Low Volume Quilt Top

Making Progress

It's all together and I am over the moon about this one.  This is the perfect for me quilt.  Plus, it looks great on our furniture, which is an extra bonus.  I love looking at all the different fabrics, there are so many favorites in there!

I was surprised how hard it was to get all the columns to line up and I struggled with it for a while until I remembered that I wasn't going to sell it and I just didn't care that much. After that, things went pretty quickly.

The husband helped picked out the backing (he's the best).  The main part is  from Denyse Schmidt's Florence with a long pieced strip running down it in a variety of fun fabrics (Bluebird Park, Waterfront Park, 2wenty thr3e).

Now that the craft show craziness is over, I can finish this one (and take MUCH better photos)!

Craft Show Quilt Finishes

Four Quilts!

That's right, I finished four new quilts for the craft show.  Most of them you will recognize from here and here, then there is one that just sort of snuck itself in there.  They are all for sale in my Etsy shop, so if you see one that you just have to have, you can!

Elephant Quilt

I am beyond tickled with how this one turned out!  After so much hymning and hawing over how to quilt it, I ended up going with "organic" straight line quilting roughly 3/4" apart.  Despite the density, it is actually some of the easiest quilting I have done.  Not marking anything helps make it easy plus the fact that you aren't actually trying to get the lines straight!

The quilting just adds so much to this simple design!

Chevron Quilt

I think I have a thing about not being overly thrilled with blocks and quilt tops.  I have to say, for all my foot stomping, this one came out darn cute.  I ended up leaving the quilting minimal and only adding a few additional lines in some of the white zig-zags.

Granny Square Quilt

I love this quilt.  I came together just like I was hoping it would.  This was the first time that I have ever stitched binding to a quilt completely by machine and I am very pleased with the results.  I did simple diagonal quilting lines, pretty widely spaced and used a lilac colored thread.

You can almost see the zig-zag stitch that I used to attach the binding to the front.
I was hoping that if things were just a bit off, the stitches on the back would get
 lost in the pile of the fabric. Check!

Do you see my cute little tag at the top?  They came out very much to my liking.

Briar Rose Plus Quilt

I was pretty excited while I was putting this quilt together but it didn't really turn out like I was hoping.  I wish that I squared the top up a bit before sewing the backing on and I am thinking that it probably needed at least a mini border.  The minky blankets don't have binding which takes away that nice, unifying edge.  When I edge stitched the whole thing that certainly helped, but still isn't quite enough in my mind.  At any rate, I love the fabrics and the fun plus design, so I am still happy with it.

Which one is your favorite?

My First Craft Show

Working Like a Dog

I know that I have been completely MIA recently but it was with good reason.  I was preparing for my first craft show!  Okay, okay, so it was only sort of a craft show since it was at work but I really did have do all the same things to get ready for it.  I just knew that I was going to have a very safe and captive audience to play to.

I got so many things done that mean I can do more shows: shop table sign, getting a Square card reader, making price tags, making price signs and of course, making things to sell!  Phew, I'm tired just reading that list.  It was A LOT of work, but it was very worth it, even though we had freak snow on Friday that kept many of my customers at home.

A big thank you to my husband who drove me all over town (including Fabric Depot three days in a row) and let me cover all of our household surfaces in sewing projects.  Also, a big thank you to my mom who did an amazing and beautiful quick turnaround job refinishing a chair for me to use in my display.  Plus, she came to the show and took some pictures of me with my set-up!

And now, on to the photos :)

Me and my table!  Photo credit: Mom.

Some new quilts hiding in there :)

Doesn't the chair look great?

So happy with how my sign turned out!

I got four new quilts done for the show, yippee!  I didn't sell any of them there so they are now happily up for sale in my Etsy shop.  AND, I have a new product to add to my shop, you may have noticed the mason jar cozies . . . I will share all of that happiness an another post, soon!