Modern Quilts
Manly Mod Charms Quilt: Dad’s Plaid Shirts Memory Quilt
Hi, I have finished another memory quilt project. This one is huge and fits our king size bed. It will be for us. I used Emily Dennis’ Mod Charms Quilt tutorial. I used it before to make the memory quilt that I call Workshirt Mosaic. The pattern is free on her website. She recently gave instructions to make a larger version of it. She calls it a Queen and it finishes at 94 by 112 inches.
These are all my charm squares cut out for my quilt. I used one XL Tall men’s shirt in entirety in my design. The shirt was one that had been hanging in our closet and I would wake up each morning seeing it peek out of the closet at me. My husband’s Mom had given him this shirt of his Dad’s to actually wear but he has so many of his own plaid shirts that don’t get worn. I knew he wouldn’t miss it. He really likes how the quilt turned out and agrees he has too many of his own shirts to wear.
This was the first graph I did of the design I was wanting. I just wasn’t sure how large to make it so it would fit the king bed. It was neat to see that Emily posted photos on Instagram of cutting out one in black and white using the larger pattern the same day I cut this one out. I sent her a message to thank her for sharing the new directions. I wanted to make the most of the one shirt.
Starting layout of my charm squares.
This is how my plaid squares will lay out. I tried my best to keep the plaid all going in the same direction as I cut it off the shirt.
This is the top half of the quilt rows layed out on the bed.
This is the completed Manly Mod Charms quilt top. It is next to impossible to photograph in entirety. It is 94 by 112 inches.
This is how the top fits our king bed from the side. I am wondering about adding another row of squares to the sides so after quilting and washing it doesn’t shrink up too much. I like more wider quilts as my husband can tend to pull them off my side even though I am mostly in the middle of the bed. The three legged tomcat or Clover, our Aussie is on the other side of me. I am most likely going to back this with a sheet so I do not have to piece a backing. Actually, I may still need to piece a back to get one large enough.
This is my 13th memory quilt from the same pile of 30 plaid shirts. I have one more completed and cut out a new one this weekend. I need to design three more and that will become quilts for my husband, his Mom, three sisters, our two kids, two nephews, five nieces, Dad’s brother and Dad’s best friend from college.
Thank you for your continued support of my blog. It is greatly appreciated.
Have a great weekend.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Frame Quilt: Dad’s Plaid Shirts Memory Quilt
Hi, I am trying to catch up this weekend on some blog posts that are long overdue. I pieced another memory quilt from Dad’s plaid shirts. I used the Frame quilt pattern by Sandra Clemons. I had the blue and white sashing all ready cut from when I miscut the Double the Plus quilt two years ago. Many of the pieces I needed to cut to size were all ready cut.
This had to be one of the easiest quilts to make into a memory quilt since I just needed to cut 20 squares from my shirts. I thought I had 20 different squares but ended up with doubles from one shirt.
I love the Irish Chain look to this pattern. I think it should be well received since it is going to a niece whose family is Irish. I love the electric blue. It really pops.
Here is the left half of quilt. With careful pressing of my seams, most of them nested perfectly the first time around.
Here is the right hand side of the quilt.
I really love how this memory quilt turned out. It will be hard to give up. I have another memory quilt to blog about yet. I have a new one cut out this week and have three more I need to design yet. The leftover scraps bag is to go towards making a quilt for an upcoming quilt book blog tour in April/May.
Thank you for stopping by and checking out my latest quilt projects. I will be linking this finish up with Crazy Mom Quilt’s Finish It Friday linky party.
Have a great weekend.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
City Tiles QAL: Flimsy Complete
Hi, I sewed along with the City Tiles Quilt along from January 16th to February 26th and completed making my quilt top. The City Tiles pattern is by Emily Dennis and the pattern originally came out in April 2016. I did actually start making my quilt at that time but only made 3 of my 25 blocks needed. Life got complicated with my husband’s back surgery recovery and my Father inlaw having just passed away. I decided that this QAL was a good chance to get back to making this quilt and actually get a top made.
I chose to use this fat quarter bundle of V &Co. Color Theory to make my quilt.
These are the prints that I pulled to use for my squares.
