Pine Burr Trivet

    Last night I was looking for a quick project to work on.  I remembered months ago seeing a photo of a pine burr quilt and the directions.  I saved them thinking it would be a good use of scrap squares.  Here is a photo from those directions.  The Pine Burr quilt has been named the official quilt of Alabama. 

    I pulled out my scrap bin of 3 ½" squares, cut a muslin foundation and batting.  Each square of fabric gets folded twice and pressed into a small triangle ( Prairie Point style ) so it is 4 thicknesses of fabric.  I only added 6 rounds and decided to finish a different way.  I can NOT imagine a whole block, much less a whole quilt, being made this way even without the batting.  There are sooooo many overlapping layers of fabric to sew through. On mine I had also added a piece of heat resistant batting so it would make a protective trivet.  I’m pretty sure this will be one of a kind. 

Grocery Bag Dispenser

     I had a worker here this morning putting in my new range hood vent so I did not want to pull out a big UFO project to work on.  Instead, I made a grocery bag dispenser.   I need a hand made item for my guild auction (fundraiser) this month.  I had seen GenX’s tutorial for a grocery bag dispenser on her blog. I had thought of making one for myself and maybe for the auction.

Here is my first.

  It was pretty easy.  I am thinking there should be a way to make the hanger easier to attach to hang. You can check out at http://www.genxquilters.com/2011/03/grocery-bag-dispenser-tutorial.html

   The grocery bag dispenser is quilted so I also used it to try out a new free-motion overall quilting design.  It is sort of echoed meandering hearts.  I don’t remember where I saw it.

Pina Colada Finished

    I spent another day doing free-motion quilting on the Pina Colada quilt trying out new designs, and I am very happy with my practice experience on this quilt.   Here is a photo of the finished quilt.  I'm sorry the quilting on the whole quilt does not show up in the photo.

 

Here is a close-up of the FM feathers I quilted in all 8 of the large green triangles.  I am very pleased with them.  All I marked was the spine.  I had practiced on paper ahead of time.

I know that the quilting throughout this quilt is not balanced, but it has sufficient quilting to be stabilized for the type of batting.  If I had the time to spend another couple of days I could fill every area but I have a stack of quilt tops waiting. 

Now on to the next UFO.