Some quilts I've finished in the last few months...

jennifer_in_va

15 years ago

Here are some things I've done recently....

What is now Amanda's baby quilt...Made from nickel squares

A One Block Wonder quilt made from an oriental koi print:

A mystery quilt using christmas fabrics:

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gillian_41
15 years ago
My favourite is the "One Block Wonder" have the book here but have not been brave enough to tackle it yet.The baby quilt is cute and the trees are PP right?
Gillian.
damascusannie
15 years ago
I like them all.

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Gorgeous!! I am curious too what cultivar that is?? I love Foxglove too and ws'd quite the variety this year - Excelsior Hybrids, Apricot beauty, and Camelot series (white, cream, lavender). They have all sprouted. I'm planning to grow several patches for next year. Gardenweed, sorry to hear about your plants expiring. They do like good drainage. A couple years ago I had a gorgeous patch of huge Foxglove clumps going, but most of the crowns rotted over the winter!
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mirren & Clare, yes, the yarn did all the work! I'm to lazy to do my own striping and have to finish in all those ends. Donna, we spent a lot of time on vacation this summer. While my husband drives, I knit. I had to pull out at least 2/3 of the skein on the pair I am currently working on for my sister-in-law for Christmas to get them to match. On the pair above for my daughter, I pulled out about Â½ the skein. Your yarn is not lost, just wind it in a ball and work with it later in the socks. That is one reason I work on both socks at one time. That way I am sure I have them both started at the same place. Socks are great take along projects, since they fit easily into a mid size purse (even my small one with seperate compartments!) My favorite pattern is Ann Norling's Basic Adult Socks. I have almost memorized it, I've made so many socks this summer!I am almost ready to start the heels on my sister-in-laws socks. Deb, The first pair are named "MINE"! Out of all the socks I've made, this is only the fourth pair I get to keep. And that's only because I made the tops 8 sts bigger around for my fat leg, so they are to big for my daughter to claim! The second pair I guess are "Smiles" cause the ladies I knit with said they would make you smile every time you looked at them during a dreary winter! Ann's pattern is pretty simple, and gives you a choice in 3 different yarn weights. Working with double pointed needles takes a little bit of practice, but is worth the work to learn. Start by casting on 30 sts on ONE dbl pt. then even distribute them on the other two needles, keeping the fourth as a working needle. Join the beginning and end and just keep working round and round until you get comfortable with working with the dbl pts. Use scrap yarn and strait knit until you do. Then play to your hearts content with the socks! I use one long circular now to make my socks with. I have heard of doing them on two, but haven't gotten the book and tried it. I just do one sock on each long circ. Obviously, I have several sets. Mostly because I have so many projects going at one time! Tami
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There was no proscribed # of quilts for a girl to have.....this, as with so many other aspects of life would depend on her socio-economic situation and even geographic location. A family with little means would require all the children to work...to do their part for the family welfare, so those girls would simply not have the means or the time to prepare an elaborate dowry of linens. A girl from a comfortable family would be much more likely to have the means and the time to work on hers, and would 'add' fancier things like samplers (to use to help her when she marked all her linens), while a wealthy girl would spend her time, not on mundane household linens, but fancywork, to show her 'abilities'. As late as the late 1800s, this sort of thing was the case. My own grandmother, born in 1880, attended 'finishing school' where she learned to do fancy needlework, play the piano, paint china,etc - all considered 'ladylike' things to do. Her sister, my great aunt, wanted to go to teachers college and their father said absolutely 'NO"! So, she 'finished', and was given a wonderful string of pearls as her graduation gift, as all the sisters received from their father. My grandmother was married by this time, so her sister moved in with my grandparents, sold her pearls and used the money to go to college! What a woman! The 'moral' of the story is, I guess, each family was different, in what they could or would provide.
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wendyfaye
15 years ago
Nice! I love them all.

You do great work, but where do you find the time?

