Getting Ready for the Quilt Show

I have been sewing binding on my flannel quilt and adding hanging sleeves to my quilts for the London Friendship Quilters' Guild Harvest of Quilts show this weekend. After several hours of hand-stitching, I am done.  I am going to add this post to Kathy's Handstitching Sundays post.

My flannel quilt was long armed by Cathy --she used a pattern called Northern Stars which I picked out from a website where Cathy purchases patterns.

I finally had a sunny day and two quilt holders available yesterday! My daughter is home for a few days from university and she held one end while her Dad held the other end.

I am looking forward to having this cozy flannel quilt on my bed this winter!

I made this quilt for the LFQG challenge a few years ago and recently donated it to a fundraising auction at Camp Kintail. Our family attended family camp at Camp Kintail for many years and my daughter worked there as a counsellor for a few years.

The challenge fabric was the Laurel Birch fish fabric.

I did the quilting with straight lines myself.

I hope the new owner enjoys my fish quilt and that the Camp was able to raise lots of money for the camp through their silent auction fundraiser.

At our last London Friendship Quilters' Guild meeting, we had a speaker that showed quilts she had made from feedsacks. This cross stitch block was part of one of the quilts. It reminded me of my daughter--she is not a morning person!

Happy Sewing!

A Flannel Finish!

Last year, many members of the London Friendship Quilters' Guild signed up to make a mystery quilt designed by Glenda Spencer at Stone Cottage Quilts. We received a set of instructions each month for most of the guild year and I managed to keep up with each step. This past Thursday night, several quilters brought in their finished quilt tops and quilts for show and tell. It was fun to see how different they looked with each quilters' choice of colours and fabrics.

So, here is my quilt as it grew from the centre medallion to a finished quilt.

My fabric came from a fat quarter bundle I purchased while on a family vacation a few years ago. I had been waiting for just the perfect project to use this bundle.

There were a few steps in the centre block...

I only had one fat quarter that was purple and tried to use a little bit of it in each stage of this project.

My completed center block. I purchased several yards of the light coloured flannel to use as my background fabric.

The next border was friendship stars. I worked on these stars at an Elgin Piecemakers sewing day.

Friendship stars done.

Next up... a snowball border.

The next month, I made lots of these hour glass units.

They were used to make Ohio stars.

Some solid borders were sewn on next.

Then, I made some majestic mountain blocks for the next border...--sorry--I must have forgotten to take a picture of the quilt top with that border added. At this point, the mystery was complete. I put the quilt top on my queen sized bed and decided to add a flying geese border to all sides to make the quilt just a bit bigger. I like my quilts to hang down the sides of the bed quite a bit.

These sets of two were sewn into long chains of flying geese.

I was very happy to get the last borders onto this quilt. The flannel feels very cozy but it is heavy and it was hard to keep the quilt on the table while I sewed the borders on!

Here is the completed top on my guest room bed--it is a double bed.

You can see my majestic mountains border in this picture.

I used up all of my leftovers to piece the back.

The quilt has now been quilted and the binding and label are done.  I don't have anyone here today to hold it up so I can take a picture outside so you will have to wait for the finished quilt pictures. 

Today, I will be making PJ's and pillowcases for my nieces for their birthday next week. They are twins and will be 13 years old.

Time to sew!