Wednesday, August 9, 2017

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!