Project Quilting Round Up!!

Here is a review of all the 2021 Project Quilting challenges in Review!! 

Challenge #1- Illuminating and Ultimate Gray.  The pan atone color of the year challenge. 

Challenge #2- Fussy Cut and my smallest finish! 

Challenge #3- Virtual Vacation- I so want to take a trip out west!!

Challenge #4- The snail trail block and my modern improv piece, interpreting the old block. 

Challenge #5- You’re Crazy.  A challenge themed on crazy quilts!! So I made this awesome Jean Pocket Quilt! 

Challenge #6- Ab Intra- A Latin phrase “from within”. By far the hardest to come up with an idea. A quilt made with old embroidery blocks.  And of course some vintage material. 

     I sooo love how project quilting and his it gives me the desire to get things done.  There are Still a few scrappy challenges left from last year! So it will give me a few things to do until next year!! 

March Finishes

March for me started out well!!  Early month Quilt Retreat with my Misfit Friends!! I didn’t get as much sewing done as I wanted, but I finished one quilt and one top and had lots of fun!! Here is a collection of some of the finished projects!! I am sew proud of my girls!! 

First finish of the month was a Persimon Dreams Project Quilting Challenge of a Crazy Quilt.  Well, here’s a Crazy Jean Quilt! 

After the retreat, I finished this Pillow Cover I started last month! 2 Shamrock Pillows Done!  

Second Challenge Quilt of the month and last of the project quilting season!! 

Then I challenged myself months ago to finish my Ultimate beginner quilt. So glad to have this UFO from last year done!! 

After finishing the house Quilt too at the retreat earlier in the month,  I did a basic wavy straight line to quilt it. 

Then I said I would finish this quilt for my sewing group as a donation!! It’s a mix of some else’s blocks and someone else said they would quilt it but did not.  So here it is done!  Feels so good to say DONE! 

1- House quilt- lots of pieces and few rows. Top finished at retreat and now it’s completely 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 

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 

11- Sunflower 2- same as above

12-Sunflower 3- yep, same

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- 12 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

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

Crazy Jean Pockets

Last Sunday when I saw the theme,  I was like, what am I gonna do.  I could only do something small and what did I really want to do.  I was at work and on day 3 of a 3/7 day long work streak. That night, I went home 2 hours late and laid on my living room couch. All the sudden I thought “I have all those crazy Jean Pockets”.  Mostly from my husband and boys and probably multiplying for about 10 years. 

So my theme was there.  Before I went to work, I pulled out the box of jeans that’s forever growing. I have made at least 2 quilts and another top.  This was the new leftovers and all the usable pockets.  I had already formulated a crazy plan the night before and knew with the number I could get it to work. I then spent day 1 cutting off and squaring (or rectangling) up the blocks.  

Day 2 before work, I started sewing random sized strips on the top and bottom of each pocket. Then separated them out by length.  A few rows made it to 7 pockets.  Yep, a plans coming together. 

Day 3 I started hand sewing patches behind each hole and doing some hand embroidery stitches on each.  I also did a few stitches on areas that I thought may be weak. 

Day 4 I had to pack and only had a few minutes to sew on some stitches.

Day 5 I had to finish packing my bags and hit the road to my quilt retreat. We did not get sewing til after 7. So not much was done. But I did sew a few rows together between hand stitching. I added fabric pieces to the end to make all the rows match with no set pattern or plan. 

But on Day 6 it was get it done time.  And I really think it turned out great.  

The backing is scrap linen that someone gave me, but it matches my top with all the shirt looking fabric.  The binding is the same type of shirt looking woven. All quilted with straight lines to just highlighted the pockets. 

We are retreating at a beautiful house on a pond.  And enjoying this view!!