Project Quilting season 12 Quilt-A-Long

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PQQ2020 Quilt #2

This is my second Project Quilting Quarantine quilt for 2020. I always loved those cross quilts with flowers, they look Amish and primitive.  If you are a sewer or quilter you should check out Project Quilting on Facebook for challenges and other fun stuff to sew up.  So here goes.

Laid out green binding for stems pinned and sewed in place.

Pinned out flowers and leaves onto fabric and zigzag stitched on the edges to keep them on.

Made a circle with a piece of cotton batting tucked inside, just gathered the circle with stitches on the edge to keep edge clean. Sewed with a strait stitch onto the flower.



Ready to iron and make my quilt sandwich.

I did trim up all the threads from the raw edges off the flowers and leaves.

Quilted on my home sewing machine with a tight meandering stitch (my favorite stitch).  Binding is a light grey with tiny white flowers. Pockets on the back side for a hanging dowel were added before binding.   Made in Tonawanda New York and measures 21” square. 

PQ Quarantine quilt

PQQ2020 Project quilting Quarantine Quilt

I saw a tutorial on how to use glue and scraps to “bind” your quilted wall hanging.  Her quilt was a swirly look and I wanted to do something similar. Kinda like this tyedyed shirt.

So in my frenzy of cozy sewing I took out the dart scraps and started layering them onto a backing with batting on top of it, directly onto the batting. 

Here’s my pile of darts I used. 

And here is part of my cozies I was making 

Added another layer and the swirl is coming to life. 

Ready for tulle

And quilted and binding on. Made in Tonawanda NY and measures about 16”x24”. 

Project quilting final quilt for 2020

Project Quilting 11-6 Vibrant & Vivacious.  Tonawanda New York. Coleen O

 I made a 36x47” colorful baby quilt. The fabrics I used were part of the prize I won in a previous PQ challenge drawing. It is the Island Batik pack from Kaleidoscope Batiks jelly roll pack. Unfortunately when I made up my mind what I wanted to do (this was not it) I cut the fabrics and started to put them together and I absolutely hated it. So the rest of the pieces I hadn’t chopped up yet became this colorful quilt.

Since I chopped up the darker colors, I only had these left to work with. I had to border the quilt with a non batik fabric since I really didn’t want to go shopping, so I used what I had on hand. I quilted it with my usual meandering stitch with a tighter stitch in the border. Then I put a different yellow binding on it. BTW yellow is one of my favorite colors so I always have some on hand.

Give It Away PQ 11.5

Don’t hate me but I did yet another table runner for yet another PQ challenge. I just have a small Brother home sewing machine and it is less stressful to make that size rather than a much larger quilt. That being said, here I go...

Using scraps as I go, I wanted to do Christmas on one side and something else on the back. So out I dumped my Christmas scraps on the table and sorted them out, ironed and trimmed them up.

Since I had some squares, I sewed them together in strips of 4 and made rows out of them. I laid them out in a pleasing (well to me it was) design and sewed the strips together.

After it was all trimmed up, I looked through my bundle of blue scraps for a backing and came across the Buffalo Bills fabric and knew instantly who I was going to give this to... my workmate Lynn. She loves Christmas as much as she loves the Bills. So I stitched the scrap strips together with a scrap strip of red up the middle since the pieces were not wide enough alone.

Then I sandwiched it up with cotton batting and insulated batting, did a random meandering quilting over the whole piece. After I trimmed it up I made some red bias binding and stitched it on with a decorative stitch and TaDa!  I have a 14”x41” insulated hot pad table runner for my friend and coworker Lynn.  But the funniest thing about the whole process is Lynn said today at work “I wish somebody would make me a quilt” and I told her about this one that I was making for her. It was priceless.

Birds in flight table runner

Birds in flight small table runner measures 33x20”

I really don’t enjoy doing a “block”, I would rather just put fabrics together and see what I like. Even though this is a finished quilt, I think I am going to convert this into a coloring book case for my friend who loves to color at camp. I’ll add Velcro and a couple pockets on each side once the runner is folded in half.  It will also need handles.  The backing is fusible fleece.

Heart Table Runner

I made this table runner with leftover flannel fabric from another project. There is a layer of cotton batting (actually a bunch of leftover pieces that I laid out real nice) and also added a layer of insulated  batting so I could put a hot pot on it. The backing is a piece of pretty daisy fabric I bought last year because I just loved the colors. It measures 16”x40”

Best part about this piece is the binding. I cut 1 1/4” strips in two colors. One purple to match the heart side, one blue/green to match the backing. I stitched them together and made a piece of 2” bias binding strip. Had to iron the seam open and made double fold 1/2” two sided binding. Always wanted to do that. Can hardly tell when it’s laid out that the binding is two sided.