The Paris Quilt

Hello everyone!

Today I'm sharing photos of the Paris quilt that I've been working on for the past couple of weeks. It actually went together fairly quickly and I'm very pleased with the outcome. So much so that I might be doing another one in the near future.  

I wish I could take better photos. I should have taken this outside but I was feeling lazy.

Anyway, the quilt finished at 60" x 68" (after washing and drying). There are a total of 99 total blocks (each block is 6" x 8"). And a total of 400 strip pieces. 

The fabrics used in the quilt are as follows:
Ink & Arrow Black Square Dot Blender, Ink & Arrow White Square Dot Blender, Brother Sister Design Studio Paris Writing 2012 (Made for Hobby Lobby), Joann's Jelly Rolls and 7 piece FQ Bundle Vintage Floral & Keys in pink, black and white, and stash fabrics. The backing is a white thrift store sheet and the binding is made from leftover jelly roll strips. 

The quilting for this is a diagonal grid or crosshatch and the lines are 4" apart. 

For more information on this quilt can be found in the previous blog post titled "What I'm Working on Now".

Here are a few more photos.

 

 

Well, that's it for now. 

Thanks for stopping by.

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...