Quilted Delights: August 2024

Saturday, August 31, 2024

Halloween Chevron Topper

August was all about Marvelous Mini Quilts for Island Batik Ambassadors

I decided to play around with the Mini Ten Wedge ruler by Phillips Fiber Art. I bought the ruler years ago and this is the pattern that came with the ruler. I don't think you can get the mini size ruler any more, but you can use the regular Ten Wedge and still make this smaller version.

I needed something festive for Halloween to put on a circular end table, so I pulled out some orange, black, and purple Island Batik Blenders.

The pattern starts out by sewing strip sets. From there you cut your angles and sew everything together.
Avi and Boonky are always around to give their opinion.

Hobbs Heirloom Fusible batting came in handy for this project.

Since it was small, I didn't want to quilt it on the longarm, so I used some Hobbs Fusible batting along with my Oliso iron to sandwich everything together.

The batting worked great and I didn't have any puckers on the back.

I quilted it with orange and light purple Auriful threads and used Schmetz 90/14 quilting needle.

The purple thread is showing as gray in the photo, but it looks purple and pretty cool in person.

Avi and Boonky couldn't wait to test it out for comfort.

The quilt is one inch larger than the challenge size, it came out to be 25 inches across. But it fits on the table perfectly.

Happy Sewing!

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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

It's a Jungle Blog Hop Challenge

Welcome to day two of the "It's a Jungle" Blog Hop Challenge, hosted by Joan of Moose Stash Quilting. Today I am showing off my Tiger One Block Wonder quilt!

These tiger panels have been patiently waiting for their day to shine.

With the help of Avi, I stacked six of them and cut them into strips...

And then into triangles...

And more triangles.

I even spliced more pieces together to create new triangles.

The spliced ones blended together pretty good.

I made a nice stack of kaleidoscope hexies and chain-stitched them all together.

I sewed them in batches so I didn't sit too long at the machine.

Then I placed them all on the design wall.

And started organizing them.

I did lots of rearranging...

and finally came up with a layout I liked.

Since tigers are orange, I quilted it with orange thread.

The orange thread blended great with all the colors in the panel.

I try to use all the hexagons I get from the panel.

To me, using all the hexagons is a fun challenge when making One Block Wonder Quilts.

Sometimes it takes longer to figure out where some of the odd blocks go, but I usually find a spot.

I have a few favorite blocks. This bird block turned out fantastic.

I love the several eye blocks.

This bright pink block was one of a kind and stands out more than the rest, but I really like it.

There are lots of fun blocks in this one.

The flamingo legs turned out pretty funny to me.

When adding the main panel in the center, I kept the top and bottom hexagons whole. This meant I had to do a little hand stitching to keep them from flipping up.

I did some custom quilting in the main panel and then did an all-over swirl meander in all the hexagons.

It was fun to "draw" all over the quilt with the thread.

I used up several of my green prints from my stash for the backing.

This is my thirteenth One Block Wonder Quilt. I really enjoy the process of creating a puzzle without quite knowing what it's supposed to look like till the end.