Sunday Sewing

I have been sewing since early this morning, all in an effort to complete the July Challenge for the Quilted Table Yahoo group. This is the first time I have done one of the monthly challenges, even though I have printed the patterns for most of them. It is not quilted yet, but I have a few flimsies in my collection now and will be taking them to the long arm quilter shortly to get them all done at once. At 55"x55", this one is too big for me to do on my home sewing machine! It is a little bigger than the average table topper!At first, I was not sure of the yellow fabric, so I consulted with a quilting friend. She liked the yellow, especially when I showed her the sashing and borders.

There is an outer piano key border...

And red sashing...

As well as a wider border using the focus fabric...



When I put everything together, I took my husband and my new quilt outside to the backyard where I took a picture of my gardening quilt in my garden! I think I am going to call it "In My Garden".

Post #100

This is my 100 th post on my blog! I can't believe I have done that many. See the bottom of this post for a give-away to celebrate this momentous occasion!

I have been working on my Gardening quilt over the last couple of days. Last night, I added these green pieces to the red ones to make some triangles.







Next, I added these triangles to the units I showed you in my last post.








Remember the 4-patches? They got sewn to the red sides of the above sections.



The centre of the blocks is a "snowball" block, made with my Debbie Mumm focus fabric.

The next pictures show how the blocks were put together. There are 8 blocks like this in the quilt. Now, you can see how all of the fabrics go together. There is still one more fabric that you have not seen yet. Keep watching my blog for the next stage of this quilt's assembly.

Now, the give-away... All you have to do is comment on this 100th blog by Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 6pm (Eastern Standard Time) and I will pick one name to receive a quilted postcard and a loyalty card wallet made from the fabrics I am using to make this quilt. Make sure I can access your e-mail address so that I can get your mailing address to send the parcel to the winner.

Cutting and sewing...

I spent some time this evening sewing some of the pieces together to make the blocks for my gardening quilt. The pattern is actually called Chloe's Christmas, but I am not using Christmas fabrics. (Samples of the fabrics are in the previous post) I got the pattern from the Quilted Table Yahoo Group page. This quilt is the July challenge project. Here are the 4-patches that I made today.




The next step was to add these blue triangles to the light yellow pieces to form a triangle.











Then, I added some red pieces to the triangles. It is hard to tell what it will look like yet, but I will continue to post my progress.