My Quilting Journey so far.

Updated January 2024

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Still working on the Star of Colors.  It is taking me longer than I thought it would.  I also started two other projects as well.  Squirrel.

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Updated November 27,2022

I have started on another Star of Colors Quilt. This one is called the Bohemian Star.  Same concept different stars and colors...  I have also started on Music Festival Curtains.   Scappy Happy Drapery.   This is used to give yourself privacy at the camp sites.   I will take some pictures of the project at the Music Festival Site.   Stay tuned.

My newest project I am working on is a Canvas Paint Quilt for a project for Aquarius 2025.  My first entry.  Wish me luck! A series called "Saving Time"

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Updated February 2022

I have started working on my next EPP project.  The Star of Colors. Check out the pictures in the Project Photo Journal tab.  I hope that my journey in 2022 will be a productive one.  Completing the Lenny Blue Jean Project will be one of my journeys to reach it's destination. 

 

 

Updated November 2021

I am working on the quilting part of my journey now. Before it was just learning all you needed to learn about quilting which is a lot. I believe I looked through and read about 75 different quilting books from the library.   

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I really enjoy the process of the cutting out and designing the quilts.  I have three that I am actively working on at the same time.  The Lenny Quilt, which is made from his old jeans when he worked, a blue pattern that was material from my Mom's place and I purchased the other material to match it.

 

This quilt also has some hand stitching and art from our families designed on it.  I have incorporated pictures that Lenny enjoys and I printed them onto fabric to make some interest on the quilting squares.

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I have been experimenting with EPP, what is that? English paper piecing.  Hand basting little pieces of art and sewing them together.  This is different from PP which is Paper Piecing... LOL  There is a little description below that explains PP.

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updated August 2021

I have been working and learning the skill of quilting.  However, there is a lot more to learn than I first thought.  I have been going slow, eight months now.  And not one quilt yet.  So many things to learn like using my new machine for one.  I have three different machines and if you don’t work with them all the time you have to get the old instruction book out to learn how to rewind the bobbins all over again. I love it though.

And needles… Who knew how many different needles there were? I didn’t even know my machines had twin needles… That was a new adventure for me. I have them mastered for this week! 

Did someone mention thread.  Cotton, Polyester, Nylon, Metallic, all purpose, fusible thread, Rayon, Serger thread, elastic thread, machine embroidery thread and then there is Thread size.  60-90 and 50-60 or size 30. Silk thread…. I envision tiny silk worms sewing away. Did you know that some threads were made from plastic.  I spent a month on threads…

If your thread is old, dry and brittle, this will cause thread breakage. The price of thread…is $5.00 for the good stuff. All I have is containers full of thread from my Mom and Mother-in-Law. Old, dry, dusty and brittle with price tags that say 10 cents.  “Whatever!”, they seem to be working fine for me. My Mom taught me to sew along with the three semesters in home economics through high school. We made blue jean purses… Very cool.  And we learned how to widen our hip hugger wide legged pants. The original bell bottoms.  We would sew material in them the make them even bigger.   

Buka was a quilter…my Mother-in-Law.  I wish I would have had more time back then to learn with her.     

“They” say if you keep the thread in the freezer for a couple of days the moisture from the freezer should get some moistness back into the thread and make it usable again. A tip I learned/read somewhere, but haven’t tried yet.

So, I have gone from paper collecting to fabric collecting.  I enjoy both sporting events…. Papercrafting and Sewing and I have even combined them into one. 

Check out my pictures below.  Sew, learning a new craft is always fun.  I have started on fabric coaster for now. For me it is all about creating an artful life…

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Double click on the Slide Deck Gallery (pictures) to read each story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MY FEBRUARY  QUILTING ACTIVITY

 

THE ART OF PAPER PIECING 

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This is like coloring inside the lines.  However, you sew instead.  Great for Quilting Newbies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Spool Holder

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My Wonderful, Loving Husband made me this spool holder.  I had a ton of thread in cookie tins and it was problematic and frustrating to get the color I wanted.  I had to move the red tin out of the way to get the the green tin.  So, he crafted me this.  I love him.  Now all the colors of my rainbow are out in the open displayed.  They look like Art that is about to happen. 

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From Master-Boards to Fabric 

Making a master-board from collage materials and digital manipulation is a fun new way for me to create one of a kind fabric and paper.

You create the paper collage, then scan the design into the computer.  Save the art as a jpeg. Then print a copy of it onto paper.  If you want fabric.  You iron a piece of fabric usually, muslin or sheet material to a piece of freezer paper and put this into your printer.  One of a kind fabric. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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First Quilt Block

 

This is my first block, created  February 1, 2021.  In memory of Frank C. Conetsco. It is called Scrappy String Blocks.  I am using recycled materials from my home.  These are old dinner napkins and a curtain I am not longer using.  So I will continue to make blocks until I have enough to make a quilt.  If you have any cotton clothes, bedding or tablecloths you are getting rid of let me know I will take them off your hands and help save the world by recycling.