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Sew & Tell is our weekly sharing thread. Tell us what you've finished, what you're working on- we're here to cheer you on!

4 a.m. here, and the knee woke me up. Not real pain, just can't get it comfortable enough to go right back to sleep, so I'm waiting for tylenol to kick in. I'm postop day 23, and Kim and Angela have been so helpful to me offline.

Who's sewing?

Holly

I have been sewng up a storm, none of it from stash unless you count thread. Made DGS a fleece blanket and pillowcases from Bengals fabric. One of my neices is getting ready to start college so I have been embroidering her name on bed and bath items. Getting ready to make DGD pillowcases (not from stash) and her sisters fleece blankets (small for travel) from stash. If I could find my camera I would take pictures and figure out how to show my creations.

Terry, Sure hope you can locate your camera, sounds like you have been busy!!! Would love to see your pictures.
Holly, Hope the tylenol has kicked in and that you are making great progress.

I've been working hard on finishing up UFOs. Over the past 2 or 3 weeks, I have moved several things to my "finished" stack - you can see most of them on the thread about tying knots. Here's one more, a sew-and-flip kid's quilt that I started when I demonstrated the method for my guild in March.

Holly, I hope that knee is feeling better soon. I made my granddaughter a signature quilt for her wedding in September and I had lots of triangle pairs left over. I decided to sew them into pinwheels and make this table runner for her.

This is the signature quilt that I had the triangles left over from. I had to cut off a lot of triangles at the corners.

TeddyLady, that is a beautiful signature quilt. Bet the bride loved all the sentiments that were written on it. What a neat idea and pattern TFS.

Holly - hope the tylenol kicked in!
TerryOH - hope you find your camera!
pvillelou - you, too have been busy!
Teddylady - love the sig quilt. What a great idea to use the triangles for a table runner.
Susan

Teddylady...love the quilt and tablerunner.

Holly...my niece is recovering at home from hip replacement...so hope you and she heal super fast and super right...

• • • Finished my July FMQ Challenge.

And finally got the sleeve onto my Masque. Delivered it and the Green Monster to the State Fair on Monday. Went back on Wednesday to view the judging.

I was going to post all the details here, but it became way too long. If you are interested you can go to • My Day at the Fair •.

• • • A close up for you.

Really Free Motion Quilting???? I can only wish to be able to any quilting half that good. It is amazing. TFS. Pat

Awesome Jean! I'm speechless!

Great projects so far and thanks for sharing. Sue

Your free motion quilting is really awesome. Beautiful work!

Very clever, Jean!! Love it.

I love the siggy quilt!!!

I love this thread!

Jayardi, I like your sample better than the actual tutorial! You did a great job on this. amy

That is one of the prettiest signature quilt I have ever seen.

Sister Sue and I have been busy making 2 King sized quilts for my sons for Christmas. We have the top to the Nickel Quilt done and will be sending it to a LA quilter in MN when we get the Double Irish Chain done in 2 shades of blue.We worked on it today and got a enough of the blocks done to lay it out on the table just to see how it will look. I'm loving the blues we chose and then a cream color for the background. No picture yet.

Patty,
Love your bright quilt. Is that a king size with 6" squares?? Lots of work but worth it.
Evelyn

Oh wow Jean and Pattyj...fabulous work. Jean I first thought it was Zentangle work!!

Evelyn, yes it is a King sized quilt and the blocks measured out at--5 inches. I think Sue said we made about 300 blocks. Thanks for the compliments

FM queen! Beautiful work.

Such bright colors on patty j's quilt too.

I think I have enough blocks sewn together for the COF siggy swap. Don't have them all autographed yet...but most of them.

I've been cutting up again in this triple digit heat! This was a pair of DH'S Jeans and some leftover fabric from a pillowcase for a great nephew.

And I turned it into a jean apron with a BIG pocket.

Pattyj and sister sue, how funny is this? You're in Wisconsin sending your quilts to Minnesota, I'm in Minnesota sending my quilts to Wisconsin!!!

This is a quilt top I am making in memory of my mom. The 30's fabrics remind me of her so much.The pattern came from a Fons & Porter mag.

WOW'ers...what a show here. Love everything. Finished up a baby quilt. The sunflower face is redwork done by hand...my first...usually I do it on my emb. machine. A total fun quilt.

close up on the sunflower...

Great stuff ladies! I so enjoy this thread!
Jean you sure are the FMQ Queen! Beautiful!
Love the Siggy quilt too!

Love the flowers and the 30's quilts. They both make me smile! I love stealing ideas from this talented group of quilters. Today I stole Patty's idea. I wanted a unique setting to use for another baby quilt. So I've made some crumb blocks today (instead of hear bright solids) and now I'm ready to cut the sashing strips. But I'm flumoxed. Which color should I use? I have four possibilities. Which looks most interesting to y'all???? HELP!!!!!!

