As Light Awakes our Day
Throwback Thursday – Picking Quilt Fabric Colors
COLOR is always on Quilter’s mind, And here is the way that I was taught.
1) Start with one fabric. Take this one fabric and work from it. Is that one fabric, a dark, medium or light color?
This is a Dark
Add the light and medium. Move and change it until you like it.
Lay them out in front of you.
Then add, a dark medium, a light medium, until you have the mix of what you like.
2) Choose colors and patterns you love. An average a twin size quilt will take me about a week to piece together, and if hand quilted another, 3-4 months. If tied or machine quilted 3-4 weeks, you have so much time and cost involved you have to love it.
3) Natural or background colors. These are the corner stone. More often than not
the background color is your light color. Your background color helps bring the blocks together. It does not always need to be a light either, dark or medium work well to, any color can be used.
the background color is your light color. Your background color helps bring the blocks together. It does not always need to be a light either, dark or medium work well to, any color can be used. 4) Color Wheel. I’m not a big fan of the color wheel, I do like when colors pops and on most of my quilts the start fabric is not the most prominent color used it in, it is just a starting point.
5) Make one block. This should always be done, a Quilters practice, cut only fabric for one block and live with it for a few days. Especially, if it’s something you’ve never tried before. Most times you will know right away if you like it or not.
6) Have fun. This is the best way I’ve found to pick colors, enjoy the process, your quilt will be fantastic.
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Well….Sometimes you just have to try AGAIN
I know I’m getting old, BUT a few weeks ago I posted some of my before and afters of flowers. WELL…. I forgot to post the before’s. And the really SAD thing about it is “I” didn’t even notice it…..I had to be told….OH MY… So, I’m going to TRY again, here is the before and after. Thank you noticing and thank you photo software.
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Just Around the Corner
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About the Photo
Everyone is still sleep here and I’m not thinking real clear…yet? Coffee in hand and I’ve been playing with photo’s. Isn’t if unbelievable how a simple photo can be changed into something pretty good. The top one is just a white rose with pink edges. A little Photoshop and here is the AFTER,
AFTER
This is one that was from a Holiday shoot and I loved the idea, but not the picture, but now I LIKE.
I need to get moving, laundry (towels) are not going to do themselves? Have a GREAT day.
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Free Shadow Star Quilt Pattern just for YOU !
I have a house full of company and I’m doing this just for you all ! I have so much to tell you about and will, but next week?? So, please share this quilt pattern and enjoy. I’m a bit overwhelmed !
Cut 1 Assort blue – 4 ½” x 4 ½”
Make the Flying Geese First
Cut 8 Assort blue to match – 2 ½” x 2 ½”
Cut 4 Yellows 4 ½” x 2 ½” Make Flying Geese block
Cut 8 Yellow – 2 ½” x 2 ½”
Cut 4 White – 4 ½” x 2 ½” Make Flying Geese block
Cut 4 Yellow – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Cut 4 White – 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”
Make Triangles
Cut 4 Yellow – 2 ½” x 2 ½”
Cut 4 White – 2 ½” x 2 ½”
Piece block as shown above
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Self-binding a Quilt Tutorial
How to do self binding to a quilt. You bring the quilt backing to the front and using it as your binding, It’s from The Quilt Ladies, you know they know !
Self-Binding Quilt Tutorial
Self Binding means:
Bring the quilt backing to the front and using it as your binding, I am bring this over from The Quilt Ladies, this post is used and asked for all the time, Thank you for that.
Just a few days ago I received this comment on my original post:
from Helen:
After reading the tutorial 3 times I committed to try it.
It worked perfectly. I just followed the instructions and it worked
on a table runner. This method stops so much waste of material.
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Make your quilt block, add batting heat resistant, and quilt. Trim the batting even with your quilt top
Cut one backing 1″ from the quilt edge
Fold the backing to the edge of the quilt, 1/2″, I like to press it down
Again, fold the backing over onto the quilt top, make sure you are on the quilt top with the edge, this is your sewing edge, pin it down
Fold the corner over as shownSEE Beth Ann’s BOOKS on Amazon and
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And then do the steps as before, fold over half way and
then fold over half way again.
Pin well.
Sometimes at the corner you will have to move it around a bitto make the corner perfect, go slow and pin well.
When I get it like, I like, pin and I press a bit, between pins and at the cornerit holds it just a bit better.
Remember, pressing is up and down with an iron.
Doing it up and down your fabric will not stretch or move.
With your machine sew along the backing edge, do a few back stitches to hold ends
I like doing 2 rows of stitching, just my personal like.
I met a Boy and We Married 39 years ago !
It’s been a ride, adventure and laughs ! It’s been hard, fun, presser driven and at time crazy. But, with time….a lot of time… 39 years, we have at figured out????
So YOUNG, so happy. He gave me two sons and those boys gave two daughter-in-laws, and four grand boys. I am blessed.
We are NOW ready for 39 more years !
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How to Mend a Quilt
I’m always on the look out for old quilts and IF I think I can save them I purchase them. They have to be washable and usable, nothing better to me no matter the temperature is a quilt to cuddle in. This is the Quilt AFTER, I am sharing this from my Quilt Ladies site, this post is NUTS on Pinterest !
3 blocks that needed attention,
I ALWAYS wash and dry quilts before I mend, this one turned out
VERY nice, they usually do !
I like making a paper temple for the applique piece I’m adding
Try to make it exact and add seam allowance at the time of cutting (it’s easier to do)
This is the same fabric, one is the right side and one it the back side, I used the back.
Add the seam allowance and cut out piece 
Fold down the point and press
Fold the sides over, I like to press everything and I use the tip of the small scissors to hold as the fabric will get HOT !
Applique the pink down and I then hand quilted, forgot to picture !
3 baskets I fixed on this quilt
Can you find them ?
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Getting Old Part Two and with ONLY a bit of Grace
Things here have been a little bit crazy and I’m hoping for a bit of calm to settle over us. At times it still seems crazy, but I’ve adjusted or accepting a bit better lately. Read Last Month Part One
I have heard a lot this past month or so about empathy, and you are under the opinion I have none. And, as I’ve politely tried to say and will say here in my own way, bullshit.
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.
And really I do get it….but, I’m moving through survival mode. My way is, look and solve the problem, see what is needed and what HAS to be done. I can’t seem to find empathy at those moments, but isn’t that empathy too, getting it done?
Long ago, a Hospice worker said to us, “Nothing but the truth is to be spoken from this time forward.” I hear her saying that in the back of my mind so often. It’s also a pretty good way to live one’s life.
As we settle in, the work has not stopped. The daily needs of life still have to be taken care of. I have learned to ask for help, to understand it’s alright to take time for me and that life becomes all about potty and poop. And, or the cleaning up of it.
Lessons learned.
- Ask the VERY hard questions, of yourself, of others, of services. EVERY thing you can think of, ask the questions.
- I had to fire the first service we had started. It was about Mom and what was best for her, not them, HER. This is where I have no empathy, it’s the momma bear in me.
- Everyone has an opinion and I do just what I think is best. I listen, I thank them, but we (Mom and I) talk it over and do what is needed.
- Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feelings with the heart of another and I like to add, ONLY after all the work is done.
I’ve learned to cry often (a hot shower is designed for that), WE laugh often and I NEVER fight or argue with her. Why…life always comes down to potty and poop.
Please be kind…or don’t leave a comment
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