Mark another one off......

 Yeah!!!! I completed another one on my February list.  This quilt was a lot of fun for me and I learned a lot from it.  I love the colors, and want to make a quilt that is very similar for myself.  I learned a few tricks to half square triangles and the hourglass block.  I also learned about thread color.  I have never really put a lot of thought into the color of thread I used to machine quilt.  I always just tried to pick a color that was in the quilt.  I chose pink thread for this quilt and it showed up really well on the green squares, but you could not see it at all on the pink squares or the border.  When I quilted this quilt it was the first time I experienced tension problems from my machine and I had to fight it throughout the whole quilt.  I  finally got the tension corrected, but I tried so many things that I am not sure what fixed the problem.  I just hope it is an experience that does not occur that often.  FEATHERS..... I have played with the feather shape a couple of times, but never really tried to make feathers.  This time I tried and I had a hard time at first.  I put a few feathers throughout the quilt but I really tried hard to make feathers on the border.  This is the back. 

 After I completed the quilt I found a tutorial on feathers and it really opened my eyes to feathers and I AM IN LOVE WITH THEM............. Just wait till my next completed project.  Yes I am close to completing another project.   Now binding.  I love binding, I think it is the final pop to the quilt and when I found the fabric I just could not resist it.

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Till Then Tracy

To Pratice or Not

   My local quilt shop is haveing  a BOM (block of month)  and I was very excited to partake.  I had the bright idea that I would follow the instructions and practice with some scraps before I actually cut the fabric that came with the pattern.  The idea of this was to prevent mistakes and I would end up with two quilt tops at the end of the year.  My practice BOM will be out of red, white and blue fabric.  My idea did not turn out as planned.  My practice block went great, not one hiccup.  My actual BOM I cut the fabric wrong on two different places,  I had to sew two pieces together to get the correct size for one block.  The block did not go together correctly and it is not square.  I am going to try really hard to just tell myself that it will add character to the finished top.  I always here that every quilt has mistakes and no one ever notices .  I have to take the completed block into the quilt shop and then I will receive the next block free.  I hope they don't inspect it or even look at it.  On the flip side my sister in law is going to the quilt shop with me and I am so excitied.  She has just started quilting and we have never done any quilting activities together.  I wouldn't be suprised if I didn't causally brouse the quilt shop looking for some of the fabric that came with the first BOM and then correct my block..... I can't wait good company and a quilt shop, sound like the start to a great weekend. 

 

Completed One!!!!!

Yes I did it.  I completed one thing off my February WIP list.  As of now I have at least completed as much this month as I did last month.  I must find the positive any way that I can.  I promised pictures so here they are......

Josh's Quilt

This is the binding, I chose to do a scrappy binding from leftover fabric from the quilt top.

     
The Quilt.  I had seen this pattern in  a magazine and of course I could not follow the pattern and had to make the adjustments to make the quilt the way I wanted.  The fabric colors is suppose to look manly and you know I really love the way it turned out. 

Quilting...... I machine quilted it myself on my domestic sewing machine.  I had a hard time trying to decide what type of quilting to use for this quilt so I fell back on a pattern that I use a lot and is easy for me.



I am now going to look over the list and find the next one I want to concentrate on.

Till Then Tracy

February 2010 WIP

Well I only got one of my WIP completed from my January 2010 list, so what did I do from that?
Make my next list shorter.  February dose only have 28 days.  I have pictures coming soon. 

Till Then Tracy