2018 Finishes - Party Pumpkins - #50

I don't celebrate Halloween, but I do like the fall decorations, and this is perfect for those who like fall and Halloween.  

This is another quilt (more like a wall hanging or a table top covering) from the "You're Invited" program club of 2006 - 2007.  This one is from June 2007.  It is another one that I did the top and left the borders, quilting, and binding for later.  That later came this year.  I am trying to take each of these programs that I signed up for and had the tops started and get them completed.  Since this was over ten years ago, and my tastes have changed, if I haven't done the top and don't like the quit, I have taken the kit apart and put the fabric in the Thimbleberries scrap bin.  I really would like to work on scrap quilts rather than a kit I no longer care about.

This quilt has appliquéd blocks at the top and bottom of the center of the quilt and a strip brick center of various fall colored prints.  The pumpkins and moon pieces are machined sewn with a blanket stitch I have on my Huskvana Quilt Designer sewing machine.  That was the only machine I owned until I got hooked on Vintage Sewing machines.  I will be blogging about them more later this year.

Again, this is more of a wall hanging / table topper as is is only 48" X 52"  

The border has a triangle flying geese as its first border, and then a matching strip border that matches the dark triangles.  

I wish I had gone with a darker backing to go with better with the front colors, but it matches the triangles from the border, so all is well.  At least the binding is dark and a matching fall color with the front fabrics.

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Size: 48" x 52"

Fabric Lines Used:  Thimbleberries 

Colors:  Black Gold, Orange, Green

Pattern:  Party Pumpkins (Thimbleberries "You're Invited" 06/07)

Designer:  Lynette Jensen

Long Arm Quilter:  Carol Nelson

Year Began: 2007

Year Completed: 2018

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

2018 Finishes - Oregon Trail - #43

This quilt is a block of the month from a local quilt shop, done back in 2007. The quilt shop that did this program did it in two color ways, and I chose the 30's prints.   I have had the blocks done for ten years, and decided to get it done last year.  I had to find some sashing, corner stone stars, and border fabrics before I could get it done.  

I finished the blocks before I started the blog, so you will just have to look at them below.

I used several pastel colors for the sashing, borders, and the corner point stars.  

The backing is similar to pillow ticking used in the 30's, and I felt it fit the quilt to a tee.

Size: 58" x 75"

Fabric Lines Used:  Various 30's Reproduction Prints

Colors:  pink, orange, green, yellow, blue

Pattern: Oregon Trail

Designer:  Grandms's Attic Quilt Shop, Dallas, OR

Long Arm Quilter:  Carol Logan Nelson

Year Began: 2007

Year Completed: 05/18