Here are all my fabric squares and rectangles cut. I made the 18 inch blocks. The pattern also has a 12 inch block version. The standard throw used 16 blocks but I chose to make mine with 25 blocks. This uses my Color Theory prints in the best way. I eliminated the gray prints since I was using gray as sashing. There are 1675 pieces cut here with some piles having 300-500 pieces. I am very thankful after cutting almost 2 years ago that I didn’t lose a single piece. I kept them all tidy and named in ziplock sandwich bags in a plastic bin.
Here are my completed blue blocks.
Here are my completed pink blocks.
Here are my completed yellow blocks.
Here are my completed green blocks.
Here are my completed turquoise blocks. I think the blue and the turquoise have to be my favorites.
Here are my blocks pieced into the five rows. The bottom row didn’t want to stay on the bed.
Here is my completed flimsy and it finished at 90 inches square. It will need to have another good pressing before basting the quilt. I pressed most seams open so the blocks would lay flat and they do but it was a bugger when assembling some rows as I started to have some seams come undone here and there and it took extra time to go fix them. I hope I got them all. I will try a smaller stitch length.
On Monday March 19th, Emily Dennis starts a new QAL for her Ombre Gems quilt pattern. Guess what, I have that one started last year and only got a couple blocks made. I lost steam as I had a hard time laying out my chosen fabrics in a random pattern. I hope to get these made into a quilt this time around as well. These are being made from my long time stashed Sweetwater Authentic prints, the original ones from like 2010.
Thank you for stopping by my blog and checking out my latest projects. I will be linking this up with Finish It Friday over at Crazy Mom Quilts.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Modern Plus Signs Quilt Blog Hop: Tribal Plus Quilt
Hi, Welcome to the Modern Plus Signs Quilt Book Blog Hop. Cheryl @ Meadow Mist Designs and Paige @ Quilted Blooms invited 40+ quilting friends to participate in the blog hop. I am honored to have been asked to make a quilt from their book to share on the blog hop.
The book has 16 original takes on the modern plus quilt block. I have three favorite designs in the book and chose the Tribal Plus quilt as my design to make for the blog hop. I have made many quilts from other patterns that Cheryl designed as Meadow Mist Designs. All the patterns in this book have great instructions. I had no problem getting the needed pieces cut from the amount of material that this pattern called for. I rounded all amounts up to the next yard, so if it called for half a yard, then I purchased a full yard. I chose to enlarge the Tribal Plus quilt by two blocks per row to get a wider quilt. The instructions amount gave me the pieces needed to make them. I only needed to cut my borders larger.
I chose to make my quilt from all Cotton and Steel prints and solids. This was my first time sewing with them and I really enjoyed working with them and hope to purchase more in the future.
The blue print actually has tiny black plus signs on it. It is a new favorite and I would love to have a whole bolt of it. The quilt instructions would have used the pink print as the binding but I had more of the gold solid. I purchased my fabric from Fabric dot com and for some reason,they required different minimums of yardage purchased and the minimum for the gold was 2 yards when I really only needed one yard. I like the fabric enough, it was no problem finding another use for a remnant.
This photo may be a more truer show of the colors. I quilted 1/4 inch away from everything. It was a lot of starts and stops every 2 inches. I really like the design and would think about adding a few more rounds for extra texture.
I chose to use something out of the norm for me as a backing on this quilt. I use alot of solids or sheeting lately as backing. This is one of JoAnn Fabrics premium quilting fabrics. I thought it had a great tribal feel and it had all the same colorings as my Cotton and Steel prints. It was because of this backing that I also chose to use the mustard gold instead of the pink print as the binding. To be honest, this was my first time in ages that I hand sewed the binding on my quilt. I have about 12 inches that needs to be finished.
I enjoyed making the Tribal Plus quilt. This will be a quilt that I am keeping for myself. It ended up being 68 by 63″ since I added two blocks to each row for extra width. I have plans to make a couple more tops from the book in the near future and might use them as the last couple memory quilts I need to make for my year long memory quilt project.
The blog hop for the Modern Plus Sign Quilts is going on for two weeks and the full schedule can be found below.
