Boxed In and Out Flimsy (Updated)

Hi, Welcome to my version of Santa’s Sweatshop. It is less than 10 days til Christmas and of course, I had to start one more quilt. Yes, I may be crazy. But I have a Plan.

I am making Happy Quilting‘s  Boxed In and Out. I am making my version in purple and yellow and white. This will be a gift for our friends whose family are very big Minnesota Vikings fans. They moved away to a new area about 3 months ago, and I think their wedding anniversary is around the corner. So one gift of a quilt can be a Christmas, Anniversary and House Warming gift all rolled into one.

The quilt pattern directions are well written and nice diagrams and charts. Lots of chain piecing. The quilt size I chose to make is the Picnic size that is 74 by 88 inches. It is 30 blocks made of of 3 sections. After Midnight last night, while pressing my 90 block sections, I discovered that 24 out of the 30 of the bottom sections of my blocks were sewn together wrong. The yellow and white segments were flipped. There was no fixing it, other than rip/snip apart the 24 block sections. Thanks to my trusty silver Gingher snips, I had them apart and resewn by shortly after 1 AM.

This quilt pattern has a really neat design addition that Melissa shares the how tos. She tells how to use MS Excel and take a sports team logo artwork and enlarge it to make a layered quilted patch to go on this quilt. When I originally purchased this pattern last year, I did play with MS Excel and used my Niece’s high school mascot of a Tiger’s head and managed to enlarge  it  til it was approximately 15 inches by 30 inches. It would not be too hard to cut out the design elements of the logo and fuse them on the quilt top or back. I also worked up the logo the school uses on jerseys.  I was planning on using this idea on a different quilt top that I had made up to make for our Niece. I decided to put making a high school mascot quilt on hold, when our Niece was talking about wanting to change schools. I really liked Melissa’s mascot logo idea and hope to incorporate  it in to a future quilt project.

(Printing the logos took the rest of red ink so that’s why they are splotchy. Also stretching out the outer oval band on the tiger face logo somehow gets cut off in the collage printing. It is easy to draw it back in. )

With there being a week til Christmas, I am thinking of taking our friends’ family name and incorporate into the design of the back of the quilt. I would love to try to make my own Vikings head but I do have the time to go into that detail at moment. Maybe I can give them a pillow with the Vikings head appliqued ???

As for Santa’s Sweatshop, I am hoping to finish this quilt, and hope to finish quilting my Plus Dash quilt. I am working on making our grandsons and another relative standing cases for their new computer tablets (one will be Transformers and the other will be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.)

I will be linking up this work in progress with various weekly linky parties.

I would like to wish all my blog readers a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year’s. I hope that you all will come back and visit in new year as I have many quilty things in progress that I hope to share with you all.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley