8/12: String Quilt

Date:  May 2013

Reason:  I have so many scraps and strips both from my own quilting and from what my aunt and grandma have given to me.

After doing Craftsy.com's BOM 2012, I realized that a string quilt was the perfect way to use up my mountain of fabric pieces.

Thoughts:  All I know about free Motion quilting is from Leah Day - see link on side bar.

This quilt will be auctioned of at the MCC relief sale in Coaldale next month and is eighth in my series of 12 quilts for mission organizations this year.  Four to go!!

7/12

Date: April 2013

I started this top years ago and stuffed it in a closet because I wasn't careful with the measuring so I knew I had an uphill battle to finish it well.

Dora gave me a hand made shirt from MCC.  It was black and striped with bold colours.  She challenged me to make it into a quilt.  That's what the pinwheels are made from.

With fabric my mother bought for me in Mexico for the back, I completed this top and donated it back to MCC to be used in relief work overseas or sold in the local thrift store.

Pink Delight II

Date:  April 2013

Reason:  I bought a jelly roll at Walmart that easily made two baby quilts.  This one is slightly larger that her sister because I added the pink plaid border.

Thoughts:  A friend bought this for her daughter.

6/12

Date: April 2013

I made this top a year or so ago and stuffed it in a closet.

With fabric donated from a drapery store for the back, I completed this top and donated it to MCC to be used in relief work overseas or sold in the local thrift store.

5/12

Date:  March 2013

This quilt will go down to Mexico at Easter.

Lessons:  This is from my apple box fabric.  I made it more than a year ago, discovered that I had cut corners (assumed that someone else's cut squares were identical in size) and thus had split seams and threw it in a corner.

I used 2" wide strips of fabric, folded them in half like I was binding and sewed them down next to the split seam - raw edge to raw edge.  I then folded the strip over, again as if i was binding and hand stitched the folded edge on the other side of the seam.  Problem solved.

4/12

Date:  February 2013

This quilt went down to Mexico last week.  It is 4/12 quilts for missions this year.  The top was made and forgotten last year.  I'm pretty sure it was one of the first Apple Box quilts.

3/12

Date:  February, 2013

3/12 is uglier on the flannel side because I wanted to use every scrap of flannel I could, but I love how the orange and blue looks together.  I should do this on purpose . . .

This quilt is also in Mexico