Monday, March 12th
Cheryl @ Meadow Mist Designs
Paige @ Quilted Blooms
Tuesday, March 13th
Soma @ Whims and Fancies
Ann @ Brown Paws Quilting
Kitty @ Night Quilter
Sophie @ Luna Lovequilts
Afton @ Quilting Mod
Shelley @ The Carpenters Daughter Who Quilts
Wednesday, March 14th
Jayne @ Twiggy and Opal
Jen @ A Dream and a Stitch
Abigail @ Cut & Alter
Yvonne @ Quilting Jetgirl
Sandra @ mmm! quilts
Karen @ Run Sew Fun
Thursday, March 15th
Linda @ Flourishing Palms
Bernie @ Needle and Foot
Liz @ Savor Every Stitch
Stacey @ Stacey In Stitches
Michelle @ From Bolt to Beauty
Patty @ Elm Street Quilts
Melanie @ A Bit of Scrap Stuff Blog
Friday, March 16th
Myra @ Busy Hands Quilts
Izzy @ Dizzy Quilts
Ruth @ Charly and Ben’s Crafty Corner
Christa @ Christa Quilts
Monday, March 19th
Jessica @ Quilty Habit
Cindy @ Hyacinth Quilt Designs
Jennifer @ The Inquiring Quilter
Julie @ The Crafty Quilter
Tuesday, March 20th
Tish @ Tish N Wonderland
Judy @ Sew Some Sunshine
Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
Wanda @ Wanda’s Life Sampler
Karen @ Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats
Katherine @ Sew Me Something Good
Wednesday, March 21st
Anja @ Anja Quilts
Kate @ Smiles from Kate
Sue @ Sevenoaks Street Quilts
Carole @ From My Carolina Home
Alison @ Little Bunny Quilts
Thursday, March 22nd
Debbie @ Esch House Quilts
Laura @ Slice of Pi Quilts
Beth @ Cooking Up Quilts
Janice @ Color Creating and Quilting
Joanne @ Quilts by Joanne
Friday, March 23rd
Cheryl @ Meadow Mist Designs
Paige @ Quilted Blooms
There are weekly drawings for some awesome prizes and if you visit Cheryl and Paige webpages, you will find the Rafflecopter to enter the drawings.
If you would like to purchase your own copy of the Modern Plus Signs Quilts book, they can be found here.
Memory Quilts from Dad’s Shirts: A Year in Review
Hi, I am very close to having a year’s time involved in my memory quilt project. I started it after Thanksgiving last year. Our Dad passed away in March of 2016. He was a Farmer and a Crop Consultant. He had a vast wardrobe of plaid shirts and chambray and denim work shirts. This project originally started with me just wanting to make a quilt for my husband and maybe my kids. I never imagined how far a collection of 30 plaid shirts and 5 to 7 denim shirts would take me. I have put my entire heart and soul into creating as many quilts as I could. I am up to 11 different tops and have fabric left, and need to create 5 to 7 more.
I will give a quick review of the completed tops and give links to the blog posts, if you missed them from when published.
This quilt top is made from the popular My Guy quilt pattern. It could be originally found in American Patchwork & Quilting magazine in their June 2009 issue. This quilt of course will be going to my husband. You can read more about my process here and here.
This quilt top is made from Plus Squared by Emily Dennis. This uses pieces from all 30 different plaids and uses a denim work shirt as the center squares. This quilt will be going to my Mother inlaw. You can read more about my process here. Our three legged rescue cat, Clarence had to show off his modeling skills in this photo.
This quilt is one that I have decided to call Workshirt Mosaic. I think it was made from 5 different chambray and denim workshirts and then I picked my favorite blue plaid shirt as an accent block. I remember purchasing it for Dad for his birthday one year. This quilt was designed from using a tutorial by Emily Dennis for a quilt made from two colors of charm pack squares. I drew the design out on a graph paper and carried the design out a little on each side to make it larger. You can read more about my process here and there is links to the tutorial found there as well. This will be going to one of my nieces.
This quilt is made from the Uptown quilt pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew. I divided up the blocks switching out half the position of the plaids and denims. This quilt will be going to one of my nieces. You can read more about my process here.
This quilt is made from the original sized Swoon pattern by ThimbleBlossoms. The blocks finished at 24 inches. I chose to add the tiny denim sashing stones as added interest.This will be going to our sister, Barb. There was a Swoon quiltalong online starting in January. It was held for the first three months. I was able to piece 4 Swoon quilts in 2.5 months. I am quite proud of that accomplishment. You can read more about my process here, here, and here.
This is a Scrappy Patchwork Swoon and it has pieces from all 30 of Dad’s shirts. This is a pattern by Thimbleblossoms. This quilt will be going to our sister, Joyce. You can read more about my process here,
This is another Scrappy Patchwork Swoon and is created in the same colors as the first but positions switched. This will be going to our sister, Judy. When creating any of the Swoon quilts, you will be creating alot of half square triangles. It makes good sense to draw another line to create an additional smaller HST that you can use in another project. You can read more about my process here.
