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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited May 2011

    Luckily the fabric store was still open.  I went and picked out a fabric, and it was on sale for 25% off!  The quilt is now basted together.  I hope the machine quilting goes well.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited May 2011

    Looks wonderful Meece, what colour did you pick for the border?

    Carol I looked up the program...wow! What a lot of different colours of thread one would have to own. And I saw a black and white pattern and have no idea how you would know what colour to use. Your friend does an amazing job!!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited May 2011

    Meece - Gotta love fabric sales.  That is when I buy pieces just to have them for future projects.  Can't wait to see it finished.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited May 2011

    I made a narrow border out of the green in the lower left corner of the picture.  My first choice for the wider border was one of the black fabrics, but the store didn't have any. I ended up getting the fabric from the bottom row center ring.  The backing is one of the burgundy fabrics.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited May 2011

    Samsue and Jo, did you check your email?

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited May 2011
  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited May 2011

    Meece, I can't believe you can put a quilt together so quick!!!   I so procrastinate when I doing them that they take me weeks.   That one is beautiful and the batik fabric looks great.  Would you mind sending me a copy as well, please?

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited May 2011

    Meece - Yes I did.  Thanks for the pattern.

    I just finished my first quilt made out of batiks.  I love that fabric - so easy to work with.  I will try and post a picture later today.  Have a Memorial Day luncheon today and am in the process of getting things set up. 

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited May 2011

    Sure, PM your email address.

    The key to finishing quickly is to have all the fabrics before you start, cut all pieces before you start to sew, ....Ha ha, like I know what I am talking about.  I usually do it all backwards.  This is probably the first quilt I have really planned out before I got too excited and started it.

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited May 2011
  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited May 2011

    I am a 20 year Air Force veteran.  Please join me today in sending prayers to our troops who are serving or who have served.  I salute all of them.  

                               

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited May 2011
    Thank you, Jo, and all who serve.
  • samsue
    samsue Member Posts: 599
    edited May 2011

    Jo, thanks for serving in the military. DD, DB, DSIL X 2 are all veterans. Plus nephews too. Grateful for all those who are willing to serve.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited May 2011

    Meece I have PM'd you my address.  I usually get too excited and begin before I am organised and my quilt has not plan they usually just evolve  that's why I want to try something a little more conventional so I have to be rigid in what I do and organised.

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited May 2011

    LOVE popping thru after my long absence & seeing the amazing efforts here and imagining what I might begin with all of this inspiration!

    I thought you'd all appreciate a heart-warming, just-in-time-for Memorial Day story.

    (The full rendition is on my blog.)

    Earlier in the spring I met a Kindergarten teacher at a conference where I was presenting. She told me her own story of having served for 9 years in the Army, with a year of that time being deployed to Iraq. She appreciated my new patriotic picture book & promised to have her K kiddos create a quilt in reference to my quilted illustrations.

    Here's a peak at their project:

    Are you ready for the big reveal?

    Currently their construction paper quilt is about 6' by 12' and continues to grow as they add more blocks to their effort.

    Are ya ready?

    Which just goes to show that we each inspire each other.

    That's what this thread is all about!!!

    It's fun to see the response to my efforts being shared thru the hands of our little 5 & 6 year olds as they create such an awesome community project.

    Keep up the creativity!!!

    xx00xx00xx00xx

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited May 2011

    faithandfifty - Love the creativity.  The children look like that are having a great time.

    I juus finished this quilt.  I posted the front side a while back and it has taken me some time to do the hand quilting.  This is the first quilt I have made with batiks and I really love working with it. I wanted to show the backing fabric as it is my favorite piece of batik.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited May 2011

    I remember the quilt top.  Love the colors, especially the back.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited May 2011
    I only worked on quilting for awhile today.  That is the boring part! Wink
  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited May 2011

    Meece - I love the colors - the border really ties it all together.  Are you machine quilting it?  

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited May 2011

    Yes, but only for speed.  I really don't like machine quilting so much.

  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 765
    edited June 2011

    I was busy this week, I got 3 quilts almost finished for the local child's advocacy center. I used fabric that was donated to the quilt guild, cut into squares and randomly put together. I also used a roll of donated blue chambray for the backing. I still have to stick them and tie them with the pearl cotton. I have more squares to lay out and sew together for more quilts. All the quilts that we have made are beautiful. I think the guild has made over 70 quilts since the first of the year for the center that will be opened this summer. 

    Sheila 

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited June 2011

    Sheila - You have been busy sewing. Hiow wonderful that you are making quilts for children.  I hope you post pictures of the 3 quilts - would love to see them.  

  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 765
    edited June 2011

    I haven't taken pictures of them yet but I will before I turn them in. We have made various sizes for the children, from 35"x50" to 60"x70". They will be given to the children who have been victims of abuse. We wanted to do something to let the children know that someone cares for them.

    Sheila 

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited June 2011

    This thread just popped up all of a sudden with 'new' content! I missed a week!!! What the heck happened???

    Jo, it's BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!! have you given it to him yet????

    Meece, it is faster on the machine, but if the art is in the colour, the quilting becomes secondary. Jo just went all out on hers to make us all humble...ehhehehehehehee.

    Would love to see pics Sheila. I used to make baby quilts for the babies that died at birth. The mothers were given the quilts to bury the baby in or to keep as a reminder. Very emotional to make, believe me!

  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 765
    edited June 2011

    My mom's quilt guild makes preemie quilts (35-36 inches square) for the neonatal units for the local hospitals. those quilts are used to cover the isolettes to give daylight/night for the babies then the families get to take them home. Mom's goal is to make 75 preemie quilts this year, the woman who makes the most preemie quilts in a year gets her dues free the next year. 

    I will post the pictures on face book later today.

    Sheila 

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,572
    edited June 2011

    Im so glad I found this topic.  I've seen several that have other art topics, but not quilting.  I've only just begun, but I love it.  At first when I watched the shows I didnt think I could do it.  I found out I could.  Ive just done very small projects, but its a start.  My quilt making got put on hold since Dec.  Im getting some of my strength back so Im so ready to get back into my sewing room.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited June 2011

    Take pictures, Paula.  We love to be inspired by each other's work.

  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 1,997
    edited June 2011

    lvtwoquilt, How can I see your quilts on facebook? 

    My grandson had such a quilt on his isolette, he was born nearly three months early and weighed just over 2 pounds. He is fine now, six years old, and one would never guess he was so little. 

    Thanks for doing what you do. 

    Ginger

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,572
    edited June 2011

    I will!  I love seeing the pictures of others as well.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited June 2011

    Barbe - I won't see my BS until the end of June - hopefully for the last time.  It will be a nice departing gift wouldn't you say?

    Watch out ladies.  I am just about finished with another quilt.  I was doing the one I posted not too long ago and this new one at the same time.  I will post a picture in the next day or two.

     Paula - Please post pictures of your projects.  I love to see other people's creativity.

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