One down, two to go!
The Beyond Quilts booth at the craft show this weekend got a bit of a face lift with the addition of 6 foot tall wire shelves to display pillows and blankets. I decided to sell some of my husband’s (“M”) homemade kolatchkies and they sold like the proverbial hotcakes the first day.
The show was held in a middle school and I had the same space as before, right inside of the side doors in the cafeteria. It was a good crowd and enjoyed catching up with some of the familiar faces of the neighboring crafters seen last year at the same show.
Next weekend is a big craft show in Valparaiso, IN at the Porter County Expo Center. The dates for the Holidaze Arts And Craft Show are November 21-22 and will be open 10 am - 5 pm the first day and only until 4 pm the next.
I’m going to work on a few custom orders some of the visitors to my booth requested when I didn’t have exactly what they wanted. It’s hard to tell just how many of my creations are finding new homes when there’s always something new to take up the empty space! I’m like a machine!
If you didn’t get the chance to come out and see me this weekend then I hope to see you in Valpo or at the Lincoln Center on 2450 Lincoln Street, Highland, IN from November 29-30th.
And if you can’t make it to any of the holiday shows you can always shop for I-Spy quilts, doll blankets and more at my Etsy store.
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Here are a few photos of the finished quilt. My photog daughter instructed me to not be boring. This was my first time making a “brick” quilt like this and I’m happy with the way it turned out, but also found out that it takes a lot longer to make this than the I-spy quilts.
I have made several name banners, so I’ve got that technique down pretty well.
I started with the banner in the middle and added the bricks to each side then built out from the middle, laying out each row individually, trying to get the right “look” and spreading the colors around.
Making the letters is getting easier the more I do it. Its a several step process that I won’t detail now, but they are cute, eh? I already made curtains for the baby’s room out of the Mickey Mouse sheets, so used the left overs for the background. I hope he enjoys this quilt for many years to come.
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I start the process by cutting 5-inch strips
I cut the strips into 5-inch squares and sort them by color groups
I lay them out in an 8x10 order, then make piles from each row, starting at the far end and working toward the camera.
You can see the piles of blocks sorted by color
Do you think I may have enough fabric? And this is just the tip of the ice berg.
These are bundled and ready to be sewn into rows and then sew the rows together to create…..
a quilt top, to which I will add 3 and 1/2 inch borders, sandwich, quilt and bind.
The Cheney quilt:
I didn’t get a picture of the strips before they were cut apart, but I started with 2 and 3/4 inch strips that I sewed together from selvege to selvege, then cut into 7 and 1/4 inch (approx) squares
I arranged the blocks and stacked them in the correct order to creat the zig-zag design. I must confess that I messed up on one row two times, so that one row took me an hour to attach to the other rows instead of a few minutes. Live and learn!
Here the two inner side borders have been added…
Next the end borders….
the second side borders added….
and the end second borders.
Here’s the completed top, read to sandwich, quilt and bind, the binding with be the red fabric.
I started the process Sunday evening, the 15th and finished the top Monday afternoon. Sandwiched it Tuesday afternoon at the church where I teach an ESL class. I pushed several table together to create a space large enough to stretch out the backing. I’ve quilted a few zig-zags, but I have until the end of March, so I’m doing some other projects in between. Kind of taxing physically to control the quilt in my “Big Brother” sewing machine.
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