This Week's Finish : A Wedding Quilt

 

 Ginny's oldest son is getting married this weekend, and she has been piecing this quilt all summer for a gift. 

She chose the 

Just Can't Cut It 

quilt pattern by 

All Washed Up, 

which suggests 

finding a 

large focal print 

and build 

around it. 

  This quilt is huge, 95" by 110"!

 We went to M&L Fabrics, and Ginny chose colors from Natalie's fall choices. I think she did a great job.

 I just pulled it off the frame Friday pm, and put the binding on over the weekend.

 What? Doesn't everyone have a Nutella jar on their sewing machine desk?!? lol!

 I did a scroll quilt design, free motion, and made a freestyle heart in each of the rust/red blocks.

BTW, Happy Cottage Quilter Jocelyn 
had a great finish on this same pattern, go see it here.  




I just pulled it off the frame Friday pm, and put the binding on over the weekend. 




Happy Wedding Day, Paul and Natalie!





"How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust 
under the shadow of Your wings." Psalm 36:7

Nathanael's Jungle Quilt ~

 

 the backing piece: We couldn't find more than a half yard, 

but it was so sweet with the ladybugs scattered in among the jungle critters~

Yippee, another quilty finish! This is for little Nathanael, who was born in December 2011. Lydia and I collaborated a wall hanging for his room before he was born, and this was put on the back burner for me to find time to quilt. 
 
 I'm glad I waited, it seems I am rising to attempt other quilt stitches. Elaine recently posted a quilt that she did several styles of quilt lines, and the straight line block stitches really seemed to fit this one for a little boy.

I found this print at Fabric.com last year. It was so cute! I chopped up a panel, and blocked the large prints with lime green and water blue, with strips of the coordinating quilt block print.

 


 I knew I wanted a striped binding, but couldn't decide, so, these are the 4 prints used! It worked out to use the one brighter stripe on each of the four sides ~FUN ~  

 This was my first time to use Flourishing Palm's tutorial on binding with machine sewn corners. Larry printed it out....
 




...and it worked perfectly, Linda! I decided since I had a multiple-pieced border, I wanted to avoid getting a seam in the mitered corners. For a first attempt at this way of doing a binding, I'd give it 2 thumbs up.

 A pieced backing on a quilt is a neat way to add interest to the back, as well as use up other pieces from the front. I like when it has the quilt label worked into the backing.



Leftover blocks from the front panel I chopped up. Jerry called this a "pokey-pieced" backing, I told him that really lots of us like to do this!

                    p.s. Happy Birthday, Lydia!

 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye,
always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:" II Corinthians 9:8

What's on the Frame, and More Granny Blocks ~

 Free form daisies are quite forgiving!

Good morning, Hope you are having a good day. Me? I'm sewing on the quilt frame this week. 

 

These are the "S"curls on the border

This is Nancy's Batik quilt, love the colors here! I'm doing a few things that I've never done before on this one. 

  
The backing is a very light batik, see the flower appearing on the roll?

First, this is a quilt that has a much lighter backing than the front, man, I get a bit nervous with all these stitches standing out!  


this is a big cornerstone flower on the 10 inch border

Second, I've not really done a quilt that I put an overall flower design on. 


 This free form, "flowing" flower is one that was shown to us at a quilt demonstration, and I've used it here and there on other quilt pieces. This time, I'm making it the overall design. 



I've drawn pages and pages, and now I'm jumping in!  


   
the center of the flower is all I'm marking

Also, I am drawing on the quilt with this Fixion pen. I am not in the habit of marking for the quilt lines, but this will help with the scattering of blooms across the center of the quilt top, I think... it's taking time, but it is fun.


Oh, yeah, this is my first quilt to load onto the frame with the zipper leaders!

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More "Grannies" to share. Larry votes for a quilt (not table runners or a small lap quilt), and that means I need to make about 6 more. Good thing I can ~

These are some of the fabrics used. The striped pieces added interesting designs in the small cut blocks.

Oh, these two purple houses finish the quilt along with Terry and friends. Now to get those put together!

 

"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful." Hebrews 10:23