Project Quilting 14.4 - A Novel Project: Harry Potter

 

The theme for week four of Project Quilting is "A Novel Project"

I have several favorite novels to choose from but when I saw the fabric with all the Harry Potter Book Jackets I knew I had to make a quilt with that.

I picked out a few more prints to go with it and cut out some big eight inch squares.

Boonky helped me cut out the black fabric for the sashing.

The shadows behind each print represent each of the house colors. 

And I couldn't pass up this print for the back.

I did a quick meandering for the quilting and put the binding on this morning.

This came together pretty quick since the blocks were big.  The thin white borders and shadows were quick too.  Add the sashing and the top was done and quilting was fast with the meandering. You can definitely make this quilt in a week or even in a weekend. particularly if you have a lot of time to sew on Saturday and Sunday.   

I need to make a few more of these for Harry Potter nights!

The Quilt measures approximately 48 x 59.

Head on over to Kim Lapcek's blog to see all the Novel Projects completed this week!

Happy Quilting!

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Quilt for Joyce

I finished this quilt at the beginning of January, but was waiting for it to be delivered to its new owner before showing it off. 

At the end of December my neighbor asked if I could make a quilt for her sister's 80th birthday which was coming up in January.

I told her I didn't have time to make a brand new quilt from scratch, but if she'd be interested in one of my UFOs I could finish one of those for her and have it ready in time for her Sister' birthday.

She picked out this older UFO and asked if I could make it a little bigger and piece her sister's name at the top.  I told her no problem.  I took apart the blocks and added a two inch sashing between them.  I needed to undo the top right corner anyway because one of the blocks was sewn in sideways which was the reason this one became a UFO in the first place. It got put in time out and then stayed there.

This quilt originally started in 2016 as part of a bee hive swap.

The block is called Shine Bright by Ms. Midge Quilting.

I pieced the name and added two large pinwheels in each side to balance things out.  I did have a row of pinwheels on the very bottom of the quilt too, but that made the quilt way longer than it was wide, so I took those off. 

The pattern for the letters come from Wayne Kollingers Sketchbook. I made them six inches tall and they sewed up pretty quick.

I made some Frankenbatting from two big left over pieces of Hobbs Premium cotton batting and got to quilting.

There wasn't a lot of time for custom quilting so this one got a fast swirly meander.

I think it turned out pretty good and I got an old UFO checked off my list and the new owner loved it!

Happy Quilting!

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Valentine Heart Bargello

Another UFO off the list!

On Valentines day 2021 I decided I needed a big Valentines Day quilt. I had seen a little quilt like this on Pinterest, but I wanted mine to be a bit bigger, so I played around in EQ8 and came up with this.

I pulled fabric from of my Personal Island Batik stash and used the 2.5 AccuQuilt strip die to cut my strips.

I was given the 2.5 inch strip die with my Island Batik Ambassador box a couple years ago. Originally I had reservations about these strip dies....

I love all the their triangle and odd shape dies, but surely I could cut straight lines faster and with less waste on my own. But, as I was hand cutting strips without the die for another project, I realized every 4 or 5 strips I had to straighten my edge up again.  When cutting 60 strips that's a lot of waste. Probably the same if not more than what the edges of the die would produce.

I also realized I was spending the same amount of prep time I would be using with the AccuQuilt die as I was layered and stacked fabrics to rotary cut. Plus I only like to cut 4 layers at a time with a rotary cutter, more than that and things get wonky.

And sometimes my ruler would move ever so slightly and I'd shave off an extra 1/16 of fabric at the end of a strip. With the die I get perfect strips every time.

So with that other project I ended up debunking all my pre-conceived notions and have come to love using these strip dies, and I was excited to use it to cut out all the strips for this Heart Bargello.  

Once my strips were cut and sewn into a tube, I cut out the columns.

Next was the challenge of opening the tube a the right spot.

I would say this is the hardest part of making a Bargello quilt.  Making sure you break the tube at the correct color.  If you have somewhere to lay out the strips as you go it helps.

This one was put together in sections. So I had small strip panels to work with.

I completed the top in one week.  I started it on February 14, 2021 and the last border was added February 21, 2021.

I even got the backing pieced right away.  And then it sat while other projects took over.

Almost two years later I pulled it back out to finish it up.

I used the same quilting method as my last two bargellos.

But I did shake it up a bit on the white fabric.

Lookin good! Time to bind it!

This one started out so fast, but then stalled, so I am glad to finally have it finished and ready Valentines day 2023.

Happy Sewing!

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