Jean57 | Quiltsby.me

Have you seen this with the Alice in Wonderland fabrics? I had the Mystic fabrics; sure had no idea what to do with them until I saw this pattern. After a trip through a friends stash I was able to find the colors to finish the layout. Mostly just outlined with a bit of whimsy in the white and black areas.

By Jean57

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Three Yard Quilts

This is one of the quilts in the Three yard quilts book. Since I was using up stash I used more colors. Quilted with an overall meander.

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Wild Flowers

Recently I saw a flower quilt that intrigued me. Their flower petals flipped down, I thought they needed to stand up. After playing around with different rulers, Dresden plate to name one, I think I ended up just whacking at a piece of paper because I wanted the petals bigger than the white areas. Don’t forget to add your seam allowances back in! The stem and leaves worked out pretty much the same way. Definitely designed on point, but what to do. I probably tried 7 different layouts; this one with a simple sashing was the clear winner. Quilted with a ruler in the petals and a medium-small meander in the white. I left the leaves to poof.

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Wildlife in the Tulips

My granddaughter has taken in her boyfriend’s younger sister. Then they bought a house. So, figured that young lady might like to have a quilt. I sent my daughter and granddaughter a picture of some polka dots fabrics and two ideas for quilts. She told me the young lady loves plants, cats and butterflies! Can you believe I got all three in one quilt! The butterflies are appliqué; so glad I only did six! I started quilting on the first tulip and realized I really didn’t have a great idea what to do. By the third one, they all seemed to be asking to be unique. And even the leaves got in on the act. So, while some elements might be the same the designs change by what that flower “told” me what it wanted. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! I put a small meander between the flowers and a hook rose meander around the outer edge of the flowers. The green border is sewn like piano keys so I could pretend it looked like lawn mower markers.

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Stitcher’s Garden

Another from my Mom needs to finish pile. This was a BOM quilt from long ago that was used by stores to help sewist learn their machines. Lots of appliqué and fancy stitches. Mom made one in greens and yellows that she gave to my Aunt about 7 years ago. This one sat in a box until this spring when she decided to pass it to me to finish. Using my sister’s floor we laid it all out with the fabrics she had and figured out the layout and borders. A bolt of purple from my step-sister’s mom’s stash turned out to be the perfect shade to help us finish this quilt. Sorry picture of the yellow one from my Aunt is blurry; but you can see the color differences.

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Floral Fiesta 2007

Another from my Mom’s stash. She wanted it to practice her free motion quilting. But never could get past the keeping your stitches the same length part. I was a bit anal going around each petal and detail and changed thread color for the flowers and worked my back into a spasm! Aw well, it turned out ok.

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Flowers on Point

This is the REAL flowers quilt. My Aunt saw it somewhere and sent me the picture asking for a queen sized bed quilt. We tried finding the pattern but failed so I winged it! On our belated annual visit I took all of the flower blocks so she could do the layout. She also along with the whole entourage picked out the borders and backing. I’m really into what I call infinity binding. Using the same fabric as the last border so your eye just keeps going. It isn’t dominated by a suddenly different fabric. It may not show well, but I stitched around each petal with matching color of thread, then did a center with a gold thread, the white background has a hook feather I like to use as a filler, and last the border…recently a pretty butterfly meander came to my attention. I was able to enlarge it on my iPad, then trace the butterfly to get a stencil I just traced around with a chalk pencil as I went.

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Funky Fat Quarters

Well, that's what I'm calling them. Very strange prints and colors that when put together like this really seemed to work out okay. This was another in my Mom's stash of things. Likely it will become a shroud.

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Fish Print

When my daughter was in 5th grade she went to camp. One of the projects was fish paintings. It has languished in a box for YEARS! But now, with my quilting skills improving I came across it again. I asked my daughter if it would be okay to quilt it, and then she could frame it. She was excited that I even still had it. I am after all my Mother's daughter and do have a bit of a stash myself so of course I still had it! The fish is quilted with variegated thread and the "water" is cream to blend with the background.

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Tulips

This is the last of the flower wall hangings I designed last summer. Done in grunge this time instead of the batiks. Pattern is available.

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Hearts

My Aunt sent me this pattern. After raiding my friends red and buying the black and whites everywhere I went I got to work. After making the wall hanging I tackled the hearts. The pattern called for felt in the hearts. Since I didn't have a felt stash but did have a lot of red fabrics left I used them. In the evenings I would decorate hearts with beads, buttons and embroidery stitches. Tried not to go to the blanket stitch too much, but boy was it the easiest to fall back on. The pattern showed the stems and hearts in curves around the center heart. I just couldn't get that to look right. The heart garden came to mind because of a button project that we had done. That layout just felt right. Meander stitching in different sizes and echoing the hearts for the quilting finished this. My Aunt loves it. Here is a picture of the Hearts Garden project.

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