My other two possibilites:

Evelyn: I like the black. It makes the colors really show.

I like the black too...just 'cuz I like black. But, the off white is probably more in keeping with the 30s theme?

I like both the black and the off white. For a baby quilt, I just think the off white would be best. For a teenager, the black would be the best.

I like the off white for a baby quilt

Gracie, I love your baby quilt. Is that a commercial design or something you made up? In any case those cheerful sunflowers make me smile!

This is my newest mini for AAQI. I called this one "Stepping Around" because of the stepping stones blocks.

Off-white fits the fabs better, but the black looks good too. NO to the gold...it totally washes out the blocks.

I like the black, but not sure if I would do that for a baby quilt. Not fond of any o the others. What about one of the colors in the prints, green, blue, pink, purple, the tones of most of the 30"s fabrics... Chris

A pastel for sashing was what I first thought, too, if you want a solid. Light pink, pastel yellow, mint green, baby blue, lavender... Can you lay the blocks on any or all of those & see if something pops out? And there's always good ol' White On White.

I've been wanting to make a quilt with that cheddar gold but obviously that's wrong for these blocks :-( I think I'll force myself to shop for a pastel. I buy these others by the bolt and that's why I tried them. I like the way the colors jump on the black but you're right that a black baby quilt sound strange. Now to find my coupons. Thanks for the suggestions.
Evelyn

I like your crumb blocks, did you sew a large piece then cut into rectangles?? I would think a nice pastel yellow or blue would be pretty for your sashing, I like the black look, but for a baby I like pastels.

I am enjoying all the projects this week. Sew Happy, where in Wisconsin do you send your quilts? Ours goes to International Falls. We are very happy with our quilter and have been using her since 2005. Sue

Patty,
I already had lots of small pieces of 30s. I love them so much and they're such sweet baby blankets I can't trhow any of them out. I ran to JoAnns and they had pastel yellow and blue so I got them both. Looking at my backing fabrics I have a perfect one for the blue so I'm going to use it. Thank everyone for the comments. I'm going to find something perfect for that gold...obviously it's no pastel 30s. LOL

Glad I rand to JoAnns. They have their notions on sale 50% off so I stocked up on quilting needles, rolling chalk marker, and blue pens. I should have gotten a seam ripper. They do get dull after 20 years of cutting thread. LOL

I think the blue looks lover-ly. Calms it down but still coordinates.

As far as the cheddar, try some olive green, maroony red, or royal blue with it. It's a strong color that needs partners equal to it.

Sue, do you send your quilts to Dianne at Quilter's Corner? If so, I have known her for a very long time, she's fantastic!

I take mine to Fabric Works in Superior and the quilter Marlene picks them up there. Moonglow is the first one I've had her do for me but I have seen her work, she does wonderful custom quilting.

I have been working on this "At Home In My Heart" over MANY years! : I finally finished it yesterday. DH will be taking it to the quilter tomorrow for me.

Sew Happy- I love your quilt-it is bright and happy. I send my quilts to Val Sjoblom in International Falls. Patty j and I took a road trip several years ago to visit her in person. She let me work with her longarm machine and I quilted a full size quilt with lots of help from her. What a treat that was for me. Sue

Love the heart, Sew Happy. That first border is so wonderful with the log cabins.

Finished the crumb top. It doesn't have the beatiful efffect that Patty's has. But it was a fun, fast technique to try for a charity quilt. I love learning new settings. I'll definitely try it again. I think it would be much more effective with non-pieced centers like you did even if they're 30s. I have lots of batiks and I bet they'd be luscious that way and a great way to use up my small pieced.

Wow Evelyn you sure sewed that one up quick, just a few posts back you were asking for opinions & here it is done already. Great job!! I like it

Bozie, I adore that mini. Those perfect little stars seem to twinkle in that setting. Great job as always.

Gracie, I love your little quilt. Those cute little flower faces make me smile. You did a wonderful job on it.

SewHappy, your quilt top is very pretty. Looks like a lot of work went into it, did it take long to do? Is it your original pattern?

Fantastic job everyone!

I made a couple of burp cloths & posted them on the stashbusters thread. I was inspired to try them after seeing several of you post the ones you had made. I plan to make more.

Miss Lensews2, The pattern is from Beth Ferrier. Many years ago, after 9/11, she had it as a monthly project on her site. I kept up with it at the beginning, got to the last two type of stars and the flowers and got interested in other projects so it got pushed to the back of the closet but not to the back of my mind. It was always on my list to do but I kept finding other things to do instead. This year I decided it was time to finally get it done. Had I kept up with it, no it wouldn't have taken that long. She has now published a book of this pattern in different sizes. The yellow ribbon is my favorite part of it.