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I’m working on quilting the Iris quilt and since the final class preview for the melted crayon technique that I’m teaching is tonight I wanted to get the center part mostly done. I think I’m happy with the quilting. Not sure if I’ll add more or not yet. I need to quilt the borders. Still undecided as to how I’m going to do those.
(Forgive the bad cell phone photos – it was 11:30PM last night when I finished and dark this morning when I left work so no light to speak of and didn’t have time to do a DSLR pic)
Marked with crosshatching lines. I spaced them 2″ apart and this is at a 45 degree angle.
After quilting on all the registration lines I did a 1/4 quilting line beside each one.
I need to give the Iris and other applique pieces a good press now that the quilt is dry (had to spray it down to remove blue water soluable marking lines).
Before I went to sleep I dug through a box of fabric scraps that I received from the Fat Quarter Shop. I purchased the 12lb Fabric Grab Bag from them to see what sorts of stuff they included since the other one I used to get from a different company is no longer available. The FQS estimates 20-25 yards of fabric is included in each Grab Bag. That’s less than $3 a yard if you’re conservative and estimate you only get 20 yards. I think I got more than that.
I’ll take individual photos later but here’s a photo of all the fabric piled up on my sewing cabinet.
I received a fair amount of tans and black fabric, tons of Project Linus (Snoopy) fabric, a few civil war repos, lots of fun dot prints and a full 1/2 yard set of Riley Blake large chevrons. I’m really excited to do something with those! This is a great stash builder. It’s on sale right now so if you love scrap boxes I soooo recommend buying one.
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I have never bought a grab bag…but the fabrics look fun! Very tempting! Are most of the pieces FQs or are some pieces smaller?
Good job on your wall hanging!
Most pieces are 1/2 yard or larger. Very few are 1/4 or smaller. No fat quarters, these are all selvage to selvage cuts.
That quilting really showcases your work. I loved it. I haven’t purchased the remnants from Fat Quarter but fabric.com had their remnants back yesterday and I grabbed one. Good luck with your class!
I saw that they were back but they’re now double the price of what they used to be. $20 was an okay deal for three pounds of fabric (approx 9 yards) but $40 was waaay out of my price range. Beth shared the FQS deal with me and that was a much better price per yard.
Fabric.com bundle comes out to be $4.44 per yard if you get 9 yards total.
Fat Quarter Shop bundle comes out to be $3 per yard if you get 20 yards and $2.40 if you get 25.
Wow, didn’t realize they increased that much. I will check out the FQS. Thanks
I love your idea of sewing 1/2″ from the original lines on your quilting. It really makes it look extra special! Mind if I steal that idea sometime?
As for the borders. I recently tried one of Lea Day’s designs, I think she calls it nested hearts or something like that. She has a video on it and it worked out really well for a quilt I recently finished. I used a meandering “vine” to which I attached the nested hearts. I received a lot of compliments on the border quilting. That design might work well here.
Steal away – the design is not an original
My machine isn’t cooperating for FMQing so that is out until I can figure out how to get it to work without the thread breaking every 1/2 inch. The batik is so dark I think any pattern I put in it will be lost anyway. I’m not going to spend a whole bunch of time doing a fancy design in the batik.
Yikes! Sorry about the FMQ issues. I didn’t realize your machine was not cooperating with that. Have you tried doing it with the feed dogs in the “UP” position? I know that goes directly against common sense but I have really great results doing it that way with my Janome. Couldn’t hurt to try it until you can get your dealer to figure out the issue causing thread breakage. I also use my embroidery tension settings for the bobbin when FMQ and that works really well for me. Each machine has it’s own personality, doesn’t it?
Feed dogs up made my thread break anytime I pushed the fabric away from me. Tried a few different types of thread. Tried few different needles. Tried a different quilting foot. Tried at a slower speed. Not sure what I’m doing wrong but I must be missing something major to be having this much trouble. I see my dealer tonight so I’ll ask if she has any pointers.
I love your quilt of the iris and hummingbirds. This may be a silly question but did you put the appliques on after you quilted the middle section. I can’t see any sewing lines over the appliques.
The appliques were put on before the crosshatching was quilted on. I just quilted up to each applique piece, stopped and continued past them. Threads on top were trimmed away. I need to iron the appliques back flat since they wrinkled a bit after I sprayed everything down to take away the marking lines.
I ordered my book today and bought my box of crayons! I feel so inspired. Love the quilt.