Big Boy Quilt for Titus

My grandson Titus received his big boy quilt for Christmas.  I gave it to him on Dec 20 at Granny's Christmas Party which is for all my grandkids.  His quilt it the Lotus pattern and the back features TowMater, his favorite character in the Cars Movie. 

Seasonal Temperature Quilt

This month is just speeding by so fast.  Friday was my Granny's Christmas Party with the 12 grandkids - was so much fun.  Even had a surprise visit from Santa!  They got some Rudolph noses in their goodie bags as well.  Nice of them to humor me and pose for pictures, although for a couple is was a real struggle.

 

This morning I began my Seasonal Temperature Quilt here after known at STQ.  I decided to do mine based on the seasons rather than months.  Its going to be rail fence quilt, with each block having 4 strips - two seasonal strips, one low temp strip and one high temp strip.  Here is my first block along with the Winter banner block.  The orange is the high (50 degrees) and the dark grey is the low (32 degrees) for yesterday, Dec. 21

I drew this out in EQ just to get an idea of how it might look and to also determine what size the banner block should be in order to get a good size quilt.    I am making 4" rail fence block and the finished quilt size will be 70" x 90".

Got this picture this morning from my daughter of Titus with his Rudolph nose....seems he likes it so much he refuses to take it off, except to bathe and sleep.  Wonder if it will be hit at church today?  I gave him his big boy quilt yesterday but wouldn't you know, I forgot to get a picture of that.  Will have to post another time.

Merry Christmas to you all.
Teresa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Pemberley quilting as of Nov 30



As I mentioned in prior post, I am keeping a log of the time I spend hand quilting on my Pemberley quilt.  I am already surprised how many hours I spent just since November 16.  So I thought I would start posting an update on the first of each month, recording how much I get done and the hours spent that month. This is what I accomplished November 16 - November 30; 28 1/4 hours.  The white area around the center oval has quilting completed for most of the white applique outlines.  I still have to cross hatch this area. I did not get a very good picture of the back, but will try to do  better next month.  I am please with the look of the quilting though as I think it has a kind of whole cloth look to it.  I am outlining all the applique and then using either vertical lines or cross hatching to fill in behind the applique.

I have also been doing some Christmas decorating.  I decided to use a quilt I made in 2008 as a bed cover in the guest room.  It is New York Beauty style blocks, and I designed the layout, machine paper pieced the blocks and machine quilted it and named it Christmas Beauty.   The quilt is queen size, but was not made to be a bed spread, and therefore did not have a big enough drape to cover the sheet.  Sooooooooooo….I added some white eyelet lace to the sheet to match the dust ruffle and then just laid the quilt to top of that.  (Well actually there is another quilt under the top quilt, but it is does not show up).  This is the first time I have  used the quilt since I made it. I have out of town company coming Tuesday and I hope she enjoys this quilt.

I finished the floral panel quilt in October and forgot to show a completed picture  on this blog - so here it is.  If you enlarge the quilt, you should be able to see the beading and chain stitching I added to the inner border.

Well, that's all for now.  Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoyed the photos.

Teresa