January 26th, 2013
by Julie Hirt
I heart this quilt! Made for my friend Alyssa, her baby shower is next weekend. I finally used up some of my favorite fabrics that I’ve been hoarding.
Came up with the design myself – at first I just wanted a simple charm look, then decided to add a couple of stars. Just used a light gray for the background, dark gray for the border and teeny tiny gray polka dot pattern for the backing. This was the last quilt I machine quilted on my old machine (which I’ve kept for the free arm).
This little quilt tag is on the back – it’s roughly 4″ x 4″.
And I went shopping at a local fabric store today and picked up some fun colors for a Carnival quilt block I have in mind. LOVE these prints together! And they were on sale for $1 each when you bought 10 or more fat quarters. Score!
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July 18th, 2010
by Julie Hirt
I can’t believe I finished it already! Yesterday I spent…. oh, I ‘d say about 6 hours finishing up the quilting and it took me about 4 hours to do the hand binding on the back. I was *determined* to get it in the wash and sleep with it last night. It was a pretty big job to tackle and finish up but I’m glad I did – I love this quilt.
I used the Whimsy by Fig Tree Quilts for Moda jelly roll and a lot of Kona cotton in white. Each block is roughly 10.5 and it turned out to be a rather large quilt. It almost covers the entire top of our king size bed. It’s bound in Whimsy’s Grass Clover Daisy which turned out pretty nice. I originally wanted one of the red fabrics but now I’m glad the fabric store didn’t have one available.
It’s a simple pattern, the blocks are just strips of white/color/white/color/white and turned every other one. I chose so much white because I didn’t want to use patterns butted up against each other. It gets to be too busy looking for me. You can get almost 2 quilts out of a jelly roll using this method – I have just less than half of them left. Each strip was cut into 4’s so I got the most mileage for the fabric. The remaining fabric patterns are more kid friendly so I may make a stripey baby blanket with them.
This is my 3rd quilt and first big one – I think I’ll try to make them larger like this. It’s more work but so much better to wrap up with.
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July 17th, 2010
by Julie Hirt
Whew! This is a big quilt. I wanted to share a little of what I’ll be working on all weekend. It measures 72″ x 72″.
I used a Whimsy by Moda jelly roll alternating with Kona white. I backed the quilt in Kona coal (inspired by Film in the Fridge) with a large strip of what the binding will eventually be.
This is a really big stipple job for my machine – trying to roll half of it into the arm AND be able to move around. I’m doing a large strip vertically and horizontally first, then it will get easier.
Penny Lane refused to be left out of the picture so I added one of Bojangles for good measure.
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July 13th, 2010
by Julie Hirt
All finished!
I used 6 fat quarters and cut them into nine 6×6″ squares. Each whirligig is 2 patterned squared with 2 white squares – then I trimmed them to 10.5″. I have a couple of Nicey Jane fabrics in there and I can’t remember what the others were. They’re all from Harper’s. The binding and backing is from Joann’s.
I added a little tab on the back so I could hang it from a hook, make a strip of leftovers along the back as well as a label. This was my first stipple job and overall I’m really pleased with how it all turned out.
I’ve just picked up a jelly roll – Whimsy by Moda and am trying to figure out what I’m going to make with it!
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July 11th, 2010
by Julie Hirt
I am so excited about my stipple job! I was so afraid to try free motion and even went out to buy a template, neither of the two Joann’s stores I visited had the style I wanted. So I just went for it and I think I did pretty good!
There are a few mess ups and I did cross lines 3 or 4 times, but I did way better than I thought I would. Definitely worth saving myself the money to have it quilted. Plus I ended up enjoying it because it relaxed me. Took a couple hours but they went fast.
I still need to tack the binding on the back, then I’ll post more info and pics.
Weird thinking that I hadn’t ever really used a sewing machine until a few weeks ago. This is addicting! But all of my hobbies are for the first few weeks… we’ll see if this one holds up.
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July 10th, 2010
by Julie Hirt
Here is it, my very first quilt! Last night I finished sewing up the back of the binding…. by HAND. Yeah, that took a little longer than anticipated but it turned out pretty good. It’s been laundered on permanent press and dried on low. I was a little nervous it would fall apart but it’s fine and it’s starting to get that wrinkly quilt feel.
For this quilt I used Moda Makin’ New Friends charm pack sashed with 3.5″ of a gold fabric from my local fabric store, Harper’s. Since it’s my first quilt and I wasn’t sure if I was going to try free motion quilting I just got my backing and border fabrics from Joann’s. The backing is a cute little red gingerbread man print. Thought of doing flannel but wasn’t sure of trying that yet – I’m not so afraid now.
I ended up quilting it the ‘stitch in the ditch’ method because I want to practice the free motion on some scraps first. The measurement’s are 47″ x 55″ so roughly 4′ x 4.5′ which is a pretty good size for a throw blanket. Overall I’m pretty happy with it!
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