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One of the advantages I give you in my sewalongs is publishing the layout early. My Grandma's kitchen layout was published in the middle of October. Many of you took advantage of this so that when I gave out block 25/25 you were able to sew it into place and have a whole top DONE! Now it's time to show it off, PLUS I have a giveaway for someone that has shared. I am giving you until late January to post a finished top or full quilt, details at the end!
Holy cow was it WINDY yesterday when I took this photo! I had to pin the quilt to the fence along the top and sides.. then at the bottom I put my pin cushion in the hope that I could get at least one shot of it. No way it could go on the line yesterday.
I'm hosting a 'Quilt Your own Quilt' over the next few weeks and using my pastel Grandma's kitchen to show you how to quilt it in 3 sections. If you don't have my Machine Quilting book yet, you need it to follow along.
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Since my quilt is in 3 long sections, that meant for the photo shoot I had to pin the sections together to be able to show you the entire quilt. The best thing ever is having a pincushion made for me by my very good friend Kim from my fabrics! I use this ALL the time. She has a great tutorial if you want to make your own
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Here it is in a rare second that it was not flapping and blowing around!
See the pincushion on the bottom right?
And all the pins holding the 3 sections together for the photo?
To Quilt Your Own Quilt with this project,
- sew the top 2 rows together
- sew middle 2 rows together
- and sew the bottom 2 rows together.
This give us much easier pieces to quilt on our machine. They are long, but not wide.
I'm using the wonderclips and alphabitties (BOTH ON SALE!) to mark the 3 sections and I clipped each to the top right of the section.
For the Quilt Your Own Quilt sew along you need batting. I like either the 50/50 or 100% cotton. The great part is you can order a sample pack of all the Happy Cloud batting, that is what I did. Then you know what they are like.
If you want to get ready for quilting your own quilt, baste the 3 sections.
NOTE- My Book is on how to quilt your own quilt.
- I'll be quilting each of the 3 sections referencing my book for techinques
- The bulk of what you will be doing is basting, thread selection and deciding what to quilt.
- I'll be quilting with my walking foot & showing you what I do.
- BONUS TIP which is NOT in my book will be how to cover the seam when I sew 2 sections together. This will be a BONUS tutorial on how to do ONE method of Quilt as You go (QAYG). There are lots of ways to approach quilting in units, I'll show one here at my website.
ORDER HAPPY CLOUD Batting... (I LOVE that name!)
Let's get real
Sometimes I over extend myself... bet you would have NEVER guessed that...
I started a second Grandma's Kitchen and got 16 of the 25 blocks made. Sound familiar? I decided that I'm not going to do anymore, and I'd make the 10.5" into 12.5" blocks.
- I sewed a 1.5" strips to each side of the 10.5" blocks so they are now 12.5" blocks.
- I cut 2.5" x 12.5" wide sashing
- I cut 2.5" x 2.5" squares for the corners. It's on my wall as you can see.. and... now....
since I LOVE IT SO MUCH.. do I want to make it longer? 4 more quick blocks? or just say NO and stop here?
ps... I asked your thoughts on a border color at my Facebook Group (HERE) ... I'm going with Navy If I don't first do 4 .. more... blocks...
Does this ever happen to you?
ONTO the FUN part, sharing your finished tops and quilts.. woohoo!
I love to sweeten the deal with a giveaway.. this bundle of
- FQs from my pastel version that I didn't use
- 2 mini charms of my Sunday Drive
- A Jelly roll of my Sunday Drive batiks
- AND a large spool of 50wt Aurifil!
LEAVE a COMMENT (no url needed, leave it blank) by February 18 at 6pm est telling me
** Which Grandma's Kitchen Block did you enjoy the most
for the Memories it gave you? **
