Blog entries tagged Quilting

Shiny Geese

Shelley — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 06:14:10 +0100

For Christmas this year Rob got a box of fabric squares with a picture on top. Slowly I’ve been sewing all those squares together and cuttin...

Unexpected Nap

Shelley — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:44:57 +0100

Maisie fell asleep while we were sorting some clothes on the bed. I used the time to start sewing down the binding on her new play mat.

While She Naps

Shelley — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:44:16 +0100

I've been working on a tummy time quilt for Maisie (there have been a few sneak peeks in my Flickr stream). For the last week or so I've been working on quilting the sandwich whenever she naps. It's amazing how little bits of time can add up to something nearly finished. Yesterday I started working on the blue quadrant and I'm hoping to make some more progress (maybe even finis...

Fixed

Shelley — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:23:04 +0100

I finally fixed the mushroom quilt top. I had a nice bit time to myself last weekend and decided I would pick out those incorrect squares and put in the right colour. Just to be sure I was pulling out the right squares I got out my sketch and gave it a really close look and compared it to my quilt top. It turned out there were a lot more squares that were not right. In fact pretty muc...

Arrrrrrrgh

Shelley — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:46:58 +0100

I plugged my camera in to my computer this evening specifically to transfer the pictures I took of the quilt top I was working on over the weekend. Owing to a sore back the past few weeks it had taken me a lot longer than I'd expected to put it together and I was feeling rather proud of myself. Especially after I caught and fixed three different spots where I'd put matching ...

New Squares

Shelley — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:35:48 +0100

I've finally joined the Farmer's Wife Quilt bandwagon … er … hay ride?

I've been enjoying watching other people show off the blocks they've been making since last fall and this felt like a good time to join in. My first few days of work on it were spent putting all the templates together into fewer pages in Photoshop Elements and then cutting them out. I'm ...

A Quilt for Tristan

Shelley — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:56:04 +0100

Now that I know this has arrived safely I can finally blog about it. This was my brother’s birthday present. He recently moved into a new place and I thought a cozy quilt would be a nice addition. I made this to my favourite quilt specifications - 60” by 80” (150 cm x 200 cm). I find quilts this size are big enough for a bed but small enough to keep on the couch;...

A Mini Quilt

Shelley — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:41:54 +0100

Do you have those days where you really want to do something but can't figure out what? I was having one of those yesterday until I came across this post by Amanda who led me to these posts from Amylouwho and this Flickr group and I decided that what I wanted to do was make a mini quilt. I even had the perfect thing to get me started.

Several years ago I took a sashi...

A New Blanket for Abby

Shelley — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:42:15 +0100

I've been procrastinating on a few sewing projects lately so this morning I spent some time getting my sewing room tidied up and everything sorted out. In the process I came across a piece of denim and a pink cotton heart I'd set aside ages ago for making into a crate blanket for Abby and decided to work on that instead; my other projects will have to wait until tomorrow (Queen of p...

Random Image #17

Shelley — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:03:39 +0100

I spent part of this evening looking for some pictures of my garden last summer and found this one of a bunch of fabric. I just like it so much. The fabrics are part of a kit I got a few years ago. It was completely Liette's fault.

We'd finally found Earthly Goods quilt shop in Edmonton and were having a great time browsing around. I'd picked out a few fat quarters and a couple ...

Christmas Sewing 2010

Shelley — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:38:38 +0100

I thought it was probably time for me to get back to this space. We've had a lovely Christmas and we're looking forward to a few gatherings with family and friends for New Year's (my sister and her husband serve an Indian dinner every year for New Year's Day - can't wait). Our celebrations were everything they always are: happy, fun, exciting and exhausting. I love this picture of Abby from after Christmas dinner at Rob's parents' place:

Squares

Shelley — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:25:56 +0100

I've started cutting for a new quilt for our bed.

Lots of little squares.

A few big squares.

And every one is different.

I've been thinking of trying a charm quilt for a while and finally decided to dive in. A charm quilt, for those not familiar with the term, is a quilt in which every patch is of a different fabric. I'd heard about them w...

Daffs

Shelley — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:21:25 +0100

Do you ever see something that just makes you want to sew (or knit or paint etc.)? I'd had a kind of a crummy Thursday and was spending my evening hunched over at my computer reading blogs when I came across this post at Lovely Design (an awesome place to visit by the way). I didn't even read the post until later on. I saw that first picture and just needed to be in my sewing room putting fabric together. I wanted to hear the machine and smell the iron and create something from little bi...

The Quilt on Our Bed

Shelley — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:41:49 +0100

This was my January project. I ordered the fabrics back in October or November when I was getting other things for birthdays and Christmas. January and February are always rather bleak months here. The light is starting to come back but we're just reaching the coldest part of the year and the idea of spring is far away. Even March can be pretty bitter. This year I wanted somethin...

Snap Pouch

Shelley — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:22:49 +0100

I said the pouch idea would have to wait but it didn't have to wait very long. By Saturday night I'd picked out a new group of colours and a piece of batting the right size and started in on my second adventure in string quilting. I think it turned out pretty awesome.

The snap frame is one of a pair I ordered from Goodness last spring. My pouch is about 3 1/2 inches wi...

String Piecing

Shelley — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:59:35 +0100

I discovered something new this weekend.

I love it when that happens. You're cruising along reading all your favourite blogs, you click a few links and there you are at some new and wonderful place. On Friday night I was reading Anna Maria's post about her new voiles (which I'm dying to actually touch but must wait a bit longer); she mentioned how good they'd be for ...

Covered

Shelley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:50:02 +0100

New covers for some nude cushions in our living room. I am in love with laundered quilting right now. All that squashy wrinkled fabric between rows of neat stitches just makes me feel cozy. I didn't want my covers to shrink later on so I actually washed these before sewing the quilted pieces together to make the covers (I ran a zig-zag stitch around the raw edges to cut down on the amount ...

Erin's Scraps

Shelley — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:45:52 +0100

My quilt survived the wash ... and feels wonderful and warm. I am wrapped up in it as I write. That trip through the washer completes my reasoning for this quilt. I'm not sure if you can really create a quilt out of laziness but that is how this one started: I had this lovely bag of scraps from Erin but I wanted to wash them before they went into my stash and I was just too lazy to wash an...

Anticipation

Shelley — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:04:48 +0100

I'm totally panicked - the quilt I just finished is making its inaugural trip through the washer and I don't know what will happen.

Finished, In Progress, Started

Shelley — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:03:19 +0100

Finished:

A new pair of underwear from Jalie pattern number 2568. These are the hipster style. I find them a little low in the back for my taste but still very comfortable. The pattern doesn't give any direction on how long to cut the waist and leg elastics and my guesses were a little bit off. I think I might even skip the leg elastic next time I make this style. I love t...