OUR FIRST WORKSHOP IS IN THE PLANNING STAGES FOR 2013!

 

I plan to have a workshop in the first couple months of 2013 for this "I SPY" quilt using a disappearing 9 Patch.

This quilt is made of 72 squares of novelty fabrics (such as Mickey Mouse, Cookies, Marbels, Cupcakes, Lady Bugs, Curious George, Ants, Planets, etc.)

 

This is a GREAT quilt for Grandma's House, for each of your children's families, or just for fun!

 

I plan to have a kit available with about 50 different novelty fabrics. 

Each participant will bring 5 - 6 different novelty fabrics to share.

They can be so fun!

 

Oranges, Baseballs, Moths, Tiger, Picnic Baskets, Footballs, Strawberries, Whatever you can find!

So if you are interessted, keep your eye open for sales, and pick up some fun fabrics to share at the workshop!

 

Dates and Times will be posted here, and on our website:  www.thevintagevestibule.com

 

If you are interested in participating, please let me know by commenting on this post.  I will let you know the dates, what to bring, and a complete list of supplies needed for this great quilt!

Thank you for your interest!

 

 

 

 A Quilt for my New Grandaughter born Oct. 2nd, 2012

Sister's Room

This is a 5 yard quilt, and my daughter-in-law picked out the fabric.  She went with Black & White, with pops of red and "tiffany" blue.  These are the colors of the nursery, and they make a great quilt pattern too.  I called this quilt "Sister's Room", because she has two older brothers.

 

Here is the finished top.

I put it on the Long Arm Machine

and chose to quilt only in the black & white blocks, making the blue "pop"

 

for the inside red border, I used a small butterfly and loop pattern, and for the outside grey border, I made a three petal flower,  It really complemented the fabric pattern.

I know my daughter-in-law was very pleased with the end product, and she really enjoyed selecting the fabrics.  How nice to welcome baby Channing Mary Strub into the world!

 



 

Quilt Completed for Lisa

For this quilt, I added the border, completed the back and binding for Lisa

This was the start

 I used butterflies and loops in the border

 



and meandered the inside

The Fabric Pile

 Lisa Pressing

Completed Construction

 

Nuetral (with Attitude)



This is a quilt I finished for myself.  It's about time I did one for myself!  I picked this kit up while traveling to Florida.  It included 20 different fabrics, and great instructions.  It took a lot of cutting, and I was so careful cutting, hence I added "with Attitude" to the Nuetral title. The great thing about doing a quilt for myself is that I get to try a variety of quilt patterns just for the fun of it.  So I really tried to mix up the quilting on this one, and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. 

I quilted a echoed swirl in each of the 26 triangles.

I meandered inside each of the 24 diamonds

I used a "Z" pattern in the black border and feathered in the paisley border

I used leaves inside the skinny verticle rows (view from back)

This is a view from the back of the paisley border

This quilt was also pieced together on a Thursday Project Night by Cassy Nelson.  This was quite a challenge since she had all these beautiful pre-assembled blocks and fabrics put away for several years, but didn't know what the pattern was for piecing.  She brought out all the blocks and fabrics, and together we came up with a plan for piecing.  I think she is very pleased with how it turned out, and plans to give this quilt to her mother.  How special!  We called this quilt Cassy's Garden.

A forest green thread was used for quilting.  In the large white border, leaves and loops were used to fill in the white space.  The contrasting green thread worked out great for the space.

For each of the Garden Squares, a large rose was quilted with a 3-leaf clump in each of the corners.  For the narrow border, I used a vine pattern.  Above is a view from the front side, and below is a view from the back side. 

It was very exciting to use a variety of quilt patterns in this project, and below, you can see just how excited Cassy was to finally get her quilt finished on the Long Arm machine!

 

The Double Irish Chain.  This quilt was completed during our Thursday Project Night by Joanie Hogan.  She put a lot of time into the piecing and created a great border using extra blocks.  This was a very nice quilt to work on, and Joanie is one of my favorite customers!

For the border, I used a combination of piano border, and leaves and loops.  For the rust-colored  double chain, I used a diagnal line from corner to corner through each square.

Inside each light blue diamond shape, I found a pattern that works perfectly.  It is a diamond outline with small meandering on the inside of the diamond.  It is very difficult to see the stitching from the front side of the quilt, so here is the view from the backside of the quilt.

 

Talk about a Family Business!  My sister created this pattern, with the intention to teach a precious 9 year girl, named Sydney, who has an amazing passion for sewing, how to quilt. So she created this easy to follow pattern, and got her 6 year old Granddaughter, Kenadie, and Kenadie's 1st cousin, Sydney to pick out some great fabrics for quilting.  She set aside1 day a week for 4 weeks to spend Grandma Jo Jo-time learning to quilt.  We called this quilt "Grandma's Place".  The girls picked out 3 different fabrics for the inside, along with a coordinating fabric for the border.  The quilt was started in November, 2011.

For the quilting, Grandma Jo Jo was able to practice meandering, and making loops for the border. 

Here is a picture of the girls (Kenadie, Gabby, and Sydney) with their finished quilt tops....they are so proud.  Little 3 year old Gabby was able to work on a little table runner.  I am sure she will be able to have her Grandma Jo Jo time learning to quilt when she turns 6 too!  That's a great goal!