July 12, 2017 by embroiderydetails

Pillow Shams for Garden Gate Quilt

Garden Gate Pillow

First pillow sham complete for Garden Gate quilt!

Corn Flower Zipper Bag

A wonderful neighbor has been ‘getting her exercise’ by mowing our lawn along with hers. She has mowed around the wild flowers, leaving beautiful sprays of nature’s color as the seasons change. I took a picture of the cornflower crop and sent it to https://spoonflower.com, a company that creates fabric and paper products from photos. As a gift for her, this zipper bag was made from twill fabric and lined with quilting fabric and batting, with free-motion quilting. The bag is 8 x 10 inches with a 48″ strap — just the right size for quick errands. She loved it!

Adding the inside pocket and finishing inside seams

Front of bag with pocket for mobile phone

Back of bag

Garden Gate Delivered!!

May 30, 2017 by embroiderydetails

Time to add backing to the Garden Gate

Source: Time to add backing to the Garden Gate

May 30, 2017 by embroiderydetails

Time to add backing to the Garden Gate

Quilting on a flat bed machine is not for the faint of heart!

With Garden Gate, all the ‘quilting’ is already done on the top square — thanks to Steve Wilson and http://www.Anita-Goodesign.com. On this quilt, even the batting (Warm & Natural) in already sewn into the individual squares. The pictures below show the steps I took to begin backing the quilt. The finished product is not going to be perfect and I accept that in advance, with the prayer that even so, I can do all things through Him who gives me strength! Phil 4:13.

The quilt is quite heavy so I’m thankful for the walking foot on the Bernina 830 that helps me get somewhat even stitches.

Here is the quilt tag that is sewn on the bottom corner of the backing. The quilt tag is from a Mini Collection by http://www.Anita-Goodesign.com called Quilt Labels. There are 20 designs total in the collection.

I used the batik fabric for the backing that matches some strips on the front, using two different colors/designs – simply because I like them.

To Aubrey from Granny with love 2017

Batik sewn in strips for the backing.

Pinning the quilt to the backing – I used at least 80 size 3 basting pins to hold the quilt in place.

It is only necessary to stitch in the ditch around the blocks for this quilt. I took the pins out as a square was finished. That helped to see the progress.