Niece's Quilt

I saw the Jelly Roll Race quilts and thought that it looked cool. Went to Missouri Star Quilt Co. online and found two jelly rolls I thought would be perfect for her, So Sophie Rolie Polies Bundle by My Minds Eye for Riley Blake Designs & Shadow Flower Jelly Roll by Jackie Shapiro for Windham Fabrics.

I found another flower fabrics at Walmart to use as a border and another for the binding. I found a striped fabric for the back. I believe I had about 12 hours total in the sewing of the quilt and it turned out nice. She liked it and it was the perfect size for her. She ended up liking the back the best.

Nephew's Quilt

For the 2011-12 school year my brother and I had his oldest grandson living with us and he started to get into sewing with me while I working on the eagle quilt for his grandpa. So he wanted me to make him one I found some fabric at a local Walmart a package of 100 5" square charms (ended up getting 2). It was call green plaid I think. It had several greens and blues and for a little pop I got several yellows and oranges. I did a disappearing 9 patch. The center square was either orange or yellow and then I laid the blues and greens out around them. I sewed them all together and used leftover yellows and oranges for the binding. I had held it up in the living once and just the way the sun was shining through the windows it made me think of a Stained Glass window. I forget how big it turned out but it was just slightly larger than his Grandpa's so I think it was around 75" x 85". He loved it, we told him that it could never leave our house because we know it would end up getting either lost or destroyed. We knew while in our house it would stay nice and whenever he visits he'd have a blanket of his own.

Eagle Quilt

On December 2, 2011 I started my 2nd quilt for my brother as a Christmas gift. I probably would've had it done by Christmas if it hadn't been for unexpected house guests. It's really hard for me to sew with two children that are 3 & 4 years old. Because after a little bit they start to fight over who does what. But one quiet afternoon I ended up with both of them in my sewing room and had a pretty non-stressed hour of sewing. I would sew the block and I had one cut the thread when I was done and the other would hand me the fabric as I needed it so there's about three blocks in the quilt that my two of brothers grandsons helped with. The third grandson who is thirteen helped me baste the quilt. So I sewed when I could and finished this on January 8th, 2012. He really liked the quilt, and I don't think it turned out too bad. I think it ended up being about 65" x 78". I found the pattern online not sure of the name or who made it originally but knew it would turn out real nice.

New to this...

Hi, my name is Dinkey.  It's a nickname actually, but I usually prefer it to my real name.  I've been called Dinkey since I was born.  Anyway I have never written a blog before but thought I might start since I've been starting to do a lot of quilting.  Figured I could keep track of it here maybe.

I started my first quilt back in 2010 but didn't really finish it until Nov. 2011.  I had the top all done and ready but never got around to getting the batting and backing and doing the quilting and binding. Just wasn't confident enough I guess until someone finally asked if I had ever finished the quilt.

So I got to looking around the Internet a little more about how to finish off a quilt and by mid November it was done. I saw several mistakes that I had made (of course) some of the squares didn't line up. But it was done and it didn't look too bad.

I actually had someone comment that the pattern I used was really difficult. I had actually thought it was rather easy. But then again I've drawn pretty much all of my life and most patterns I see online all I really see, other than they are all pretty, is the lines. This line connects to that line and so on. Well, I'd better get off here for now. Got some things need doing around the house.