2018 Finishes - TB Frizzle Frazzle - #46

This is a quilt top that I finished all except the borders, back in 2006 or 2007.  My memory gets a little fuzzy about projects, mostly because I didn't start tracking in writing about what I was working on until around 2012 when I started this blog.

This is another yearly program, where you get a kit a month, by Thimbleberries called, "You're Invited", and this kit is for June, 2006.

This quilt is made with flannels and homespun plaids.  The two plaid prints that are the square in a square sewn on top of the flannel square.  I used a zig zag to stitch on these squares leaving the raw edges exposed. All I had to do to finish it this year was to add the borders, find a close matching backing, get it quilted, and get it bound.

I gave this quilt to my husband to use in the mornings during the winter, while the house is warming up.  He drinks coffee and has a bite of breakfast before going to work and wanted something that was warm but not heavy.  This quilt is only the flannel top and a flannel back, with no batting in the middle.  He said it works perfect for him.  It is also long enough for his 6'1" frame, so his feet are covered too!

Here is a close up of the homespun square in a square patches on the flannel blocks.  

This is a close up of the flannel borders used in this quilt, and I used the backing flannel for the binding.

Here is a better picture of the binding of the backing that was used for this quilt.  This is the quilt that I wanted to use #45's quilt top for it's backing, but the #45 quilt was way smaller, and ended up not working as a backing, so that is why I went ahead and made #45 "Campfire".  The backing is by Wool & Needle Flannels by Primative Gatherings, as I had to get a close matching backing, as it is 12 years later that I get this one out to finish.  

My long arm quilter used an all over stipple to do this quilt, and she stippled over the appliquéd square in a square blocks, which will help with the fraying and holding it down better.

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Size: 68" x 81"

Fabric Lines Used:  Thimbleberries Flannel

Colors:  Red, Green Gold, Brown

Pattern:  Frizzle Frazzle (Lynette"s "You're Invited" 05/06)

Designer:  Lynette Jensen

Long Arm Quilter:  Carol Nelson

Year Began: 2006

Year Completed: 2018

2018 Finishes - Campfire - #45

This is a quilt kit from the yearly program that Main Street Cotton Shoppe (no longer open). This program ran during the year 2007.  The program was called Lynette's Favorites, and this kit was for the month of June, 2007.  There were at least two programs that ran that year by this quilt shop, as the shop was Lynette Jensen's home base promoting her many lines of Thimbleberries fabrics.

I have to be honest, I tore into this quilt kit to use the flannel fabric or the completed quilt top for a backing on another flannel quilt kit I finished (See the next blog post for #46).   But, alas, this quilt kit had too little fabric to fit the other quilt, so I ended up going ahead and making this quilt and getting flannel backing for each one.  

The fabrics used in this quilt were all flannels, with the center piece being sorta a panel depicting a winter town scene.  True to Lynette's design, she has a tree block in the bottom row of this quilt.  She uses this design in many of her quilt patterns.

This was a simple and fairly easy quilt to sew together.  It went together fast, with little to no fitting of blocks.  Quality flannel is a dream to sew on, I just don't to chose to buy it or use it on a regular basis.

This is a close up of the winter scene in the middle of the quilt.  

I didn't opt to buy the backing of this program kits, so I had to sorta improvise, and I ended up using a red on red flannel by Maywood Studios.  

Because flannel is warm and heavier than cotton, I did not use any batting, and had it just quilted together.  Feels wonderful in the weight of the quilt.

Finally, this is a close up of the borders, quilting, and binding.

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Size: 55" x 76 "

Fabric Lines Used:  Thimbleberries Flannel

Colors:  Red, Green Gold

Pattern:  Campfire (Lynette"s Favorites 06/07)

Designer:  Lynette Jensen

Long Arm Quilter:  Carol Nelson

Year Began: 2018

Year Completed: 2018

Red PJ's

Just thought I would pop in and tell you that I finished the second pair of the custom order PJ's.

Again, the lighting wasn't helpful in making good pictures.

Here are the two sets, packaged and ready to ship!

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Custom Ordered PJ's

Before I got into quilting, I was a seamstress, sewing for a meager living when I was raising my children.  I mostly did alterations, but would get an occasional wedding party bridesmaids dresses, or the rodeo riders show outfits, including colored leather chaps.  I quit because, I went to a job outside of the home once the children were in full-time school.

There for awhile, people didn't seek out custom made items, especially clothing, but I have seen a resurgence of that market.  This is a perfect example of that resurgence.  

A great-grandmother, who cannot sew any longer, wanted her great-grandson to have a couple of special hand made PJ's.  This customer is the mother of another customer that I have been doing custom work for, and was asked if I would do this project for them.  

Here is the first set done and ready to ship.  The neckline is done with knit ribbing, and the body of the PJ's is flannel.

A big apology for the lighting of the pictures, the day was heavy overcast, and the room lighting wasn't working for me.

The other pair will be red flannel, with the blue trim neck, and I should have them done today at the latest tomorrow, making them ready for shipping.

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Today's Work

Yesterday's post was about getting the pieces together to begin the quilting process. So today, I took it to the machine and began the quilting process. I do my "actual quilting" on my 1984 990 Viking. My husband refers to it as "Big Bertha". It is truely a workhorse, and hasn't ever been in for any kind of service including any cleaning.

I am planning on doing some straight line quilting in a plaid grid pattern. Here is a picture of the quilt in the machine.

My goal this year is to complete an old UFO project for every new project I want to buy or start.

Simple Flannel Quilt

When I moved into my new sewing room, I of course found many things. Many things like projects that I started but put away. Put away because I wasn't in the mood to finish them, or I got bored on working on them, or something newer/better came along, or life interupted them.

Anyway, this is one of those projects. This is a Thimbleberries pattern that was so simple, I knew it would be perfect done in flannels. I bought this several years ago, the line is by Maywood Studios "Christmas Presence". I really liked the colors, and I didn't think it looked so Christmasy, that it couldn't be used all year round.

I have to confess that this part is the least part of quilting that I like to do. Maybe that's why it got put away so long ago? I have to say that sandwiching and pinning it today was so much easier doing it on my nice big cutting table. I used to have to do it on our king-sized bed, but there were always folds and wrinkles in the fabric because the surface was not hard.


This view is looking at the cutting table from the left side.

This view is looking at the cutting table from the right side.

And this is a close up view of the two flannels.