Liberated Baskets

Making liberated baskets!

 

Here's a rough tutorial..

Make all your background squares the same height, but different widths. some skinny, some wide.

This one is 12 1/2" tall by 9" wide.

Cut in half at varying measurements.

This one happens to be at 6 1/4"

 

Cut a basket piece the same height as the bottom piece of background. 6 1/4" in this case.

 

Lay the basket square on top of the background. Cut the sides of the basket AND the background together at the same time at whatever wonky angle is pleasing to you.  That way they will line up for sewing. Here one side is cut and the extra piece of basket removed.

 

 

Cut the second side.

 

 

Discard the middle piece of background (that was under the basket) Then sew the basket and two sides together.

 

Use wonder under or your favorite applique method to applique the handles on the top half of the background. I used a straight stitch on my handles. Then sew the top and bottom together.

 

Wha-La! Lots of baskets....

 

some favorite baskets...

this one got a two colored handle...

 

You should be able to see the cute home machine quilting on this one.

 

Liberated Basket Quilt!

 

 

Rose and Vine Wedding Quilt in Pink and Navy

 

 We recently had a son get married! I can finally put up some pictures of their wedding quilt since they've seen it now. It was fashioned after one of my Grandmother's antique quilts. See that here. I've been wondering if blending the vintage rose quilt pattern and the navy modern lines really worked, but we've decided it's symbolic of weaving together the older generation and the new. :o)

 

First, the vines. I cut about 1" wide strips, folded them in half and twisted them.

 

Hand stitched the large flowers on.

 

wonder under for the leaves and other flowers.

 

some detail on the leaves! 

  

I love the navy ribbons, the vines, and the cross hatch machine quilting.

 

The six main pink roses are stitched down by hand. The rest are stitched by machine.

 

I did the quilting all on my juki TL-2000 home machine.

I attempted some feathering...

 

another view of the center and the cross hatch machine quilting.

 

cross hatching around the outside too. 

 

twisty vine around the inner border.

 

Feathering on the outside border.

 

 

 

Farmhouse Blocks

Having so much fun making "Farm Girl Vintage" Farmhouse blocks!

 

 

and from mostly Walmart fabrics!

 

That's right, I said "Walmart!"

 

could you just die?

Can't wait to do the next one....

Embroidered Pin Cushion!

I found this book recently. "Patchwork Loves Embroidery"

so many super cute things in it!

 

I immediately made a pin cushion. I do love a cute hand embroidered pin cushion!

How long does it take to do the embroidery? Only about two hours. Not bad at all.

Vintage Rose Quilt - Grandma Wins

 

 This month on mother's day would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday. It's a good time to share some of her quilts. When I first saw these vintage, antique quilts, I thought: "Wow. Grandma wins." These are the most gorgeous quilts I've ever seen! I am making a wedding quilt for my son. His fiancé asked for pink flowers. I remembered that my grandmother had made some flowers quilts and thought I'd like to see her quilts for a pattern as to how to place my flowers and vines. I asked my aunt for some photos. I felt immediately as though my grandmother was doing a little quilting show and tell with me like I do with my friends now. She wanted me to see her quilts. I feel her watching over me as I make my sons quilt.  I'll post that in July, after I give it to them. I even used her thread (on an old wood spool) as it was the only pink I had that matched these vintage colored fabrics. It's been a neat experience.

 

This is the famous rose quilt. ;o) It's all hand turned applique and hand quilted. Apparently, it was a pre-printed kit. The other quilts were expanded off that idea.

 

 

I love the quilting and the neat binding.

 This one is called the "Dogwood" quilt.

 

 

beautiful feathering and crosshatching....

 

 

the "Poppy" quilt

 

Pansys

 

My mother made this a long time ago. It's quilted with polyester instead of cotton so it's puffier. It really shows off the quilting!

 

this is my mother's rose quilt she made many years ago.

 

spectacular hand quilting...

Easy Shabby Chic Texas Star

 

 The Pattern "Sweet Starlet" by Basic Grey inspired me to try the texas star. I choose some gorgeous shabby chic fabrics.

 

Love these fabrics!

 

 

 

I free motion quilted swirls. pretty pattern...

 

Here's a bit of a tutorial....

Sew your strips together staggered...

 

cut on a 45* angle using the 45* line on your ruler lined up with the edge of the fabric.

 

do this with 3 different strips. assign a number to each of 5 fabrics. 3 is the middle one.

123

234

345

 

Sew them together being careful to match the corners.

 

To avoid a difficult Y seam here...

 

add strips to the bottom of each diamond like so.

 

the pieces go together like this.

 

Then like this. with corners added so it's now a square quilt.

 

Gorgemous!