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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WIP: Allie's Quilt

This past week I was able to finish my VALENTINE/St. Patrick table runner, as well as begin 2 more of them.

I also finished making my arrows for a powwow quilt I am making for my neice Alli.  I make a quilt for each of my nieces and nephews for their high school graduation and this is her year!

For this quilt I selected AdornIt's fabric and kind of used the Pow Wow quilt pattern by cluck cluck sew.  I did alter the pattern for the purpose of not wasting so much fabric and ease.  Note: I used Quilt in a days flying geese ruler for that purpose.  It works great!

 The quilt will be 9 blocks by 13 blocks and si I needed a total of 117 arrow blocks, which I finished making last night. I also laid them out on the floor to get the pattern look I preferred.  There will be some of that Kona cotton Stone fabric between each row.

And today I only had a few minutes, but I was able to start sewing these crazy rows together.  I say chain stitching is the only was to go!

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Starting NEW

Each year, when I have a niece or nephew graduate from high school I make them a quilt.  This year my niece Allie will be graduating and her quilt is going to need 234 of these flying geese!  I am using an AdornIt line of fabric and Kona cotton stone fabric as the background.  

I really wanted to use the quilt pattern pow wow by cluck cluck sew.  I love this quilt, but when making one in the past I had way to much wasted fabric.  So..... I drew up another plan (notice I still get use of my old stampin up design paper)

In this plan I will be using the quilt in a day flying geese block.

Stay tuned I will get a lot more made this week!