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.