Sparkle Punch and more...

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to stop in and update everyone on what's being going on in my quilting room. I finally decided on a quilt pattern and have actually started working on it. I used the pattern Sparkle Punch by Elizabeth Hartman. I found the pattern in Love of Quilting magazine, issue July/August 2012. (Thrift store find.) But you can also find a tutorial on her website.

The quilt uses 20 fat quarters which I picked out of my fabric stash. I'm using a thrift store sheet for the background. I'll probably use a sheet for the backing too, but I haven't picked that or the binding fabric out yet.

This pattern is rated as Intermediate. I wish I had paid more attention to that as the directions are a little confusing. But I think once I get everything up on the design wall, it will be fairly straight forward as the layout is based on the plus quilt. (And we all know how much I love my plus quilts.)

Here are a few pictures of the fabric/cut pieces.

                          

There are a total of 384 Star Point Units. To help with all the cutting I decided to bring out my newest helper. A Cricut Maker that I brought myself for my birthday.

This was only the second time using the Cricut Maker (the first time I made a birthday card) and the first time using it to cut fabric. I really like how it turned out, though the learning curve is pretty steep.

I purchased the Cricut Maker after researching fabric cutting machines and decided on it because of the numerous things you can do with it. It was well worth the price compared to other cutting machines.

So, for the next few weeks, I will be working on Sparkle Punch. But once that's done, I already have my next quilt planned. I'll tell you about that later. 😊

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 ❣