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Progress on Quilting Projects

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I am back at work, finally, after about 3 weeks of work. I was definitely very tired in the evenings this week, and I couldn’t post as often as I wanted. I enjoyed being be back at work though and no longer just lying around the house.

Today, I thought I would update you on my quilting projects I started couple of weeks ago.  I previously had posted about my 3 projects I undertook while recovering from surgery. I wanted to show you the progress on these projects, which have been moving slow but steady. Feel free to give feedback or I would love to hear other ideas or see pictures of any of the projects you are working on.

Quilt 1: Four Seasons Quilt

The four seasons quilt has been enjoyable project. I love working with texture and seeing the panels come to reality. The story of an apple tree through the four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall), and Winter has started to come together. I have two panels completed; Spring and Winter.

I designed Spring for the apple tree to be in full blossom with new leaves, and at the bottom new grass and dandelions. The one thing I will say, is I have a long road ahead to sew on all these buttons (yes, there are about 250 buttons to make the leaves and blossoms).

  

The Winter Panel, represents a leafless tree and snow has started to fall. I used two types of brown ribbon for the branches and sequins (snowflake and circle sequins) for the snow.

Each of the trees (the canopy and trunk), and the ribbon grass/branches were machine sewn on. All the sequins, buttons, flower buds are hand-sewn.

Two panels to go – Summer and Fall, which I have finished the machine sewing, I just have to do the hand sewing. Each of these panels will have ~250 buttons for leaves and the apples are red wood beads.

Quilt 2: Our Quilt – Grey and Orange 

To get started, I got an idea based on an image of a square design I liked, while searching google. From there, I worked out the measurements I would need to mimic the design, as there was not a pattern with the image I saw.

I am using a 12 inch square and I am making a king size quilt. I will post the measurements and design once I complete it.

Now, with the recent arrival of fabrics from spoonflower.com, I have been able to start the grey and orange quilt for my husband and I. I love the new fabrics. Here are pictures of the first squares.

    

  

NOTE: It was so hard to find good grey and orange modern looking fabrics. If anyone knows of any other fabric stores that have a good selection I would love to know about them :-).

New Materials…Excited

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I am so excited.  Today, I got a package of new fabrics from Spoonflower.com – which has amazing print designs.

Kid Fabrics

Fabrics for our quilt

Fabrics for boys kids quilt

Purples and Greens for future projects

I also went by the Goodwill shop, recently and found some more ties. It was a good find.

The last thing, I wanted to show was the labels for some of my new products in my Etsy store “Squeek Crafts”. You can actually make your own labels with an ink jet printer.

http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/2012/05/make-your-own-handmade-fabric-labels.html

  

Current Sewing Projects: Quilts and Chair Bags

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So I have been off work recovering from sinus surgery, which went really well, the only issue is boredom. I decided to start 3 sewing projects while in isolation ;-):

  1. Quilt for my Niece for Christmas – Four Seasons Quilt
  2. Quilt for our bed – Grey and Orange Quilt
  3. Chair pockets/Chair Bags

This is my first time quilting and I am enjoying it, and I have been pleasantly surprised by my sewing skills. Here’s what the beginnings look like.

Project 1: Four Seasons Quilt
I wanted the quilt for my niece to be fun and have multiple textures. I came up with a 4 panel design that shows an apple tree in Spring, Summer, Autumn/Fall, and Winter. My goal is a 54 x 90 in. quilt. I drew templates for the major material pieces and cut everything out yesterday.

Template Cutting:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s Spring all sewed to the panel:

 

 

 

 

Now I have started sewing on the buttons which I am using for the leaves and blossums.

 

 

 

 

The other seasons will look like:

 

 

 

 

Project 2: Our Quilt – Grey and Orange

My husband and I have been looking for a quilt for a while but we have not been able to find one we like. So this is the first square of 64:

 

 

 

Project 3: Chair Bags/Chair Pockets

My mum use to make us chair bags when we were kids. It was a easy project that helped me get sewing again. I made these ones for my son’s new wood chairs:

 

 

 

 
 

I enjoyed these so much that I am also making more of these chair bags which I am hoping to sell them for $30 for a set of 2. Here are the swatches I chose to start with.