FINISH #15

 Here's another little quilt made from a Charm pack and white squares.  This is Enchanted.  It is 36" by 45".  And it's the 15th finish of the year.

ENCHANTED QUILTED

 This quilt was made with a charm pack of 42 5" squares called Enchanted.  So, this quilt has been named Enchanted.  Me and Erik quilted it today.  Erik was making problems for me again.  But, that was okay,  I'm getting pretty good and finding ways around his problems.  So, the quilt got quilted and it looks good.

FINISH #13

 I found this little quilt in my bucket of UFOs.  I'm not sure who made it.  I know I didn't.  So, I'm going to assume that my sister Sue did.   It was quilted already, all it needed was binding.  So, I made some black bias binding and sewed it on.  So it's done.  That was easy!

It is finish #13 of the year.  It is called Pinwheels and is 35" by 35".  It will get donated.

ROSES AND ARROWS QUILT DONE

 Here is July's quilt for the UFO Challenge with Quilting Mayhem.

It is called Roses and Arrows after the charm pack of 42 5" squares it was made from, along with some light grey to make half square triangle blocks.

I made the bias binding from the same grey and got it sewed onto the little 32" by 40" quilt today.

It is FINISH #12 for the year!

FINISH NUMBER TEN

 I made the bias binding and sewed it onto the previously quilted "Sing Your Song" baby quilt.

So it is complete!  

It is Finish #10 for the year.

This is a small quilt, 27" by 35" made from a small Charm Pack of only 24 5" squares interspersed with a dark grey Kona and quilted by computer on my B24 longarm.

FINISH NUMBER NINE

 I quilted, trimmed, made binding and sewed it onto the Babe in the Woods quilt.   It measures 35" by 36".  The top is all flannel.

Its done!  This is finish number nine for the year!

FLANNEL QUILT TOP

 I got the Babe In The Woods charm pack sewn together for a baby quilt.  This is all flannel.  I don't like sewing flannel.  I don't know how I came into possession of this charm pack.  The top is 36" by 36".

FINISH #8 FOR THE YEAR

 Here's another little quilt I made from a charm pack called "Once Upon a Time".

I quilted a pantograph on it, made some binding and sewed it on and now it's finished.

Finish #8 Once Upon a Time, 32" by 40" with a white flannel backing.

FINISH #5

 I had made and quilted this quilt in 2022 and then put it away and forgot about it.  It just needed binding to be able to call it finished.  So I did.  "Bears and Pears" is 46" by 33".

It's done, it's Finish #5 of the year.

SMALL QUILT TOP MADE

 I randomly sewed the 4" squares together made from the One Room Schoolhouse charm pack.  These fabrics were designed by Brenda Ratcliff with RJR Fabrics.

Here's the finished top, 32" by 40".

A QUILT FOR BECKETT

Darrell's first Great Grandson, Beckett, was born in April.

I turned my Cogs project into a small quilt for him using Mickey Mouse fabric as the background.

 

BABY QUILT IS A TOP

 I sewed the little yellow inset circles onto the top and the bottom of the Triple Cogs quilt.  

The circles represent a birthday - 4/2 + 24.  

I had some leftover circles that were cut from the underside of the background fabrics and some leftover yellow circles.  So I made a thing that I will use on the back somewhere:

COG WHEEL TOGETHER

 Starting in the morning and working into the Brave Patch Monday Sewcial, I sewed together all of the arcs to complete the three ring Cogs wheel.  I added some borders to make it a bit larger.  It's 33" by 33" now.

Then I started making twelve inset circles to add to the top and the bottom to make it rectangular.

I've been thinking about what to add. Stars were at the top of my list for a while.  Then while showering I came up with the idea of representing his birthday with circles.  It's going to be so cool.  It will read correctly whether it's upside down or right side up.  

LITTLE QUILT STARTED

 I enjoyed making the Cogs so much I decided to use the Mickey Mouse fabric I just purchased to make a little quilt made up of the Cogs.  I'm challenging myself to make all three sizes.  I started with the 14" arcs.  And the red fabric I used needed to be fussy-cut to get the pattern all  oriented the same way in each cog.

I got a good start:

BABY QUILT FINDS HOME

 While at the birthday party yesterday, I gave my cousin some baby quilts to donate to an organization she is familiar with. 

I also gave one to another cousin to give to her brother's brand new grand-baby.

She sent me this picture today of the happy recipients with their quilt.

CHARMED, I'M SURE

 I loaded this small quilt yesterday and got it partially quilted.  We finished it up today.  

The quilt is made from a Charm Pack of 5" squares by Art Gallery, spaced with some strips in a black and white print.

I used Karlee Porter's Graffiti Quilting pack of designs for the pantograph.  It quilted out really nice, if somewhat slowly.  I'm really impressed with it.

While this was going on I started sewing together the Voltron! parts and pieces I had thrown up on the design wall yesterday.

PHOTO DAY

 Darrell had his studio set up to take the pictues of his Fremont Chest of Drawers.  When he was done he took pictures of some of my quilts.

'Flowers' by Barbara Brackman from 1998

BACK AND LOADED

 I made a backing for the Long-legged Star quilt and loaded it up on the longarm.

I had found this great ombre cloud print in my stash - it's an oldie, probably from the late 90's by Nancy Crow.  I didn't make a label, but I did ink my name in one of the white stripes.  

Then, I loaded it onto the longarm and started quilting it.  I got about half way.

FIRST ONE DONE

 I finished quilting the little plaid quilt with a Baptist Fan pattern and pulled it off the longarm.

It's the first quilt finished on the new Q24.  

During the Monday BravePatch meeting today, we discussed a name for my new machine.  There were some great suggestions.  I'm still thinking on it.

RULER WORK

 I put the Ruler Plate on the new Q24 so I could try a little ruler work on it.

I loaded a very small quilt top I made a while ago.  It's Tumbler blocks cut from an assortment of plaids.  

I'm using the circle rulers to quilt a Baptist Fan pattern.

The machine is behaving wonderfully.  Joy.

I didn't get very far when I had to stop for lunch and then a Book Group meeting on Bravepatch at noon.