Perry Moffitt

July 19, 2010

More Rainbows!

I am trying to make a baby quilt in a hurry for an old friend and her darling baby who we are seeing on vacation next week. It is fun revisiting some of these fabrics, I have had some of these scrap triangles for ten years, just waiting for the right project. It felt like I had pulled out millions of triangles, but when I laid out this pieced top  I was  disappointed in the smallness. In my mind’s eye this was going to be big enough for a toddler bed but it is currently too small to be a baby quilt. Even though the triangles were mostly half of a 5.5″ square the finished squares ended up being 4″ . I think I have to add at least 2 rows to the long side. And a ginormous border. Of red? of white? of a rainbow polka-dot?

I loved doing this pattern with Lauren’s quilt, but those triangles were bigger and maybe more forgiving? I am having a hard time making clean points with such small triangles. Such is the nature of slightly wonky scraps.

And a picture of the darling baby.  She learned how to roll from her back to her front this weekend. And then when she gets there- cries in frustration that she is stuck on her belly. It must be tough to be a baby :)

April 30, 2010

Paintbox quilt, start the timer

There is no telling how long it will take me to get these squares made into a quilt. But I wanted to share how I spent my last days of pregnancy.  These are made from all my skinny scraps. I confess I separate my scraps into stripes, squares and triangles. A bit of my OCD showing.

I was inspired by the paintbox quilt by Oh, Fransson. She is a little more measured and specific in her sewing but I love the result. I am a little more haphazard, maybe another green square, make the yellow ones bigger. I have plenty of plans for it, but sewing is one thing you can’t do while cradling a baby. Small sacrifice…

February 2, 2010

Pink and Green Baby Quilt

For our baby!

I have spent a long time on this quilt, partly because my big belly makes sewing a little tougher, but partly because I wanted it to be awesome.  I think it ended up pretty awesome.

I used some scraps for the back, not really what I had imagined in the beginning, but I am pretty pleased with it. The minty green stripes are minkee, I think maybe I should have made the whole back minkee, but the pinwheel squares were too hard to resist.

September 5, 2009

Pinwheel quilt with flowers on back

dear god that is an original title. almost as good as “vanilla ice cream, in a bowl” .

Anyway- I finished the pinwheel quilt last night. This darn quilt has been in process for way too long. I think I made the pinwheel squares more than 8 months ago. But the flip side of this is I am finishing all the stuff that has been stacked on top of my fabric stash- preventing me from making new stuff.

I hung it upside down for this picture, the fat white border is actually at the top…

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I tried a little applique on the back side, which I love;

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I was inspired by a McCalls quilting magazine that had a template for the flower petals. It also had vines and leaves but who can be bothered with that?  I hurried a little and didn’t do a yellow flower like I planned, I miss it a little. But not enough to put it on now. Only 2 more WIP’s to do …

June 26, 2009

Wedding Quilt- Blue Bento Box

I kinda love the bento box pattern. I don’t know if you can tell from my other quilts here here and here. Oh wait- here too.

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I have never made one for myself, but I think that will be coming soon. I am having trouble giving this one away. But I did tell the bride it was coming, so I don’t have much choice. I was trying to keep it a secret, but the wedding is tomorrow so the chances she is checking my wee website today are pretty slim.

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I am so relieved to have this quilt done! So many projects to get working on, family arriving soon and  our annual huge July 4th party next weekend. July 5th I will be hiding out for a while to prepare for my “Artist of the Week” table at the Lansdowne Farmers Market, July 25th. I am planning to relax in August!

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March 7, 2009

Stippling, what a great feeling

My best friend is going to be an auntie soon so I made a little quilt and tried stippling for the first time. I bought a darning foot and whipped this out in a few hours. A lot more satisfying than my normal stitch and ditch method…

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I need a lot more practice to even up the stitches and squiggles but I can’t believe I waited so long to try it! I also love the flop ear on the bunny, but I wish I had done his face a little different, not my favorite quilt, but pretty good for a first try of applique…

January 30, 2009

pink and red, yummy

All I can seem to do these days is match new quilts. I can’t seem to finish the other quilts I have started and every time I open my fabric stash something new jumps out. This one is just dying to be made with the perfect red minkee for the back.img_1210

My sister-in-law unwittingly sabotaged my sewing. She gave me the book Twilight for Christmas. I didn’t pick it up until last week, and then I couldn’t put it down, and just happened to go out and get the other 3 books in the series and have spent all my spare time reading the whole series, and then watching a few of the Twilight movie clips on YouTube. I have since hooked my best friend on the books too, which somehow makes the addiction okay. Paul went to Montreal for a week, I had a girls night with a friend, weekend errands and now, 10 days later, I am finally back to making some quilts.

On my to-do list; I cut out over 300 blocks for a scrap quilt which has reduced my scrap bag to practically nothing (!!!!).  I have the white baby quilt ready for “stippling” (I just learned that word, but grateful to have it because”quilting” means so much more) . I have the pinwheel quilt top almost done, I have an old tee shirt quilt top waiting in the wings, I found an old baby quilt top that I added a minkee bunny applique to but it needs some eyes and a nose…

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And there is a June wedding quilt that I should start thinking about. Geesh!

January 12, 2009

New Squares

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I am only using the brightest colors possible these days in my sewing. I blame the cold weather and that white on beige quilt I just finished.

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I finally committed to something with a huge stack of triangles I cut early in the fall. I used some of them on my previously mentioned zig zag quilt. And the rest of the triangle stash on these blocks.

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Most of the fabric came from the fat quarter shopping binge at the Maine Quilt show. Where I was feeling very cheerful it seems.

Did I mention how cold it is? and how it gets dark so early? and how I hate taking pictures indoors? Well, until it stays light later, there will be mediocre pictures on this here website…

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I made 16 of these joyously colored pinwheels. I think they are destined to be a twin sized quilt.

UPDATE: finished quilt here

January 1, 2009

Beach Quilt for Wedding

Happy New Year! We are still recovering from a fantastic wedding last night, complete with balloon drop on midnight. The wedding present was done just in time, but we were having one hell of a wind storm which forced me inside for photos…img_10651

don’t mind the bird in the corner, I had to get my head well into the ceiling fan to take this picture.

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With every quilt I learn a new lesson, This time I learned that the 95% cotton batting really does shrink and make a “poofy” quilt after it is washed. I had only used it on baby quilts until now and the shrinking was hardly noticable, but with the big squares on this one, it was very obvious. So, beware the cotton batting!

December 15, 2008

Old Quilt Repair

I made this quilt about 8 years ago. It has had a hard life. It started as a duvet cover but because I used the smallest seam-allowance-known-to-man the seams started to rip free and I decided that it would be my very first machine quilting project. Imagine sandwiching batting in a duvet cover and then machine quilting it without pinning. Disaster. And then to make matters worse, I haphazardly fixed the bursting seams with a wide zig zag stich.  It came out so poorly that I didn’t quilt again for years.dscf1469

But as it was my first “quilt”, it has many fabrics that I simply love and have never had again. So, I set my mind to repairing my disaster somehow.  I ironed on 1/4″ ribbon with iron-on hem tape over all the burst vertical seams. And then to unify it  a little I ran the ribbon across all the horizontal seams. I added a new backing and then top stitched both sides of the ribbon.

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Top stitching slippery ribbon was a total pain. There was many a swear word in repairing this quilt but I think the end result was the best way I could fix it. Maybe I should have used a couple stripes of green ribbon in the middle but that aside, I am pleased with it’s new look.

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Probably not the best fix for antique quilts with other problems beside the seams, but if you have a quilt that has been bursting its seams, I recomend this very economical repair!

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