Old Quilt & New Quilt

Well, the old quilt isn't really old at all. In fact, it's not even a finished quilt. It's the same green nine patch Irish chain quilt I've been working on.

I was able to get back into the sewing room today to do a little work.  I put the quilt sandwich together and started free-motion machine quilting it. It was going ok.  Free-motion quilting really is a lot more difficult than it looks.  Then something happened and my tension went wonky.  So I started ripping out machine quilting.  Not happy.  Got is figured out and resumed quilting. Then something happened, the machine stopped with a little clunk, and I had a little thread nest on the back side of the quilt.  I got the quilt out of the machine and left it there. It was time to cook supper anyway.  I'll get back to it at the end of the week.  I hope.  I have no photos of it to share.  But based on previous photos, you get the picture.

And now the new quilt.  I bought some pre-cut strips and a package of two 1 yards pieces of fabric today. I'm not sure what exactly I'll do with them.  Probably go back and try to get more to finish the project.  I plan to use this to make a quilt for my grandson Alex. It occurred to me earlier that I haven't made him a blanket of any kind yet and it's his turn.  I would like to finish this before Christmas and send it to him then.  But it will more likely be next Christmas at the rate I'm going on my granddaughter's quilt.

Work has been good, but hours are picking up.  That means less time for quilting, knitting, stamping, scrapping, etc.  But at least I enjoy my work.  It would be really sad to not have time for those things and not like going to work, too.

I still need to edit the photos from the quilt show last Sunday and start posting those.  Until I do, take care and keep crafting!

Teresa

New Quilt - Inspired By A Girl's Top I Saw At Work

You never know what will inspire you or when.

As some of you know, I work as a sales associate at a well-known department store.  I'm supposed to working in the Catalog Dept.  But more often than not, I assigned to the Children's Dept.  One of my tasks is to refold all the clothes that customers unfold while shopping.  One line of our girl's clothes, mostly the tops, have tons of glitter on them.  It's probably really not that much, but when  you refold stack after stack, glitter gets everywhere.  I've already told one of the supervisors that I'm going to dress as fairy for Halloween.  All I'll need are the wings because I'll already be covered in glitter.

Anyway.  The other day as I was folding these tops, the colors and the pattern of the colors of one really caught my eye.  My mind immediately began planning a quilt top based on these colors and the design.  The top was white with lime green and turquoise.  I loved it!

Today I made a trip to JoAnn's and picked out some fabric in colors that I thought would work.  The background of my quilt top will be white, just like the top, with lime green and some turquoise for an accent.  The fabric is now washed, dried, strings trimmed, folded, and waiting to be pressed and cut.  I've got my fingers crossed that I have enough fabric.  I think it will depend on what size I decide to make the quilt.

In real life, the colors are bright, but I don't think they are this bright!

I also got some embroidery thread to match.  I'm not sure if I'm going to embroider the setting squares or not.  I'm really thinking I might.  And that will probably depend on how frustrated I get trying to relearn to use my embroidery machine again.  It's been ages since I've used it for embroidery.

If I'm as happy with this quilt as I think I will be, I'm going to make another one but using purple in place of the turquoise.  What do you think?