Celtic Knot Quilt

 

I started on this quilt top yesterday, and I finished it today.  This is a design that I've been wanting to try for some time now, and I finally got up the nerve to start it.  When they were younger, a couple of my kids used to like to draw Celtic Knots on graph paper.  I thought it would be neat to try to translate that design to fabric.  I've seen Celtic Knot designs that were appliqued using bias strips, but I've never seen one that was pieced, like this one.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  It measures 44-1/2 inches square.

O Holy Night

 

 

This little wall hanging is the latest of my UFOs.  The quilt top was finished so long ago that I don't actually have a record of when I made it.  I know that it is over 16 years old.  It may be closer to 20 years old.  I designed it and made the quilt top, but couldn't figure out how I wanted to quilt it.  This was back when I was still hand quilting everything and some spots where multiple seams come together are very thick.  I put it aside and never came back to it.  I decided to go ahead and tackle it now, because it was the smallest of the UFOs.

My husband suggested the swirl quilting pattern.  I remembered that I had a swirl quilting template for free-motion quilting, so I used it.  There are a few places where the quilting foot didn't want to go over the thick spots, so the pattern isn't completely fluid, but overall I think it turned out pretty well.  I used the same gold colored thread that I used on the patriotic lap quilt.  The binding is attached by machine and hand turned.  The little quilt finished at about 19 inches x 25 inches.

Throwing Stars

 

Quite a while back my middle son, who will turn 33 on Friday, mentioned that he had would like some fabric (or yarn) Ninja throwing stars for him and his daughter to play with.  I hadn't thought about it since shortly after he mentioned it, but making the coasters reminded me.  So, for his birthday I decided to surprise him with some fabric throwing stars.

They are made from some scraps of fabric that were left over from making a quilt.  I used fabric that was quilted to batting (cut aways from having the quilt long-armed) and matching non-quilted fabric, using the same technique I used for making the coasters yesterday.  This time I cut them into little equilateral triangles using my triangle ruler (3 inches) and then sewed two completed triangles on top of each other.  

I think they make nice little throwing stars, and the process was much easier for me than the crocheted one that I've seen online.  I crochet a little, but not much and nothing fancy.

Fabric Coasters

 

Last night when we were Facetiming, my step-daughter mentioned that her one year old can't be allowed to get hold of their cork coasters because he bites them and takes chunks out of them.  (And he had done the same thing with a cork trivet from the table.)  So this morning I decided to use some of the fabric that was left over from making her wedding quilt to make some fabric coasters.  I made a set of 4.  They are quilted to the batting and then sewn to another square fabric and turned right-side out.  Then I sewed around the outside to close up the hole and stabilize them.

 

I'm not sure which side should be the "right" side of these.  On the set I made before the quilted side was definitely intended to be the right side.  But on these I think I might like the plain side better than the quilted side. The good thing is that they are completely reversible, so she can use them however she wants to.

Big Hug

 

I finally finished this quilt that has been a finished quilt top since April of 2019.  I think that makes it my 3rd finished quilt from my UFO collection.  I decided to machine quilt it in a cross-hatch of diagonal lines using a pale pink thread.  The binding is attached by machine to the front and then hand-stitched to the back.  The quilt finished at 49 inches square.  I feel pretty good about how it turned out.

I decided to name it "Big Hug" because the outstretched arms on the doll make her look like she's asking to be hugged.  Or maybe she is offering a hug to the person who ends up with the quilt.  Either way, I like the name. 

My plan for this quilt is to try to sell it.  There is a small craft show near here in the fall and I plan to look into getting a booth there.  If I can't get a booth, or if it just doesn't sell there, then I plan to offer it for sale in my Etsy shop.