2014 Birthday Swap 2.5 sign up now !!!!
08-03-2014, 07:02 PM
#932
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: South Lyon, MI
Posts: 2,758
Since my birthday is tomorrow, I thought I'd tell you a little about me today. This week I had vein work on my legs done, so I've been in bed all week. I did do some crocheting in bed. I'm also starting to make 5 flowergirl dresses for my son's wedding the end of September.
1.) Board name/real first name: KathyM - Kathy
2.) How long have you been quilting - bought my first sewing machine at the age of 13 from babysitting money from that summer, now I'll be 59
3.) Favorite quilting tool: they have come up with sooo many new gadgets, rotary cutter & mat
4.) Favorite quilt you have made & why: I have made several Grandmother's Garden with the hexies, I do enjoy hand sewing, I usually don't like making a pattern twice.
5.) Favorite color: I seem to go for the darker colors, if you look at my stash you don't find many lights.
6.) Favorite flower: anything that blooms
7.) Best advice you can give: enjoy your project or you won't like it when it's done
1.) Board name/real first name: KathyM - Kathy
2.) How long have you been quilting - bought my first sewing machine at the age of 13 from babysitting money from that summer, now I'll be 59
3.) Favorite quilting tool: they have come up with sooo many new gadgets, rotary cutter & mat
4.) Favorite quilt you have made & why: I have made several Grandmother's Garden with the hexies, I do enjoy hand sewing, I usually don't like making a pattern twice.
5.) Favorite color: I seem to go for the darker colors, if you look at my stash you don't find many lights.
6.) Favorite flower: anything that blooms
7.) Best advice you can give: enjoy your project or you won't like it when it's done
I would love to see a picture of the grandmother's garden quilt. I started making one over 5 years ago and need the inspiration to return to that project! Also need to see how you finished off the edge and how you quilted it.
Barb
08-03-2014, 07:06 PM
#933
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: South Lyon, MI
Posts: 2,758
Havplenty....I love the foundation quilt. I am confused what you are doing. I have never seen that kind of quilting and it looks very interesting. Please I think you need to spell it out for me. ????
08-03-2014, 07:12 PM
#934
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: South Lyon, MI
Posts: 2,758
08-04-2014, 06:22 AM
#936
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: the middle of Michigan
Posts: 850
This is the first of three quilt tops using 2.5 inch squares. I call it twenty five and nine. I used 1,079 2.5 inch squares. The nine patch is framed with 2.5 inch strips. Very easy. It is seven blocks by nine blocks and measures 70 X 90 inches. No pattern. The grey texture is from my stash so I am not sure how much I used.
Last edited by Karen G; 08-04-2014 at 06:27 AM.
08-04-2014, 08:38 AM
#937
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: MO (the Show Me state)
Posts: 2,947
08-04-2014, 08:52 AM
#939
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: MO (the Show Me state)
Posts: 2,947
I will post some of my blocks soon on my QB blog. I have about 70 more string blocks to make first. I have so many scraps and short fabric pieces gotta use them up. I am still sewing blocks for my Perkiomen Daydream quilt, my 1.5" PSQ, my string quilt and my Anna Williams inspired quilt.
PSQ's and strings quilts are a journey for me and not just a destination so I sew on them all most of the time. Of course I want the Legos quilt to enter into a scrap quilt challenge online. It's due in October and I think I can make it.
08-04-2014, 12:32 PM
#940
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Portage, Michigan
Posts: 7,606
Havplenty, I just spend the last3/4 hour wandering through Lazy Quilter's web site. What a good photographer she is and it gives a little glimpse into another world that has touches of ours, cowboy boots, quilts and featherweights. Thank you for the link.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
barbarakibler23
Member Swaps and Round/Row Robins
2593
02-28-2017 07:57 PM
tlrnhi
Member Swaps and Round/Row Robins
100
09-30-2014 06:06 AM
Mariposa
Member Swaps and Round/Row Robins
71
06-02-2014 06:11 AM
luvTooQuilt
Member Swaps and Round/Row Robins
303
02-09-2011 12:20 PM
