Tag: quilting

Colorful Boy Quilt

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Using this blog post, I stitched up a quilt top for grandson #1.  The fabric line is VeloCity by Jessica Hogarth for P & B Textiles.  There is a close-up of all those great prints in one of my previous posts.

Now I’m waiting for the Simplicity pattern sale to begin at Hancock Fabrics on Thursday so I can purchase a pattern for a jacket that I’m really excited to get started sewing.  I plan to have my new fall jacket completed next week some time (even though it is still in the 90’s here).  That’s as far as I’ve gotten on my fall sewing plans so far.  Do you have fall/winter sewing plans already, or are you like me, and you procrastinate until the new season is upon us?

A Midsummer Night’s Bloom – Bed Runner

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No garment sewing last week, but I did manage to piece together this bed runner topper:

The pattern is from a book by Kathy Brown, Bed Runners Using Precut Fabrics.  This is the second bed runner I’ve made from this book.  I made the first one for our guest room.  This one is going in our master bedroom.  The pattern is called A Midsummer Night’s Bloom and I used Breakfast at Tiffany’s fabric line by Fig Tree Quilts for Moda.  As you can see, I don’t have it quilted yet.  I still need to purchase fabric for the backing, so once I drag myself out to the local quilt store I will be finishing this up on my quilt frame.

In the mean time, I hope to get some garment sewing underway this week before I have to travel for a few days.

Civil War Generals’ Wives BOM – Month Seven

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Here’s the seventh of twelve blocks for this quilt.  It has a number of little pieces and I really like the look of the block.  This one is to commemorate Mrs. Pauline Clark Mosby, wife of General John S. Mosby (The Gray Ghost).  Now if  you know your Civil War Generals, you know that John S. Mosby never attained the rank of General.  He was a Colonel.  If you are so inclined to check it out, DH pointed out to me that Colonel Mosby’s mug graces the cover of the April 2012 edition of Civil War Times.  Yes, yes you can stop chuckling now – I admit it.  Civil War Times magazine is delivered to our mailbox six times per year.
So is the quilt now called The Generals’ Wives and One Colonel’s Wife Quilt?  Probably not.