2016 Finished Quilts - Tumbler - Quilt 3

Again, I have a few posts about this quilt as I was working on it.  You can read more about it here.
I will repeat that this is a Bonnie Hunter Leader and Ender 2015 project.    It was done in 30's reproduction fabrics, which I have a whole tub full.  No print was repeated in the 5" tumblers

I will admit, that this is not one of my favorite template patterns to sew together. It was hard to put two tumblers together off 1/4" at both ends and then sew them together, hoping it would look right when you went to press the seam.   But I like the end result!

I really like the backing (yellow 30's print) and the pink binding.

This quilt is currently on my side of the bed.  We have a Split King-Cal sleep number bed, so basicly it is a oversized twin, and this fits perfectly.  I used a poly-cotton blend inexpensive batting, and the quilt just envelopes you.  It's lighter than my 100% cotton batting quilts, so I am calling it my summer quilt.  

The new Bonnie Hunter leader & ender project was just announced last week.  It is an Hour Glass pattern, and I will be making it using that tub of 30's prints.  I want to make this one for my side of the bed again, only longer so it will tuck in and stay on the bed better .  Then this tumbler quilt will be my go to travel quilt.  

Next are the specific facts about the quilt:

Size: 64" X 90"

Fabric Lines Used:  30's Reproductions prints for various fabric lines

Pattern:  Leader / Ender 5" Tumbler

Designer:  Bonnie Hunter

Long Arm Quilter:  Carol Nelson Logan

Year Began:  2015

Year Completed: 2016

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Tumbler Quilt

See the 2015 Leaders and Enders box in the top right column of my blog?  I spoke about it here in blog posts last fall.  

I have so many 30's reproduction prints that I was able to only use one print per tumbler not repeating any print.  Although the red polka dot looks like a repeating print, it isn't.  

It is laid out on my side of our California Split King bed.  So I would say it is an oversized twin size.  I made it longer than I would normally, as I wanted it to be able to tuck in at the end of the bed so it will stay in place.  I am so happy with the way it turned out.  I just grabbed tumblers at random, and sewed the rows together at random, not paying attention if I got two yellows or two greens together.  It is a true random put together quilt.

I had a 30's reproduction yellow small print that was a wide backing width, so the whole back is in one piece.  I struggled with what to bind the thing with once it got it back from the long arm quilter.  I didn't want to use a single print, so I settled on a solid.  Then it was a decision to decide which color of solid to use.  Pink is my favorite color, and there was pink prints in the front, and there were pink flowers in the backing print, so pink it was for the binding.  Moda has a line of 30's reproduction solids, and this pink is one of them that I used for this quilt.

I couldn't be happier with this quilt!

Picture Always Shows The Flaws

Can you see it?  The big blaring MISTAKE!!!  Let me tell you all about it.

This project was what was called a "counter BOM" meaning that the local quilt shop would give you a free block pattern each month if you bought the fat quarter out of the fabric line that was chosen for the  quilt.  Patterns in this quilt were 12 different basket blocks done in a 30ish to 40ish reproduction line of fabric.  Project happened from 2007 - 2008.  I sewed all 12 basket blocks and 12 nine patch blocks / setting triangles.  I had a few squares left over, so I stitched them up into a different layout of the nine patch using only four prints.

Fast forward to 2015, the year of catching up and finishing up old UFO's, and I picked up this one and put it all together.  Yippee!  Right!  

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!  See that brown 9 patch with only 4 square of the print instead of 5 squares? Yep, that one.  I picked up one of the "leftover" blocks that I had made instead of using the correct one.  I cannot believe how blaring it is once I took the picture.  That wrong block throws off the look of the whole quilt.

I am really glad that I take pictures when the top gets done, just for this reason.  Finding this kind of blaring mistake at this point can be fixed, not so once the top is quilted.  

So, out came the seam ripper, the correct block is put in place and ta da!  We have a new and improved version:

Oh what a difference one little block can make.  I have some plain 60"wide muslin on order to use for backing, and I can mark this one off my UFO list.

On a side note, I also got started on the 2015 Leaders and Enders project from Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville site.  I have four rows of 17 pieces in each row done, and will continue to work on it until I have about 20 rows done.  About the size between a double bed size and a queen bed size.  It should go pretty fast as the blocks are around 5".  I am not doing anything special, like doing a light one then a dark one.  I am just picking up one off the top of the pile and sewing it on to the row and then picking up the next one on top of the pile.  It is proving to be interesting, but very freeing from following a pattern of contrasts.

Tumblers Again

Well, I have been able to start sorting out fabrics for the 2015 leaders and enders project that I am following on Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville blog.

Remember, I want to do my tumblers using 30's reproductions fabric, so I pulled out my stash, and I have about 200 different fat quarters to choose from (note: this is not all of my 30's stash), and a couple of orphaned charm packs.

This is my pile of about 200 hundred tumblers already cut of the 420 I am going to need to make a twin sized throw.

I am really glad to be using up my stash, and I am even more grateful that I bought fabric when I was working and have it available now for projects that come along.

I also have been working on my Cheddar Bow ties, I have about 200 made of the 700 I need.

Just putzing along this summer.  Nothing dramatic.

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Leaders and Enders for 2015

Every July, Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com (whom you should all know by now, I am following quite closely), has a new leader and ender project.  You can read all about leader and enders here to give you a better understanding what all the hoopla is about her system.

The cheddar bow ties were a past leader ender project from a couple of years ago, and last years was one called Lozenges.  Not sure I liked it well enough to make a quilt, but if I get more 3.5" strips of scrap fabric, I might consider it for a future project.

The leader and ender project this year for 2015 is called "Tumbler".  The tumbler pattern has been around for many many years.  Google it and you will find many vintage, modern, brights, and scrappy ones.  To find out more about this 2015 Tumbler project you can read about it here

Bonnie Hunter is using a dresden plate ruler to cut out her 2.5" sized tumblers.  Since I already have one, just not here, and not wanting to buy another one, I decided to make one out of template plastic material for a 5" size tumbler.  I give credit on making this size to this blog.

I picked up a charm pack of scrappy 30's maybe 40's prints from the same quilt shop I picked up the 6" scraps the other day.  I want to do this project is reproduction 30's prints.  Not sure I will use these exact ones in my project, as they are a bit loud for my taste, but I wanted to spend some time cutting them out with the template.  May need to make a table runner with this set, as I have a whole tub of the 30's reproduction prints at home.

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