Showing posts with label London Calling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London Calling. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Snow Days and hand stitching go together …don't ya think!

SO my house is buried under Inches FEET of snow!
Third week in a row of two snow days off from school!
With two more snow storms expecting to be coming into 
Boston and surrounding areas in the next few days … 
I could be getting LOTS of hand stitching done!!

Taking full advantage of the snow days I decided to … Yup….
Started working on another new project...
Along with the snow my Quilting ADHD has set in!

Let me back track a bit…
a month ago one of the nurses that I work with brought in
a quilt that was made by her Great Aunt.
A beauty Vintage Quilt!


looks to me like it may be from the 30's - but not sure.
It's in great condition, just a few little stains here and there
but no fabric fading!

Here is a close up of one of the blocks
they measure 18" x 16" - good size blocks



It is all hand quilted. 
Check out the whip stitch binding technique, 
below in blue thread!


I decided this quilt was just way to cute, 
so I traced the pattern,
and made my own templates

coming up with my very own CUTIE!


Background is a Moda Bella Solid in cream, 
the solids are mostly Moda Solids with a Kaffe Shot Cotton thrown in, 
and the flowered fabrics are mostly "Liberty of London" (purchased on Etsy!)
or "London Calling" by Kaufman.


Here is block two in progress …
Love the red polka dot fabric (from my Japanese import stash!)
pairs nicely with the "Liberty of London" fabric



This is going to be a fun one!!
But aren't they ALL!!!

Cross you fingers that Boston and surrounding areas 
won't be totally buried with more snow in the next week!!

But then again … 
it just means more time for cutie projects!


Monday, August 4, 2014

Summer is flying by …. but still time to do a few projects!

Time just flies by!
July was spent moving my daughter to grad school. 
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 
offered her a nice grad assistant position!

The first few days were interesting … 
no furniture for the first few days! 
so we made the best of it and camped in 
her living room on blow up mattresses!!

Then all the Ikea furniture arrived - 
it only took two days to put together a 
bed, night stand, couch, TV stand and bureau!
this is what an Ikea couch looks like when it arrives!!

I did have lots of time between everything 
to get a few Sashiko squares done!

 Thirteen to be exact!

We also took a day to shop at two quilt stores in Corpus Christi. 
My daughters not a quilter but she was happy to go along for the ride - 
I think she wanted a break from assembling furniture!

The first shop was The Quilt Cottage
a very nice cozy shop with lots of samples to tease you!
I picked up a few things!

another nice shop with lots of fabrics!
I found these Robert Kaufman London Calling beauties 
there so scooped up 2 yards of each!
They will fit in nicely with my Liberty of London collection!



Now that I'm home I have a new project on the design wall…
my guild has a challenge for our Sept 2015 quilt show
"50 shades of …. Purple"!!

My inspiration was this photo from a sidewalk at Texas A&M:


here is the beginning all laid out on the design wall.

Purple Ombre hand dyed fabric from eQuilters        

Hope your summer is going Quilty well!

Happy Quilting, Janet :)