This design was created from laying out leftover HSTs. This will have a wide navy border added to the outside in near future to finish off this top. This was created from the leftovers of the red background Swoon. This will likely go to one of our nephews. I don’t think I blogged about these yet. I know I shared photos on Instagram. I saw a similar top made from a fellow Swoon quiltalong participant on IG.
This quilt top was created from the leftover HSTs from the blue background scrappy patchwork Swoon. This will have a wide red border added to the outside. Adding borders will make these top approximately 72 inches square. This will likely go to one of our nephews.
This fun quilt is Dogs in Sweaters by Elizabeth Hartman. I chose 15 of my favorite plaids for their sweaters. I added either red, navy or black as the coordinating sweater trims. This quilt will be going to my son. You can read more about my process here.
This quilt was made from the Moda Bake Shop tutorial for the Woodruff quilt by Cake Stand Quilts. This top was the first of the 11 to be quilted and bound. It was gifted to our niece, who was married the end of October and this quilt was on display at the reception. This was a small way for Grandpa to be able to attend her wedding in spirit. You can read about my process here.
My wonderful sister inlaw( who was the Mother of the bride ) machine embroidered a patch for each of the memory quilts for me. We had seen the idea for these on Pinterest. They make the quilts extra special.
I would love to be able to have as many of these quilts quilted by Christmas as possible. I have had a couple rough months this summer with feeling poorly and then my main sewing machine went up in smoke. You can read about that tale here. I have collected many new quilt patterns this summer. I am always trying to find new ways to use Dad’s shirts but don’t worry I do also plan to make some non-plaid quilts in the near future. New patterns is a way to make up for the many that I lost last year when our computer was struck by lightning.
I will be linking up and sharing this blog post with various linky parties that you can find in my Linky Party link page at top of the blog.
Thank you for stopping by and reading my blog. Welcome to all the new readers this week!
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Woodruff Memory Quilt Finish: Dad’s Shirts
Hi, I am happy to share my tenth memory quilt made from our Dad’s plaid shirts. This is the first one that has been quilted and bound. It was on display at our niece’s wedding in October at the reception. I wanted it finished in time so it would be like part of Grandpa was able to be there in spirit at their wedding.
I used the Moda Bake Shop quilt tutorial called Woodruff designed by Nicola Dodd of Cake Stand Quilts. Nicola quilted her version in a neat all over petal quilt design and she shared how she did it on her blog. I had hoped to try it on my quilt but time got away from me and I hope to try it on another quilt in the future. She even shared a photo of my quilt when it was a work in progress on her blog.
Here are my fabrics that I used in my quilt. I chose to use a denim solid cotton as my background squares.
The blocks were alot of fun to make. It is a version of the disappearing four patch. I made 42 blocks of the pieced blocks instead of the 32 pieced blocks that Nicola made in her quilt.
Here are all my completed pieced blocks. I used 20 different plaids in them. Even those this is my tenth quilt using these fabrics, sometimes I struggle when figuring out where to place them all in a quilt design, so the scrappy makes sense.
This is a sample of what the quilt would look like with it’s background squares. Below is Nicola’s version.
Nicola used a cute tiny gingham check as her alternate squares. I had enough going on with 20 different plaids and beside denim goes universally well with the plaids. I have very little left of Dad’s denim work shirts. Their remnants will make it into some quilt project in the future. I had two diferent shades of denim blue variegated thread that I wanted to use to quilt this top. I used it for both top and bobbin threads.
Here is the finished quilt flimsy laid out on top of our king size bed. My enlarged version finished at around 76 inches square.
My sister inlaw embroidered me a whole bunch of patches for all of my memory quilts. She is the Mother of the bride.
Here is my patch on the back of the finished quilt.
Here is a close up.
I really like how the finished quilt turned out. I wish I could afford an entire bolt of this denim background fabric.
I will be linking up this quilt finish with Crazy Mom Quilts Finish It Up Friday. Thank you for stopping by my blog.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Giant Granny Square Baby Quilt Finish
Hi, I am happy to share my finished Giant Granny Square Baby Quilt. It was made for a new little cousin in the family. I found all the fabrics except a coordinating solid all precut in my stash. I chose the Granny Square pattern as I thought it was fitting for a first time Grandma. I like to make quilts for my friends and family members when they become first time Grandparents, why should the Moms get all the cool gifts? Grandma needs to have something to share with new baby at her house, right?
