Flannel Ragtime Quilt

 

In my previous post I mentioned a quilt...my first quilt...that was made nearly 13 yrs ago. Long, long before I started blogging...probably even before blogs were a thing.

 

I made this quilt during little boy nap-times.

The front is warm tones and the back cool blues.

It's a perfect throw blanket on cold winter nights.

In fact, there is sometimes a fight over who gets to use this quilt when we are all watching TV because it's the best one to snuggle under.

 

It's finished!!

I fixed my mistake and sewed like a mad woman yesterday and this morning.

I'm very happy with the quilt. I made 3 edges scalloped and the top edge straight so it would fit more like a bedspread.

Stats:

• 238 denim circles cut by hand from jeans, shorts and a dress
• countless small spools of colored thread
• 46 semi circles and 192 5 in squares of fabric from my stash
• 3 band-aids...pins and my fingers don't play nicely together
  
• size: 75 x 90 inches
• weight: 8lbs
  

What's wrong with this picture?

See the square piece laying over the rectangular hole!!!!

AGH! I hate it when I mess up!!! Lots of sewing to rip out...

Finally some progress

In preparation for Christmas I set aside packed away my circles quilt and promptly forgot about it. Outta sight, outta mind.

I broke out the sewing machine and iron this morning and got back to work. It's really coming together quickly now. I was very surprised when I laid all the pieces out on the living room floor that I was only 8 circles short. Easy peasy to whip those up.

Hopefully I'll have a completed quilt to show by weeks end!

Quilt progress

I've made some headway on my quilt.

I do know will most definitely be colorful!

Circles into clovers and mountains.

I'm sad...I only had on person even ventured a guess at what the heck I'm making.

Ok...I'm over it. Comments and questions are always appreciated though!

I'm in the painstaking process of making another quilt like this.

The one I'm working on will be a little larger than the first... YIKES! That one was quite a challenge to sew at the end stages for me.

Each circle is drawn around a kids plastic plate then hand cut with a scissors. Then the sewing lines have to be drawn on with a template. Please if anyone knows a speeder technique, let me know!!

I'll need to start cutting all the fabric squares to place in the Cathedral windows shortly. This is what I believe to be a variation of the Cathedral window quilt pattern. What I like about it is that it finishes both sides at the same time!!

Sneak peek

Here's a peek at the start of my latest sewing project.

The circles are all recycled clothing.

Any guess what it will be?

I just love this close-up of the stack of colors.

Quilt finished...hooray!

With the cold weather settling in, I really was under pressure to get this one done.

She loves it and told me that it's so snuggly warm.

Another quilt

I have to preface this with the fact that I DID NOT piece this quilt top myself.

My mom picked it up years ago at an estate sale or maybe and auction. Since my folks are trying to pare down their possessions, mom gifted me with this quilt top.

My daughter loved it!

In keeping with our family's continued effort to renew, reuse and recycle; I am using a twin flat sheet for the backing of the quilt and an old fleece/wool type blanket for the batting. Since the batting is quite thick I'm just tying the quilt instead of hand or machine quilting. I will be sewing the backing up over the front as the binding though.

Ragtime quilt complete!

I finished sewing the quilt yesterday morning. I would have been done on Tuesday night first I put the bobbin in wrong then broke a needle and then put the new needle in backwards so it kept breaking the thread. It was very frustrating. I knew then that it was just time to be done for the day.

After the sewing, I had to clip each seam allowance every half inch then wash it so it would fray after washing. The nylon stocking that serves as my filter on my washing machine outlet had a large fist size ball of frayed denim and flannel in it. Then the dryer lint trap was even more full of fluff. I would have taken it to a laundry mat but we don't have any around here anymore. It's a 20 min drive to the closest one.

There are several things I love about this quilt:

1. All the flannel is from my maternity tops and my boy's flannels from when he was very small.
2. The denim is from both mine and my hubby's old jeans. Together we've lost about 50lbs!!
   
3. The "batting" I used was scraps of polar fleece that I got for free from someones "project gone wrong"
4. This blanket is fairly heavy! This provides good sensory comfort for my boy. He needs/loves heavy blankets to help him sleep through the night.
   

Chunkies and Quilting

I got a couple of chunky books put together finally. I was thinking that all of the pages would fit in one book but my O-wires weren't big enough, hence the two books.



My other current project is my recycled flannel and denim ragtime quilt. Much to my surprise, it's going together quickly. I have all the pieces cut and am assembly line sewing them. With any luck I'll have the whole works finished by the end of the week.

Charms, beads and quilts, oh my!

After nearly a week of no arts or crafts I was starting to go through withdrawals.

There has been quite a bit of chatter on the Yahoo groups I belong to about charms lately. I made these since ones today from some MahJong tiles I had laying around.
My only question is: Do I have these in the proper direction?

The next item I played around with was some more paper beads. I had used up almost all I had made before. They are so simple and very addictive to make. Now I really want to make some smaller ones. I'm thinking if I get some coffee stirring straws, they'll be thin enough to make some small beads on.

I have also started cutting fabric for a quilt. I've made an all flannel quilt using this pattern but this time I am planning on doing flannel on one side and denim on the other. Today in celebration of a 16lb weight loss...I cut up 3 pairs of jeans to put to good use in the quilt!


UPDATE: 26LB WEIGHT LOSS NOW!!!