Finished Projects

I finally quilted the Somerset Log Cabin Quilt myself after being in my closet for two years! I used one of my daughters tea cups and my frixion pen and traced half circles side by side in a scale pattern on the ivory part of the log cabin blocks and I stitched in the ditch on the other side of the Cabin Blocks and I really like the way it turned out! Here it is in the basting process (hard when its this large!)

 Here it is finished!

 

Here it is on the front porch in the sunshine. :)

 

Another project that i finished this year is the Popsicle quilt from Joanna Figueroas' book Sherbets and Creams. I love this quilt!

It started as some blocks...

 Then some rows...

 Then it was done!

Then basted....

And quilted...

 

Then some binding was machine added to the front....

 And hand sewn to the back....

 Voila! Fin!

Farmhouse Dining Room

So, I thought I would do a new blog post. The school year has almost started once again and I cannot believe it! I am on the computer (which hasn't happened in so long since having our baby last year) because i need to order curriculum for our homeschooling adventures this year and need to get caught up on so much! Also i have made many quilts and even learned to knit since I last posted on this blog. Also i never showed much of our nearly 150 year old farmhouse! I have a lot of potential posts so I thought I could post about our dining room and quilts that are in there! The dining room is red and cream when we bought it and I left it that way with the intent of using French General fabrics to decorate or even primitive fabrics which would go with the age of this house very well and our rustic furniture. This first quilt is a star quilt which was one of my first early quilt tops (made with a french general charm pack by moda) I did but never quilted so i finished this one up last year and turned it into a wall quilt.

This room has lots of history! The quilt is actually hiding the original stove pipe vent on the wall and this room would have been the original kitchen of this house which has been added onto over the years. I believe in the 1930s the kitchen and bathroom were added to the back of the house which used to be the porch. That door to the right leads to our kitchen but originally would have led to the back porch outside the house. It is neat to think about how the house might have originally looked!

  Recently I bought a Moda Frivols tin by French General and made a new table topper that turned out so pretty! This is it freshly quilted with an all over meandering stitch...

And this is it bound and complete in my messy dining room full of children's toys and school supplies... it will be even messier soon with the start of schoolwork!

 

Happy school year to everyone!!! Thanks for stopping by!

Well, It's Been Awhile...

So, I have not made a blog post in a really long time. Life has caught me up! Husband and I are expecting another little girl in June and we have recently bought a new home and all of these things have kept me so busy, mixed in with the fact that I homeschool my two little girls! Summer is almost here tho, phew! Lots of exciting news in the works! We are in the process of fixing up the new house. We have not moved in yet, and it probably won't be for another couple weeks before we begin that process. Trying to move in before the new baby girl arrives! The house we bought is a gem tho, it is over 150 years old, originally built sometime in the 1870s!! We are in the process of redoing some dated bathrooms and redoing an awkard room we are turning into a sunroom with french doors leading to the outside. The house has the original hardwood floors in every room except that one odd room which is laminate we are changing to tile. It really is a farmhouse and beautiful!

Here is a picture of the outside of the house. It's a southern beauty!

So far the bathrooms are halfway done and the downstairs rooms have been painted. Just need to paint the upstairs bedrooms. The house had every room a different color and since I am in love with Joanna Gaines style from Fixer Upper I went with more of a neutral palette for this rustic farmhouse. We painted the living room and kitchen with a gray called Sculptor Clay (by Behr? i believe) and we are going with Simply White by Benjamin Moore for upstairs bathrooms and bedrooms, all except my daughters' room which is currently pink and they don't mind that. Here is a sample I found on Pinterest of 'Simply White'.

 This is our living room, it was the red color you can see on the wall in the next room. I really like the neutral grey!

And this is the kitchen which was green before and the room in the distance will be the sunroom. It only has sub floors right now but will be tiled soon. 

Here is a picture of the front door and porch with the beautiful vining trellis and picturesque red front door.

Hopefully we will be able to get moved and all things ready for baby before she arrives. Lots to do but it is an exciting journey and the Lord has blessed us with it! I am excited for what's ahead and all the space for our growing family. More pictures to come! Thanks for stopping by! 

Dining Room Decorating

I love the farmhouse rustic style that is very popular right now, especially if you live in the country! Last Christmas, my present from the husband was a farmhouse table and I love its old charm. Almost any table runner looks great on it especially vintage inspired ones. We recently bought a hutch that was finished to match our dining table because I needed a space to hide all of my daughters' schoolwork because we homeschool and the dining room is also our schoolroom! I had these plastic totes laying out full of schoolwork that were somewhat functional but ugly and out of place. Here is a picture of the new hutch!

