Rag Quilting and Another Finish

     At GCQ general meeting Tuesday we had Sharon Cooper-Murray, “The Gullah Lady”, for our program.  She is a great storyteller.  She is on a mission to preserve rag quilting and started the Community Rag Quilters Preservation Initiative on Wadmalaw and Johns Island, SC.  

After her presentation we were each encouraged to participate in the making of a rag quilt by using a large nail to insert a strip of fabric through burlap and tie a double knot. 

Following are a few of her art pieces made using the rag quilting technique on burlap. 

      For show and tell I showed my stacks quilt without the binding.  I followed Tula Pink’s directions for the 18” blocks.  Today it has binding and is completely finished. 

To try something different that I had seen from Jacquie Gering, I quilted it using my walking foot and the serpentine stitch on my sewing machine.

Another Finished

   Today I finished another child's comfort quilt for GCQ.  It started with 3 orphan blocks and the leftover fabric from a couple of projects.  I decided they would work together.

I quilted with varigated purple thread.  In the main part of the quilt I practiced quilting Leah Day's Echo Shortcut design in a large format trying to have about a 1 1/2" space at the widest part of the echo. In the border I used a Dove soap sliver to make sections and used my chalk pencil to sketch out hearts which I stitched in free-motion.  

Now onto a UFO but which one? 

Sew Day for SQG and a Finish

       We had a good sew day for my church quilt group although we missed a couple of members. Gail finished sewing her borders onto her Lone Star. 

  

After I helped her sandwich it, we worked on jellyroll quilts.  Here Gail is choosing 40 - 2 ½” strips. 

Beverley is sewing her strips all together in one long-----string. 

Bonney is working on the next phase of sewing.

Here all her strips are sewn into a top about 48 by 62”.  She plans to add a border to make it larger. 

It was time to pack up and I had not finished sewing the first 800 inch seam.   After returning home, I went back to work on sewing mine ( with a few distractions ) and a couple of hours later it is finished.   I may also add a border but that will wait until our next sew day.

Greater Columbia Quilters plan to sew jellyroll quilt tops next Tuesday after the general meeting.  For that event my 40 strips are all ready sewn together in one long strip so I will see how long it takes but I don’t plan to race.  Missouri Star Quilts has a couple of jellyroll quilt Youtube videos and there are also others on the web. 

 

Yesterday I finished quilting and binding the scrappy lizard comfort quilt for GCQ.