Keegan's Name - #36 June

I was responsible for the presentation at the May Longarm meeting at Trackside Quilting in Laurel.  While I was at HMQS in Salt Lake in May 2014, the teachers were talking about using the cursive letters of the alphabet in quilting.  What they were really talking about was using the cursive letters in sashings and small borders.  But I thought I would try to use the lower case letters as background filler.

Some of the letters do work as background fill easily.  Others are a bit more challenging.  The u's together could look like a caterpillar.  I turned the quilts into the Quilt By Association guild to use as community quilts.

Using my demo as a jumping off point, I created a quilt with all of Keegan's birth information.  I went over his name and the other text that I wanted to see prominently a number of times.  Then I used all of the letters of the alphabet run together as the background fill.

This was a fun little project.  I did chalk a ruler line before I started writing the words that are most visible so they would be a little bit straight unto themselves.  I did not do any chalking or marking for the background fill - I just quilted a letter anywhere around the prominent text.

The top is one large piece of denim; the backing is one large piece of knit.  I did do the flange binding to finish the quilt off.

Boys' Quilts

The boys created quilts in June.  They showed their quilts at the August meeting of the Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild.  They are also going to show their quilts during the Homegrown Showcase at the Rocky Mountain Sewing Festival in Billings.

Keegan sewed small squares together until he felt like stopping.  Then he it was a house.  We appliqued it onto a background and "House" it is.

Dillon saw that Keegan was using the quilting machine so he wanted to use the quilting machine too.  He quilted on a piece of fabric and named his piece "Maze".

When these items were created, Keegan is 5; Dillon is 3.

Pastor's Block

Karol H. decided to create a quilt for the pastor at the church that the Town & Country Quilt Guild meets.  Each member was asked to help make a block for the quilt.

Karol provided the light off white small 2 1/2 inch x 2 1/2 inch squares.

Karol plans to have the quilt completed to present at the Christmas meeting in Joliet.

Dog Beds

More dog beds created in June.

People are really great about giving me their sewing and quilting scraps that they used to just throw in the garbage.  I have quite a collections of scraps waiting to be made into dog beds.  It is wonderful!

Dog Beds

I created three dog beds in the month of May.

Row by Row

I am participating in a row by row exchange through the Town & Country guild in Joliet, MT.  This month, I was to complete a star row with fall colors for Amanda B.

I did a star first but it ended up too large so I just included it in the package.  Then I did 5 New England Quilt Blocks from A Bright Corner blog.

I do like the fall colors.

YVQG BOM

Blocks I turned in for Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild at the April meeting.

Nancy A.:

Zenda M.:

Joanne G.:

Pam P. doll quilt top: