Heart Walk Quilt

This quilt would be 41" x 54". It would take 1/2 yard each of 6 creams for the block backgrounds, and sashing strips and 3/8 yard each of 6 reds for the hearts. It would take and additional 1/4 for the posts. I did the layout quickly and bunched up the cream colors and the reds... obviously you would do your wonderful randomizing technique!

The block size is 11" x 11" finished (11.5" x 11.5" raw edge). The sashing strips are 2" x 11" finished. Posts are 2" x 2" finished.

It would take (4) strips of binding. If you make the binding strips 2.25" wide, you would need 1/4 yard of fabric. If you make the binding strips 2.5" wide, you would need 3/8 yard of fabric.

For the backing you will need about 1 and 5/8 yard fabric.

Yo, Love the Wine Tote!

What a great design. You are very clever! I'm sure your friend will love it. How did you get the idea to zigzag together on the machine?

A Special Gift for A Special Friend! A Yo-Yo Wine Carrier!!!!

A visit to my friend Pam in Wrightsville Beach prompted me to make a fun gift to take along.
Who'd have thunk! What a great way to use your scraps and those fabrics that just don't "fit" into a quilt!







Here are some of the tacky fabrics and the cool yo-yo's they make......never throw out an ugly fabric ...it's probably perfect for a yo-yo!!!

The colors these weird fabrics include make the yo-yo's very colorful accents to add to any project but perfect for this one.


During the past year when I had idle hand syndrome...especially at night when watching TV I would make yo-yo's hoping to find a fun project to use them in someday!

By zig-zagging the yo-yos together on the machine it creates a cool grid.

Here you can see the grid created by zig-zagging in both directions.....

I made a black canvas bag just the right size for carrying one bottle of wine. The yo-yo grid ended up 8 rows of 9 each to connect around the black canvas bag....

After slipping the grid over the bag I stitched the top and bottom to the edges of the bag....

To make the holder/carrier more sturdier...I cut two circles of cardboard and sandwiched them between clear contact paper so the disks would be firm and liquid proof...in case of a sweating wine bottle!!!!!

Here's the cardboard sandwich....

Trim off the extra contact paper......

Insert the covered disk in the bottom of the holder.....













Here is a close up of the yo-yo grid cover over the black canvas bag.....

VOI- LA-LA!!!!!! A fun gift to give a special friend!!!! Colorful and useful!!!!!

You'd never know it was tacky looking fabric!!!!!!!!

A great gift!!!!!

As I find interesting designs for the next joint quilt (dca), I will post them. This one is called Road Of Life... kind of apropos, but very simple design. I'm going to look for another. What I would like to do is have some combination of pieced and appliqued blocks.

Finished Wedding Shower Quilt

Finished Gary's Quilt

Here's the ultimate praise from Gary - thumbs up! And he wanted his picture taken with the quilt over him despite the fact that the temperature was hovering around 95 in Arizona. We're both so pleased with how the quilt came out. I used a machine stitch to do the binding as I didn't think I could sew it by hand with the quilt in my lap in this weather. Close-ups show border quilting pattern and amount of straight-line quiliting I did in the center section. Thanks, Sis for the pieced top and the great fabrics. I'm going to make a label for this quilt and the others I've been working on this spring and will post pictures soon.

Once the strips of fabric were sewn together, I cut 7.25 squares. The batting I have is 46 inches across so I had to plan blocks that would fit across that measure and save room on the batting for possibly a border and the binding. Length is no problem what ever it comes out to works...the width is the issue. With 1/4" seams the sewn width would be 43.5 ". I will decide on the border once all that sewing is finished. The "back" of the quilt will be large plain blocks of left over fabric. The binding will probably be my favorite...."candy cane" cut on the bias...using all the front side fabrics. We'll see whats left over.....