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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

First quilt finish of the year

FO: Wintry Shoo-fly

Wintry Shoo-Fly is finished! Blocks for this quilt were made by the Love circle girls of do.Good Stitches.

Shoo-Fly block

I asked for blocks with blue shoo-flies on a mixed gray background (this was my block) of any size.

WIP: Blue & gray shoo-fly

Assembling this type of quilt makes me happy. The first do.Good Stitches quilt I assembled was similar. I like quilts with varying block sizes. It's like working a puzzle, in a way.

Shoo-fly top

After the top was assembled, I searched the stash for backing and binding fabric.

Detail of quilting on the back

I chose this Hope Valley print and Kona Lake for the back, and a Dear Stella dot for the binding.

Olias

Olias was my quilting helper, as well as the Machingers gloves that Nicke gifted me last year.

FO: Wintry Shoo-Fly

I chose a loopy quilting design, and only quilted the negative space. I like the texture it provides (especially on the back, as you can see above).

It is exciting to feel some progress in free motion quilting!

This quilt finishes at 50" x 64", and I think it will find a good home with our charity, Wrap Them in Love.

And it's always promising when you want to keep the quilt for yourself, right?

15 comments:

  1. Very nice! Fun challenge to ask for varying block sizes!

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  2. This quilt is great! Love all the different block sizes in it.

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  3. It turned out beautifully! Love that your feline "helper" was able to participate in doing good. :) Have a great day!

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  4. oh jacey! it is so gorgeous! you did a wonderful job with this! i love the colors and the different sizes of blocks. very very beautiful my friend. your fmq looks awesome too, practice does make perfect doesn't it. i am glad those machingers were helpful. i love using mine but always feel a little silly. i guess i just need to think i am mary poppins when i wear them. also, i love olias and his half-milk mustache!

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  5. The arrangement of those blocks is fantastic. I'm not surprised, either. I knew you would rock this one!

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  6. Oh, I love this so much! Assorted block sizes are so much more interesting and fun. Your circle always has the best quilts!!

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  7. i love the way this came together! you are so wonderful at arranging blocks are varying sizes. and the quilting is gorgeous!

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  8. Nice! I'm impressed with your free-motion quilting. Really impressed.

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  9. this is such a gorgeous quilt! now i want to make a shoo-fly quilt. and, as always, olias is a handsome helper!

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  10. I love it. What kind of a Janome are you FMQ-ing on?

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  11. I love how this turned out Jacey, it was such a fun one to make blocks for and you did a great job pulling it all together!

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  12. yes, if you want to keep the quilt it must have become beautiful. That's what I heard in a craft store some years back.

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  13. Love the design and colors you picked for this -- very cool!

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  14. I love it! The different sized blocks, the color palette, the quilting - it's fabulous!

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