I originally had a wall of pictures from my husbands and I's travels but had to remove some to put the new hutch in and the pictures that were left didn't quiet match the look of the dining room anymore so I took them down and put them elsewhere. (Here is what it looked like at first...)

To fill some of the empty space I used a rustic wood frame from that I found for a few bucks at an antique store, that originally had a paper picture in it that wasn't very pretty, and replaced that with a quilted table topper I made to fit the frame. I used the scrappy strawberry block from Lori Holt's Farm Girl Vintage book and filled in the rest of the space with a cream fabric. I free motioned quilted vines on the strawberry topper to go with the strawberry motif. 

I love the strawberry, although I originally thought of making an apple block or a barn block for this frame, but the strawberry worked great. 

Here is what the dining room looks like now. 

Happy Fall Ya'll! Pumpkins and apples galore!

Fall Table Runner

SO, I finally bought not so long ago The Farm Girl Vintage quilt book by Lori Holt and I love it!! So many fun projects and quilts in it. I made a fall table runner for my dining room table using the maple leaf block and the pumpkin block from her book.

These blocks are so much fun to make let me tell you! You can search on Instagram for hours with these block names as hashtags and find the coolest pictures! It is so neat to see how many different outcomes this quilt can look like with all of the different fabric choices. It really is awesome! 

 Here is one small 6 inch maple leaf block. I combined four together with one inch sashing to make one block. I did this again so i would have matching ends on my runner and then decided to put a pumpkin in the middle because i wanted all the fall colors in my runner.

 It is 3 12" blocks put in a row with sashing in between and on the outside, 1.5 inch sashing in ivory and then a 2.5 inch outside border around the entire runner.

I love quilting runners and table toppers because they are so easy to quilt on my home machine. I free motion some pumpkins and pumpkin patch vines to make it even more fall themed. I love the way it all went together! 

Here is close up of the quilting, not perfect but you get the gist. Pumpkin-y fun! Vines are pretty easy when doing free motion and pretty fun to just swirl around wherever you please. 

This is the finished project minus binding!  I love the way it turned out. I ended up outlining the pumpkin and leaves and did not free motion on them, except for a few pumpkin lines on the pumpkin. I binded the runner with the white/ivory fabric. 

This is the only picture i have of it with the binding. My daughters are devouring some pizza in this picture, but that is where the runner stays until it is christmas time and the christmas runner will take its place!

(A picture from Christmas last year.) 

These are currently my only two main runners for now but maybe i will have one for all the holidays as the years go on! 

The runner was simple! I hope you are inspired to make one! They are fun!

~Jaclyn 

Somerset Log Cabin Quilt Top Completed!

I have not posted on the blog in awhile so I thought I would take the time to make a quick post to show the completed log cabin quilt top using the Somerset Jelly Roll and Ivory Fabric. I love Fig Tree Fabrics and this quilt came out beautiful! I think with the right quilting it could be a very unique quilt, especially if colored thread (maybe red or orange!) was used in a neat design on the ivory fabric! Im not sure if i will quilt it myself or get it professionally done. Queen quilts are a lot of work on a small home machine!

This is a picture of it without a border. I decided on an orange border.

I used the same orange poppy fabric from the Somerset line of fabric that is on this Mama Hen Block for my border. (I am currently working on farm girl vintage quilts by Lori Holt! Really fun projects in her book!) 

Its hard to take a picture around here without two little girls or a cat or dog in them and keeping animals off my projects is a near impossible task.

But in the end i decided to make all the blocks face the same way and I like the way it turned out. It will be a lovely quilt to have on my bed when it is quilted one day!

Hope everybody is having a happy Friday!! God Bless!!

~Jaclyn

Somerset Ivory Log Cabin Quilt Progress

So I bought a Somerset Jelly Roll by Fig Tree and Co. for Moda quite sometime ago and have been slowly working on these blocks. Using red centers and 2.5 inch white ivory fabric on one side and the 2.5 somerset strips on the other side. I have about 18 blocks done. If I make 2 more i should be done! With a border it will make a good side quilt, full/queen most likely.

4 in each row and then make 5 rows will make a good size quilt. Just have to decide how i want my layout! Thats the hard and fun part. Its still a work in progress just wanted to show it so far. Love fig tree fabrics! I like having neutral furniture with the bedding/pillows as the pop of color and with all those red, greens, and oranges you can't go wrong! The colors are gorgeous and beautiful enough to brighten any room. 

That's all for now. I'll show more when there is more to show!