Target Practice Finish

Happy Mother's Day!!!

I hope you all have had a great weekend and are spending today celebrating the special women in your lives.

Today I'm sharing my Target Practice quilt.  Yes...it is finally finished and I couldn't be happier. It was a challenge but as most challenges go...it was totally worth the effort.

I took a bunch of photos. So here we go...

The quilt has 36 blocks each finished at 10".
The quilting design is stitch-in-the-ditch and on the border, I stitched triangles (mostly successfully).

First attempt at a quilt swirl.

The arrows are made up of 2 1/2" strips from my stash and the white background fabric, as well as the backing, are all from thrift store sheets.  The border and binding are from JoAnn's. The overall size of the quilt is 66" x 66".

Do you see my Mother's Day card? 

Target Practice on my design wall.

Love how the quilting shows on the back.

Close up of the quilting.

The label is wrong...it should have said May 2019 but the quilting
took longer than expected and I didn't think to change it soon enough.

So there you have it. Until next time...  

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 ❣

Target Practice Quilt Top Done

Hi everyone!

I hope you all have had a wonderful week!

My week was good but today was awesome. I think I might have told you guys that my oldest son moved to Taos, NM with his girlfriend in January. Well, she is in town this week for a wedding and I got to spend the morning and afternoon with her. We did some shopping (yes we went thrifting) and then my husband took us out for sushi for lunch. And now I'm watching the Rockies play and waiting for  Game 5 of the NHL playoffs to start for Colorado Avalanche tonight. We're leading the series 3-1. So hopefully the day will continue to be awesome. (Fingers crossed 🤞)

Anyway, this is a quick post today. Just wanted to show you the quilt top that was finished this week. This quilt went together really quickly and I'm loving it. The scrappy colors really pop on the white background. I got it pin basted on Wednesday so all that's left (besides the binding) is the hardest part for me - the quilting. I haven't decided yet how I'm going to quilt it but I hope to have a plan by Wednesday which is when I'll have time to start on it.

So here are the pictures for your viewing pleasure.

That's it for now.

As always, thanks for stopping by and I will see you guys next week.

Camille