I started out with this fabric pull. All fabrics except the coordinating gray solid were precut into 5 inches square. I had purchased two fat quarter bundles of the woodland animal prints from JoAnn’s a few years back. I was able to cut 24 squares of each print from the two sets of fat quarters.
This has to be one of the easiest blocks. It is all made out of 5 inch squares. I laid them all out in the positions shown above and sewed them into rows. You line your ruler up a 1/4 inch out from the outer seams and trim it into a square. The gigantic granny square finishes at 19.5 inches square.
Block 2
Block 3
Block 4
Block 5
Block 6
I made 9 blocks but only have individual photos of the first 6 but you get the idea by now.
Here are all the blocks together. I wanted the top to be a bit larger so decided to add sashings and corner stones. I cut 2.5 inch muslin strips and 2.5 inch gray squares.
Here is the completed flimsy. I had a chambray blue,tan and gray striped flat sheet that I chose to use a backing. Using extra strips cut off from the sheet made a perfect mock bias striped binding without any extra effort.
The finished quilt was approximately 66 inches square. I do not like to make too small of quilts. This is a nice size for baby to grow up with.
The week of August that I started making these gigantic version of the granny square I was receiving messages on Instagram and finding my name or my blog’s name tagged to granny square blocks. I had almost forgotten that I designed a tutorial for the standard granny square block (12.5 inches) and it was the featured quilt block pattern in the 2017 Quilter’s Planner. If you were participating in the quilt block sewalong, you were making my granny square that week of August 20th. It was a fun coincidence that I made a supersized version the same week.
My granny square tutorial is found here. I also made one for the Churn Dash block as well..
I will be linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts Finish It Up Friday. I am attempting to catch up on some additional blog posts that need to be written.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Safflower Quilt Pattern Testing: Flimsy Complete
Hi, I am happy to share that I completed a new quilt top this week. I had the honor of pattern testing for blogger Christie, of Lemon Squeezy Home and her first quilt pattern called Safflower. It was a fun pattern to work with and is a nice throw size of 56 inches square. Christie will be releasing the pattern later in the month of August for purchase.
The Safflower quilt got it’s name from the field of Safflowers that Christie took her initial pattern photos of her finished quilt in. I decided to use the wildflower pollinator plot that is new this year to our family farm. The yellow coneflowers are starting to come up nicely. The plot had been mowed off a few times over the summer and more flowers are starting to show up.
This is the original quilt design graphic that we worked with.
This is Christie (Lemon Squeezy Home’s) photo of her quilt in the safflower field. Thus inspiration for my photo of my quilt.
These are my fabric choices. The dark red is Shadow Play 513 by Maywood Studio. The black is Robert Kaufman Quilter’s Linen in Screen Print D# 9864 coloring. The feather print is Moose Lodge by Jan Shade Beach for Henry Glass & Co. I love the feather print and it also comes in a barn red background. I think I could come up with a way to use a whole bolt of this fabric. I ended up using cream muslin as my background as I had a bolt on hand and couldn’t find my other cream colored cottons. Yardage was all ready cut into another project.
This pattern is made from lots of HSTs. Christie shows a great way to make 4 at a time. Her starting square measurement size ends in 1/8 of an inch. I decided for personal reasons to round that up to 1/4 inch as I have a hard time cutting 1/8 inch accurately. This didn’t seem to affect the amount of fabric she gives for the needed pieces. The Bloc-Loc ruler is my saving grace once again.
I had to do a mock layout to see how the design was going to look before I got all my HSTs trimmed down to size.
Here are all the main sections pieced. I pieced one quadrant and once together correctly, I then laid out all the other pieces in same directions and pinned them and placed into piles for speedy machine piecing. You make 4 of the same 23″ large pieced block to make the quilt.
I really love how this quilt top turned out. I am used to making larger quilt tops. It was a refreshing change to be able to whip out a top in just a couple days. It makes a nice size throw. I can see that the design would look awesome in many prints or colors. I can also see this design expanded by making it 4 times and it would make a king size quilt of approximately 112 inches square.
Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you will consider giving Christie at Lemon Squeezy Home some quilt love and purchase her first quilt pattern when released later this month. I think you will enjoy making it.
