The Carpenter's Daughter Who Quilts

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  • Katie’s Compass Flimsy and other current WIP

    Hi, I would like to share my finished quilt top Katie’s Compass by Sterling Quilt Co. This pattern was one of my May is for Maker’s  indie pattern purchases. I finished piecing the top before Memorial Day but did not get a chance to blog about it. I did share photos on Instagram.

    Katie's Compass flimsy finish

    This quilt top went together very easily. It was even easier for me because I had a good portion of what I needed for blocks all ready pieced into strips from the leftover cuttings from my Jelly Roll Slice quilt top.

    Jellyroll Slice Flimsy

    Here is a photo of the Jelly Roll Slice quilt made from the Fat Quarter Shop’s quick tutorial video and pattern set. I have this basted to quilt and had started in quilting with a serpentine type zigzag quilting but I was not happy with it. I am going to take out the 6 or so rows of stitching and rebaste and start again. I can quilt both quilts now at the same time I guess.

    Katie Compass sample block

    This is a single block of Katie’s Compass and it finishes at 20 inches. The quilt finishes at 60 inches square. It can be made from two charm packs or half of a jelly roll set.

    Katie Compass backing

    This is what I am using for my backing. I used up all the pieces leftover from making the backing for the Jelly Roll Slice quilt’s backing.

    Katie Compass back blocks

    That black and white print is rather blinding when taking a photograph of it. I had enough of the cat print to cut 6 – 5 inch squares and I built my blocks around them. I had enough of each teal print to make 2 blocks and then last 2 of the 6 blocks got white solid added to them. The turquoise solid was in my stash from a Hancock Fabrics Black Friday sale purchase.

    Jellyroll Slice backing

    This is the backing I made for the Jelly Roll Slice quilt so you can see where my leftover scraps came from.

    I am also currently working on 2 other big quilting projects that actually will make 3 Queen sized quilts. I am making two supersized Go West by Bonjour Quilts, one in fabrics I picked out and one that my daughter picked out for herself. Kirsty at Bonjour Quilts shared recently how to enlarge her quilt pattern by making two of the twin size tops and in a couple different layouts it will make a queen/king size quilt.

    GoWest my fabrics

    These are my fabric choices for Go West. The bright blue is the center of the southwestern style blanket design. White is the background. I do have this cut into all the appropriate squares and have started in making a few of the numerous half square triangles needed for the top.

    GoWest Holly fabrics

    This is my daughter Holly’s fabric choices. She chose the black with white arrows as her center design fabric. White will also be the background fabric. All of our fabrics were from JoAnn’s but her yellow tree bark print is from Fabric.com.

    The other large quilt project that I have started is City Tiles by Emily Dennis (Quilty Love). I fell in love with her quilt design from all the in progress photos she had on Instagram and I purchased the pattern the day she released it. I am making it from the Color Theory by V & Co. fat eighth bundle that I won back in December 2014. I have chosen to make extra blocks (because that is what I do…lol) and will take the quilt from 25 to 36 blocks to make it 90 inch squarish.

    City Tiles fabrics

    I picked out the most prominently colored prints from the fat eighth bundle of 40 prints. I also pulled out and set aside the variegated solids.

    city tiles block 1

    city tiles block 2

    city tiles block 3

    These 3 photos are the first City Tiles blocks that I have completed. I really like how they are coming together. I hope to be able to chain piece most of the block segments. I need to lay out the colored main pieces in order to keep their orientation the same in the block. That makes it just a little tricky. I have been finger pressing open each and every seam in the blocks and it makes them lay so nice and flat when I go to give them the final press with the iron.

    I will be sharing this post with the various weekend linky parties. You can find my linky page at the top of my blog.

    I hope everyone has a great weekend. It is getting really hot here in Iowa this weekend.

    Happy Sewing,

    Shelley

  • Fat Quarter Shop’s Jelly Roll Slice Shortcut Quilt

    Hi, I received an email back in January from Fat Quarter Shop asking if I would like to make a quilt for their newest shortcut quilt pattern series. I have been away from quilting for a couple months dealing with family matters. I jumped at the chance to work with a new pattern. Fat Quarter Shop provided me with the pattern and fabric to make this quilt, and I chose to upgrade to make a larger quilt.

