Plaids and Plans

I am NOT a planner.

Especially when it comes to QUILTS!

 

I frequently move ahead without knowing the end result!

I LOVE the adventure of it ALL!

I even GUESStiMATE when it comes to cutting the binding.

 

Do you calculate?

Most people do!

LOL!

Guess I like to live DANGEROUSLY!

 

 

I find a LIKELY suspect fabric

and begin cutting.

Sometimes I GUESS correctly, like I did THIS TIME!....

and sometimes I DON'T!

"Eyeballing" is NOT an exact science.

 

I had that TINY leftover piece on the right

when I was done cutting the binding!

Amazing.

It was the perfect choice for this quilt.

I'm glad I had JUST the right amount!

 

 

I quilted this one with diagonal lines.

If you're new to quilting/sewing

It's good to note that the diagonals

are also the BIAS of the fabric.

Bias is forgiving.

It bends where you need it to bend

and lets you quilt across without too much trouble!

I've found that if I quilt STRAIGHT lines

along the straight of the grain...

the fabric sometimes wants to pucker!

I haven't tried it in a while...

MAYBE I've improved?????

 

When I follow the BIAS....

it PLAYS nice

and gives a little.

;)

I need ALL the help I can GET!

 

One day

I began the day with cutting squares.

I love to GET GOING right away in the morning!

 

A NEW quilt!!!

Oooh.....I love beginnings!

This one is especially NICE

because it's a special REQUEST!

(a twin sized quilt for a little boys BIG bed!)

 

Lots and plaids, stripes and SHIRTS!

Good thing I have a stash of those!

Then I did some wrestling with this monster.

The quilting is all done around the applique.

I just have the white areas left.

I'm trying to mimic the pattern in the white border.

A very light pencil line is all I'm using

as I work around this BIG quilt!



I've made some more coasters.

They need some slip stitching on the side

and quilting stitches.

The PERFECT project to take along today

as we go to my daughter's therapy appointment!

;)

Aaaah!

Time to relax a bit.

Crotchet is addicting!

It's ALSO....

Perfect with a cup of coffee!

 

A day FULL of FUN!

Fabric.

Quilting.

and

Yarn.

 

 

 

Old and New

I quilted a quilt top today!

It's the perfect blend of OLD and NEW.

The old homespun and plaids along with

the NEW camper fabric.

They Just GO together.....don't they?

It's the perfect camping quilt.

Cozy.

and.

Comfortable.

With some whimsy thrown in!!!

I was even able to rescue an orphan quilt block.

This TREE seems to be "right at home" in this quilt.

Rescuing quilt blocks is a hobby of mine.  :)

Even using these old plaids and homespuns

felt like a "rescue effort".

Oooh!

Aren't these Rescue efforts FUN?????

plaid happy

My plaid scraps are very happy now.

They've found a home.

I suspect their new home will take them

on some adventures too!!!

I imagine that they will travel

far and wide...

exploring this great big wonderful world!!

This quilt was meant to travel!!!

It will be the kind of quilt that will

get loved to death!!!

I'm so looking forward to all the memories

it will embrace.

I'm calling this a finish...

but you know better.

You all know I still need to quilt it

to say it's really DONE!

I'm folding it up for now.

Maybe I'll gift it to someone during the holidays??

Maybe I'll wait until the spring....

when I'm dreaming about camping....??

Look at what happened while I was creating that

scrappy quilt top!!!

As I was trying to figure out

WHAT to do with all those campers

I made this.....

Thinking....

"Maybe the campers would like to travel

around these blocks....?"

But.....they didn't like it.

So......

I now have the beginning of another project!!!

I knew it!!

I caved in and bought some fun camping fabric.

I'm using plaid scraps that have just been

----W-A-I-T-I-N-G----

for an opportunity to be included in a quilt!!!

I knew those scraps would come in handy someday!!

Striped challenge friends:

Thanks for playing along with me this summer!!

Please continue to add pictures to our flickr group!!

That's one link that will NOT go away!!!