Christmas in July

Hi everyone,

Do you remember the Christmas quilt that I started in January? Here's a picture of it to jog your memory.

Since I've been having such a hard time trying to decide on a quilt pattern to use for my next quilt, I decided to finish this one. There were a couple of things that kept me from finishing this before now.

I thought it wasn't wide enough. I didn't have a backing for it. And I wasn't sure that I liked it.

For the backing, I found a red and white striped sheet from my favorite thrift store that I thought would work with the whole Christmas theme. I added a column on the left side. And as for liking it...I"m still not in love with it but I don't hate it. 

So here is the completed quilt top up on the design wall. What do you think?

I'm planning on basting, quilting, and adding the binding this week. Hopefully, I'll be able to share it with you guys next week, depending on whether or not I attach the binding by machine or by hand. We'll see what happens.

That's it for now...Thanks for stopping by...Have a great week!!!
Camille

What I'm Working On

Hi everyone!

I have a question for you, how do you decide on what pattern to use when you set out to make a quilt? I'm having a hard time answering this question right now.

I have a lot of fabrics that are waiting for me to decide. For instance, I recently brought a 20 piece fat quarter bundle called Bon Voyage by Tilda.  Have you seen it? 

Here is a picture of it...

                                    

I know I don't want to use a pattern that I've used in the past, but there are so many patterns to choose from. Brain overload just thinking about it.

So in the meantime, I've taken my box of scraps...

and I've been making scrappy blocks. 

 

I'm sort of using a mix of methods - 15-minute fabric, improv, and Vortex - to construct the blocks. So far I have made 5 blocks. I don't know how many blocks I"m going to make or what I'm going to do with them. I guess that's the whole idea...I'm just sitting at my sewing machine and sewing without thinking about the outcome. And it's been really fun. 

So we'll see what happens next week.

Thanks for stopping by... 

Camille 

The Fourth of July 2020 Quilt

Hi everyone!

I finished my 4th of July quilt. WooHoo!!

And its another Plus quilt. I know...another plus quilt. What can I say that I haven't already said? I love this quilt pattern and even after 8 plus quilts I still fill the same. 

This time I did it in red, white and blue for the 4th of July and I LOVE IT.

I started this quilt on 06/21/2020 and finished it on 07/01/2020.

Most of the fabric used in the quilt top is from stash and leftover fabric from the other 4th of July quilts I've made in the past. The binding fabric is new. While I was picking out the fabric for this quilt, I wasn't sure what I was going to use for the binding so I took a trip to a local quilt shop and found this fabric white stars on a black background. The fabric is from Patrick Lose Fabrics and is called "Starry." I love how the black looks next to the other colors in the quilt.

I tried to buy quilting fabric for the backing and even found something I liked at Joann's but the thought of buying 4 yards of fabric at $8.99 a yard (not including the 50% coupon I had) just wasn't happening when I had a king-size sheet from the thrift store that I got for $2.50. Need I say more.

For my quilting, I choose to do straight line quilting on both sides of the seams going vertically and horizontally. And the binding was all done by machine.
The quilt finished at 63" x 75".

Anyway... photos...

So now I'm ready for the 4th of July!!

Thanks for stopping by.
 

Camille