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Finito

Posted in Quilting, tagged binding, chenille cotton, Fabric, finito, quilt, so you think you can dance on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last night I managed to finish this lovely quilting project on the commercial breaks of Fox/So You This You Can Dance. I spent 2 hours attaching binding prior to the much anticipated 7:00 o’clock hour. Oh I do love a good dance show.

I can’t believe it’s completed. Honestly I never imagined this would be done in time. This should have taken a lot longer. One week to go before the wedding and I’m finished.

Finito! Shocked! Relieved.

100% Chenille Cotton Back

Binding/Edges

Finished 6/10/2009 - Queen Size

I really hope they love it! - Queen Size

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Bind It!

Posted in Quilting, tagged batting, binding, chenille cotton, fabric scraps, Jean, jean quilt on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I am so close. The quilt is quilted. Hooray!

I starting thinking out of the box in regards to the typical batting/quilting process. I had a few issues to consider. One being this is a HEAVY jean quilt. Second is we live in Hawaii and I don’t want a sauna going on under this quilt. I thought. Thought some more. Decided to head to Ross. Yes, Ross tends to be the place I go for quilt backing. I was looking for ideas. I found a 100% chenille cotton king size blanket for $14.99. $14.99 are you kidding me? The material was heavenly and at the same time very strong and durable. Mainly the blanket had great movement. As you can probably guess jean doesn’t and the two paired together might solve that problem. I chucked the batting and quilted the jean top and chenille cotton blanket together. It worked. It is very comfy. Great movement. I think I’ll do this again. It sped up the process and saved a ton of money.

Last night was spent sewing together the binding. I am mainly using fabric scraps from the quilt. After all is said and done the binding border will be approximately 1/2″ thick. The outer jean square of the quilt bordering the decorative middle is different jean squares/rectangles in different jean tones. No color. By using colorful fabric as the binding border I am hoping to tie it all together.

All I know is I’m almost done. In record timing.

Colorful Binding

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Phase 1 Completed

Posted in Quilting, tagged Fabric, Flow, Jean, quilt, sewing on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Phase 1 is probably just thinking up this crazy quilt, but you get my point. I have completed the middle top of the quilt as of midnight June 3, 2009. What a task! This part was hard. Figuring out where to put what and make it flow correctly was harder than I expected. A few tries later I had it where I wanted.

Now onto the jean boarder and colorful binding.

Here it is…

Top Middle

7X8 8 1/2" squares

Completed! Phew...

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Getting Closer

Posted in quilt squares, Quilting, tagged butterflies, champagne ponds, crochet, nings, pahoa, quilt, Quilting, ribbon, sewing, thai food on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So close I actually laid the quilt out. SO EXCITING!!! I have a vision of course. It entails two 3X3 8 1/2″ square blocks sewn together to make a very large block. One is a windmill pattern and the other is a block pattern. If the block pattern has a proper name I don’t know it. Anyway. The blocks are going on the top right of the quilt. The windmills are going on the bottom left. Balance if you will. I will somehow fill in the missing space with the random squares I have created and basic jean that I have yet to cut.

Last night was spent escaping my quilting wonderland. I ran into Pahoa with a few girlfriends of mine. Needed to do a little catch up with one long lost girl pal that now lives in L.A., CA. She skedattled this morning back to city life. Poor girl! We ate dinner at Nings, an amazing Thai food restaurant. Delicious! Another friend of mine was doing some Champagne Ponds lounging and was awesome enough to stop by for a quick hello that turned into an extra 2 for dinner. He had a buddy from Oahu with him. We had a good time for sure!

I arrived home in time to sew ribbon onto a 8.5″ X 16.5″ piece of tan khakis I found. That rectangle is still in progress as my B.Y.O.B. session resulted in an earlier than later bedtime.

Here’s the latest…