I just picked up my quilt, “Glorious Gold,” from the lovely lady in my quilt guild who orgainzed the “glorious” quilt challenge. If you were reading my blog at the beginning of September, you may remember my adventure in paper piecing, bleeding fabrics, and fusible rhinestones. I was unable to be at the meeting where everyone displayed the quilts that were made for the challenge, so Sue took care of my quilt for me. My quilt won second place in the vote! As part of the prize package, I received a beautiful, handmade fabric wallet, a [ ... ]
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Oct 20
2011
I just picked up my quilt, “Glorious Gold,” from the lovely lady in my quilt guild who orgainzed the “glorious” quilt challenge. If you were reading my blog at the beginning of September, you may remember my adventure in paper piecing, bleeding fabrics, and fusible rhinestones. I was unable to be at the meeting where everyone displayed the quilts that were made for the challenge, so Sue took care of my quilt for me. My quilt won second place in the vote! As part of the prize package, I received a beautiful, handmade fabric wallet, a [ ... ]
Category: awards, Glorious Gold, traditional quilts
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Sep 15
2011
On Tuesday I was diligently finishing up my “Glorious” challenge quilt. Tuesday was kind of a crazy day for me, so I never got around to giving you a progress report.
We had to turn in our challenge quilts on Tuesday night. (They will all be shown at the next quilt guild meeting.) Not wanting to get done too quickly (wink!) I started trimming my quilt about 6:30 Tuesday morning.
We did our morning walk and other routines. By lunch I had the binding and label on. I decided to sew [ ... ]
Category: giveaways, Glorious Gold, traditional quilts
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Sep 09
2011
I’m still working on the “glorious” quilt challenge. I pulled out the fusible batting scraps and had a piece big enough for this little quilt, so that’s what I used. It’s quick and easy. The directions say to press it for 3 seconds on the wool setting. For my iron, at least, that didn’t even effect the fusible stuff, so I cranked up the heat a bit and pressed it with steam for two to three times longer than directed. That seemed to work better.
So far I have all the major seams outlined. Now I need to [ ... ]
Category: Glorious Gold, traditional quilts, work in progress
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Sep 07
2011
There’s a continual debate between quilters on whether fabric should be prewashed or not. Do you prewash? I do. Always. It’s probably a hold-over from when I was a garment seamstress and I wanted the fabric to shrink as much as possible before I make a closely-fitted garment. I also like the softened feel of washed fabric, wrinkles and all. Plus, I prefer to remove any scents, smells, and any chemicals that might be in the fabric when I bring it home from the store.
Despite my best efforts, occassionally there’s a fabric that still bleeds even after prewashing. Guess what? [ ... ]
Category: Glorious Gold, traditional quilts, work in progress
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Sep 07
2011
I continued to push ahead with my “glorious” yellow quilt challenge, which my quilt guild so kindly proposed. I guess I’ve actually started thinking of it as “glorious gold.” Doesn’t that sound better? “Gold” just sounds so much more dignified that “yellow.”
Tuesday I assembled the three sections of this little quilt. I don’t think I’ve mentioned how large it is. It will be 24″ square. That’s become my favorite size for making samples. It’s small enough to finish without a huge investment in time or fabric, but it’s still large enough to show to a room [ ... ]
Sep 05
2011
Ah…time for a break. I had a great day because I was able to spend a good four to five hours working on the middle ring of the “glorious” yellow quilt I’m making for my guild’s 2011 quilt challenge. I left this ring for last because I needed to use the gold tissue lamé.
Taming Tissue Lamé
If you’ve never used tissue lamé before, it can be rather annoying to work with.
It is really thin and slippery.
It frays horribly.
It is made of 51% Metallic Polyester and 49% Nylon; that makes it potentially heat-sensitive. I did a [ ... ]
Sep 04
2011
It’s just before 11 PM on Sunday night and I just finished paper piecing the outer ring for the “glorious” yellow quilt I’m making for my guild’s quilt challenge for this year.
You may notice I changed the background color for the outer ring. In my original design, I was planning to use charcoal gray. I liked the idea of using a monochromatic color scheme, especially since yellow, white and gray is such a popular color scheme right now. After consultation with my advisor (DD#2), we both felt that the gray just wasn’t working. [ ... ]
Sep 04
2011
I finally started the “glorious” challenge for my quilt guild, the Miami Valley Quilters’ Guild. Yeah, the one where I have to use the solid gold cotton fabric and gold lamé. It must be done by September 13, and I’ll be gone three of those days
First I procrastinated by buying a bunch more yellow fabrics…
Then, I had the thought that this might be a nice time to try paper piecing. I’ve never done it before, but I’ve read about it for years and years. (Am [ ... ]
Category: Glorious Gold, my quilt guild, traditional quilts
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Aug 26
2011
There’s something really wrong here… These are the fabrics for my quilt guild’s 2011 challenge. Where’s the blue???
Actually, I like participating in quilt challenges because it forces me to move outside my comfort zone. For this challenge we each received a fat quarter of gold Kona cotton and a fat eighth of gold lamé. We need to use at least half of each of them. Hmmm…I wouldn’t normally use either of these fabrics. We can add up to ten fabrics, and we have to have at least one 3-D embellishment [ ... ]
Category: Glorious Gold, my quilt guild, traditional quilts
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