Fabric, WIP and Baseball

It's Opening Day (MLB)!!!! Woo Hoo!!! Best Day Ever!!! ⚾ 💖😀

Can you tell I love baseball?

Yes. Yes I do. It's a long love affair that started when I was probably 9 in California while visiting my grandparents. My grandfather would go to the fish market on Saturdays and get fried fish which he brought home and we would sit in front of the TV watching the Dodgers and eating fried fish (can't remember what kind), creamed corn and freshly baked bread. (My grandmother was an awesome baker and all-around great cook.) 

The love has waned at times but I always go back to it. And for the past few years, I have been an avid fan watching every Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals games.  My husband is awesome for many reasons but during baseball season we get the DirectTV MLB package so I can watch the Nationals since we live in Colorado and this is the only way I can watch every game. 

Anyway back to quilting...

Today I have lots of photos to share with you. I've been playing with a camera that I haven't used in a while and thought would take better photos than my phone. So some of the photos might not be perfect but it was fun.

The first is a photo of the Paris quilt. 

It's all quilted and waiting for binding. Hopefully, I'll have time to stitch the binding onto the front of the quilt on Sunday and then during the week I'll hand sew the binding to the back. (I find this very relaxing and look forward to this step.)

Next up are photos of the fabric that I've purchased in the past few weeks. You know how much I love a sale...well all of these were brought during sales or with awesome coupons. 

We'll start with the fabrics I brought on Craftsy (now Bluprint). All clearance priced. (Woo! Hoo!)

First up is a fat quarter bundle from Lily & Loom called Mystic Dawn. I haven't used purples in my quilts yet so I'm looking forward to using this bundle.

Next up is a Boundless Melrose and Vine Fat Quarter Stash Bundle.

And lastly Boundless 1930s Revival Fat Quarter Stash Bundle. 

      

And these are some that I got at JoAnn's. (These were on sale, special or with a coupon.)

All Batiks

 
 
 I fell in love with these when I saw them though I had gone into the store for 99¢ fat quarters. They also have these in a blue colorway that I might pick up soon.  with these and brought 1/2 yard cuts. The black with flowers is called Red Medallion on Black, the black is called Packed Leaves Black, Red Medallion on Gray, Diamond Vine Brown, Ditsy Floral on Red 2 and the gray I think is Yarn Dye High Rise. 

 


 

    

And finally a couple of Jelly rolls and a couple of fat quarters bundles, which I got as BOGO.

So yeah, I guess I've brought a lot of fabric lately and I can't wait to use them though I still need to work on depleting my stash. My next quilt is actually a scrap buster so that will help a little and I won't feel so guilty buying new fabric. It's funny as I'm typing this I just got another package from Craftsy with another fat quarter bundle that was on clearance. I'll post pictures of that next week.

I also went to the thrift store and found some sheets.

The first one is a funny story. A few days after wrapping a present for a friend, I found a gift bag sitting on the dining table and thought the color combination was interesting. A week or so later I was at the thrift store and found a sheet that I thought had an interesting color combination. I brought it home and laid it on the table where the gift bag was sitting and was totally surprised that matched. You be the judge.

              

 
And lastly...

Two sheets that just called out to me.

So yeah...that's what I've been doing today.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful Opening Day and every day until I talk to you again.

Camille

WIP - Paris Quilt Top Finished

Hey everyone!

Just a quick post to show you the finished quilt top.

All that's left to do is the boring stuff...deciding on the quilt back, and then basting, quilting and sewing the border on.

As far as the backing goes I'm having a hard time deciding on a plain thrift store white sheet or actual quilting fabric. I'm leaning toward the white sheet but we'll see which way I decide to go. I guess you'll have to wait to see until it's finished. 😀

That's it for now. We're going to a Colorado Avalanche hockey game today and it's time to get ready to go!

Have a wonderful Saturday and I will see you sometime next week!!!

Camille

Working on a New Quilt

 Hi everyone.

A couple of months ago I brought a couple of jelly rolls from JoAnn's and needed to make something with them. (Why does JoAnn's sell their jelly rolls with only 20 pieces, meaning we have to buy 2 of them for most quilts?) I had been looking for a pattern for a while now and fell in love with the look of strip quilts. But most of them had strips of the same size and I wanted something where I didn't have to worry about matching up seams.  So based on a couple of online tutorials and pictures I started cutting up the jelly rolls and some fat quarters. Here is a picture of the piles of cut up fabric.

            

The strips were cut into 2.5" x 6.5" quarters were cut up into 1.5" x 6.5" and 3.5" x 6.5" rectangles. I cut way more rectangles then I ultimately needed but since I didn't know exactly what I was going to do I thought more would be better.  In total, I think I cut almost 500 rectangles.

I finally came up with a design and was able to use my EQ8 software to draw it out.

I decided to sew the rectangles into blocks instead of long strips. So I  came up with 5 blocks (A - E) each block measuring 6.5" x 8.5".  Based on the above picture the quilt will be 68" X 74" and have 400 rectangles but I haven't finalized the design yet because I have a lot of rectangles left over so I might include a piano key border.  Or make extra blocks to use on the back.
Still trying to figure that out but we'll see what happens.

Chain piecing on the machine and stacks of fabric left to go.

So far I've made the A Blocks.  And I'm really excited about how they look. And can't wait to see how this comes out. 

Unlike most of my quilts, this quilt already has a name. The fabric from JoAnn's has the Eiffel Tower and other French writings and so I came up with Paris as the name. 

 

Okay well, that's all for today.  

I do want to take a moment to say Hi to Noel who is my newest follower on Bloglovin'.  

And always Thank You All for stopping by.

Until next time...