I’ve photographed most of my completed quilts, so now I’m bringing out all the WIPs — and there’s a lot of them. These butterflies are cut from some vintage bow tie quilt blocks I purchased on ebay. They were pretty big blocks, so there was enough fabric left over to make lots of little basket…
Category: WIPs
Ferris Wheel Quilt – WIP
Of all the old quilt pieces you can find on ebay or in thrift stores, Double Wedding Ring arcs and pieces seem to be the most abundant. It was a very popular pattern in the 30’s and 40’s and, because it is challenging to piece, many quilters seem to have ended up with unfinished DWRs….
Circus Quilt – Center Blocks and Border
The blocks for the center are finished, and I have just completed the stitching on the bottom border. I’m going to make a similar border for each side. Because I only have one skein of each color of Danish Flower Thread, the elephants are stitched with a few different shades of gray.
Embroidered Circus Quilt – Blocks 1 – 6
Here are half of the circus quilt blocks — they are so much faster to stitch than the alphabet blocks. Two more rows and then I’ll start drafting the elephant border which I hope works okay with the size of my blocks. It would probably be more efficient to design the whole quilt at once,…
Embroidered Circus Quilt — Blocks 1 and 2
It took a long time to come up with a plan for this quilt. Originally I was going to use the print fabric as an alternate block, but when I layed out the fabrics, I didn’t like it at all. Next I decided to put the embroidered blocks in a straight set with striped sashing,…
ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Yak
The yak is finally done, so the ABC embroidery is complete. Now all I have to do is sew the last two rows together which I thought I would get done this weekend, but it didn’t work out. Looking back at my first post of the alligator block on May 18, I realized that it’s…
ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Zebra
When I started this quilt, I intended to embroider the blocks primarily with outline and back stitch. I hadn’t thought I would use much satin stitch, but I couldn’t figure out any other way to do this zebra — the stripes just wouldn’t look right. Also, I couldn’t find a DMC or Anchor variegated floss…
Pieced Butterfly Quilt – Block 2
I’m still working on the zebra block. As a break from all that satin stitching, I decided to stitch another pieced butterfly — this time in pink. It’s really fun to select the little fabric swatch prints for these butterflies. The original pattern had 3 small curved pieces on the wing. In order to fit…
ABC Embroidered Quilt Blocks – Violin & Xylophone
As you can see, I made a couple of additions/changes to both of these pictures since I thought they were a little blah. My violin bow looks sort of big, but I think they actually are longer than the violin. I had a hard time coming up with something to put in the letter x,…
Embroidered Circus Quilt – WIP
Here are the fabrics I’m going to use in my next embroidered quilt. I guess this isn’t quite a WIP yet, except that I am sketching some design ideas. The adorable circus fabric is “Circus Time” in periwinkle, and was purchased from superbuzzy, a store with the cutest Japanese fabrics. It’s decorator weight (70% cotton,…
ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Well
The well just didn’t seem to have enough detail, so first I changed the roof….then the bucket….and finally the rocks. I got pretty tired of stitching those rocks, but I do like them. Just 3 more to go and I’ll be done with the embroidery.
ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Fall
This is the last of the seasons blocks. “W is for well” is done, “V is for violin” is in progress, “X is for xylophone” (I know, but the x-ray machine was pretty weird looking) and “Z is for zebra” are yet to be stitched.
ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Summer
Getting close to the end now — I’m working on fall and I still have to stitch v, x, y & z — then I’ll be done with the embroidery. I was sort of hoping to do a yellow summer block, but it didn’t work out since I was using a beach scene. My daughter…
Pieced Butterfly Quilt Block – WIP
I have always admired this old Alice Brooks/Laura Wheeler pieced butterfly pattern — I think it’s from the 1930’s. I have seen several different versions of this pattern, but I like the one with solid colors and coordinating prints — I also like the two wings to be mirror images of each other. A couple…
ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Winter
Apparently I am going to finish the four seasons blocks before the alphabet. The snowflakes on this block have traveling threads behind them, and I thought I would give you my little tip on how to reduce the appearance of these strands from the front. Of course, the embroidery always looks pretty good until you…