I was quite happy to finish this top on Thursday this week. I am going to try and spend the weekend deciding on what to cut out next for another memory quilt. I am pretty excited to have found a longarm quilter within 15 minutes from my farm that might be able to help me baste all my memory quilts. I need to work on making backings for more of them.
I will be sharing this post on Show Off Saturdays, Can I get a Whoop Whoop Friday? and TGIFF .
Have a great weekend.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Dogs in Sweaters: Dad’s Shirts Memory Quilt Project
Hi, I am happy to share that I have completed another memory quilt top made from Dad’s plaid shirts. This makes 10 different quilt designs that I have made for memory quilts so far. I used the Dogs in Sweaters by Elizabeth Hartman quilt pattern. It is a fun design. It does take a bit of time to make as each dog has 57 pieces and many of them are quite small. There was 150 little 1 inch squares needed for this quilt. I cut and labeled everything into individual ziplock sandwich bags.
I used 15 different shirts for my dog sweaters. The pattern is written that you can use 5 prints and cut 3 dog sweaters out of each color. I chose to add sunglasses to 2 dogs as my applique fabric was large enough to cut 2 from.
These are the initial parts all pieced for building our dogs.
More building of the dog bodies. I had initially laid out my dog sweater plaids in rows so I knew where I wanted the colors to end up. I wish I would have snapped a photo of it. I just did my best to always keep the largest sweater pieces in the same order. Always trying to remember that 9 dogs faced left and 6 dogs faced right.
Dogs 1 through 4. I shared this photo on my Instagram and thankfully, someone told me that dog 3 had his legs going in the wrong direction. I would have been very upset to have pieced the entire top and missed that.
Dogs 5 through 8. I chose red, navy and black as my sweater bands. I did my best to mix them up each row.
Dogs 9 and 10
Dog 11 and Dog 3 now with his legs going in the “right” direction or that is facing left.
Dogs 12 through 15
Dog 12 is made with my favorite of Dad’s shirts. I also used that plaid as the focus print in the Workshirt Mosaic quilt I made.
This is the Workshirt Mosaic quilt I made from Dad’s workshirts.
I decided to add glasses also to dog number 4.
Here is another look at the full top pieced together. I am still deciding how I can quilt it. I found a blue bandana paisley type print fabric with dogs in it that I think I will be using to piece the back. I am going to show it to my son first to make sure he approves of it.
I will be linking up this flimsy finish with Show Off Saturday, Can I get a Whoop Whoop Fridays? , Needle and Thread Thursday and TGIFF.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
What to Do when not Quilting, but Always thinking about Quilting
Hi, what do you do when you can not be quilting or sewing?? Do you think about quilting alot, plan new projects when you should be completing other projects??? My home life the past few months has been all over the board. I have not been able to spend time with my sewing machine and the enormous pile of quilt tops or WIP that need tending too. I spend Alot of time on Pinterest, A Lot of time… that is where I am at first thing in the morning while drinking my coffee. I have found numerous new quilt patterns and ideas. I have purchased quite a few new ones in the last couple months. I try to purchase the newest patterns from my favorite designers when they release them as many will sell at a discount for a couple days. Fat Quarter Shop had a great anniversary sale last month and had a one day flash sale with 40% off so I stocked up on some favorites at that time.
I thought I would share my new pattern acquistions with you all. Maybe some of these will be new for you too?? I will provide individual links to each pattern and seller below.
The Braddock Road Quilt by Swim Bike Quilt. I love the big bold geometric patterns of this quilt.
The Charleston Square by Swim Bike Quilt. I thought this pattern might work for some of my plaid scraps for a memory quilt.
Division by A Bright Corner. This pattern would look nice in all colors or patterned fabrics. It is another option for a scrappy memory quilt.
Skipper by A Bright Corner. This photos of this quilt caught my eye on Instagram. This could look nice in patriotic prints which I have alot of or some of my plaids with a coordinating solid for each block.
Rise and Shine by Thimble Blossoms. I chose this pattern as a way to use up scraps from my Patchwork Swoon quilts.
Dogs in Sweaters by Elizabeth Hartman. I followed this pattern on Instagram and had to purchase it the first day it was available. This is going to be my son’s memory quilt from Grandpa’s shirts. I am in the process of cutting the fabric for it this week. Each dog block has 57 pieces.
