Showing posts with label Memorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorial. Show all posts

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Spinning Oxfords


Here it is! The memorial quilt for a friend's Mom. She passed away this last summer, and she loved her Oxford shirts! The entire front, including the sashing (but not the binding), was made from her crisp, starched shirts!

I hope it doesn't appear washed out with the snow behind it, but, up close, it looks like a summer picnic quilt. And it's the perfect drape - the heavy seams just melt into the Quilter's Dream Puff batting.

This is my favorite one yet and will be VERY hard to give away.

Big Reveal, Lauri!


... But it was a windy day, and Steve got confused...

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Quilted Soft!


Just finished quilting the Memorial quilt. Even looking at the back, you can just imagine how soft it is!

Quilter's Dream Puff batting is AWESOME for Memory quilts! Puffy enough for bulky seams to sink into but light enough not to add significantly to the quilt's weight. Machine quilts like butter!

Now onto binding! If the cards fall right, I should be sewing down the binding during Masterpiece Theatre tomorrow night!

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Still Plugging Away

Ok, you've heard nothing from me this month. I'm working away on that Memorial Quilt, and I just have a week until deadline! I can't wait to share the pictures - gorgeous! And in this weather, it's oh so tempting to snuggle under it!

I'm bummed that it's the last of a series of Memorial quilts - have completed several over the last 3 years. On the positive, maybe I can actually work on my own projects now. My sisters butterfly quilt is calling me, and Steve wants me to quilt my journal quilt.

I don't know about you, but I'm really loving my house full of quilts in this weird, record-breaking Winter. Today we had thunder snow!