Sunday, August 15, 2010

Dream On quilt top..

Well, it is almost time to go back to school so I haven't had as much time to work on quilts.  ;-(  Anyhow, I have been working on that layer cake that I got a few weeks ago....the Dream On one.  I've never bought a layer cake before and I wanted to try out some stacking and whacking and shuffling.  This is how it started out...
Did I show this before?  I made random cuts on the left and right, sort of wonky.  Then wonky cuts on the top and bottom.  Then wonky cuts again on the left and right, and then top and bottom.  Then I shuffled the top center fabric to the back...and the top two fabrics on the inside round (the white and blue) to the back.  Then I started sewing, and trimming, and sewing...etc.  I finally finished the blocks, but didn't square them up.  They were about 8" if I recall.  Here they were...
Don't they look pretty?  The more I worked with the fabric, the more I realized it looked like bed sheets from the 1970's.  Do you think they meant for it to be like that?  Is thay why it is called Dream On???  Anyhow, I decided that I needed to add some white ala crazymomquilts so I cut some 2" and 3 1/2" strips to add to three of the sides of the blocks.  The blocks were sufficiently big enough so that I could trim them to 10 1/2" squares.  There were 42 squares in the layer cake so I made a quilt that was 6 blocks across and 7 blocks down...finished size of about 60" x 70".  I did the layout of the blocks similar to a confetti quilt....I made sure that no two colored squares touched each other...and there was white all around the edge of the quilt...no colored squares along the edge.  Here is how it turned out...



Sadly, the Dream On fabric hasn't been fully released yet so I can't buy the backing fabric..or binding.  Not that I'm ready to quilt it anyhow.  I'm going to try to stipple it on my Juki ---after I do some serious stippling practice!!  Stippling on a home sewing machine is A LOT different than stippling with a longarm.  When you longarm, you move the machine to make the design...with the Juki I have to move the fabric to make the design since the machine doesn't move.  I tried it a month ago and failed miserably so the quitter in me gave up and set it aside for another day.  Well, I guess that day is coming this fall ;-)

Next up, pull something out for Christmas!!  Yes, I'm going to put my Halloween quilt on hold for now since I doubt I can have it done it time...but Christmas quilts/tree skirt still have some hope of getting completed.  Because of the fabric buying moratorium, which is going fine by the way, I'll be using vintage plaids for my holiday projects!!  Yeah, I love it....

2 comments:

  1. I can't figure out how you did this but it looks great! I thought you told me it would be simple? Doesn't look simple at all. We will have to discuss in more detail..

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  2. I just finished a twin sized quilt that had micro stippling on most of it. It took me forever on my domestic machine, but by dividing it into blocks and doing one block at a time - it did come together! Best wishes - you CAN do it!

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