Fancy Foxes by Elizabeth Hartman. There are so many photos of this quilt online made in so many different fabrics and they all look awesome. This maybe my daughter’s memory quilt from her Grandpa’s shirts or the next version of the foxes quilts.
Fancy Foxes II by Elizabeth Hartman. These fox are so cute in all sizes and colors. The eyeglasses are so cute! I think I remember someone posting on Instagram a sampler quilt made from all the sizes of fox from both patterns. We will see what we have for fabric to work with.
Ninja Stars by Emily Dennis. I simply love all of Emily’s patterns. I love the scrappy version of this quilt and I do have lots of scraps.
Sweet Summertime by Emily Dennis. I followed this quilt on Instagram and Pinterest. So many possibilities. I have a couple sets of fat quarters in my stash and am still deciding which one would work best.
Quilty Arrows by Emily Dennis. Another fun pattern with lots of fabric choices.
Ombre Gems by Emily Dennis. The quilt was first in Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine issue 36. Emily added coloring sheets to her printed pattern version. This is very helpful in designing your own quilt. There was a quilt along this Spring. I did participate in that but I am still working on my quilt top. I chose to use my Sweetwater Authentic fabrics that have been in my stash since 2010.
A Dash of Chains by Alycia Quilts. I love Churn Dash blocks and Irish Chain quilts. This is a cool combination. Alycia loves plaids even more than me and I love all her work making quilts for our Veterans.
Barn Star by Piece N Quilt. Lot of possiblities with this one. You can use those extra charm squares. Yeah!!
Farmer’s Star by Piece N Quilt. I love this one!!
Ohana by Piece N Quilt. I bought all three Piece N Quilt patterns during the Fat Quarter Shop anniversary flash sale. Ohana means family. This pattern was first sold to help raise money for her Mom’s cancer treatment. This definitely would make a nice memory quilt with all the special meanings behind it.
Wheelhouse by Coriander Quilts. Coriander Quilts has been offering up different patterns for her for $5.00 each week. I have been following along on Instagram. I like the two color version of this quilt.
Open Heart by Lella Boutique. I love this quilt. I am looking to use it as a special memory quilt. I am attempting to cut this quilt out after I cut out the pieces for Dogs in Sweaters.
Sugar Cookie by Lella Boutique. Another neat charm square pattern. You only need 1 pack and you can make a 72″ quilt.
Geode by Blossom Hearts Quilts
Alice by She Quilts Alot. I have been following Peta and her quilts on IG and I receive her newsletters. She had a pattern sale last month and I picked up 4 of my favorites.
Spring by She Quilts Alot. I love that some of the blocks are 30 inches. I Love big blocks!!
Pointed View by She Quilts Alot. I love the secondary pattern this design creates.
Big Dreams by Sterling Quilt Co. I love this pattern. This was my most recent purchase. It uses fat eighths. I have a set of fat eighths in Denyse Schmidt Hope Valley that I purchased from a detash sale from a fellow quilter on Instagram last year. I think this pattern is calling for them. Sterling Quilt Co. designed the Katie’s Compass quilt pattern that I have all ready made.
Hope that you enjoyed seeing all the lovely quilt patterns. If there is something you like, be sure to share the love and obtain a new pattern for yourself. Do you have any new favorite quilt patterns to suggest???
I heard back from the shop that my Mom purchased the Viking 990 sewing machine from. They stated that my problem with the walking foot continuing to sew after I take my foot off the foot pedal could mean that there is a bad part in the foot pedal or the circuit board is going out on the machine. They said you have to take the machine and pedal to a repair shop. If it is the circuit board, they are No longer Available for this machine. They did not state I could or should bring the machine to them to determine which problem it was. I did ask if they still repair the Viking Designer 1 machines as that is Mom’s other machine. Yes, they do but there are some parts that might not be available. I am not sure what to do. The Viking 990 does seem to sew fine when not using the walking foot. It did fine last year after the first incident. I have pieced 12 quilt tops since then. No problems. I did quilt two tops this year before this last one when it acted up. Maybe it was over hot and the machine dirty. I don’t know but I am going to try to sew with it again. I will watch it carefully and if something is wrong, I will stop using it. My sister and I have plans in the upcoming weeks to get together and teach our selves how to sew and embroider with our Designer 1s. It is not doing the machine any justice just sitting there.
I am linking up this post with Let’s Bee Social and Needle and Thread Thursday and Finish It Friday.
Hope that everyone has a good weekend.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
