Tradition Meets Modern (in flannel)

In my new Wyoming home quilt shop flannel is often the fabric of choice. I just couldn't resist this awesome floral print. I added some complementary flannels and finished putting together this quilt. I will be offering this as a class teaching perfect pinwheels, making bias stems, and beginning needleturn applique.

First Finish in Wyoming

Placemats in favorite color orange using up strip scraps became my first totally finished project in my little apartment here in Wyoming. I am using coffee filters cut into 5 1/2 inch squares as my foundation/stabilizer in sewing the strips together. I see many strip blocks in my future.

Snowed In Sewing

Level III snow emergency still in effect from yesterdays blizzard with most businesses closed and no quilt show. (sniff, sniff) So what to do??? Quilt, of course!!!



Table runner top finished and working on quilting.



Love all the runners in this book.

Flannels just purchased to make my first Rag Quilt.

The Quilt Nook

Here are some pics of my new quilt shop home, The Quilt Nook, in Gillette, Wyoming.
Their inventory provides for every quilting need.

Classroom can accommodate 10 students.



50's refrigerator as display case.



30's Reproduction Fabrics

Halloween Corner

Batting Room
The plan is work toward eliminating large rolls and order packaged batting.

Blacks and Whites

Quilt Nook version of "Color Wall"

Book and Pattern Room

Outdoorsy Corner

Beginning of Flannels
Batiks on back wall

Batiks---just a sampling

Lots of Moose and Bear fabric here.

Janome Dealer
Huge selection of embroidery threads

Christmas

Flannel

And more flannel...



Civil War
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Civil War, Homespuns, buttons, selection of elastic, velcro.

Fall Placemats String Quilt Blocks

Using coffee filters as a stabilizer for my string blocks I finished the tops for 2 placemats. Blocks are 5.5 inches unfinished and then sewed 1.5 inch unfinished strips together to go around the blocks twice. Love using up the scraps and orange is a favorite color.

Background fabric for the placemats purchased at my new quilt shop, The Quilt Nook, in Gillette, Wyoming.

Back to Blogging...Finally

The time-consuming task of selling home, emptying the entire contents and moving out of state is now behind me so I am able to get into some sewing again. We are from "settled" with the majority of household items in storage in Battle Creek and home not yet purchased here in Gillette but our little apartment is feeling more comfortable and we are familiarizing ourselves with our new home town.

I have a bare bones sewing station set up in our apartment living room with a string quilt project started making placemats.

My piles of "strings" ready for making blocks.

More Hexagons

A new book out called Quick and Easy Hexie Quilts by Rhodes & Woods shows another way to make hexagons any size without using freezer paper or any kind of template. You simply cut circles and then stitch about 7 well-placed tiny stitches and you have your hexagon done. Talk about fast!!! And if you have an Accu cutter with a circle template you can really get the circles done quickly too. I made these hexagons from a layer cake of batiks, using the Accu cutter to cut 10 inch circles. The layer cake will make 5 complete flowers. I have decided to sew them into placemats using my 60 degree ruler to make the background. 

Another flower ready for hand stitching together. I do a whip stitch with matching thread color.

Here is the first hexagon flower hand appliqued onto the background that will eventually be used as a placemat or topper. My plan is to sew the backing and batting with right sides together leaving an opening to turn back to right sides out. I will machine stitch around the edge 1/4 inch that will close up the opening and help to finish the edge. Then I will do machine quilting around the hexagons and 1/4 inch along inside edges to help secure the layers.

These will be awesome placemats to use in my new house wherever or whenever.....

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