JewelMagic | Quiltsby.me

Who doesn't have a stack of leftover charm squares and strips from other projects? When I stumbled upon a television interview of Eleanor Burns with a group of women quilting in a log cabin, the pattern she used, Fabric Frenzy, caught my imagination. It was the first time I attempted a piecing technique she demonstrated. Having watched many of Jenny's videos, I feel they supported the completion of this project. I used my domestic machine to free motion stippling, flower and leaf designs. My sister-in-law now has the finished quilt gracing her living room couch where I found her black lab resting his head one afternoon :-)

By JewelMagic

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Rebecca's Frozen Quilt

My eight year old granddaughter wanted a quilt with the "Disney Frozen" theme. I purchased the large Frozen sisters panel and designed it by piecing squares in the corners and complementary fabrics bordered the quilt top. For the backing, I used pink flannel Frozen fabric, then used straight line and serpentine stitches on my domestic machine. I used the free motion feature to outline the panel figures. Taking a class at a nearby quilting shop, watching several videos on-line, and practicing helped. It was my first large quilt that I attempted to quilt myself. She was thrilled with her very own Elsa and Anna Christmas quilt.

By JewelMagic

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Cherry Blossom Disappearing Hourglass

I had a cherry blossom fabric languishing in my fabric closet which my daughter, Amy, spotted while visiting. When I saw the pattern in Missouri Quilt Block magazine (Winter 2015, Volume 2, Issue 1, pg. 16), watched Jennie's tutorial on the Disappearing Hourglass 2, and took a Block class at a quilting shop, the result is the fabric disappearing from the closet to a finished quilt for Amy. I used black Kona fabric and bordered the quilt with red and black. I practiced some free motion designs, added decorative stitching and "stitched in the ditch" on my domestic sewing machine. Although I was skeptical about making it because the pattern looked complex, it was surprisingly not difficult to complete and I learned a lot by sewing and quilting it. The quilt now happily resides in her home and not in my closet.

By JewelMagic

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