Here is quick way to jazz up a fabric panel for a crib sized quilt. I just added “side lights” to the panel and some borders. This quilt is 36″ x 51″ with the wide borders on the top and bottom only. Add the 3″ borders to the sides for a 48″ x 51″ quilt.
This pattern is available as a free download in my Craftsy Shop.
Here are some of the blocks that I made for Boston Modern Quilt Guild’s effort to make quilts for people who’s lives have been disrupted by the Boston Marathon bombings. If you would like to help please send your blocks to the guild by May 24.
It really is therapeutic to spend time making these blocks.
Boston Strong!!
I finished my little house quilt last Friday, the 19th of April. I spent the day listening to the news and waiting for Suspect 2 in the Boston Marathon Bombings to be found and arrested. While listening I worked on this quilt. This terrible event hit close to home, as I work in Boston 3 days a week.
But on that Friday I was safe at home working on this fabric picture of my house and hoping that the law enforcement officers would all be safe while doing their jobs. Thankfully no one else was injured or killed and now we can move on …. while remaining vigilant!
This little quilt is 18″ x 18″. The story behind it is here … and to see a full size version of the finished quilt click on the thumbnail photo.
I have been wanting to do a little art quilt of my house for awhile now. I was thinking in terms of pieces cut and sewn together, but when Quilters Common was offering a class by Sue Colozzi featuring landscaping with raw edge applique I decided to give that a try. The class project was a house … a standard center entrance colonial. My house is a rather unique L shaped cape with a garage underneath. Very 50’s!
Not to be deterred I decided to go ahead, with encouragement from Sue, and used a picture of my house for the project. But, I needed to enlarge the picture and rearrange things a bit. I did not want the tree in front of the house! I started with an acrylic painting that I had done, enlarged that and then referred to a photo taken in the summer. I had to add the squirrel, but Bob wanted me to put a car in the driveway …. of course he did! Maybe next time.
I am happy with the result, which I think is nicer than the painting. I work better with fabric!
Of course, I still need to take the time to finish this quilt. The edges of each piece need to be sewn down, borders added and the whole thing needs to be quilted. My plan is to use my embroidering method, which will mean taking the time to scan the quilt and “program” the stitches and then let my embroidery machine finish it for me!
If you decide to try this here is the method I used for fusing the shapes to the background. I first drew the house, then I scanned the drawing and printed a mirror image of it. I then took a sheet of Steam a Seam 2, which is a doubled sided fusible web, and traced the shapes from the mirror image, grouping shapes by color. Then I cut out each group of pieces and fused it to the back of the appropriate fabric. Then I cut out the individual pieces and used the original drawing for a guide to place the pieces on the background fabric.
Quilting with Patrice 