2022 Goals

I picked up Cross Stitch again in 2021. Will post on this maybe in a minute!! 

Starting 2022 just like we did with 2021. Covid has invaded my house.  Actually giving me the time to sit and make another list. It actually helped me keep on track and reminded me of some goals for the year. There are a lot of quilts that rolled over from last year on here and a few more I added- 

1- Bee Quilt-blocks started

 

2- Red and white cheater quilt- cheater blocks cut

3- Harvest Road- tops done, needs borders

4- Selvedge Quilt- top done, needs borders

5- Fat Quarter Shop scrap square quilt 

6- Kaffe Embroidery- Tops done, needs border and I corner block

7- Animal Embroidery- needs a few more blocks

8- 2021 Guild block of the month- few blocks done

9- Debbie row by row

10- Rooster on board

11- Pumpkin Quilt 

12- Pineapple placemat

13- jelly Roll Quilt

12- Moma quilt

13- Bow tie quilt

14- Sewcialites- Top done needs borders 

15- T quilt

16- Stained Glass windows

17- Animal Embroidery

18- Kaffe Embroidery Quilt

19- Batik Embroidery

20- Jumbler Quilt

21- Crown of Thorns

22- Scrap Log Cabin

23- Selvedge Aqua Quilt

24- String Block Quilt

25- pineapple sampler quilt

26- Batik HST quilt (Bonnie Hunter)

27- jittery wings quilt of the month

28- Golden Eye quilt #1

29- Golden EYe quilt #2

30- Lori Holt cheater quilt

31- lori holt churn dash

32- Pat Sloan Star Quilt

33- Liberty Box Quilt

34-valentines Quilt

35- Cider Quilt

36- Pinecone Quilt

37- chicken Quilt 

38- Jean quilt 

39- Bea Lea test quilt 

 

40- The Fisher Quilt

And maybe a few challenge and quilt alongs along the way!! 

American Flag Shirt Quilt

I started this quilt with my Guild group, way back in June or July. It’s a copy of one I saw on Jo’s Country Junction. We all collected shirts and cut them and sewed them.  The hope was to make a few quilts for Quilts of Valor and a few quilts for a few of us.  

The realization though, was that this was a lot of work!! I probably bought 20 shirts and others bought 20 more!  I know as of now we have completed 4 tops and are piecing 1 more.  Then started scrapping some of the leftovers to make what I hope is a few smaller nursing home quilts. 

Honestly, this quilt to make with shirts, takes a large variety of shirts and lots of cutting.  We did figure out early how to chain piece most of the blocks.  100s later, I am tired of them! 

This quilt is a really big quilt and takes over 250 of these little block sets.  That’s over 1000 pieces in total.  Sadly, we made a big mistake and did not realize in the beginning that the whites were directional or that the white stripes really needed to read as white.  So we had to buy and cut up a few more shirts!! 

Then it honestly takes a full day of seeing to lay out, piece and quilt this top. As in probably a full 12 hours. 

I used my new Sashiko machine to quilt the top. The machine mimics hand quilting.  I did one set of stitches down each row.  I originally thought I was going to do white stitches. But then there was red thread in the bobbin.  I decided I really liked it! So I finished out all the stitching in red! Love it! 

For the binding, I used some woven cotton.  This helped with the flow of matching the binding with the shirts in the top. Strategically planning where the red and blue was located on the quilt. This is my first time doing a split binding to match color sections on a quilt! It made me love it a little more!! 

Of course I am on the right track again with labeling all my quilts!! Love these sweetwater labels.  I may have to start writing the year on them! 

I usually don’t keep many of my own quilts. Truly, I give away about everything I make.  But I decided it’s time to decorate my house abd use some of them myself.  This year, I have kept more quilts instead of giving them all away!! 

So this is another Luthridge finish!! Now to get motivated at home!!

I thought this was the perfect cotton field quilt. The crips of America, picked blossom by blossom to firm our country. The shirts worn by the hard working men of our country!  I am so proud of the work of the men of the past! And I love the crops that built our land! 

Peter Pan triangle quilt

Eight years ago, the cutest and sweetest PA came to work with me.  For the last 5 years or so I keep asking her when she’s going to have a baby.  Her answer keeps being not yet! Well, she just gave birth to a little Boy named Waylon.  A little spelling change from my Waylon. I am sooo excited for her, she will be the perfect mom! 

Only a few people ever get to pick out their fabric. But of course, she’s special!!! This is a Peter Pan fabric that I found on Etsy! 

