Calling Card Quilt Finish

Hi everyone!

My quilting hiatus is over. I finished most of the spring cleaning that I had planned on doing last week.  I still have a few things that I want to do but I couldn't stand another day without playing with fabric so yesterday I pulled some fabric for my next quilt. 😊

But more about that in my next post. Today I wanted to share with you the quilt I was working on before the hiatus. The pattern is called Calling Card which you can find here.

I've named the quilt Calling All Batiks. And here are some photos of it.

        

This quilt is made up of 10" squares. The pattern calls for a layer cake but instead, I used fat quarters and I'm glad that I did because I made a couple of cutting errors but since I had the extra fabric I was able to get the correct number of strips needed without an emergency run to the store. 

Fabrics used.

Back of the quilt.

So in case you forgot, the fabrics used were mostly batik fat quarters that I got at JoAnn's and also a few batiks that I had in my stash leftover from another batik quilt. The backing is a black striped duvet cover I found at Ikea in the clearance bin.

All in all, I made 49 blocks for a 7 x 7 layout and I used 26 FQ's. The scrappy binding is from a batik jelly roll that I had that I trimmed down to 2 1/4 to get rid of the pinked edges.

The quilting is a diagonal grid which is spaced 5" apart. I used gray thread for both the needle and the bobbin.

Well, I think that's about it. I hope you enjoy the pictures and if you're thinking of making this quilt pattern I will say that it was very easy to put together and I will probably be using it again.



I'll probably be posting later on this week so until then thanks for stopping by.

Camille

This Week in My Quilting Loft

Hi everyone! Happy Friday!

Just wanted to let you all know that I finally finished the quilting on Target Practice. It took me three days and it was actually very easy once I figured out what I wanted to do. As I mentioned in my last post, I decided on stitch-in-the-ditch around the arrow blocks and it turned out pretty good.

This is a picture of the quilting from the back of the center of the quilt. I really like the way the quilting shows up.

I also quilted the border. I don't have a picture of that but it took me two days to quilt that because the first time I didn't like the way it looked and once again had to take my seam ripper to it. But once I figured out what I wanted it went pretty easy.

The only thing I have left to do is the binding. I've already machine stitched it to the front and now just have to hand sew it to the back of the quilt.

Which means on Monday I can start my next quilt. WooHoo!!!   I love starting a new quilt.  I think that's my favorite part of the whole quilting process.

I mentioned in my last post that my next quilt is a pattern called Calling Card. I was able to take a picture of it from the Bluprint website.

Here's the fabric that I will be using.

Here is all my fabric cut into strips and ready for piecing. The pattern has instructions to make a throw, twin or queen size quilt. I'm making the throw size quilt that is supposed to finish at    60" x 68". The pattern calls for two borders that combined equals 5" but instead of doing that I think I'm just going to add additional blocks to it. We'll see what happens though. 

So that's what's been going on in my quilting loft this week. 

Thanks for stopping by.  I should have some blocks to share next week and possibly the finished Target Practice quilt.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and Happy Cinco de Mayo!!

Camille ❣