2025 BOM from THe Quilt Show

Every year The Quilt Show site has a yearly run block of the month (BOM). I have made several of these quilts and saved the directions for a few others; but did not made the quilts. Life happens sometimes. Next year's quilt has a lot of the parts that I love to make. I am going to use scraps again and I will buy the background fabric to keep it somewhat uniform. Maybe a few different fabrics of the same line; not necessarily only one background. I have taken this pictures from the Quilt Show website and changed it to a gray scale. I can see that it uses most medium value fabrics for the blocks. I think I have the perfect fabrics for this quilt. Perfect to my make it my own, there is. Below is one of the original colorways offered as a kit from the Quilt Show Website.

She Who Quilts

Another day in the studio. I am about to start quilting another quilt top.

Spider tshirt

Just in time for Halloween 2024. Of course, I saw many examples of this on Pintrest. I had to make my own. I used 2 black buttons for the spider, some black #8 perle cotton thread to embroider the spider legs, White thread for the web thread line and leftover cotton lace around the neck. I love Halloween; but none of the scarry stufffor me.

Pick a Petal quilting

And the quilt is quilted. I used the embroidery unit on my Bernina. The quilting pattern is from My Creative Stitches; and it is called Mixed Up Feathers. Quilted with Fantastico and Sew Line threads on top and bobbin respectively. I did audition a few fabrics for the binding and decided on a low volume white. I had previously made the binding with a "beige" low volume; but I wanted the binding to "disappear", to emphasize the curved border, so I made another lighter binding strips.

Pick a Petal

I finished my Pick a Petal quilt that was designed by Jen Kingwell for The Quilt Show block of the month for 2024. I need to block it and add a label. So, I will photograph it in the future for another post. This is not one of my outstanding piecing. I had a lot of trouble "fitting" some of the curved pieces eventhough I used the acrylic templates sold specially for this quilt. I also modifed the applique border to my own quilt.

Miniature tree quilt

My quilt guild has a quilt show coming on January 2025. My Bee decided on a challenge for us: to make miniature quilts for the upcoming show. This will be my entry. I saw many quilts on Pintrest with similar patterns. I designed my own with inspirations from those posts. Unfortunately, I have not found the orignal creator of these trees to give attribution. But they are all so very pretty on Pintrest. My quilt is 17 inches by 13 inches and made from 1.5 inch squares which finishes at 1 inch.

Fabric selections for a miniature quilt

And here we go. This will be a miniature tree quilt using 1 inch squares.