Jacob's Ladder Trial Block

In preparation for the Jacob's Ladder Quilt Along, I made a trial block on Saturday. I carefully followed the directions provided by Bonnie at Quiltville. I have to say that this block came out great. It lays very flat and is square. I'm ready to roll!

Information for joining the Jacob's Ladder Quilt Along can be found HERE.

Bonnie at Quiltville's instructions can be found HERE.




Spinning the seams on the back of the four patches worked!



I went through most of my scraps, remnants and other fabric this weekend and found some great combinations for the blocks. It will have a scrappy, yet masculine look.

WIP Wednesday- Red and White Double Nine Patch

Its WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

I've been working on my red and white double nine patch Irish Chain Quilt Top. After not working on this quilt for months, I made quite a bit of progress on it over the weekend and before and after work. I started out with 7 blocks and ended up with 31. I'll need 72, so I have many blocks left to make!



When I first started laying out the blocks, I played with the idea of using this pattern, which would alternate the blocks with plain white blocks. It makes an interesting pattern and would take half as many of the double nine patch blocks. But, after seeing the above pattern, I decided to stick with it and make enough blocks to cover the entire bed.



I haven't worked on any of my other projects, but here is a list of my quilts in progress:

1. Red and White Double Nine Patch: Piecing the top

2. Bluberri Breezes: Ready to baste and machine quilt



3. The Grandma Quilt: In the hand quilting frame to be finished

4. Jacob's Ladder Quilt Along: Picked out some fabrics and ready to make a trial block.

5. Crumb Quilt: Haven't decided if this will become a project. Just playing around with the idea. No commitment!

Jacob's Ladder Quilt Along

I'm joining The Adventures of The Empress of the Universe in a Quilt Along. The pattern will be Jacob's Ladder.



If possible, it is preferred that the fabrics come from each participant's stash. So, you may recognize some of these fabrics from a previous quilt. I'm making this quilt for my own Jacob and will be using greens, tans, browns, rusts and most any fall-like, masculine fabric. The background or ladder of the block will be beige muslin.



The quilt along starts later this month, but I want to make a trial block this week.

A Little Scrappy Diversion

I've worked on the red and white double nine patch Irish Chain quilt during every spare moment this whole weekend and needed a little diversion. You can see some of the red and white to the left of these blocks.

I used the tutorial for Crumb Quilts found HERE on Quiltville.com. I just pulled out a handful or two of all kinds and shapes of scraps and went to sewing. When each square was big enough, I laid a 6 1/2 inch see through plastic square on top and trimmed around it with my rotary cutter. Before I knew it I had 4 done. I'm not sure how I will use them yet, but they make a great leader/ender project.

My first love in quilting is scrap quilting, so I love these! Looks like another WIP for the list.

AAH, September!

Now that September is here and fall is on the way, I organized my sewing room (aka cleaned up the mess). I pulled out my 2 oldest UFOs and am ready to sew and quilt!

I know you are probably sick of hearing about my hand quilting of this Grandma Quilt, but here it is again. Believe me, you aren't nearly as tired of the non-progress as I am. Well, its time to finish this baby!

I set it up in the sewing room, so its out of the way of the comings and goings in the house. I can see the tv and my hubby from there.




The red and white Double Irish Chain Quilt.... same story!



Let the Quilting Season begin!

Flower Child Finished

I've finally finished the Kaleidoscope Quilt along and given the quilt the name "Flower Child". Baby Aven's due date is in September, so its done just in time!

Finally, Some Quilting!

Summer time is not the traditional time for quilting and the summer of 2011 at my house has certainly been a season of not doing much sewing or quilting. My grandmother quilted in the winter and stayed busy doing all kinds of other things in the spring and summer. Now I know why!

Things have slowed down some here and I can see that summer is slowly coming to an end. The due date for Baby Aven is approaching rapidly, so I had to get going with the completion of the Kaleidoscope Quilt top I made earlier in the summer.

Saturday I pin basted it and have machine quilted about 1/4 of it. I plan to do some quilting on it every day after work and have it ready to bind by the weekend.