New Alphabet Quilt

Monika Fritschi Henry at Penny Spool Quilts has a new alphabet quilt pattern called Elemeno Quilt which you can read about it here (not an affiliate link).   In this pattern, you'll get all the English alphabets and four symbols that you can use to design any quilts with words.

I decided to make a wall hanging with a word LOVE on it.  Before I ended up with this design, I tried line up the letters straight down, stacked up into a cube shape but they look kinda boring.  Here's the finished quilt.

 

Love Quilt  24"x47"

The instructions for the blocks are pretty straight forward and they're easy to make.  Each block finishes at 10".

To achieve this look, I laid the blocks on a background fabric and used 1/4 " bias tape to cover the raw edged.  I'm sure there are many different ways to accomplish this but I jumped in with the first idea that came to mind.  I realized that I could have made things easier for myself had I sewn the fusible web onto the back of each block and fuse them to the background.  But I like the look of the bias tape better.

If you're interested, head over to  Monika's website and check it out.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Margo

In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese  (Thursday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

Peacock Party at Wendy’s Quilts and More  (Friday)

Work in Progress in August

In June, SAQA had a call for submission to the 2024 Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show.  I submitted two pieces and one of them got juried in.  The one that was selected is called 'My Way'.  You can read about it in detail in this blog here.  This is my first submission to the museum show.  I'm excited to see how it goes.

 

I've been working on a new quilt, named 'Off Kilter' and now it is done.  Here are some pictures of the quilt.

 

Here's a detail picture.

 

 

Oh, how I struggled with this one.  The beige background fabric is a painter drop cloth.  I picked it because of the color and the texture.  It goes so well with the denim fabric.  Although the drop cloth is 100% cotton, it is very coarse and rough.  When I sewed on it the sewing lines don't appear smooth unlike those on Kona or other 100 cotton quilting fabric.  I decided to add some hand quilting in there too.  That's because when I sewed with a regular blue thread, it didn't show well at all.  I hand quilted it in blue pearl cotton thread and it shows much better just the way I like it.

The next project is the alphabet quilt as I mentioned in this post.  I want to make a wall hanging quilt.  I pulled out some fabric and will start today.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Margo

 In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese  (Thursday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

Peacock Party at Wendy’s Quilts and More  (Friday)

Work in Progress in July

It sure feels like summer here in Southern California.  The heat is so intense that I only want to go into my garden in the early morning hours.  I get to spend a few hours in the morning to do what I need to do to take care of the vegetables and flowers so that they can survive the heat during the day.  

The top and pieced back for the second denim quilt are done.  I will baste it and start quilting this week.   Here what they look like.

 

 

When I showed the top to my DH, he said the word Off Kilter.  After checking the meaning, I said I liked it.  So it's the name of this quilt.  I also pieced the back to continue the idea of out of balance.  Now quilting it is the next challenge, I love it.

The tulip quilt for a baby girl is also basted and ready to be quilted.  I'll take my time on this one because I already knew how I'm going to quilt it.   Everything is going according to schedule, it seems.  

I already have a project line up for next month and it has to be done before our road trip to Idaho Falls at the end of the month.  A few months ago a quilt designer named Monika Henry of Penny Spool Quilts asked if anyone wanted to use her Modern Quilter's Alphabet pattern to make a project and posted on our social media channels.  I said yes to her and here I am.  I've never made an alphabet quilt and I think it'll be fun.

Stay cool and stay hydrated my dear quilty friends. 

Thank you for visiting.  Happy sewing and creating!!

Margo

 In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to:

To Do Tuesday  hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt 

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese  (Thursday)

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

Peacock Party at Wendy’s Quilts and More  (Friday)