Dinah's Quilts & Embroidery

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.

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTZg5zw_4RI

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:

https://www.zundtdesign.com/lace-maker-quilt-designs/quilt-23set-1417.html

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

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!