New Neighbors and New Baby

Somewhere in the middle of our pandemic, brand new neighbors moved in next door.  They are a fun young couple with a 2 year old little girl.  Last week, they had their second - another little girl.  I've gotten a few peeks at this sweet one - all socially distant of course - and am excited to watch her grow up.

I wanted to make a simple baby quilt and found a charm pack from Kate Spain Paradiso.  After trying out several layouts, this one was the winner!  

For the back I combined large scraps of this pretty gray fabric (also used it as binding) with a scrap of another Kate Spain line.  The colors really work with the front of the quilt and the back is pretty enough to be the front!

I use my walking foot to spiral quilt leaving a circle open in the center. Once all the quilting is done, I mark a finishing spiral and use my FMQ foot to finish things off.

I washed and dried the quilt before gifting.  Frankly, I'm always torn about this for a gift quilt.  Since the quilt is design to be used and loved and therefore washed and dried a lot, I do think it is helpful for me to do the first washing.  And I love the crinkle from the dryer look.  But I also love the crisp look of a freshly quilted quilt!

 

I am thinking about writing up a quick tutorial for this quick HST project.  Interested?

Have a wonderful day! Patty

One Monthly Goal August Finishes Link-up

Ready to link up your August finishes?

Don't panic - this link-up is open until August 31 at 11:55 pm ET.

My goal for August was to get the binding done for my 100 day project.  I went with a pseudo flange binding and included some big stitches to tie it into the overall quilt.  You can learn more about my project here.

Now it is your turn to link-up!

There will be three winners this month - Fat Quarter Shop is offering a $25 gift certificate,  ecopeco is offering a beautiful cutting mat, and Therm O Web is offering a collections of products.

Congratulations to Sandra, Sharon, and Judy!  (updated 9/8)

Visit the One Monthly Goal event page for the specific requirements for links and social tags. 

And remember, to be eligible for the prize(s) by random drawing you must linkup at both the goal setting and the accomplishment linkup in a given month. (August Goal Setting Link-up.)

Make sure you add a link to this OMG post so others can follow where you are linking.   Let's make that easy -  just paste this into your post:  

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - August Finish Link-up

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Thanks for linking up!

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Summer Slow Stitch

Just a quick update on my Summer slow-stitch project!

Pairing 2 1/2 solid squares with low volume background fabric is proving to be a winner for a slow stitch project.   I start by making a bunch of single blocks.  4 of these are then joined together.  Once I've got 4 sets of 4, I join those together for a block of 16!  (Read more about the block and it's assembly.)

Ta da!

Plus I've got a pile of more single blocks done and am about ready to start assembling them into a 16 block.   

Joining everything together brings just enough challenge because of all the partial seams.  But dong these by hand is much easier than it would be by machine.

Have a wonderful day! Patty