Two more veterans quilts are done! Both of these were made by Peg. I think she was working through brown and gold scraps for these. Whenever I get a quilt with any sort of autumnal feel I like to quilt it in all-over leaves. I did that on both of these quilts and I love the effect. I have 4 more (2 sets) left to do before the next meeting. I have 2 other quilts but they don't have mates yet. Before I do the last 4 I will quilt all of the placemats and do a small quilt for a friend. Speaking of placemats, I got this set quilted and they are ready for binding. But first, today I have to hem some new pants for Chris. We have a funeral to attend tomorrow and we both desperately needed some new "nice" clothes. I did my shopping last week. This funeral is the most expensive funeral we've attended. LOL! It's for the parent of one of Chris' high school friends so it will be nice to catch up with friends. There's only one parent left in his high school friend group now and she's 94.
The rest of the weekend will have a placemat theme. I hope you have a great weekend.
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My first task yesterday (after visiting with a friend) was to put together the placemats for my nephew and his wife. They wanted grays and these were the two best fabrics I had in my stash. I had just enough fabric, with the black, to put 6 placemats together. There are only small scraps left. I've got a backing fabric pulled and these will go on the longarm tomorrow. The placemats will get quilted after I finish these 2 quilts. I finished the first one last night so I only have to do the other one today. I picked a bright orange variegated thread for this one. This year I am trying to use some of my "most unique" colors. Wit each new quilt I try to start with the bright and odd colors first and I've been pleasantly surprised with the results. I'm loving this thread on these 2 quilts. All in all, it was a very good day! I spent most of the last 2 days running errands but I decided to divert from quilting veterans quilts for a minute to put together some placemat tops. I started with the fabrics that I got in Tucson. I used pretty much every inch of what I bought and made 2 sets of 4 placemats. I don't totally love them but they are placemats and they will bring back lots of good memories when I use them. I'll probably give one set to the friends that we visited there. I need to make one more set of 6 from my nephew's wife. She wants grays so I picked these 2 fabrics from my stash. I'll add some black and put together something really simple. I want to get all these tops together so I can be ready to quilt all of them at once. I have one other set of tops ready to go too.
I think I have some good sewing/quilting time ahead of me so I hope to get 2 more veterans tops quilted and then get through all of the placemats done on the longarm next. I love it when I get a request to dye something. Marrakesh is a gradient that I retired a couple of years ago but I was happy to bring it back by request. If there's a Gradient that you would like to see again just contact me and I'll try to do it for you. This week I also have a new gradient in Denim blue. Most of my blue gradients are in brighter blues and I wanted to have one in a darker, grayer blue. I liked the Gradient so much that I decided to create a new Denim Shades Pack in the same color! Shades Packs have 5 fat quarters in 5 shades of the same color. Fabric of the WeekThe fabric of the week this week is the Binda Reflections. Reflections are sold by the yard and this one is on sale through Sunday.
It was a very productive weekend. I got the binding on Red Sunset and that should have been the focus of today's post. But I couldn't photograph it. I do my photographs on the back deck and it's got some old furniture on it that's to be discarded this week. Once the deck is cleared this week I'll get all of the Red Sunset photos taken to share here. Meanwhile, I got 4 more veterans quilts quilted. That's 12 so far for 2024 and I have 6 or 8 more in the closet to be quilted. I also have a quilt for a friend to quilt and the big blue quilt waiting it's turn too. At the meeting last week people were bringing quilt top after quilt top so I don't know who made some of them. That's the case with this one. It's a very clever way to use a small amount of a novelty fabric. I like this quilt a lot. This one was made by Ann. It was meant to be even more scrappy but she said that she rearranged the pieces to have the center stars. She used the extra points for her top and bottom borders. This one was made by Glenda (Mom) and she's been working through her string bin. She started with a 2 foot trash can stuffed to overflowing and, after several quilts, she only has a few inches of strings left in the bin. I love the color palette for this string quilt made by Ellen.
More quilting ahead! This week's inspiration is a challenge response made by Wendy Tuma. She used only the Imperial Dragon Gradient for her sky components. You can read more detail about the challenge and the making of this piece on her blog, Pieceful Thoughts.
For sharing, Wendy received a 20% coupon for the shop that's good for 3 months! If you have made anything with my hand dyed fabric I hope you will consider sharing it in the Customer Gallery. The only rule is that projects have to be complete. It doesn't have to be made totally from hand dyed fabric, just include a recognizable amount. Here are the other 2 quilts that Sharon made. I got them quilted yesterday after I went out to run a bunch of errands. I like all 4 quilts that she made with this pattern but this is probably my favorite. Here's the last one. They are both quilted with the Woven Wind pantograph. I have really gotten my money's worth out of this pantograph. Next I'm starting on quilts with blue backs and I have these two basted and ready to quilt today.
This weekend I hope to get 4 more veterans quilts quilted, get Red Sunset bound and get some placemats started. We had our quilt club meeting Tuesday night and I sped through Tuesday to get 2 more veterans quilts done so I could deliver them back to the quilt maker, Sharon, at the meeting. This pattern has a couple of names but I know it as chandelier. She actually made 4 quilts in this pattern and they are all beautiful. The other 2 are next up on the longarm, hopefully today. This is the Dwirling pattern that I learned from The Pajama Quilter. When I first got my longarm years ago I found her beginner quilting videos and learned lots of fun easy quilting patterns. I'm sure someone else had a tutorial for this type of quilting. It's fun and fast. I brought home a lot of new tops to quilt and have 14 more ready for quilting! I better get busy!
I had a little backlog of veterans quilts while I was quilting Red Sunset. I decided to focus on them and get as many done as I could before our meeting last night. Here are the first 4 for 2024. This one was pieced by Clara. She's been a top-making machine lately! There's such a huge need and we will never keep up with the need at the VA hospital. But every quilt helps! This looks like a "Betsy quilt" so I'm assuming that she made it. This one and the next one, both, came from Estelle. I believe that one of these was an unquilted top that was in a donation bag and I think she made one. This one is super soft flannel. Someone is going to love it. All of these are quilted with this fan motif. I needed to quilt them fast and this is one of my fastest pantographs.
There are still more left to do! After a couple of weeks off I have new fabric for you! This week it's all about the Stars. Stars are one yard cuts that are dyed in single colors but the method of dyeing gives them a lot of visual texture. I'm showing nine here but there are 14 new ones all together. These are great for large elements in art quilts, borders and bindings. They are one of a kind and I can't dye more of any of them but if you need a larger cut of any color (say one of the colors in a gradient or from a Shades Pack) I can always custom dye any amount over a half yard for you and there's no extra charge for it. You can see all of the new Stars in the shop. Fabric of the WeekThe fabric of the week this week is the Watershed Gradient. Gradients are sold by the half yard and the pattern runs selvage to selvage. This image approximates a half yard cut. Multiple quantities come as one piece. Purchase 3 and you receive 1.5 yards.
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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