Monday, February 18, 2019

A Giveaway Winner and Project underway


     Thank you to everyone who visited my blog during the recent blog hop.  I had so much fun looking at all the other quilts!  Such creativity and talent!  If you are new to my blog, I hope you visit often and also like my Facebook Page (Snug Harbor Quilts) and follow me on Instagram (@snugharborquilts)! 
     GranChris, who was comment #21 on my blog, is the winner of the pdf copy of the whole Turnabout Patchwork book.  I am going to make another quilt from the book soon!   Congrats, Chris, I hope you enjoy it!
     I can now turn my attention to other projects.  One of my first 2019 "to do" projects was to finish the center portion of the spider web quilt I have been working on for years for my husband.   TaDa!  The center is DONE!
      I love it, and he loves it.  Now I need to settle on a border, and get that done, but I feel great that this part is completed.  It was 240 paper foundation triangles.  I sewed two together to make a square, then removed the paper before sewing any further.   I filled many a trash bin, at least one of which my kittens turned over! 

Here is a close up of one of the sections.  The fabrics are all civil war repro fabrics.
I also managed to finally quilt a charity top that had been donated to one of my guilds.  Pinning the quilt is one of my least favorite parts of quilting, and so I tend to put it off.  I finally got it done. 
     I use binder clips with my craft table to get a nice taut back without having to tape anything to the floor.   I quilted it with a free motion loopy loop which followed the jelly roll strips, using a dark red aurifil.  It looks fine, and it is done and delivered! 

  I have two small projects underway for competitions late this spring, and I am going to get my On Ringo Lake quilt quilted.  It is already pinned - I just need to figure out what I am doing with it!  Stay tuned, in between these projects, I have lots more I want to accomplish!  
    My goal is to post a blog once a week, but I am finding that the studio art classes I am taking are quite challenging and time consuming, so please bear with me if I am delayed a bit on my posts! 
     Take care,
Gretchen 
  


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  1. GranChrisFebruary 19, 2019 at 2:30 AM

    Thank-you so much. I am looking forward to receiving this book and making a lot of the quilts. Should be fun.

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  2. Joan H.February 27, 2019 at 11:58 AM

    I like the quilt in the background (on a bed) of the picture of the quilt being basted. Is it broken dishes, pinwheels or hour glasses? It's so cheerful.

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  3. Gretchen WylegalaFebruary 27, 2019 at 6:10 PM

    Hi, Joan! Thanks for the comment! That is a broken dishes quilt I made for my daughter in 2001, when I just had started quilting. I didn't know any better, so used home dec fabrics, and I hand quilted it with giant stitches. I love it! More pix in one of my May 2013 posts!

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