Quilting with Friends - Pre-Cut Jelly Rolls

Creativity is endless in Quilting!

I think that is why I like it so much, endless possibilities.... 

From choosing your design you want to quilt, to choosing your fabrics for your quilt.  

How you choose to quilt it, either by the old fashioned look of tying off your quilt with yarn or the more finished look of machine quilting.  There are few ways that you can finish your quilt, but these are the two that I use.

We'll a group of us have decided to get together to do our projects.  I love getting together with friends and family to do projects like these.... it is always so much fun.

Stephanie R. has choose Moda Batik fabric, called Sticks and Stones.

This fabric has a real rich earthy palette, that will blend with and decor. 

Stephanie D. has choose Island Batiks fabric, called Juicy Jewels.

This is a real beautiful color palette, that has a calming effect just by looking at it.  

Light a Lavender candle, snuggle into your quilt and start reading a good book.  

I already have a BOOK in mind!

They both have choose to do quilt designs that we have seen from Missouri Star Quilt Co. youtube tutorials.  They have an app that makes it so easy to keep up with their new additions... it's called 

Quilting Tutorials by Missouri Star Quilt Company

this is the IPad App link above.

BUT...  I'm sure they have a App for tablets also.  

Look for their icon above, when looking for the App. 

Below are the links for the two quilts that we made.  The Fence Rail tutorial and the Sticks and Stones tutorial.

Fence Rail Quilt Tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co.
Jenny Doan

Sticks and Stones Quilt Tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co.

Jenny Doan 





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Gathered all the materials for this Sticks and Stones Quilt.  

Going to start cutting all the strips out.  

I cut the Cotton Supremes French Vanilla by RJR Fabrics into 2 1/2 inch squares, then 

I took the Juicy Jewel strip pack and took all the strips and cut them up into 

2 1/2", 4 1/2", 6 1/2", 8 1/2", and 10 1/2" inch pieces.  

This is what became of all those strips below.

The first row, I put a 10 1/2" and 2 1/2" together. 

Second row, there is a 2 1/2" and another 2 1/2" and a 8 1/2".

Third row, there is a 4 1/2" and another 2 1/2" and a 6 1/2".

Forth, Fifth, and Six rows are the reverse of the first three.

I just love these colors together...  Blues, Greens and Purples are some of my

 favorite colors.  

We'll I thought this might be a challenging quilt top for me to do since, I like things a little more symmetrical.

 In this case it would be the colors not matching, meaning each being an identical block 

like the others ....  

Some might call this a slight compulsive disorder.  So, I'm really going to lean towards the creative artistic side of my brain in this quilt design creation. 

We'll.... I weathered the storm in my mind, and just let the creativeness juices flow and fall where they may....

 and this was very impowering and I feel

 pretty good about that!

And most of all the quilt is turning 

out so beautifully.  

Did I say earlier, that these are some my favorite colors and I'm already struggling with having to let go of this quilt, but I did promise this one to the kids, and they where estatic about that so, I must keep my word, it will be their quilt.... so sad for me :(

Quilting time - we all got together at the church to work on our projects.

Here is Stephanie R. cutting her strips for her fence rail quilt, and Stephanie D. in the back ground working on her project,

Brenda crocheting and chatting with Sara

Stephanie first time quilting and happy that she has completed

 cutting out all her strips.

I share more when we get together again!

Purebred Throw Quilt

When I first saw this print, it evoked childhood memories of growing up in Montana with horses all around.  How I was crazy about horses and loved to do paint by numbers... and it was the horse prints that I would paint.  So I decided to make a throw quilt.  I just needed to find the design I wanted to use and buy the fabric.

                    

As I was looking for this fabric, I found it was part of a collection.....

Purebred is another collection in the fabulous paint-by-number style of Erin Michael. It reflects the majesty and charm of the thoroughbred horse, and was designed in honor of the year of the horse and the excitement of the Triple Crown race. Romantic florals evoke the beautiful blankets of flowers that adorn the winner’s circle while retaining a whimsical, childlike charm when mixed in a paint by number style. Romantic florals evoke the beautiful blankets of flowers that adorn the winner’s circle while retaining a whimsical, childlike charm when mixed in a paint by number style. Romantic florals evoke the beautiful blankets of flowers that adorn the winner’s circle while retaining a whimsical, childlike charm when mixed in a paint by number style.

                   

                                   

I just love this fabric!

After much meditating on which design pattern to use, a decision was made to utilize as much of the horse scenes as possible, so we choose to use the disappearing 9 patch for this quilt.  

Backing, binding, and pillowcase fabric.

All color and design combinations. 

The design coming together.

The Layout coming together. 

The 9 patch square.

The Disappearing 9 patch square.

Quilt top finished and ready for the batting and backing.

The colors aligned nicely, I think that this is going to be a favorite throw for the family room!

I thought I would do something different on the quilt... I didn’t want to sew through the print with hard lines on the backing print by machine quilting it all together.   I attached the quilt top to the batting and I also added a little extra touch by adding chenille yarn to the top of the quilt with invisible thread.  I put a bordering around each of the squares on the front of the quilt top.

Then I pinned the backing onto the other side of batting and quilt top, then hand tied the backing to the batting and quilt top, making sure that the chenille yarn did not come through the front of the quilt.  It was a great combination, it gave the quilt a lot of texture and uniqueness.  That’s what you call thinking outside the box and being creative!

Now where cutting the binding strips.

Sewing the binding on the quilt.

Last two pics is the finished lap throw quilt for the family room here at the ranch.  

I so happy with the way it turned out!

A Girls Best Friend/ For the Love of Horses

This was something I meant to post a while back, and decided it was still worthy to be posted...

It was a Beautiful Day here in Sunny So Cal, not to hot, not to cold for the beginning of May.  It was great day at the ranch for so fun.  

Gracie has been wanting to ride Cheyenne for awhile now, so she is getting that opportunity today.

She went to put on her boots, well needless to say, she needs a new pair.... all winter she has been wearing her rain boots all winter.  But that won’t stop the ride today!

Spending time with Raider