Crafty Sewing & Quilting

Friday, July 12, 2013

Getting Up Close With My Quilting - Special Area Quilting

This quilt was designed to look like a green hedge and a maze like in the story Alice in Wonderland.

My customer asked me to quilt on the green with a leaf design and pebbles or stones in the light areas.

The special area quilting really sets off the sections of the quilt.

I quilted wavy lines in the outside border.

A view of the back side of the quilt.

and a full view of the quilt.

My customer won a Big Ribbon for Best of Show for this quilt in the Lodi Ag Fair. Congratulations Trish! It is a beautiful quilt!

Enjoy your day!
Marcia

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Are you ready for the Pets on Quilts Show?

I am a sponsor again this year for the Pets on Quilts Show!

Snoodles posted about the prizes I am sharing today. Click HERE.

Click HERE for the information on this year's Pets on Quilts Show.

Click HERE for the link to the 2012 Pets on Quilt Show.
You can great an idea what others posted and shared last year. Start taking your photos and get ready to post them.

Click HERE to see my post from last year.

I shared photos of my quilt inspectors. I had them test to see if my denim quilt with wool batting was going to keep us warm in the Wisconsin Winters months.

They were right --- It kept us warm all winter!

Enjoy your day!
Marcia

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Hodgepodge Patchwork -- Cell Phone Purses

This Winter for Project Quilting I created a table topper for my dinning room table made from only 2 colors. I made it look like a gum wrapper chain. I had some extra scraps and I pieced them together. I quilted it at the same time that I quilted the table topper.

I had no idea what I would make with it. It was too small for a place mat. It could be used as a rectangular hot pad.

It measured 10 inches wide by 13 inches long. Well, last week I taught a tote bag class in my home. I got out all my quilted pieces. I needed to demonstrate how I add the binding on the sides. If I cut it in half. 5 inches by 13 inches long, I could make a cell phone purse or two!

5 inches wide fit nicely around my phone. I wanted a flap on the top of it. I will share the free instructions for the cell phone purse at the end of this post. For this purse, I added the flap and velcro. If you sew, I think you can see from the photos, how I bound the flap and attached the velcro. But the free instructions will help you with the binding and the strap. See this photo for the flap and the strap attachment.