Quilters I find are very individualistic, and their patterns reflect that for an unlimited rage of finished projects. I did some digging on the internet, an as with everything else there are thousands of sites offering patterns, many of them for free, when I searched “quilting pattern directory” I was given: Free Quilt Patterns Directory, Free Baby Quilt Patterns Directory, and Ask.com “Quilt Patterns”, also Penny Halgren’s Quilt Block Library. As I said there are thousands of other choices but these four will give you hundreds of patterns, many to download for free, or at least ideas to help create your own pattern if that’s what you like to do.
Don’t forget your local library for pattern ideas, there are usually quilting books, perhaps magazines, and articles. Your local Quilting Club or Guild will also, not only provide pattern help, but a connection to quilting “pros” who can help all along the quilt making process.
If I gave ten quilters the same pattern and told them to make a quilt, with the fabric of their own choosing, the final quilts would all be very different. So don’t over think it when it comes to a pattern, sometimes the fabric comes first, sometimes the pattern says “this is it” just enjoy the process!
Next time The Fabric – Types & Uses

Original design with stash material

Original design with stash material

Classic design

Classic design

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I Spy Kids Quilt

Aug 1

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I Spy Kids Quilt

Pattern: Original Design by Ellen Marie Mislo
Material: Fussy Cut Blocks collected for about 5 years
Quilt size:  28″ x 36″ Machine Pieced and Quilted

Ellen Marie always wanted to make a I Spy Quilt but could never find one that she liked so she designed one herself to incorporate the blocks she had been collecting for years. The Quilt was inspired by a friend in her vet”s office and so she made it for her.
The pattern is 42 – 4-1/2″ by 4-1/2″ fussy cut blocks connected with 2″ sash and arranged  6 rows across and 7 blocks down ..The first row down is sewn by alternating a block an sashing to the bottom then repeat again adding a block and sashing to the bottom until you get 7 blocks in the  row. The second row down begins with the sashing first then the block, so forth down the row, until you have 7 blocks. Once you have the 6 rows sewn together with the alternate block then sash first, you assemble the rows – again with the sashing between. Having the top of each row alternating -block then sashing gives you the offset appearance in the finished quilt. Ellen Marie used the same color sashing to boarder around the quilt. The Quilt backing was a piece of material bought special for the quilt that carries the theme to the back as well.  This quick an easy to assemble project is a fun Quilt that any child would love to have!

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i spy quilt back 199x300 I Spy Kids Quilt

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My Second Quilt

Apr 16

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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”

second wall hanging 300x299 My Second Quilt

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My Seascape Part 3

Apr 11

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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.

seascape pin to back 150x150 My Seascape Part 3 seascape w side pattern 150x150 My Seascape Part 3

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My Seascape 2

Apr 3

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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.

img059 150x150 My Seascape 2my wallhanging 3 150x150 My Seascape 2

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Seascape Wallhanging

Mar 30

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Seascape
Wall Hanging
Original Design
Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted

This is my first Quilting project. I decided after setting up our web site and blog about quilting that i had better try a quilt myself. I played with several ideas for a pattern and then decided on a mostly original design. Then with my wife’s help we went threw the scrap boxes and found a seascape theme that i really liked. This is to be my “instructional” series on my first attempt. Hopefully it works out ok and is a confidence builder for you newbies like me. The picture is my pattern and fabric i choose to use, wish me luck!

seascape patternfabric 150x150 Seascape Wallhanging

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New Granddaughter’s Quilt

Mar 22

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New Baby to be Quilt
Pattern: Priscilla Bianchi
Quiltmaker Sept/Oct 2005

My adaptation is borderless. I am also using black/white prints in the block corners. She used solid blacks or whites in every other block. My design wall was used on the floor to arrange & rearrange the blocks. Take no notice of the missing block block in the corner. Finnally desided on a Nemo or fish block.
The quilt is now in the pinned all three layers together stage and some squares are quilted. Some of the squares design elements are being outline quilted, other the plain blocks are getting a flower element, the same as I used on the Wedding Gift Quilt. As “her” parents were the reipients of the wedding quilt I thought it in keeping.

Sorry about the poor quality picture. This was as it was pinned to the layout sheet, with one square yet to go!

new baby quilt 150x150 New Granddaughters Quilt

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Twelve Days of Christmas

Feb 22

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Twelve Days of Christmas 2000
Wall Hanging

Preprinted Panel: Hand quilted & Embellished

First of all this is my painted kitchen, see “Brainstorm” for the before.
Don’t remember where I got the panel. For a couple of years it was just quilted and edged. Then I added the beads one year. The beads don’t show up in this picture, but they are there, in the tree garland-red wreath centers-checkerboard floor-etc.

12 days wallhanging 150x150 Twelve Days of Christmas

Just looked and realized that you can’t really see the wall in the “Brainstorm” picture but trust me it now looks much better. Also I’m going to have to redo this picture since only 8 days show up in the 12 days! Whoops

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