TFS
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jennifer_in_va
Original Author
15 years ago
Gillian~The trees are not paper pieced. They are more like a stack & slash. We layered the fabrics, then followed cutting lines on a pattern. Then moved one piece from pile #1 to the bottom, 2 pieces from pile #2 to the bottom, etc. So all the trees are the same on the background, but there are no red trees on red background, etc.\

A little confusing I know; we had someone walking us through each step...
nanajayne
15 years ago
They look like a lot of fun. All different but equally pretty. I like the narrow boarder on the koi quilt. I am trying to find a way to do that around individual blocks with piping but still have not figured a satisfactery technique and still add settin strips. Is the koi quilt a stack and whack type of block? Your usual good work. TFS Jayne
bopeep
15 years ago
I like #1 the best, no I think it is #2, no maybe it is #3...........I LOVE them ALL the BEST.
Great quilts!!!!!! Great Job !!!!!!!!
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athomesewing
15 years ago
Wow! Wonderful! I am working on a one-block wonder too! I love the colors on yours. All three are quilts are wonderful! Congrats on the very nice projects.

Connie
jennifer_in_va
Original Author
15 years ago
Jayne,
The koi is a stack & whack type of block...

As for the black..it's a piping I threw in when I added borders. I cut a 3/4" strip I think and folded it in half wrong sides together, then sandwiched it between my inner border and outer border and stitched a 1/4" seam. I pressed so it would fall to the inside. The only problem I had was dealing with the mitred corners...That will take more practice, but it wasn't too bad for the first try.

For doing it around individual blocks, I think I'd add strips to top & bottom & sew, then add to both sides and sew. You'd just sandwich it between the block & sashing. Probably easiest with corner stone blocks in the sashing on the sides, even if they were the same fabric.
polardream
15 years ago
WoW! Jennifer those are beautiful! I really like the Christmas tree quilt - very fun - kind of modern twist! I really don't know how you manage to finish things with a little one!
Good work.
Sue
jennifer_in_va
Original Author
15 years ago
LOL, Sue. Not 1 little one, but 3!! Plus, we homeschool!

But quilting is what keeps me sane through all the other stuff!!
fran1523
15 years ago
Beautiful work Jen. I especially love the trees, but they are all great.
rosajoe_gw
15 years ago
I have been saving my scraps as nickels, there are so many beautiful quilts to use them for.
I love the Christmas trees and I am amazed that you find to be so creative, but I am sure the kiddies love the quilts!!!!
Rosa
cannahavana
15 years ago
I love the Christmas trees!
User
15 years ago
Do you have the christmas tree pattern link? Or the name of where I could purchase it? I just love it!
biwako_of_abi
15 years ago
You do lovely work. My favorite is the koi, but I love the colors in the first one, too.
agnesd
15 years ago
Love that tree. Do you know what book the pattern is in?
benbel1006
15 years ago
LOVE those trees! It's the pattern I'm collecting fabrics for right now. Was it hard to do? I was hoping to use all Christmas metallics but may have to think again as they are proving very hard to find. Your quilts are beautiful.
redpenny
15 years ago
I really like the Christmas tree quilt but all the quilts are beautiful!
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coalaska
15 years ago
The Christmas trees are wonderful! I'd love to have the pattern, too. Great job on all 3 quilts.
jennifer_in_va
Original Author
15 years ago
Sorry folks; I don't know the pattern name, designer, or book or anything about the Christmas tree pattern. This one was a mystery quilt...and all I was told was that if anyone wanted to make another we'd have to purchase the pattern ourselves. But I don't know that information....

Maybe benbel1006 or coalaska could share the necessary information from their pattern.

benbel1006 ~ There were only two tricky things about this pattern. 1) moving all the cut pieces home from our meeting without them rearranging themselves LOL and 2) Because seam allowances aren't factored in, not having edges meet as you proceed to add each new piece. (This was hard for me personally since I'm more like a perfectionist and like to have things match) It does keep each block from being exactly like the others...and that's nice! lol
coalaska
15 years ago
benbel1006, please share the pattern info if you can. I don't have it, but I'd sure like to!

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sundownr
15 years ago
Love your quilts! The quirky trees are my favorites. Cute, cute, cute. I googled to see if I could find the pattern and found it here. http://www.seamstome.com/pat_kit.html It's the 4th from the bottom. I didn't look any further to find other sources.

Cindy

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