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Showing posts with label Acacia Quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acacia Quilt. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2014

Interrupted Finishes Done!

I wanted to post some of these finishes last Friday.  Arthur (the hurricane type), July 4th (my BDay), and family visiting for the weekend made it impossible for me to sit down and write a blog post.  Now I have a couple more finishes and am going to share all of them today!

First off, here are pictures of my Acacia Vintage Quilt Revival on our guest bed.  Family actually got to sleep under it!  It doesn't get much better than that!


With the matching pillows and shams that I made to go with it.



Without the pillows...



The borders, the binding and the quilting...



Before I took up quilting, instead of fabric, I pieced stained glass.  The above is one that I made about 12 plus years ago.  Quilting is a lot like working with stained glass; but there are no smelly fumes with quilting.

Another finish is the Tula Pink Craftsy Mystery Quilt!  Our A/C is not working upstairs, AGAIN, so no one got to sleep under this one.  Sigh.  Hope to have the A/C fixed next Tuesday.  I am going through long arm quilting withdrawal.


The bed frame is an antique family heirloom.


Another angle...


A close up of the quilting.  My DH let me know that this is one of his all time favorites.  

Another finish in time for Arthur's, the BDay fairy's, and family's visit was the April Showers Piece of Cake II quilt.  


I love the quilting pattern on this quilt!  Love!

Two other finishes since are:


A dress for my Granddaughter Stella!  This is Sarah Jane's Wee Wander fabric in Made by Rae's Geranium dress pattern.  I am a quilter.  Sewing clothing is not something I ordinarily enjoy, but this dress was easy to make.


Last but not least, a Saltwater fabric nursing cover for a Mom to be in the CCMQG.  The tutorial I used is this one from Craftaholics Anonymous. 

Even though I haven't been blogging, I have been posting to Instagram (JMylander on Instagram if you want to follow) and getting some quilts and projects finished.

Linking up now with Amanda Jean at Crazy Mom Quilts.  This whole Finish it up Friday motivates me to get some things done!

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

WIP - Pretty Potent Meets Side Braid

This quilt is coming along nicely!  It is Anna Maria Horner's latest line of fabrics called Pretty Potent. The pattern is Jeni Baker's Side Braid.  Since the quilt is 109" x 114", I changed up the pattern a bit.  It was difficult to get the entire top in one shot, but here goes.


I have yet to make the backing for this but do have the fabric.  Not sure how to quilt this one yet.  This one will be for our bed and I am looking forward to having it on there!

My other WIP is our guest bedroom.  I have it just about ready to go.  Some shams are made, one pillow completely done, one pillow needs a back, and two shams have yet to be made.  I will def post a pic when it is all complete.  Looking forward to having this one done, too!

Here are some pictures of the quilt:


Up close of the quilting.  Modern hour glass E2E.


The quilt with quilting.  It is the Vintage Quilt Revival sampler quilt made with Tula Pink's Acacia fabric line plus matching solids.


Machine stitching on the binding.  LOTS of pixel binding!

Linking up now with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!