What I'm Working on Now

Hey there!

Just a quick post today...

I'm still working on the Paris quilt. Handsewing the binding on now but I'm almost done with it. If everything goes as planned it should be finished soon and I'll be sharing lots of photos with you next week.

In the meantime, I've started pulling fabrics for my next quilt.  The pattern is called Target Practice from Quilting Quickly Magazine in the July/August 2017 issue. It's also available for on The Quilting Company website.

Heres a few pictures of what I've got so far...

 






Before I go...Saturday is my 28th wedding anniversary and I just wanted to thank my husband Jason for the best 28 years of my life. Thank you for loving me, putting up with me and for giving me our two wonderful sons. I love you and look forward to many more years together.

That's it for now. As always, thanks for stopping by.

Camille

Star Blossom Quilt

The first time I saw this Reverse Sawtooth Star Block I knew I needed to make a quilt with this block. But I wanted to make it scrappy. And after much searching I found this Scrappy Sawtooth Star block and added it to my Quilts to Make list.

Time passed and after spending a few weeks organizing the fabric in my sewing loft I decided I had enough scraps to make a scrappy star quilt.

Working from tutorials I came up with a block design using 3.5" squares. 

So after cutting a lot of scraps and fat quarters, I sat down at my sewing machine and started chain piecing blocks together.

It took a little longer than some of my other quilts but it never felt like a daunting task. I don't know about you but revisiting long forgotten fabric is like reconnecting with an old friend. Picking up a scrap and remembering the quilt that it was used in was very rewarding.

The blocks finished at 12" and I made a total of 30 blocks.

I label and name all of my quilts and the name of this quilt is Star Blossom.

And here it is ...

Star Blossom - Front

Star Blossom - Back

The back of the quilt is from a duvet cover that I bought at Ikea on clearance. I paid $10.00 and I have enough left over to make another lap size quilt and a baby quilt plus more for scraps.

Unlike your children, I think you can have a favorite quilt and I think this is my favorite quilt so far.

How my quilting journey began

My quilting journey started in 2015. Well that's not actually true. It all started in 2008 when I decided to buy a new sewing machine because I was going to start quilting. And then I went to the fabric store and was so overwhelmed that I walked out without purchasing anything and my sewing machine sat in its box.

In 2015, two years into my "retirement", I needed something to occupy my time and remembered the sewing machine waiting in my basement and decided to give quilting another try. I soon discovered Craftsy.com and found a free online class Piece, Patch, Quilt: Basic Quiltmaking Skills and I have never looked back.

Since then I have made 47 quilts. Some I've given away as baby shower gifts, and some as 'just because' gifts.  And just recently I sold my first quilt. (WooHoo!!!).

I've been wanting to do a blog for awhile now. Not to teach anyone how to quilt or to sell patterns but just so I can have a place to post pictures of my finished quilts and talk about quilting.

If you find yourself on my blog and see something you like please leave me a comment. I would greatly appreciate your feedback and your thoughts.

Here are just a few of my quilts.

Home Sweet Home - finished June 2018

Every year my son asks me to make a Fourth of July quilt. This quilt was based on a quilt I found on Pinterest called Ten Inch Surprise. I was unable to find the pattern to purchase so I designed it myself using 10" squares I cut from fat quarters I had purchased from Joann's and Walmart.

These two quilts (Sweet and Little One) are baby quilts that I made when my best friend was invited to a baby shower and needed a gift. I offered to make a quilt for her to give and found a pattern from Happyquiltingmelissa called Disappearing 16 Patch. I cut too many 5" squares so I made two quilts and let her pick the one she liked best. They are more or less the same except for the sashing and cornerstones.

Little One - finished June 2018

Sweet - finished June 2018

  

Scrappy Crosswalk - finished April 2018

My Blue Heaven - finished April 2018 

Carpenter Star - finished January 2016

Adding Up - finished April 2017 

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