Positively Charming

Positively Charming sewing pattern from #corianderquilts #coreyyoder  51 inch x 59.5 inch.

1 day to cut the fabric, pieced a weekend and few evenings, 2 days to quilt and bind. This quilt is cost effective as you can use 1 charm pack or 1/4 layer cake as I did. Mint green is a different change to white backgrounds and I was able to use blue for the backing without worrying about colour run too much (use colour catchers, cool temperature, take out of the washing machine straight away).

Quilting: approx 2 by 4 inch straight-line grid in aqua Glide thread.

Moda layer cake by Sherri and Chelsi 'The Front Porch'. Background and backing #benartexfabrics

Should have used a lower tension with this high loft 2oz wadding, only noticed the tension in the sunlight photos! I will redo part of the binding that waved a little, again noticed in photos.

Checkerboard Baby

Checkerboard baby quilt no pattern (just 9 patch). Fallon sleeps on this every night. A few days to piece, then just 1 day to quilt and bind! 1 Moda later cake, Sweetwater "wishes", which I think is from 2014, had that on the squares I left off. Turquoise polka on white yardage Makower. Binding yellow thatched Timeless Treasures. Backing pink lambs Benartex. Quilted straight-line every two squares and then criss cross through those boxes. I cut the layer cake squares into 3 strips and strip pieced, I cut them 3 1/4 inches and I needed to cut the white with blue polkadot to centre the red. I like the way it created despite making one block (or two blocks with the colour variation). I think it is 45.5 by 53 inches. 

Checkerboard Quilt

I used some of the layer cake squares from a Jo Morton Moda layer cake to make Mr C's birthday quilt, I still had the rest to make something vintage. The cotton was prewashed with a minimum width of 9 inch so I cut 3 inch strips, created 15 dark-light-dark and 15 light-dark-light, I also had to add 3 squares from yardage and another layer cake to make up the light. Then I cut the assembled strips into 3 inch.  I added a 4.5 inch border in red check Art Gallery Fabric, then another border in red floral elements Art Gallery Fabric. Binding is a red leaf remnant Timeless Treasures. Batting is two layers of prewashed cotton flannel.  Backing Benartex sunflowers. Approximately 50 by 58 inch.

Chevron Quilt

 No pattern / own design. Rail fence technique baby/pet quilt / chair quilt. 2 x jelly roll (I used 1/2 of the colours and was able to make the same print travel per chevron), bumped up the white with yardage. Border added to 43 inch width - so I can fit on 1 length of yardage (quilting cotton is 44 inch). Moda jellyroll an older collection  was 1/2 the price as they are now! Binding is 5 x polkadot strips. Ochre gingham border. Sunflower print backing Benartex. Batting: Hobbs poly down, this quilt is quite thick, sometimes this batting is very thin. Serpentine stitch rectangle grid 2 by 4 inch, I usually do 2 inch grid, but actually this is fine.   *Photos in May.

Recycled Embroidered Placemats Quilt

Vintage embroidered placemats made into a quilt. I had 12 but used 2 for pockets in a tote bag. Then I added fabric scraps I had on stash and yardage on stash, one of the blue-grey florals is 2nd hand yardage. Own design, no pattern.

Backing and binding: Art Gallery Fabric 

Quilting: straight line in Gutermann thread white and Superior Thread cream back

Batting: Hobbs polydown.

2nd Hand Quilt Top

67 * 70 inch quilt. 2nd hand quilt top, it was a doublebed size but I had to remove the outer white  border, with a seam ripper to preserve the patchwork border, as the marks didn't wash out (on very gentle). 2nd hand quilt top. Backing: 4m Benartex. Binding: just over 1/2 m Timeless Treasures. Quilting: Aurifil thread in cream front, Superior Thread back. Batting: 4m high loft 2oz.

NL 6544 Skirt

I think almost all of my skirts are denim or canvas. Minerva supplied 3m of this pale blue cotton, so I made two skirts I've sewn before previously. New Look 6544 pencil skirt with 2 inch added to the length. Blouse is Itch to Stitch Melrose Top in cotton poplin. 

New Look pencil skirt, I used an invisible zip and hook and eye, rather than a standard zip.

Deba Topper & Stanwyck Skirt

 I purchased the quilting cotton for a Christmas quilt, but the Itch to Stitch Deba Topper  pattern test came out around the same time. I used the red colour way for the facing, it can be pressed as a collar or worn flat. I used a jewel colour rainbow jacket button (Pigeon Wishes buttons gift from Mr W).

I think almost all of my skirts are denim or canvas. Minerva supplied 3m of this pale blue cotton, so I made two skirts I've sewn before previously. Charm Patterns Stanwyck Skirt, I've also made in light pink.

New Look pencil skirt