Sister's Quilt

My sister's quilt did get finished on time, I was sewing on the binding just as Santa was arriving. It was that close. I under estimated the time it would take to finish this twin sized quilt. Much different than a quick baby quilt! Either way it's done and sister has already been enjoying it's warmth. 

The top is FMQ with a loopy flower all over pattern. This was the fist time FMQ on my new machine so I wanted a forgiving pattern. It's one of those don't look to close finishes. After a quarter way through the quilting I found my rhythm then things started to improve. The backing is flannel, so this one was an extra heavy, twin sized struggle to get through the machine. Super warm, and a big workout! Pretty sure it negated all those sweets I have been enjoying.

Quilt Stats: 

• Finished Size: 66 inches x 80 inches 
• Pattern: Sugar Block of the Month - January 
• Fabric: Hello Petal by Moda, Kona white background, and Essex Linen
• Batting: Warm & Natural - white
• Thread: Connecting Threads - Parchment

Mom also was pretty happy, she got this quilt ladder that Dad and I put together. She was playing with the arrangement of her quilts, here is the final layout. You can see on the second rung is the Looking Glass quilt, I pattern tested. She also got her hands on that quilt too! Still trying to pick my father's brain to make a tutorial for the ladder, it was really 80% him, 20% me. 

Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday. 

-Patch & Chels

List o' WIP

Ok this summer it was no secret how I had an epic list of WIPs that needed some control. At one point I was up to twenty, which is a huge amount for me (insert me pulling out my hairs!). Well, months have passed and many quilts did get finished, but I still have quite a list of WIPs to go. In fact, I have started a couple more even before getting to my goal of five. This post is mostly for me to document what needs to be done in terms of WIPs to finish out the year.

Farmer's Wife - top finished

True Pink -  top finished

Sugar Block of the Month - 6 more blocks to go

Aja's Twin - blocks completed, top needs to be assembled

Dapper - binding to be hand-stitched (sorry no progress shots)

Thimble Blossoms - top finished 

Patriotic Star - top quilted, need binding

Fireworks - need to finish blocks, 10 of 19 done

Large Swell - finished, need to photograph and blog

+ Scrappy HST - top finished, no photos

+ Looking Glass - top finished

In case you weren't counting, that's 11 in all. Ok, down from 20 but still I feel it's quite excessive in my world. Looks like the end of 2014 shall be a productive time! Also some of these quilts are going to be gifts this holiday season so that is additional motivation. 

-Patch & Chels 

Aja's Quilt Update

A while back, my sister picked out fabric for a quilt. I wanted to make her a twin sized (my very first) quilt for her bed.  She decided on Hello Petal by Aneela Hoey, but not the pinks! I did manage to sneak a couple of the magenta prints and one pink print in! The idea was to give this quilt to her for her birthday, but that was back in July, so Plan B, it's a Christmas present. This gives me more time!

Today I took the time to get the blocks all assembled ... here they are :) 

Now I just need to find some times to put on the sashing and borders!  Today I leave you feeling productive :).  How are you feeling today?

-Patch & Chels

Linking up with Let's bee Social, Needle and Thread Thursday, Sew Cute Tuesday, and WIP Wednesday.  

Baby Harper

My friends are finally welcoming their first baby this fall!  Little Harper has been a long time coming and they are over the moon excited, so am I :).  She finally had her baby shower today, so I can share this quilt with you!  She requested a while back a gray/pink theme.  Here's the final product. 

The top is a large churn dash block, 12 inches square.  For the back, I used the extra blocks and some squares from the quilt.

The pink and grey with the cream background is my Mother's favorite so she requested it to get it's own photo.  For top quilting, this quilt got a dogwood flower all-over pattern.  They are so cute and pretty easy to quilt.

Ok, now it's back to being summertime lazy!  Sorry to those of you who have been commenting, I will get back to you, PROMISE!  This summer has been crazy busy, but things should calm down after this week.  

Sew long for now, 

Patch & Chels

Someone is Getting Older

My sister Aja has a birthday coming up ... very shortly. This year I decided to make her a quilt for her bed, a twin. It will be the biggest quilt I have ever made! She picked out the Hello Petal line by Aneela Hoey. After a trip to my favorite LQS Bits n' Pieces to raid their holiday sale I walked away with all the goods I needed including a FREE, yes FREE charm pack.  They had this spinner wheel with tons of prizes ... my prize was a free charm pack.  The woman said she found the last Hello Petal charm pack out back and went to get it for me, so it was my lucky day :)  This also made my day! Love having such a great shop nearby, these ladies are phenomenal :) 

After doing some thinking, Aja has never been a pink fan or liked anything super girly. I was very surprised that this was her fabric pick! The whole line is sweet, girly, and includes lots of pink. After asking more questions I come to find out she only liked the blue and yellow prints, and not the pink. She did say I could only include a very little pink, the dark pink was fine.  There went half the layer cake and charm pack! Good think I got some extra FQs just to make sure. 

This will also be the first time I quilt with linen.  I have used linen a million times but never in a quilt. I was inspired by the Sugar Block of the Month over at Stitchery Dickory Dock.  I am also going to use the January pattern from that BOM to make the quilt top.  Each block finishes at 12 inches square, so hopefully that will speed up the process!  Any advice for quilting with linen?  This piece has been pre-washed :)

Sew long for now, 

Patch & Chels