Baby Steps

My attempt of freehand machine quilting.

Sometimes, all it takes is a little courage and the will to try something new!

My first attempt to try something other than stippling and wavy lines. I can see how machine quilters get easily absorbed into various patterns and designs. This was actually a lot of fun!
I even tried binding with machine.

I tried!

I went back to hand stitching the binding on my second quilt.

Quilts for Basics

If you are a member of this blog, I would like to encourage you to post your scrappy adventures. I know how difficult it is to maintain posting on several blogs. But it seems like this poor blog has been neglected by me and I would like to change that.
I am up for a small challenge. Anyone interested? No deadlines, no rules.. just plain and simple fun :)

My AAQI quilt now for sale

You can own this quilt and help raise the money for AAQI

Made with 100% cotton, Machine pieced and hand quilted with 100% cotton thread.

Baby Quilt

Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving holiday with your family and friends. 

My husband's nephew and his wife are going to have a baby. We attended her traditional Indian baby shower over the thanksgiving break. I decided to make a quick baby quilt to go with her shower gift. 

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 I forgot to take pictures on the day of my plaid pantry party! 

Try saying that a few times!

Here is what I am working on.. 

I see my friends again this Wednesday and will be sure to take my camera with me.

'Friendship Garden'

 

I will post more pictures of this project as it evolves. 

Smiles!

 

Plaid Pantry

Some friedns are coming over tomorrow for a sew day. 

  

I am opening up my 'Plaid Pantry' to have some scrappy fun.

Stay tuned!

Simple squares!

Leftover scraps from past few projects find new place to be other than the storage containers.

Still trying to work away those scraps. Next up is another string quilt. What are your scraps up to these days?

Cattywampus

My basket was full of scraps!!

You know it's time to get sewing when the basket starts overflowing!
There's bits of fabric from very early quilts, even my first quilt! Scraps given to me by friends. The orange solid was the only fabric that was "new".
Some pieced combinations were tests for other projects that didn't quite make the cut but found a home in this quilt. I even used up scrappy threads! Half used bobbins of unusual colours, and almost finished reels.
Solids work well to break up the scrappy mish mash. A place for the eyes to rest, and to add depth.
The quilting is as scrappy as the quilt. I'm not very confident with my machine quilting so this was a good chance to get used to handling a quilt in the machine and play with different patterns.

The quilt ended up being 70 inches square and looks perfect hanging in our entrance hallway...

and in the trees and the bottom of our garden.

Cattywampus means cockeyed, messed up, out of whack, screwy. The perfect name for my latest quilt!

Cheers,

Rachaeldaisy

Blue Mountain Daisy

I am back!

I feel like I have neglected this blog and all of you for a long time..

I keep going back and forth about the true purpose of this blog and in reality, it is about the scrap quilts. Honestly, I have not made one since last time I posted a quilt. Now that I have something small to share, Here I am!

A block for Julie and her White coat project. She approached me a while ago to make a block for her coat. I thought I was on top of things and could send her a block in time.. I was so wrong!

I really don't know where the time flies but it sure gets away from my hands.

I also finished this quilt that was not as scrappy as some of my other quilts but I used all I had that was already cut and made it into a wedding gift. 

 

The back of this quilt was made with whatever yardage I had in my stash to match with the front. I machine quilted the quilt and washed it before I mailed it out for the newly weds.

   

'Heat Wave' was made also as a gift during the week when entire east coast was burning hot!

It represents lot more than the atmospheric heat wave!

I will just leave it to that!

I also finished 'Driftwood'

You can read all about the story behind this quilt here



Hopefully I will have more to share in the near future.
What are you working on?


Oh, I almost forgot!
 
Nilesh and I celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary this month!

Life is good!