quiltsbycheri: January 2014

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

new patterns......

Country ABC .... apples, insects, joy, pinchusions, x, y & z

A Good Day ..... a day spent stitching is a good day

Common Threads ..... a work in progress, four 12" blocks in each pattern, appliqued & piecing both......will be twenty-five blocks total plus border

sew a long with me and make the quilt or have a lot of fun little quilts......

click on pictures on side bar to go quiltsbycheri website to order......
enjoy......

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Monday, January 27, 2014

love me always.....

my finished quilt.....

cut the center block according to your heart size, frame with 1" wide strips and border with 2 & 1/2" wide strips.....
enjoy....
xoxoxo

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Sunday, January 26, 2014

have been inspired by Lori at Notforgotten Farm to do some no count, free hand cross stitching......
whipped up a little quilt yesterday morning with a center block for stitching then cross stitched the heart and words in the time it took me to watch Under the Gunn, a Project Runway spin off......
I drew on my heart shape with a Frixion pen by Pilot and started stitching away with three strands of white embroidery floss.....

quilted the little quilt today, sewing on binding tonight, will wash, tea dye and share the finished quilt with you soon.....

you can visit http://farmhousenotforgotten.blogspot.com to see Lori's Crash Course on free hand cross stitching and her primitive patterns, using this technique, which I will be stitching on as soon as I receive them.....

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

lessons learned......

for the last couple of days I have been under the expert tutelage of Lisa Bongean, yes the Primitive Gatherings very one.......as an instructor, I can tell you, she has a wealth of constructive, helpful, friendly, useful stitching information..... Fun and Nice to boot!
a crazy quilt was our project and I've always wanted to give that a try......her technique was so easy, right up my alley......
Winter Crazy Quilt Table Mat

now being a bit of a darker, more primitive quilter I changed Lisa's design up a bit so my crazy quilt table mat can sit out all year......

so intent was I on learning those crazy quilt stitches I stitched the piece right to my jeans at one point!

one useful and simple tip Lisa gave us I used last night, is to tuck a pillow under our stitching project, less stress on our neck and back, works!

now my crazy quilt design will not become a pattern, as this is already a Primitive Gatherings design.....I just changed the wool colors for the background and used my own applique drawings but I have an idea......
you can purchase Primitive Gatherings Wool Crazy Table Mat pattern from them and Whatnots pattern from me, which has the pieces I used for applique....
now out of two patterns you have three designs......snowman crazy quilt, small quilt and a primitive crazy mat and you could make the little quilt in blues with snowman appliques around......now your have four for the price of two!

now off to clean my house which has not been touched because I was having to much fun learning stuff......
enjoy.......

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Friday, January 17, 2014

a quilting day.....

accomplished the quilting of three little quilts for new patterns and the quilting of four very important quilts for Lucy.....when I started making these for Lucy I purposely made them in a variety of fabrics so she wouldn't become attached to just one......well she has become attached to not the fabric choice but the must have ribbon tag......only wants the polka dot one! so I am now making backups.....