    Fat Quarter Shop releases multiple quilt patterns throughout the year in their shortcut series. There is a free pattern and video for each pattern released in the series. The videos show how to construct the needed blocks and give some great pointers.  The Jelly Roll Slice comes in four sizes from baby to Queen size and uses from only 17 jelly roll strips for a baby quilt up to 3 jelly rolls for a Queen size quilt. I chose to make the twin size quilt and it uses 2 jelly rolls and a small amount of background fabric. Rhoda Ruth fabric

    I chose the Rhoda Ruth by Elizabeth Hartman for Robert Kaufman Fabrics. I have been admiring this line of fabric for awhile and all the lovely quilts created with it. I instantly migrated to it when given the chance to pick whatever line I wanted to use. I purchased a yard of the Rhoda Ruth Nightfall Savannah Sun fabric which is the first fabric, a half yard of the Rhoda Ruth Nightfall Southwest Key fabric which is the second in line, and a half yard of Rhoda Ruth Nightfall Flower Petals to be pieced into a backing for my quilt.

    The Jelly Roll Slice instructions made for an easily constructed quilt top. Kimberly shows her technique for pressing seams on the video and it really did work wonders for how easily the blocks go together. The quilt math is quite generous and I had no problem creating the needed block components to make my quilt top.

    Jellyroll Slice FlimsyThis is my twin size top shown on the top of a king size mattress. The twin finishes off at 64.5 by 88.5 inches. I tried something new for me and pin basted my quilt on our mattress. We adopted a cat recently that only has three legs but he is quite good at swiping and shredding with his one good front paw so basting this way save my quilt batting and a lot of grief.

    I chose to piece a multi striped backing for my quilt. I used the three Rhoda Ruth Nightfall print yardages and added two shades of turqouise and teal as stripes and finished it off with navy solid. I had to get extra creative with my piecing as I discovered I did not have as much navy in my stash as originally thought.

    Jellyroll Slice backing

    I tend to make a lot of pieced backs for my quilts and since I had so many seams across the width of my quilt. I decided to prequilt each stripe a 1/4 of inch away from the seams. It ended up taking a bit of time and used 4 bobbins just for that amount of quilting. I think it was worth it as it helped me keep my back flat and smooth when I basted the top to it.

    We were given a deadline to have our quilts done to go along with the release of the Jelly Roll Slice pattern and video. I had my twin top and back completed in time but I am still quilting at the time of this blog post. I have not made too many quilts with jelly roll strips so was not sure how I wanted to quilt mine. I see from the other completed quilts in this series that straightline stitching to allover stippling looks lovely on this design. I have decided to use a serpentine style stitch and quilt multiple rows going over all my horizontal seams. It is creating a lovely pattern and I have used it before and it produces a lovely puckered look after washing and drying the quilt.

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    This stitch on my Viking 990 sewing machine is actually a 4 step zigzag. My other machine has a true serpentine stitch.

    I hope to finish up quilting my version of the Jelly Roll Slice quilt in the next couple days and upload some finished daylight photos to this posting and they will also be shared on Instagram using #jellyrollslice.  I am new to Instagram this year and can be found @shelleymichellefolkerts .

    Links to Fat Quarter Shop’s pattern and video can be found below. They have a quilt kit made up for this quilt as well.

    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOIuFJrIkQU
    FREE Pattern: http://static.fatquartershop.com/media/wysiwyg/pdf/JellyRollSlice-CompletePattern.pdf
    Quilt Kit: http://www.fatquartershop.com/jelly-roll-slice-quilt-kit

    To celebrate the launch of this new pattern, the Fat Quarter Shop will be having a 15% off Jelly Roll sale starting on Monday February 22nd and there is no coupon code necessary. (sale lasts until Sunday the 28th)

    Please check out the other lovely versions of the Jelly Roll Slice quilt that my fellow quilting friends have created.

    Taunja of Carried Away Quilting
    Cheryl of Meadow Mist Designs
    Terri Ann of Childlike Fascination
    Eileen of Eileen In Stitches
    Cristy of Love You Sew
    Hayley of Moobird Stitches
    Shelley of The Carpenter’s Daughter Who Quilts
    Kathryn of Kathryn Jones Quilts

    I thank Fat Quarter Shop for the chance to participate in their pattern launch. They have so many fun and easy quilt patterns in their Shortcut series. I have been working on their Single Wedding Ring quilt pattern that was released last year.

    Thanks for stopping by my blog.

    Happy Sewing,

    Shelley