Tidy Up Tuesday - A Summer 2024 UFO Club Finish

Welcome to another edition of Tidy Up Tuesday!!  I'm here to share my first UFO finish of the quarter.  It's been a pleasure to make a young man's quilt dreams come true.

If you're on Ravelry you may have already seen it...

This special quilt for a special young man revolves around the following sweatshirt...

... Which was donated to the cause by his mother.  It belonged to her, but she appreciated the fact that he wasn't interested in parting with any of his new shirts as he headed off to campus.

The accompanying shirts...

Shown below in a throw-sized setting, just to see what I had to work with:

Next...

The rearranging began to transform the throw into an XL Twin bed quilt layout.  It took several iterations before I was happy enough to send this photo for recipient approval:

The same thing happened with the addition of the sashing and cornerstones.  Those strips and squares got moved around until things fell into place:

Once recipient approval was received, the columns were sewn...

Pairs were joined...

And...

Sections were assembled:

Here is the completed quilt top:

Special thanks to @britt_quilts for the use of her longarm quilting machine and the help loading the quilt components.  Your machine make that process super scary to me!  Quilt a little, lunch a little...

Quilt a little, art a little and at the end of the day...

It was the first quilting marathon that I've had in many months, but the quilting was DONE:

Only a few steps left!!!

The squaring up is complete...

Attaching the binding...

Complete with a game of "Binding Chicken", but I won with 12 inches to spare:

Finishing the edges - Look!  There's even a scrap of ORANGE shirt making up one of the cornerstones:

Here is the porch swing photo:

The Work Man T-Quilt was completed August 7, 2024 - nearly 10 DAYS prior to Move-In Day.  Whew!!  That was a bit too close for comfort, but thanks to Britt's assist, I got it done.

If any of this looks familiar...

You might have seen a few highlights in a recent RSC post.  My apologies, but I felt the quilt needed a post of its own.

Until next time...

Mark another UFO off the list!!

Design Floor Friday - Another UFO Club Finish

Welcome to another edition of Design Floor Friday!!  I'm pleased to share the story of my latest T-quilt.  It's my most recent Spring 2023 (Ravelry) UFO Club finish.  You may have seen bits and pieces of the process on my weekly RSC post, but you didn't get the whole story.

Here it is...

I've been working on a quilt since April.  It started out on the "design bed", but...

Made its way to the studio...

For the addition of sashing, before returning to the "design bed" for further consideration:

After several more back and forths, a quilt top was complete:

Soon enough, it was off on a field trip to the design floor at Finish It Friday...

For the addition of these borders:

No photo, but then it was off to Britt's house for quilting:

She layered up the frame and I did the quilting:

This is what remained to be completed when it was time to head off to our Monthly Evening Bee:

Back in my studio, binding was applied and stitched down:

Finally, the quilt was done!  The construction workers next door advised against a porch swing photo.  Too much clay dust settling there!  Thankfully, helpers were on hand to assist with a porch photo:

Then came delivery day...

One satisfied customer and one joyful quilter:

Special thanks to my friend Sherry for putting in a good word for me!!  Without her, The Nephew Quilt might not have been finished in time for graduation.

Until next time...

Mark another UFO off the list!!!

Sharing with Alycia

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Finished (Or Not) Friday

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC23 - Week 17

Welcome to Week 17 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week started with an ending.  The end of a Bucket List experience.  You'll find the link in Wednesday's entry, if you haven't already read the post.

SUNDAY - I realize this is freshly finished UFO quilt top is not PURPLE...

Look, Alycia... PLAID!!! Link takes you to Finished (Or Not) Friday.  :o))

Currently 39 x 47, so it still needs some additional work to stretch it out a bit.

But...

My purchase at Quiltville Inn was the Gypsy Sip n Snip.  I couldn't resist bringing one of the nifty cup holder/trash can (and clip holder) combos which adorned each workstation back for my own studio:

While I was away, the heavy machinery multiplied on the lot next door:

FIVE pieces of equipment can't dampen the excitement of getting to mark off a Bucket List item.

MONDAY - Work was followed by a trip to the grocery store

TUESDAY - Work was followed by my monthly Evening Quilt Bee meeting:

I nearly forgot to take a photo!!

WEDNESDAY - Wonderful Wednesday

I've been building a PURPLE quilt this month.  It's been a really fun RSC project:

Wonder of wonders, you could actually see the dent this has made in my PURPLE scrap basket.