I held on to the fabric for probably what seems like a few months! I did not know what I wanted to do with it.  I then set aside the first week in September to make it and life changed for me that week. Waylon was in a bad accident and the project was pushed off.  So with little time to finish this quilt, I decided on the triangles. 

The triangles highlighted the fabric and allowed the big prints to show. I went just as simple with the quilting.  Just straight lines on the inside of all the triangles! 

The backing is a triangle that kinda matches and has a triangle print on it! The binding sadly, is a solid, but the only thing I had that I felt really matched. So I had to suck it up.  And another awesome label.  Trying to be good with putting a label on all of them. 

And with that, as Peter Pan says “All the World is made of Faith, trust and Pixie dust”!! 

Scrap strings With that odd color.

Yep, I said odd color.  Not my usual background color. Really going out of the box with this.  But it was a friends scraps.  They were free, so I went with it. 

This honestly started as a crazy batch of strings that I sewed up over the last year.  I randomly sewed them and squared them up into 8 inch squares.  Then they kept multiplying and sat in a bin for the last year. 

Well, I set a date last week to finish. I jumped in my big scrap bin to find a background.  What did I find but these already cut 8 inch squares!! A friend doesn’t do scraps, so of course I took them!! 

 I had to add a few pieces of  another Aqua fabric that kinda matched it was all the cut off backing from another quilt.  It was a little interesting cutting all the pieces from scraps, but it worked.

Then the backing some of the last fabric another friend gave me. Doesn’t match, but my goal is sooo getting rid of stuff.  The label from my growing collection!! 

So excited to finish another quilt out of a pile of scraps.  I just have too much more to do!! On to next months challenge! 

Scrappy Timber Trees

It’s another finish, just in time to enter the Persimmon dreams, monthly Scrap Quilt Challenge!! The June theme, was trees!!  This quilt is like usual, a design of  my own! 

This quilt top is made completely out of scraps!! All of the triangles are cut offs from multiple things, but mostly binding.  They are seen together using a flip and stitch method then squaring up. 

Each tree triangle section ranges from 1 inch to 3 inches high, by 3.5 to 4.5 inches wide. The trunks are honestly about the same dimensions. 

The trees each have 5 sections and each row is 5 trees wide! I kinda love the odd number in most things.  The rows are stacked from the shortest tree to the tallest tree. I then added a section to even each row out to match the tallest tree. 

The quilt seemed to need something else.  So the star was introduced. Honestly they added width to the quilt and the perfect finishing touch!! The star centers are 3. 5 inch squares. The points are also made with the flip method. 

The rows were then trimmed for all to have matching widths.  To finish it off, I added a 2 inch strip of white to the top and bottom. 

I quilted it with grass like rows across the bottom of all the trees.  Then swirls around each tree. 

The binding, is made out of leftover binding pieces from other quilts. 

Then there is this cute little tag!! It was part of my Christmas collection.  It matched perfectly!! 

Then look at this cute family of bassets!! On some if our recently cut trees! 

May Finishes

I did not hit my May Goals, but I sure did get a bunch done!! Most of my May sewing Occurred at the Quilters Of SC Spring Retreat at Camp Kinard. 4 nights away with lots of Sewing!! 

Sooo excited to get away and sew!! I finished my Guilds Quilt Block for the month! 

The Harvest Road top.  Excited to really finish this one, as it will go in my spare bedroom! 

Then another leader and Ender brick block quilt. 

I sandwiched these 3 sister quilts from last months retreat.  Then I quilted and bond them this week to finish!! 

Then I finished the top for the tree block challenge!! 

June Goals—-

So I did not meet my block goals for last months Sewcialites.  That means I am further behind, so this month, that is one of my top Goals.  The last blocks come out this month, so I want to try and catch up and finish! 

My others goals are to finish the tree top to enter into this months challenge.  Work on the string blocks for next month and to finish some pillow covers for a paid job I took.  If I do all of that, then I can start on a patriotic quilt I really want to do!! 

Goals of 2021!!——

1- House quilt- lots of pieces and few rows. Finished!!

2- Small old antique embroidery quilt- only the original blob lock and fabric pulled.  Plan to box the blocks in, maybe like a log cabin. FINISHED!!!!!

3-Harvest Road Quilt- blocks cut, a few pieces sewn together Top finished, needs borders

4-Debbie row by row- omg, so much to do

5-Rooster on board- one section done.  I think this will be a retreat quilt for this year

6- Pumpkin quilt-  fabrics pulled and all in a box

7- Pineapple place mat- needs to be put together and quilted

8- Jelly roll quilt-  undid it for a race demo in class.  Sewed a few corners and now it’s sittin a box. 

9- Moma quilt- I need to make several of these, but for 2 years,  I’ve had fabric pulled for at least one and sitting in a box. 

10- Sunflower quilt- made with my friends daughters clothes for her kids finished

11- Sunflower 2- same as above finished 

12-Sunflower 3- yep, same finished

13- Bow tie quilt-  I cut a bunch of scrap squared to make this and never did it. 

14- Bea Lea Jumbled Sampler-  Accuquilt quilt fit the year

15- Sewcialites- 17 blocks out of 36 blocks done

16- Ultimate beginner Sampler- FINISHED 

17- T quilt from years ago-  at least 2 blocks done.

18- Stained glass window-  lots of blocks done years old

19- animal embroidery-  needs just a few blocks. 

20- Kaffe embroidery quilt- needs borders.  Top done,  at least 2 years old

21- Yenter embroidery-  needs a few blocks finished

22- batik embroidery-  needs a few blocks finished

23- crown of thorns.  Has a few blocks cut out. Several sewn together 

24- Tree quilt- not started  Top Finished!!! 

25- Scrap log cabin quilt- not started

26- Selvedge aqua quilt-  some selvedge blocks done

27- string block quilt-  random sized string blocks 

28- pineapple sampler quilt- 3 blocks started. 

29- batik HST quilt- lesson from class

30- persimmon dreams block of the month

31- Pat Sloan star quilt

New 2021 desires- 

1- Liberty box quilt

2- cider quilt

3- pine cone quilt

4- chicken quilt

5- bee fabric quilt 

Hanging Tomato Update

Here we are at week 5.  Look at all the little tomatoes and flowers!! I swapped all the pots around.  Things grown better on one end of my porch then the other. So I am riatating around in a row.  Last to the end.  I think the swap only slowed it a little.  Soo excited to know that I will soon be harvesting a crop!! 

Here are all my Zucchini!! Look how big they are! I soo love the weather this time of year and all the new growth. 

Yenter Explosion in All The Good

A few months ago I took part in the “All The Good”, quilt along by “Jittery Wings Quiit Company”.  I decided to go out of the box and use some of the Jason Yenter Fabric I was holding onto.  

This was my pull, a mix of yenter solids, blenders, and prints.  I used the border print on the top right for my color theme. I usually don’t go big with black in most patterns, but knew the color selection favored that. The span of his fabric probably ran thru a 10 year span. I wasn’t sure of this, but after the pieces were cut up small, it ended up amazing! No one would ever realize they were from totally different directions. 

As the sew along started, back in January 2021, I followed along with the pattern and the Sew/quilt along here 

All The Good Quilt along.  Each step gave you a week to complete.  Truly a lot to do,  but soo worth it.  And I mean it was a lot of squaring up. Lots of HST and flying geese truly seem the quick method. 

From cutting to sewing each step in the pattern, blog and videos were laid out well. 

My only issue came with laying it out.  I had the challenge of the deadline and set a day to do it.  The issue was, it took all day to lay it out. Yeah, 384 pieces later.. I didn’t have a mental plan of what I wanted at first.  Just the colors I wanted to start in the center of the diamond.  I laid the colors together.  The quilt was made with an improv plan.  The only real direction was for all the flying geese to face the same direction.  I finally had to let go of the control in the quilt and the normal.  Then wouldn’t let myself move much around.  That ended up working for me and I was halfway satisfied how it was laid out.  

Then came the time it took me to sew all those pieces together. It truly took me forever.  I took a breath and a photo when it was done.  Then I folded it and laid it to the side. 

A few weeks later, I received some bulk Jason Yenter material in the mail I bought on a sale post.  I found, yet another piece from one of his collections in the same color way. I sewed it up to make a backing and it simply worked out perfectly. 

Then I want to quilt it a little more modern.  I did a switchback kinda straight line FMQ.  I really don’t like the quilting.  Might have now done something different, but in the let it go world, I let it go.  I did not make it for show, so it is what it is. 

Then came the binding.  I couldn’t really decide.  I grabbed the leftovers and saw the border fabric I used as my color theme. So with that idea, it became the binding.  The perfect finish to one of my now favorite quilts!! 

I am soo happy with the photos BBC and the beautiful location at Luthridge!! It’s the chapel there.  God truly gave me an amazing place that matched the quilt he provided me with the gift to make!