Friday, July 24, 2020

Star Wars Theme T-Shirt Quilt



Today I just finished a Memorial T-Shirt Quilt.  The quilt will be gifted to the father of the deceased young man.  Theme: Star Wars.  The prominent colors of the shirts were red and black, so I used that color scheme for the borders.  

  It went from a pile like this to this! 


  To This! 
This is a big quilt!  Measures 87 by 107!!

First I cut out each shirt larger than the block size.  I used Pellon Feather Weight Fusible Interfacing 911FF to the back of each shirt. I cut the pellon larger that the shirt size too.  This way all of the t-shirt is stabilized.  If you skip this step you will have lots of puckers if you do an overall quilt pattern on top or freehand work. 



I put the interfacing on in sections.
Iron On The Interfacing.



 I love my stream press for this.
 


I photograph each piece and "lay" them out in my EQ8 program.  Great program because not only can you preview your quilt, but you can change the size, color & layout  of your quilt.  When you are done you can print out the quilt and templates if you like.  Sure beats moving 30 pieces around the bed! 
  


A pair of shorts was in the bag shirts, so deconstructed it and made this block.

  




I longarm quilt all my quilts.  I use the black bars on the end to help keep the quilt from shifting.  Harbor Fright Magnetic Tool Holder. I use 5 across the quilt top.  


 
To make sure there wasn't any puckers on the sweater, I used water soluble topping I basted to the quilt top. Quilting over a sweater can be very challenging without topping. 



                        Close Ups
 









The overall star swirl pattern is easy to see on this block. This is also a combined block.


Combined block.


Combined block.



Space Ships: The top border design is different than the center overall star design.  
               
 Back of the quilt
 
                         Personalized Quilt Label. 




Sunday, November 3, 2019


Singer Featherweight 221



In April I was looking on ebay and found a very cheap Singer Featherweight 221.  Today I made her a little cover.


I was a bit apprehensive when I made the purchase. She needed some TLC, but she works great!!! The case...smells.  Ugh.  Did all I could to get the smell out, but they when these cases where made they used horse glue. Horse glue + moisture = AN Awful Stink.  Seems like all these original cases smell, but Still VERY happy with my purchase.  

Here is a short video of before and after.






Zundt Pillows


Blue Center - Pink Flowers
Pink Center - Blue Flowers















I started making these two pillows years ago when I discovered the Zundt Designs.  I saw this pillow and fell in love!  The designs may be purchased here: 


The pillow is made from 64 embroidered individual pieces and sewn together to make the top.




I used dissolvable stabilizer and embroidered several of the free-standing lace designs at once.  Once the designs are completed, I soaked each design in water to dissolve the stabilizer. Let them dry and sewed each piece together with invisible thread.






Well, they have been moved around for about 12 years or so. (if you sew, you will understand how that happens - LOL).  Each time they were lovingly placed away ~ I would sigh and returned them back to their storage area ~ no time to make them yet. Today I finally had time to make the pillow forms.  I sewed the embroidered pillow on a black background to bring out the beauty of the designs.

Now on to the next project! 


Sunday, May 5, 2019

Harry Potter Quilt Completed!


I love this quilt so much I didn't want to let it go!  





Here is link to a short close-up Video:
 Harry Potter Quilt Competed





Sunday, March 24, 2019

Harry Potter Quilt

Harry Potter Quilt

Making this fun quilt for my Godson's Baby Boy.

This will be the grid I will be working from. 


Section 1: Time Turner - Appliqued 


Section 2: Harry’s Letter - Appliqued


Section 3: Mirror of Erised - Applied - Harry’s family- Iron On Transfer- Th mirror was too plain by itself, so I decided to add Harry’s Family. Love how this worked out! 


Section 4: Deathly Hallows - Embroidered / Appliqued


Section 5: Quill - Appliqued
Section 6: Bricks - Appliqued 


Section 7: Harry’s Robes - Appliqued


Section 8: HP – Embroidered
Section 9: Crest - Embroidered 



Section 10: Platform 9 3/4 - Embroidered


Section 11: Harry Potter Face / Glasses


Section 12: Owl - Embroidered


Section 13: Sword - Appliqued

Section 14: Broom - Appliqued

Section 15: Wand -Appliqued


Section 16: Dark Mark- Appliqued


Section 17- Cauldron - Embroidered


Section 18: Foot Prints -Embroidered


Section 19: Marauders Map - Appliqued


Section 20: Sorting Hat - Embroidered


Section 21: Castle - Embroidered


Section 22: Snitch - Embroidered

Section 23: Patronus - Appliqued


Section 24: Quidditch-Appliqued


Section 25: Dementor -Appliqued


Section 26: Flying Key- Embroidered


Section 27: Lumos -Embroidered


Section 28: Dobby’s Sock - Embroidered


Section 29: Triwizard Tournament Cup - Appliqued


Section 30: Womping Willow - Embroidered

Section 31: Fawkes - Embroidered