Plus Quilt Finished

Just a few finished pictures of my Plus quilt. I believe the final measurements are 68"x73". This will be sent off to my brother-in-law. After this I only have 2 more family quilts to make and I will be done with making at least 1 quilt for every person I promised one to.

The backing is a marble print yellow sheet. Being lazy, and not having a satisfactory print in my stash, I used the same fabric for the binding that I used for the backing. Simple straight line quilting after every other seam horizontal and vertical.

I'm on Fire Saturday!

That's right, I was on fire today. I feel like I got so much accomplished as far as my quilting projects go. I was finished up my plus top on Friday and today I picked the backing from one of my many thrifted sheets, made the sandwich, pin basted and now it's all quilted and edges trimmed. All it needs now is the binding.

I was also able to do the same for the Delilah baby quilt. I was having a hard time picking a backing from my stash because I kept thinking, "something pink, something pink to match the pink". I was unable to come up with anything I liked, then I changed my way of thinking and went with something green! It's a very light green pattern, and I think it suits well enough. Now this one only awaits a binding, too.

After I did those two, I put in some work on re-quilting the purple vintage sheet baby quilt I made awhile ago on my old machine. I didn't realize until I was done that the purple thread I was using on the top was showing through on the back. I've since learned that is a tension problem. Since then I've changed to lavender thread for front and back and it looks much better. No picture to show at this time.
My final sewing activity was deciding on the layout for my Central Park quilt and getting the first 3 of 7 rows sewn. Again, no pictures, but I'm sure I'll have some by WIP Wednesday.

WIP Wednesday

Well, I got the baby Delilah quilt top all finished. I actually had another row to put along the bottom, but it was looking like it would be way too long compared to the width, so I left it off. Maybe I'll be able to use it in the backing. I only had 6 prints of Delilah left, so there's not too much variety, and now I'm thinking I should have used Kona Snow instead of the white. Oh well.

I've made progress on my plus quilt. I've done 14 rows, only 4 more to go. I had planned to stop at 16, until I realized I had made it 17 columns wide and didn't want it to be wider than it is tall. I suppose I could just turn it...we'll see.

I tried to work on the layout with the Central Park squares, but wasn't happy with what I came up with. So I'm thinking I may do the pull a random square out of a bag assembly. And that's all I've worked on this week. Linking up with:

WIP Wednesday

Still haven't had as much time to sew as I would like, but I have made some progress on the Plus Quilt. It has 17 rows of total. I've sewn up 8 rows so far, so that's about half way.

Some of the time I could have been sewing, I was instead cutting out pieces for 2 more quilts! This is a stack of Delilah by Tanya Whelan that I'll be making into a baby quilt, I've actually started to sew these together, I just don't have an updated picture to show.

And this is a stack of Central Park by Kate Spain. I'm making myself a quilt out of this. Specifically, one similar to this one as seen on The Elven Garden blog. I think it is just gorgeous. Mine will be similar, but I won't be using the animal prints. I have my pieces cut, just haven't started it yet.

Linking up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

WIP Sunday...On the Plus Side

No new fabrics to show this week, instead I'll show a bit of what I've been trying to work on this past week.

I've had this stack of fabric for quite awhile now. It is one of the higher quality fabrics found at Joann Fabrics. I was holding onto this stack, waiting until the right pattern sparked my interest, and thought I had found it last December. Initially I was going to make Radio Way by Jaybird Quilts, as the colors were somewhat similar. Then, I was hit by the Christmas quilt bug and made Radio Way using some Christmas prints I had instead of this stack.
Wanting to try out a variety of patterns, I'm not wanting to do the same one again so soon. So, on the back burner went my little bundle.
At some point I started noticing the plus quilts being made recently, especially this one at In Color Order. And although I was planning on making a plus quilt out of vintage sheets, the thought of using this fabric crept into my subconscious, and that's what I've been doing this past week...cutting 300+ 4.5in squares.

Using the initial prints as the core, I pulled lots of other complimentary fabrics to go along with them.


Saturday I was able to get my layout decided, and even managed to sew a couple of rows.