A "Wild Wood" baby quilt! Dear Stella and Therm O Web!

Therm O Web has teamed up with Dear Stella and we have been able to use their amazing fabric collections for some awesome projects this month!   I chose to work with the "Wildwood" collection, specifically because of the adorable mushroom and owl prints!!!  But the colorway was just my style, too!

Here is the baby quilt I made with appliqued "orange peels" in an non-traditional arrangement.

 Project Supplies:

HeatnBond® Lite Fusible Adhesive
SpraynBond® Basting Spray
Liquid Fabric Fuse™

Project Instructions: I began by ironing Heat N Bond® lite to the back of each fat quarter.  The size of the roll of Heat N Bond® is the perfect size of a fat quarter!

Then I used  template to cut out a whole bunch of orange peel shapes. One of the prints has some flowers with a touch of a dark raspberry color, and I wanted to pull that out a bit more, so I found a solid raspberry in my stash that matched perfectly.


I arranged my shapes on my background and then peeled the Heat N Bond® paper from the back and ironed each shape in place.

I appliqued around each one with a zig zag stitch. Then it was time to baste and I always us the Spray N Bond® Basting Spray to baste ALL of my quilts...any size. Once quilted, I attached the binding and use some Liquid Fabric Fuse™ to help me keep it in place so I could get a perfect machine stitch on the back.

I found this perfect wood grain print in my fabric stash to use as a backing!

 Thanks to Dear Stella for letting us work with these fabulous fabrics!

Strawberry Patch Quilt- Jennifer Jangles "Strawberry Festival" fabrics

Hello everyone!  I'm here today to share a large lap quilt I made with the Jennifer Jangles "Strawberry Festival" fabrics from In The Beginning Fabrics for Therm O Web.  I was especially drawn to the polka dot prints and the smaller scale floral prints.

 

I thought that a simple four patch design with a polka dot and floral in each patch would be a great way to show case these prints.

    

 I set the patches on point with a square of some of the white daisy prints in black, red, and blue.

 

I laid my design out in diagonal rows for sewing and trimmed off the points on the edges. Then I got to work with my Spray N Bond® Basting Adhesive!   I first put down my backing fabric, then the batting on top.  I fold back the batting to spray it with the Basting Spray and fold it back onto the backing and smooth it out.

 

Next I added the top and smoothed it out on top of the batting.  I fold back the top and again spray the batting with the Therm O Web Spray N Bond®. 

 I ONLY use Spray N Bond® for basting on all my projects!  I feel it saves SO much time when basting.  Plus, it does not have that strong of an odor, drys fast, and can be washed. 

 Next, I quilted an orange peel design with my walking foot, then trimmed and sewed on my binding to the front. 

 I have read about glue basting a binding when machine binding, so I decided to try it with the liquid Fabric Fuse™ adhesive.  I first ironed the front of the binding to send the seam, then flipped the quilt over and ironed the binding towards the back, just past my seam from the front.

 

 

 Next, I went around the whole quilt with Therm O Web Fabric Fuse right on the seam and sealed it down.  The glue stuck SO QUICKLY and it almost looked as if it had already been hand bound!  I let it dry for a few hours before I attempted to stitch.

 

 

 I stitched from the front around the whole quilt, and the back came out perfectly!!!  There were no spaces where I had missed catching the edge of the binding, and the stitching was pretty straight!  I will definitely be using the glue basting next time I machine stitch the binding on!

   

 

 

 I just love the country charm feel that this quilt adds to my porch for spring!

   

 

 

 

 

  

Stay scrappy and happy my friends!

Prize Wheel Quilt finished!

I'm so excited to share my latest quilt finish with you today.  I am always inspired by Cotton & Steel prints, and the Penny Arcade bundle was one I had to have!  For some reason, the though of a "Penny Arcade" got me thinking of state fairs and games. Spinning prize wheels came to mind, and I thought some sort of dresden pattern would be fun!

I found tons of dresden and wedge inspiration on Pinterest, which lead me to this blog with a beautiful quilt made with a 9 degree ruler.

On that blog, there is a link to the actual pattern which you can find HERE. I decide that this was what I was going to work with.

I ordered the 9 degree ruler from Amazon and got to work.  I followed the pattern for the most part, but instead of making the quilt into a circle, I appliquéd each quarter of the circle onto a 36" square piece of background fabric.   The wedges came together so fast!

The background is RJR Fabrics Cotton Supreme in Burlap.

I was originally going to use the scraps from my wedge piecing as a border on all four sides, but for some reason I have an aversion to perfectly square quilts.  So I added a border to the top and bottom and I am happy with that.

For the quilting, I just marked a line through the center of each wedge and carried it through the center to the opposite wedge.  I love how soft the more loosely quilted areas are, and I also love all the texture in the center!

For the back, I used the City Overnight from the Penny Arcade collection.

The final product reminds me of the wheel on Wheel of Fortune, hence the name "Prize Wheel"!

 I just LOVE the way it turned out and might be one of my favorite quilts yet!

Thanks for stopping by and stay scrappy (either with paper OR fabrics!  :)  )

Farmer's Wife Quilt progress

Last year, I bought the Farmer's Wife Quilt book and was so excited to start!  I found a group on Yahoo Groups that had TONS of reseources, including paper piecing patterns for each block! Each week a new block is posted for you to complete, and your name goes on the "Achiever's List" if you finish it by the end of the week.  It keeps you accountable and I love it!



I completed 2 blocks with some scraps from a quilt I had made for my mom using Cotton & Steel Mustang collection.

Then I set them aside for about a year and didn't do anything!

I recently got motivated again and sat down with my C&S stash, print outs of some of the paper piecing patterns and paired them up with some fabrics.  I put them in baggies, and have been pulling them out here and there to complete them!

23-Country Farm

48-Homeward Bound

68-Postage Stamp

69-Practical Orchard

70-Prarie Queen

87-Star Gardener

97-Waste Not

108-Windmill

My goal now is to keep up with doing at LEAST the weekly block, and adding in extras here and there when I can!

This is my most recent batch from last week:

8-Bouquet

11-Broken Dishes

29-Economy

 45-Grape Basket

I love the way this is turning out!

You can see more of my blocks and quilts in my Flickr gallery here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/35187278@N07/