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Go West King Sized Flimsy Completed

Hi, I am happy to share that I finished the flimsy for my supersized King Go West quilt. I actually finished piecing it on August 10th and shared a photo of it on my Instagram at that time. I have been under the weather for a portion of the summer. Apparently I had been walking around with really high blood pressure and when put back on meds, they really made me tired. I am just taking a double water pill now instead, and am feeling alot better. I have a lot of projects piling up and need to play catch up. Designing a block for the Cloud 9 Fabrics New Block Blog Hop in September. I am designing a quilt from my block and am working on that now. I am working on a memory quilt from my Mom’s shirts and also have two new quilts cut out or in process of cutting and piecing.

This shows how much length I was able to add to the quilt top. I managed to add 3 rows to the bottom. I had to get creative with my pieces as I miscut the rust grunge (cutting at finished hst size instead of the larger strip I needed). This really didn’t short me much, as I cut the miscut pieces down to other sizes I needed. I just didn’t have enough of the rust and orange for all the pieces I wanted. The fabric requirements for the pattern are more than enough to make the pattern as it is called for, and doubling it to make the two twins to attach to each other to make a king even leaves you with extra fabric. It was my choice of trying to add to the 84 inch length that made me short in some colors. This quilt now finishes at 120 inches wide by 94 inches long. (Kirsty’s doubling of the top should create a quilt 128 by 84 inches. I didn’t need 128 width as our box springs are still on the floor.) I am thinking that I may flip the top around so the new section is in the pillow area.

I will be writing a couple extra blog posts this weekend, possibly yet today that will show my other WIP quilt projects that I have been working on since my last blog post in July. I will link them up to this post so they can be found easier. I am linking this top finish with Crazy Mom Quilts Finish It Fridays.

Link to blog post about the 2016 Cloud 9 New Block Blog Hop I am participating in found here.

Link to blog post about memory tshirt quilt project found here.

I hope all my US readers enjoy their 3 day holiday weekend.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley

September 3, 2016
Go West King Sized Quilt Top Update

HI,
I am happy to share this week my progress on supersizing my Go West by Bonjour Quilts quilt top into a king size quilt. It took a lot of pondering on just how far to take the design to get the size I thought I needed to fit our king bed. I started with the twin size finished top at 64 by 84 inches and I am currently at 120 by 84 inches. After laying it out on our bed, I do know I really want to add to that 84 inch length as it does not cover the mattress as far as I want. It all depends on how far the leftover fabric goes in creating all the new half square triangles, if I add two rows to the bottom or also two rows to the top. I know it will shrink up with quilting and washing and drying. I just do not want to short myself.

The quilt is certainly bright. It makes me really dislike my walls and that they were white or any color paint instead of wall paper from the 70’s.

I really like the center panel and how it shows the design off . Of course it is next to impossible to photograph. I am going to have to find a new large place to photograph this quilt properly once it is finished and quilted.

I love love the copper penny and pumpkin spice colored grunge type fabrics with the bright blue.

This is all I have left from my original blocks I made from making two twin size pieced tops per Kirsty’s instructions for the this quilt pattern. I basically did not make the very center horizontal row of the second twin. I deconstructed the second twin by add sections to either side of the first completed top to get to the size I am at. I can use these leftover blocks in my additional rows needed. Yeah, just a few less HSTS to make! It shouldn’t be too bad as the finish is near….

This is what I have for fabric leftover from initially cutting out my quilt blocks. Kirsty was generous in her instructions. Remember this is a doubled amount. I did buy exactly what she stated in the instructions and doubled each amount. Since I am so short on that one color it does limit me on how far I can add rows to the quilt. I can add up to three rows in each direction before I would need that last color. I will be sure to careful tally up each size needed before cutting into these extra pieces.

My plans in the upcoming week are to finish this top and start cutting out the HSTS for my daughter’s Go West. I need to finish up quilting a couple quilts (Jelly Roll Slice and Katie’s Compass) before I get too involved in creating my daughter’s quilt top.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. I will be linking up with Crazy Mom’s Quilts and Finished or Not Friday’s.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley

July 16, 2016
TGIFF : Go West Flimsy

Welcome to TGIFF! Hi my name is Shelley and I blog as The Carpenters Daughter who Quilts. I have been quilting for over 20 years and blogging for almost 2 years. I think this is my third time hosting the Thank Goodness It’s Finished Friday linky party. I am excited to see everyone’s latest finish and the chance to meet some new to me quilt bloggers.

I am sharing my latest quilt top finish. It is Go West by Bonjour Quilts. I have a twin size top finished but I am currently putting together a second twin top to join together to make a king size quilt. I really really love this quilt pattern and design. It is also one that my daughter likes as well so I have one cut out for her too. We have the fabric cut out to supersize her quilt too.

I am thinking of adding to the length of the quilt. A twin size is 64 by 84 inches. If you are putting two tops together, you will essentially come up with a top that is 128 inches wide by the 84 inches long. Our king mattress and box springs is currently on the floor. We are looking to build our own platform bed with a headboard attached to the wall. I measured the bed as is and I would really like in the 95 inch or so length at least. I am looking at adding an additional top and bottom two rows to the design but that would take the top to 104 inches long. I guess I could just add the additional two rows to the bottom and it would be approximately 96 inches. I really do not need 128 inches across so will just have to play with layout to see what looks right.

This is my late night finish of the top last night. I snapped a quick photo of it thrown across the couch and uploaded to Instagram. As the photo loaded, I saw that I had a big mistake of two rows flipped. Luckily it was easy to open a couple seams and take out the two row and flip them and sew back in. Bright blue always touches bright blue.

Here is the corrected version.

It really is hard to get a full on photo of a quilt on the king size bed since our closet is so close to the foot of the bed.

These are the fabrics that my daughter chose for her Go West quilt.

This is Lyric, our Australian Shepherd that we adopted in February. She was a kenneled breeder dog. Her owner died and I am not sure what her life was truely like there. After 4 months, she still will not allow my husband to touch her. She will take food from his hand but that is all. She likes to hang out in the closet in our bedroom. She was lurking in the closet when I was taking photos. She used to get on the bed with me but now she prefers making a nest in the closet. It has to be hot in there as she is panting.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and checking out my Friday finish (that is still a WIP.) I hope to be back with a possible photo of a finished king top or more progress.

It is now time for all of you to link up your Friday Finishes. Please go check out as many of the other quilters’ blogs and share the love by leaving a comment.( My comment page can be found if you click on the the title of this blog post and open the actual blog post.)

Happy Sewing,

Shelley

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July 8, 2016