Blooming Nine Patch Quilt - This one is for sale

Here is one of my favorite quilts.  I took forever it seems like to make.  The small squares are 1 1/4" and the large squares are 3 3/4".
My favorite quilts are the ones made from tiny pieces, but I don't like to take the time to make them.

 This quilt is 75" x 86".  It is a little wider and a little shorter than the standard twin bed size.

A closer look at this quilt.

The backing is hand dyed fabric.  This was the fabric that started this quilt.  I quilted this with an extra large stippling stitch.  I didn't want the quilting to take away from the design and it didn't.  I rolled the backing to the front for the binding and mitered the corners.  It is quilted in a peach colored thread.

I will take this quilt to my mom's house to sell at her fall craft fair.

Two More Twin Bed Quilts for Sale

There are more pictures of this quilt HERE.  This is a Lewis and Clark pattern also.  It is twin bed size in length, but wider.

You can see by the camera date how long ago I made this quilt.  All it does is sit in a tote with a bunch more.  I thought one of the grandsons would want it, but they are into hunting and this is fishing fabric.
This quilt has a tan backing with the backing rolled to the front to make the binding.

Here is another fishing quilt that is twin bed size.  Click HERE and scroll to the bottom of the page to see more details.  It is on the same page as the one above.

The picture was taken the same day and they were both made around the same time.
This quilt has a forest green backing with the backing rolled to the front to make the binding.

Two more quilts for my mom's sale.

Western Qult for Sale

Here is a wall hanging pattern that I turned into a quilt.  It is about 56 x 87".  A little smaller than the standard twin bed size.

I collected western prints when I found them.  I had the animal skin prints from a collection of fat quarters I bought several years ago. I almost always roll the backing to the front to bind my quilts.  This one is done that way.

Here is a closeup of one corner.  My mom stippled the quilt for me on her quilting machine.

Here is one of the boots.

A hat to match.

This is the only boot that doesn't have a matching hat in the quilt.  Because of the odd number of blocks one hat had to be left out.

 Here is the matching hat square.  Haven't decided what to do with it.  Pillow, quilt label?

This is the fabric on the quilt back.  It is not on the front of the quilt except as the binding edge.

I will take this quilt to my mom's house to sell at her fall craft fair.

Bugs in a Jar Quilt

Finished the borders on the bugs in a jar quilt today.

Here is the finished twin bed sized quilt top.  I was planning to make the blue border look like a book (jar) case.  The blue I finally found to match a few days ago has too much stretch to it and so I decided to use the border I did, because it has almost no stretch and was a little bit heavier cotton.

The fabric that started this idea is the outside border and the bug fabric between the rows of jars.  It was one piece of fabric that alternated strips of the yellow bug and flower design' then the crawling bugs design.  I bought it about 6 years ago and finally my mom and sister found the last 7 bug fabrics for me a few months ago.

I found many jar pattern, but nothing that was just what I wanted, so I drew my own.

The most time consuming part was folding all of the 1 1/2" squares and pressing them.  Sew them to the bug fabric just a tiny bit to the right of the fold line.  Look closely and you can see the red line of the foot on the crease and the needle just to the right.  Pressing the corner to the top uses a tiny bit of fabric to roll over the seam and if you stitch right on the crease the new triangle piece won't come to the outer corner.  Trim off the extra fabric in the corner so you have 1/4 inch seam.

Sew the four corners on.  Then the long sides.  Next sew the jar lid and the piece above the lid together.  Sew on the two background pieces to the lid sides.  The next time consuming part was pinning the lid to the top of the bottle so the seams matched perfectly (well almost).

Finding a jar lid fabric that I liked took a lot of time also.  I used muslin as the background fabric and sewed everything with a scant 1/4" seam.
I'm happy with the results and hope to have it quilted this month using my mom's quilting machine.

My Scrap Happy Quilt

Here is the quilt top of a scrappy quilt.  Sorry I forgot to take pictures.  Please let me know if my directions don't make sense.  I will make some samples if needed.

This is a twin bed size that is going to be for my granddaughter.
I thought I took pictures of how to make it, but I guess I didn't.
So here are the directions:
Everything was pieced onto foundation fabric.  I bought a queen size sheet from the thrift store and cut it into my foundation pieces.
The squares were cut 12 1/2" X 12 1/2".  The strips between the squares were cut 3 1/2" wide and the width of the sheet.  All seams are 1/4"
Fold the squares into a triangle and press the fold line.  This is used as a guide.  Lay a piece of fabric on one corner with the crease in it and center the crease below the corner fabric.  Add the next strip with right sides together and sew.  The strips I used are not all the same width on both ends of that strip of fabric.  If you look closely you will see how the angle slightly changes.  Some strips are pieced before sewing to the foundation fabric also.  After the foundation square is covered turn it over and trim off all excess fabric.
Piece the 3 1/2" strips of fabric the same way (no crease line needed).  Just be sure to change the angle of the strips every so often and piece some little pieces together before sewing to the foundation strip.
Cut the long strip into as many 12 1/2" strips as needed and sew them to the squares.  Add the long strips that connect each row.  Sew the foundation strips together if needed before adding the scraps.

 The following pictures are from a different project, but the concept is the same.

 Right sides together.  Sew it 1/4 inch seams.

 Flip the strip over and press.  Continue until all strips are added.  Don't skip the pressing.  This is where my TV tray pressing board came in very handy.

Trim off excess fabric to match foundation piece.