It went from being bulging and overflowing to only half full!!!  I'd call that a success.

Zoom with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color

This afternoon's big adventure regarding the construction site next door???

Delivery of the largest wood chipper I've ever seen...

Along with...

The longest piece of machinery (presumably a log sizer/cutter) blocking our driveway:

THURSDAY - Work was followed by a quick stop at the grocery store and the pharmacy (because I couldn't POSSIBLY go just ONE time in a week!)  Sigh...

I did some sewing, but I'll share more about that next week

FRIDAY - ABC (Table) SCRAPS Challenge Link Party (It's open until Tuesday night, so there's still plenty of time for you to create an entry using the Y and/or N letter prompts or the color PURPLE!)

Today was my day off and I was excited to be able to attend Knit Group, but it was canceled this morning.  :o((

That gave me the opportunity to focus on one of my SHOULD DO items:

I worked on the layout for the next T-Quilt.

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  She hasn't posted the link yet, but I'll add it when she does.

My contribution to the party...

One scrappy PURPLE project was completed while on retreat last weekend.  I'm not sure whose Orphan Block this was, but it came out of a "Bag of Joy" from my friend Diane:

Update:  The blocks were the extras that my friend Diane shared from a top made in a class

 on Mile a Minute Quilts. She was happy to see it finished table topper.  It was a fun project to work on!

I quilted it (thanks to Stacy for serving as my Design Consultant!), trimmed it into a tumbler shape to preserve the quilting, and bound it with a fabric from my (gifted) stash of Autumnal prints.  This cute turtle fabric was on the back and the turtles are red-violet in color...

But I only have these scraps left, as I gave the remainder of the one-yard cut to Tiffany over the weekend once I cut off the amount needed for the backing.  (Not sure how I missed getting a photo!)

When Carol commented on the unusual shape of the little quilt on Tuesday and said how much she liked it, I promptly gifted it to her because I know how much she enjoys decorating for Halloween:

Here is the photo that Carol took of the backing fabric when I couldn't recall what I had used:

 

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

Tidy-Up Tuesday - The SIL T-Quilt - A UFO Club Finish

 

Welcome to another edition of Tidy-Up Tuesday that didn't post until Wonderful Wednesday!!  This one is special.  It tells the tale of a UFO Club finish, which is always a happy day for me.

The story begins...

... At the end of last summer and in the middle of our move!!!

Time passed...

The move went on forever, the studio took longer than I ever expected to be set up and functional.  Then once then once it was set up, the machine wasn't working properly.

Ugh!!!  Thank goodness for flexible deadlines!

Here's what the "blocks" looked like on the "design bed" at the beginning of the month:

One rather plain block - shown near the bottom left in the photo above - was a candidate for a bit of embellishment...

So, it got a few sleeve or pocket emblems appliqued on:

Then...

It was assembly time:

Once it was a completed quilt top...

.. I waited for the arrival of this fabulously textural backing fabric...

... Before loading it on the frame and quilting it right up:

Before I knew it, the quilting was done...

... Except for the LAST TWO BLOCKS!!  Would you believe I ran out of bobbin thread?  It's true.  The 70" x 90" quilt has more than one pre-wound bobbin in it:

I do what I call semi-custom quilting on T-Quilts.  A large-ish meander in the "background" with outlines of the focal points of the shirt designs:

Then came the miles of binding...

Along with thread color selection:

After that, I trimmed up the quilt to ready it for the next step:

And started in on applying the binding, which was quickly followed by stitching it down:

Nothing like the LAST MINUTE to get something done:

As the plot thickened...

Thanks go out to my trusty assistant DS2, who once again held up the quilt so that I could get a full photo of the quilt before delivery:

Not SEW fast, Joyful!!!

The quilt was done, but I didn't get a chance to add the recipient's name, as I had planned.  What's a quilter to do?  Think fast and come up with a new plan:

The story ends with...

... One happy customer:

Thanks for trusting me with these special memories, Jackie!  T-quilts are always challenging, but oh SEW rewarding.  I'm SEW grateful that you keep returning to me for all of your T-Quilt needs!

Now, let's mark one quilting UFO off the list for the Spring 2022 (Ravelry) UFO Club (and move on to finishing up another.)

Until next time...

Whew!!!