Master Bedroom

  Am I the only one who makes quilts for everyone except for myself?  It seems that in the last two years I have made multiple quilts but they never seem to be for me.

  I know I don't ever get that much time to quilt and don't do near as much as other quilters out there, but it is still a hobby I enjoy perusing.   I have made 3 bedspreads for my daughters, one for my mother and mother-in-law, 5 for neices and nephews, multiple baby quilts and even one that I donated to a friends cancer cause auction.

  Last summer I decided it was time to make me a new summer and winter quilt and get rid of this bedspread I have had for the past 8 (did I really say that) years.  

I chose the colors, summer: cheerful and bright, winter: warm and cuddly, and patterns, summer: Metro Hoops and winter: A- Maze Me.  That fabric was even all purchased but I ran out of time.  Now, being March national quilting month, I decided it was time to work on this project.  

Here is my todo list for this quilt

☑️ Make HST (360)

☑️ Make pinwheels (90)

☑️ trim pinwheels to 10"

☑️ use QCR to cut pinwheels 

🔘 Sew edging on pinwheels 

🔘 trim pinwheels to 9 1/2"

🔘 create rectangles (418)

🔘 trim rectangles to 2" x 9 1/2"

🔘 create rectangle sets (209)

🔘 Layout quilt

🔘 Stitch together top 

🔘iron

🔘 Baste

🔘Quilt

🔘 Bind

My goal: 

-Tuesday get the squares all cut to 10" and then cut with the Quick Curve Ruler

-Wednesday/Thursday sew the curves onto my 90 blocks

-Friday square up the blocks to 9 1/2"

-next Monday/Tuesday rectangles

-next Wednesday  place the pieces 

-next Thursday Sew the top together

Can I get all this done?  Maybe, well I hope so!  It is national quilting month!

I have just got this time sewn together (it was in the works for 2 1/2 years!

This is Craftsy's free pattern for 2013 BOM.  I used Robert Kaufmann's Spot On fabric.

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Curve it up

Last year at a local fabric store, Cotton Shop, I was asked to make the BOM quilt.  I was already in the process of making a Curve it up quilt by sew kind of wonderful, for my MIL for Christmas, and so they thought we should do this for the BOM.  

I made the quilt over a year ago, minus the edging on the bottom (I was 4" short on fabric to finish) and finally today I finished the border!

The fabric is a combinations for fabrics, chosen by Ricki at the Cotton Shop, by mainly Spectrum by Camelot Design Studio.

After I purchase some batting, I will complete the quilt with this binding and backing.

I'm not really in a hurry because I don't know what to do with the quilt.  Any ideas?

Here is the change in colors I used for my MIL's quilt

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Metro Lattice

Last summer I began a summer quilt for my bedroom.  If any of you are like me summertime is not a time with free uninterrupted quilting time.  My summer is filled with running here and there with my 4 darling daughters.  By August the quilt was put in a drawer and forgotten, until Thursday, yes this last Thursday, March 10th.  

While attending a quilt camp, I went to a road show given by Jenny Pedigo.  I really fell in love with two of her quilts, metro lattice and urban nine patch. 

Here she is with her metro lattice quilt:

Here is a urban nine patch I saw at the HMQS last year

I chose the Moda fabric, Color Therapy, that tells you I have had the fabric for at least a year!  And I did put all the HST's together, but then the quilt got put away. Thursday was an open "sew"cial at the cotton shop and so I decided that with 5 hours of sewing I could start this again.  

I did get 90 pinwheels put together!

I made me a list of everything I have to do and am checking it off step by step.

☑️ Make HST (360)

☑️ Make pinwheels (90)

🔘 trim pinwheels to 10"

🔘 use QCR to cut pinwheels 

🔘 Sew edging on pinwheels 

🔘 trim pinwheels to 9 1/2"

🔘 create rectangles (322)

🔘 trim rectangles to 2" x 9 1/2"

🔘 create rectangle sets (161)

🔘 Layout quilt

🔘 Stitch together top 

🔘iron

🔘 Baste

🔘Quilt

🔘 Bind

It's a lot of steps, here is what one block looks like after adding pieces cut with the QCR (quick cut ruler) and trimming it to 9 1/2". Maybe I will have it ready for next summer!

Allie's Quilt finished!

This Powwow quilt is finally finished!  As I stated before this quilt is for my neices senior graduation which will take place in a few months.  This last weekend she found out that she was accepted to her college of choice, BYU!  I enjoy when they come to BYU because then they live close by.  

I still baste my quilts by taping them to my concrete floor in our game room.  This quilt is 69 1/2" x 96", so rather large to baste this way.  

I looked at a lot of powwow quilts that had previously been made to see the quilting.  After lots of study, I decided to go with straight lines and use my walking foot.

Here is my finished quilt, hopefully when the weather is warmer I can get some better pictures.

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