Sleep in Heavenly Peace builds twin beds and donates them to children who have been sleeping on the floor. It's a great way to give back to the community. They have a nationwide building day on Sept. 14th in cooperation with Lowe's, who donates much of the wood used that day. My quilt will be given to a deserving child on that day.
I have had fun creating a new quilt this week! I bought Electric Quilt 8 earlier this month and started working on a quilt right away. I saw a quilt hanging in a quilt shop and I tried to buy the pattern for it only to find out it wasn't being published any longer. So I set about making one of my own. This is the result!
Click here to download a copy of the pattern! It's a PDF file, a step by step tutorial and it is recommended for intermediate quilters. The letter Q would be a bit daunting for a beginning quilter. If you are a confident beginner I say "Go For It!"
Star QUILT Wall Hanging
by Christine Chamberlain
I took my longarm machine to the shop for servicing and it's going to be 3 weeks before they can get to it. To stave off the withdrawal I'm busy sewing some of my many UFOs. Today, I finished the main part of my Triangle Star quilt top! It has 560 HSTs and made with scraps along with a background fabric. All it needs now is to add the borders, and then the longarming!
My latest quilt is called Triangle Stars. It has 560 HSTs. In August, my husband and I spent a week in Williamsburg, Virginia at a resort. He spent some of his time riding his bike on the bike trails and I spent my time sewing the HSTs. I put the HSTs together last month and now I'm making the applique blocks. There are appliques that go in each corner and then I can assemble the blocks!
The Durham Orange Quilters' Guild has a challenge that will be held at our guild meeting Monday evening. The challenge was given in March and the topic was to be on houses. We could make any type, color and size quilt with the theme of houses or neighborhoods. This is my entry!
I made this quilt a few months ago, longarmed it and finally finished the binding this afternoon. It’s being donated to the QOV sewing group I’m in.
Next on the agenda is the Take A Stand tote byAnnie.com. This tote will carry my mini-iron and other things when I travel with my sewing machine. This tote is made to coordinate with Running With Scissors. Notice in the photo it shows the RWS tote on top of the TAS tote. This will be handy sitting next to my machine when I'm sewing.
Update: August 28th ~ I finished the Take a Stand tote and it holds a lot of supplies! I used it while on vacation to Williamsburg. The last photo is the Running With Scissors tool case sitting on top of the Take a Stand tote.
My longarm robotics is down at the moment so I'm using the time to sew an organizing tote to hold my sewing things when I travel. This tote is called Running with Scissors and the pattern is from ByAnnie.com. I've made several of the bags and totes from this website and they come together nicely. I found the fabrics for my tote while I was on a quilting retreat in Virginia!
Update: July 30th. I finished the tool case this afternoon! It has my most important tools I need to carry plus plenty of room for other things.
I decided to change from brown bagging it when I go to all day quilt classes and found this kit online. It's called the Zippity-Do-Done insulated lunchbox tote. Kit includes instructions, preprinted insulated batting, handle strapping, plastic interior base, and a white Zippity-Do-Done zipper. The kits are available in different colors. Here's the finished tote!
I made one change to the pattern. The white fabric you see on both sides of the zipper is not in the pattern, the zipper is rather wide and I thought I would cover the excess zipper tape with a pretty fabric. I like how it turned out!
I've been sewing a quick project called the Peanut Butter quilt sew along. I wanted an easy quilt to feed that need for piecing this time and this project fit the bill!
The pattern is a free one, found here:
https://mailchi.mp/thencamejune/peanut-butter-quilt-pattern
This little quilt was made into the 3rd pin cushion, I'm making 7 of the patterns as decorations for my sewing room.
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About 2 years ago I began stitching tiny 2-1/2 inch blocks for a quilt called the Circa 1880 Nine Patch. I knew it would be a long process to make a queen size quilt out of 2-1/2 inch blocks and I needed 716 of them! I starched the fabrics I chose before cutting into it to help stabilize the 1 inch wide strips the blocks were made of. Finished, the blocks measure 2 inches.
I entered a quilt in the Raleigh, North Carolina quilt show held by Capital Quilters Guild. It was held on Friday, and I was pleased to see a special ribbon on the quilt when I visited the quilt show. The ribbon was an award of merit for outstanding achievement in quiltmaking. It was given by the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges. This quilt took well over 100 hours to make over 14 months. It has 7934 pieces and 716 two-inch blocks.
2 of my customers are so sweet! They sent a photo of themselves in front of the quilt.
My grandson turned 2 months old yesterday! He is a little brother to 3 yr old Joshua. I made this quilt for Sammy and now that the binding is finished I can give it to him.
I'm starting a new project, a small wall hanging for my sewing room. The fabric collection I chose is called Promenade by 3 Sisters for Moda Fabrics. The pattern I'm using uses recipe cards, something I've never tried before. Here's a photo of the fabric, isn't it luscious?
