Angie Juda

Chic n Scratch

Play Date Quilt Top Complete

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I’m happy to say the Play Date Quilt Top is ready for the longarm quilter.

It measures 45 x 55 and I love all the white!

I filmed videos on Saturday (all day) for Chic n Scratch and Chic n Clique … and that night I went back to my sewing machine to wrap up the quilt.

I will admit … I messed up … somewhere along the way … row one was longer than the rest … or vice versa …. so I had to trim it.   I looked for my mistake for a while ….. but gave up trying to figure out where I went wrong.  Once it’s quilted … the mistake will be hard to find!

This was my warm up quilt …the next one will be easier.

Don’t look at the picture too closely …. I still need to press it!

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Today is Brooke’s 21st Birthday  … it’s hard to believe the baby of the house is 21!!  We took her to brunch at First Watch and this evening she wants to go to Red Lobster and have a big bowl of mussels.

See ya!

angiesigfinal

 

Play Date Quilt Work in Progress

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The pictures I’m sharing with you today are of my latest quilt.

Before I go into the details …. let me explain why it’s a baby quilt.

I have made a lot of quilts and I have two what I like to call my  ….. Go to Quilts:

  1. Flower Quilt
  2. Jelly Roll Quilt

I’m ready to find a new quick and easy quilt that I can add to my list of Go to Quilts.

For me a Go to Quilt means I can whip it out with very little thought process …. mainly because by the time I finally get to quilt I’ve worked a full day and I’m too tired to think.

So, I dropped off two quilts to Shirley yesterday and since the fabric store is right down the road ….. I had to swing by and buy something!

As I was shopping … I saw two quilts that caught my eye … and both of them said “Kit Available” …. but do you also remember that I’ve bought a ton of quilt kits and to this day I’ve never made a one?   Well, I decided that the kit to make the baby quilt was one that looked like I could whip it out super fast … making it possibly a Go to Quilt.

I left the store with two kits ….. along with other fabric you will see soon!

By the time I got home I was to tired to do much of anything … so I sat down and tried to read the instructions…. I am determined  to make this quilt!!!

But …. I tried to read the instructions was the key word/sentence!!  I swear my brain does not work like normal people!!   I moaned and groaned for a while … ask Brooke to look at it …. then I turned it over and decided to just look at the picture and just start cutting.  I also got out a piece of paper and wrote down how many rectangles I needed, how many squares and how many white rectangles (making it easier to cut).

The picture below is my work in progress.

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Next up … ironing the rows and then the Sashing.

Between you and I … I love the look of sashing ….. but I hate cutting the fabric for it because I need 50″ strips and for me that’s not an easy piece of fabric to cut.   I tried to use a Jelly Roll but it’s a different color of white.  Later tonight … or tomorrow I’ll tackle cutting the sashing.

Long story short … the only reason I’m making a baby quilt is because that was the fabric in the kit.  LOL

It’s super cute and I guess I’ll save it for one of my future grandchildren (I believe I’ve already mentioned that I plan on making future grandchildren quilts this year).

Before I forget … the fabric is Play Date by David Walker for Free Spirit and I bought it one of our local quilt shops here in Kansas (Prairie Point).

See ya!

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LOL Jelly Roll Quilt Top

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My picture today is the finished Quilt Top for my niece Isabelle.

The fabric is:  LOL by Me & My Sisters Designs for Moda Fabric

I’m headed to the fabric store today to buy the backing and binding fabric.

Update April 18th … Here’s the link to the backing fabric I purchased: http://www.fatquartershop.com/lol-aml-pink-check-your-mail-yardage  and here’s the link to the binding fabric: http://www.fatquartershop.com/lol-ayk-green-rockout-yardage

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I’ll share more pictures when I get it back from the longarm quilter.

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See ya!

angiesigfinal

Organizing Fabric

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My picture today is not very exciting …. but … I have committed to re-organizing our house in 2015.

My goal is to spend at least one to two hours per week.

I’ve made a lot of progress … in some areas … and every time I start to organize my old fabric I decide the job is too big and I move on to something else.  Plus organizing my old fabric isn’t near as exciting as playing (organizing) my pre-cut fabric (currently stashed in my dining room … some in my computer cabinet and some in my rolling cart from Ikea).

So … my picture is attempt number three to get some kind of system (for my old fabric) I have more …. not shown in the picture.

Here are some of my issues:

  • I want to keep all the fabric organized by color (green, pink, blue, brown).
  • I want to keep all the fabric designs together (for example all the Blush Fabric).
  • Fat Quarters, Layer Cakes, Jelly Rolls, etc (different sizes)
  • Xmas Fabric
  • Baby Fabric
  • Flannel
  • Kits (I can safely say I’m done with buying quilt kits …. I’ve bought several through the years and never made a single one)

I have all the Fat Quarters in the plastic container … eventually it will be organized by color!

As I’m typing this I can feel myself back pedaling … do I really want to tackle this beast?

I’m pretty sure I do …. so maybe next week I’ll share the end result … and if you don’t see anything …. just know that I’ll revisit it again in 2015.

See ya!

angiesigfinal

p.s. If you quilt or sew … how do you organize your fabric?