Merry Christmas from Beth Ann and The Quilt Ladies

As the next few days come upon us, please take a moment of time to reflect on your life, your year and the joy that is in your heart right now. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have this happiness in us every day. From my little company, my family and from my heart

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Growing Together photo — My Photo Growing Together by Beth Ann Strub

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Here you are…. A finished quilt ! And in only 5 parts….HA…If you missed anything here are the links back.

Cut 2 Side Borders 5 1/2″ x 42 1/2″ Sew to the sides of the quilt

Cut 2 Top/bottom Borders – 5 1/2″ x 52 1/2″ Sew to the top and bottom.

Cut Binding – 2 1/2″ x 205″

Here is how I do my binding at The Quilt Ladies

Have a GREAT HOLIDAY SEASON

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Putting our Holiday Quilt Together From The Quilt Ladies

If you have missed any of My Holiday Quilt Pattern they are all here for you. Today is adding the outside borders.

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Cut 12 Green – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Cut 12 Background – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Sew center unit as shown.

Cut 8 Yellow – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Cut 8 background – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Sew corner units as shown.

Cut 8 Background – 4 1/2″ x 14 1/2″ Sew unit together as shown.

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The Ladies Quilt Pattern Book

“The Ladies” Quilt Pattern

68 quilt pattern blocks, with complete cutting and piecing instructions. Make the quilt blocks as shown, a quilt which is 76″ x 84″ or just as a single quilt project reference of quilt blocks.

“The Ladies” are The Quilt Ladies. This project started as a gift idea and turned into a quilt pattern. The Ladies started by deciding the block size of eight inches by eight inches and the piecing of only straight seams. Drawing out each quilt block on graph paper and all hand written directions, they discovered they had lots of star patterns and they liked the quilt blocks that look complicated but weren’t. So, they purchased fabric and made each quilt block.

Here it is today, “The Ladies” Quilt Pattern Book

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My Holiday Gift for you – Putting the Quilt Together

This is probably my favorite part of the quilting process. Putting it all together ! When I first took a quilting class, the teacher talked about the three steps of making a quilt, 1) the idea/purchase, 2)the making of the quilt, 3) finished, the quilting/binding.

I think of this often, as I really LOVE the idea/purchase part, but a stack of fabric or blocks can NOT be called a quilt.

SO….Let’s start to put the quilt together.

Cut 6 Background – 2 1/2″ x 14 1/2″ sew as shown above

Cut 6 Background – 2 1/2″ x 14 1/2″ Cut 9 Red – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2 as shown above

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If you missed, here are the links to make the quilt blocks

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My Happy Holiday Quilt Pattern for YOU ! Part ONE

This is Quilt pattern Two – Cutting is for TWO quilt blocks.

Cut 8 Green – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Cut 8 Background – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Cut 2 Red 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Sew a 9 Patch Block

Cut 8 Red – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″ Cut 8 Background 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″ Make Triangles

Cut 8 Background – 2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ Cut 8 Background – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Sew as shown.

Cut 4 Yellow – 4 7/8″ x 4 7/8″ Cut 4 Background 4 7/8″ x 4 7/8″ Make Triangles

Sew rolls together as shown below.

Finished quilt block is fourteen inches by fourteen inches.

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Happy Holiday Quilt Pattern for YOU from The Quilt Ladies

This Holiday Season I’m doing a complete quilt pattern for you here on this site, every few days I will post a new part of the pattern. The finished quilt is fifty inches by fifty inches and can be made smaller or larger just by adding or reducing the borders sizes.

The quilt is made up of two different quilt blocks, square corners, pieced borders and solid outside borders. This is quilt block one. HERE is how I made my quilt triangles

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Cutting if for TWO quilt blocks as shown above,

Cut 16 Red – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″
Cut 16 Background – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″

MAKE Triangles

Cut 8 Background – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Cut 32 Assorted Greens – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Sew 8, 4 patch quilt blocks, Sew together as shown

Cut 8 Background – 6 1/2″ X 6 1/2″ Cut 2 Red – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Sew as Shown

The finished quilt block measures, fourteen inches by fourteen inches.

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It’s all in the Photo by Beth Ann

With everything being so crazy here for months….I am just getting myself back. My Mom is in a very good living place and we are getting a new normal worked out.

I haven’t done anything I have wanted to do for months, tonight I did, pulled out my photo’s and just played on Photoshop. I have always had anxiety and it has been on over drive. So, it’s huge for me to just be and be happy doing what “I” like.

Nice to see you, is from a boat ride and we walked the beach in Sarasota Bay.

Scary Beauty The Jelly fish is from Mote Marine, and of course my flowers, from ??? I even took a bit of time and entered a digital photo contest, I didn’t include them here but will after judging.

Nice to See you Photo by Beth Ann Strub — Nice to See You by Beth Strub

Scary Beautiful photo by Beth Ann Strub — Scary Beautiful by Beth Ann Strub

in the Beginning photo by Beth Ann Strub — in the beginning by Beth Ann Strub

The Back of Beauty by Beth Strub

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MY CAMERA Nothing fancy, just point and shot.

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Finished Building my Sewing Table

One last day of this table, but I love it. I have had a couple questions, the table is all two by fours and a 3/4 inch plywood top. Husband and I moved through the pile of both the two by fours (need to be straight) and plywood(perfect grain pattern)

They (workers) will look at you, watch and NEVER help. AND I am VERY fine with that. Better to leave me ALONE. We always put everything back on the racks. The cost for both the plaid walls and table just about 300.

This table is 77 inches long, 36 inches wide and 32 inches high ! It’s a beast. I LOVE IT and My Sewing room is DONE???

From the Hall

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Building my NEW Office Table

First measure, re-measure and again measure your wall or your area, make a very detailed plan. This is the way I did mine, not a pro, not a carpenter, don’t over think it. I just used two by fours, screws, white paint and time.

Off to get lumber, Husband checked my numbers so there are not a return trip. I didn’t purchase the top at this time. I wanted the base together and MAKE sure I had the right size cut. I wanted this table heavy and not able to move around when my sewing machine was going. I did the legs this way.

How to a building two by four table

Cut all the pieces for the legs, painted

Put two end units together

With Husbands help added two by fours to the outside edges. After see the space under the table I added a shelf, which I love having.

Back to Lowes, for the table top. I like to do this talking with the gentlemen cutting the wood, which side will have the best edge after cutting? This guy was HARD to warm up, but I told him it was me building the table and I was asking out of no knowledge and it WORKED !

How to a building two by four table

This is the top and Husband did the cuts for the new under shelf. I did 2 thin coats of stain and LOTS of satin top coats, sanding with a brown bag in between loads, this took days. DO NOT hurry drying.

MY NEW TABLE

The table and plaid wall supplies were just about 300 dollars, priceless !

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