QUILTY THINGS IN SAO’S WORLD

Posted By on January 14, 2010

 
 

I did someting NEW this year – I took a hand quilting class last Sunday at Quilter’s Corner!  I CANNOT BELIEVE I FORGOT TO TAKE PICTURES.   I guess I was really having a GOOD TIME!  I am excited about learning to do this very special and age-old quilting technique though and after a few (thousand) hours of practice I should be pretty good at it.  LOL.  Now I just need to finish my Grandmother’s Flower Garden top so that I can hand quilt it!

 

I haven’t been called to substitute teach all week so I have been getting caught up on errands – and sewing!!! 

I now have two quilts ready for quilting .  The first is my Carolina Christmas Star Quilt with a my favorite BONNIE HUNTER-INSPTIRED scrappy back……..

Carolina Christmas Star

Carolina Christmas Star Back

and my Carolina Christmas Poinsettia Quilt…….also with a scrappy back.  It takes a couple of days to cut the squares and sew them together for the back – but I think it is interesting to choose the fabric and it is fun to do.  I like the backs with the scrappy squares the best!!!

Carolina Christmas Star Poinsettia

Carolina Christmas Poinsettia Back

These two quilts were made with the two different blocks from Bonnie K. Hunter’s latest Carolina Christmas Mystery Quilt….I just decided to turn mine into two twin sized quilts instead of one very large one.   
 
I really like the scrappy backs made with 12 1/2″ squares.  I sure have used lots of fabric that I had in my stash – so even though I orginally PAID for the fabric – it FEELS free since I didn’t buy anything new!  LOL. It is so easy to trick myself!!!  :):) 
 
 In the Carolina Christmas Poinsettie back I used a lot of my STRIP SETS that I made for my borgello border for my BIRTH OF A SAMPLER QUILT – I guess I just got carried away and made too many.  I wondered what I could do with them – and then the inspiration just set in!!   I cut the strips into 12 1/2″ squares – and voila I had a back! 
 
The last thing that I did this week was to make the top of Oscar’s 2nd Birthday wallhanging.  My SIL is his God Momma and she is giving it to him for his birthday – I hope she likes it!  I had fun picking out the fabric – WITH SUSAN’S HELP at QUILTER’S CORNER.  Susan always knows just the right fabric that I am looking for!!!!  🙂  Some of you may recognize the pattern – it is Bonnie K. Hunter’s Christmas Lights Quilt Pattern (in miniature) from her 3-part mystery in Quiltmaker magazine! 
 
Kerry – I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS!!!!  🙂 

Oscar's 2nd Birthday Wall Hanging Top

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2 Responses to “QUILTY THINGS IN SAO’S WORLD”

  1. Catherine Etter says:
    January 16, 2010 at 9:09 am

    As ever, WOW and WOW again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are such a source of inspiration and heart, you never cease to amaze me, you go girlfriend!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. Lucas says:
    April 2, 2014 at 12:20 am

    I’m just in love with your scrappy back of the quilt. I am a huge fan of non plnaned looking quilts and this is just so lovely. Hope you computer is better by now. They seem to either be your best friend or your worst enemy.

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