Mill House Spring Quilting In Progress

 On my Juki today is the Mill House Spring quilt.  Before quilting begins, I always clean and oil my machine and put on a new needle.

 When I loaded this quilt onto the frame I was thinking,  "I'll just do a quick all over design and finish it in an afternoon."

 Ha! Ha! Ha!  That didn't happen.  I changed my mind and tried this new swirly onion quilting in the green outer border.  I like it.

 I accented it with small back and forth lines in the gold border.

 Here the borders are side by side.

 The hourglass blocks in the quilt center came out a little more puckered than I would like.  To disguise the imperfect blocks, I'm doing some heavy quilting.

 The pink triangles are getting quilted with vertical or horizontal lines, depending on their orientation.

 The white triangles are getting quilted with small pebbles.

 I've quilted three or four rows in so far, and it's looking pretty good!  

The pattern for the Mill House Spring quilt is available in my Etsy shop, here:  Mill House Spring Quilt Pattern.  If you sew one, please share a pic.  I would love to see your version.

Be creative ~ Sew something beautiful today.

Jennifer Thomas

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Binding the Happy Scrappy Quilt

 It's time to bind the Happy Scrappy quilt.  First I trimmed the backing and batting even with the quilt top.  

 I like to match my binding fabric to my outer border fabric, but in this case, the outer border was made up of a lot of brightly and different colored triangles.  I didn't want the binding to be quite that noisy.  This quilt needed something calming to hold it all together.  I chose to use two different blues for the binding strips.  Here I am sewing them all together to make one long strip.

 Trimming the triangles off.

 My binding, pressed and ready to sew to the quilt top.

 Pinning the binding to the quilt top.

Machine stitching the binding to the quilt.  I like to machine stitch the binding to the top, then fold it around to the back and hand stitch.  I enjoy hand stitching and usually do this on my front porch, or while watching television.  This quilt is almost finished.  Check back soon for the big reveal.

Be creative ~ Sew something beautiful today.

Jennifer Thomas

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The Never Ending Christmas Quilt ~ Progress

 I've been working on this Christmas Block of the Month quilt periodically for years.  It's safe to say it's not going to be finished for Christmas 2020.  But, I did cut out and prep a few more blocks this week.  It's been so long I had to go looking for the fabric, because I did not keep it in the box with the project.  What was I thinking?  I found it quickly, then decided not to use it anyway.  I had a nice stack of coordinating Laura Heine prints that matched well, and I was inspired to cut into them.

 Many of the block kits I cut out were fusible applique.  Sunrise was eager to help.

 Fused pieces for a Christmas bells and Holly block.

 I cut out the pieces for the Pieced Pine Tree Block.

Here's a few more tiny pieces for another fusible applique block.  I only have a few more blocks to cut and prep, and about half of the blocks are already sewn.  What a work in progress (WIP)!  What's your longest work in progress?  Do you think you will ever finish?  Leave me a comment below.

Be creative ~ Sew something beautiful today.

Jennifer Thomas

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Snowflake, Part One

I'm working on my Island Batik Ambassador project for August, using the beautiful blue Prairie Skies by Kathy Engle collection.

Disclaimer:  The products used in this post were given to me by Island Batik and industry partners at no cost to me.

Along with this luscious cut of solid white Island Batik fabric.

This month's challenge utilizes a Deb Tucker Studio 180 ruler.  I received the Corner Pop ruler.

Ruler cutting involves a lot of rotary cutting, so I installed a new blade before I began.

 The Corner Pop ruler creates a perfect corner with less waste than the stitch and fold method.  You get two corners out of each corner square.  I tested it out by sewing just one corner first.  It was pretty easy to do!

 There's a chart that comes with the ruler that tells you what size squares to cut for the corners.  My squares needed to be 4-1/4", but I used my Accuquilt 4-1/2" square die cutter and that worked just as well, plus, it was super fast cutting!

 After sewing the corner triangle on, you line up the ruler to trim for a perfect block.

 I'm keeping my design simple by sewing some three corner blocks and some four corner blocks.

 Here's a few of them up on my design wall.

 My newest kitty, Sunrise is shaping up to be a pretty good quilting helper.

 Sewing borders on.

I finished the quilting yesterday.  Time to bind and do the final reveal.  Check back soon to see my Snowflake quilt.

Be creative ~ Sew something beautiful today.

Jennifer Thomas

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