Cajunquilter's Quilt Blog

Flower Basket Wallhanging

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:42:11 +0000

This was the first project I did with Quilt Campus as a Let’s Applique project.
It was a quick easy project and isn’t it cute?
I used all scraps which is great!

Baltimore Bird

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:30:39 +0000

This is a big wall hanging that I did at Quilt Campus as a Let’s Applique. It is one of my favorites!
I love the bird! I hand appliqued and hand quilted it. I did a diagonal line across the center piece with the applique and then did a heart stencil in the blue borders.

Update: this wallhanging now lives at Kaci’s house lol.

The First Quilt I Ever Made

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:29:10 +0000

Sorry I can’t make the picture bigger or clearer. This quilt is for my youngest daughter Kaci. I started it many years ago and worked on it for quite a while. We found a kit of precut triangles that she liked the colors but not the pattern they had it in. Was sorta supposed to be a pinwheel. So I sewed all the triangles together and then made a kinda around the world, though at the time I had no clue that was what it was called lol. There are about 400 squares in this quilt made up of triangles. I hand quilted hearts in each of those blocks. It seemed like it took forever lol. I learned alot from doing this quilt though. And she really likes it so it was worth all the problems of putting those triangles together.

Just remember if my first quilt could be made from all triangles, you can do anything if you try !

Care Bear Quilts

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:26:17 +0000

These were two simple quilts I worked on this week for a friend of Leslie’s little girl.

Bear Quilt

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:23:53 +0000

Here is a baby quilt that I made for someone at hubby’s office.

Noah’s Ark Quilt

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:22:42 +0000

Here is the baby quilt I did for a lady where hubby works.

My Dear Jane Quilt

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:20:47 +0000

Well I say mine, but it now lives with Keri, my oldest daughter lol. It was given to her as was the plan when I started it.

Well effective January 7th, 2009 I finished the dear jane. And yes I am glad lol. That quilt took me 11 months to do. I am ready for something else.

Be Warm Wallhanging

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:17:53 +0000

This is my latest completed project.(Well it was the latest back when I posted it on blogspot lol). I hope to make a lot of small wallhangings like this in the next few months and swap them out.

Let’s Talk Applique!

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:15:15 +0000

As anyone who knows me knows, I adore applique! Especially hand applique! It is the reason I quilt.

Over the many years I have been quilting now (almost 20 wow!), I have tried to learn something new, or at least try a new method (to me anyway lol) every year. Over the many years I have tried many different ways to applique, both hand and machine. And I have incorporated a little from each method, well most methods into the way I applique now.

Recently an online friend (thanks Retta!) sent me some fabric and a little book by Ami Simms called Invisible Applique. I had never tried her method, and of course decided I had to try it lol. While her method of using the ladder stitch is not for me, I did learn (why I didn’t think about it before is beyond me lol) a new way to make sure that intricate blocks like the Baltimore Blue and Christmas Windows blocks are stitched down right where the pieces need to go. I had made clear overlays and was doing it that way, but if you are familiar with the method, pieces can shift when you remove the overlay. So what I am doing now and it works wonderfully for me, is to use a blue water soluble marking pen, (be sure you read and see if you can iron over the markings, on some of the old kind you couldn’t but the one I recently purchased there are no heat warnings) mark the entire block on the background fabric and then worry about one piece at a time. I like to iron the block multiple times before it is finished so that the pieces lay down flat as I add the next pieces. This pen has completely washed out with just a small paint brush and some room temperature water. And I have ironed the completed block and it has been over a week and the lines haven’t reappeared on the back or front where I was “off” just a tad in some places.

On the Baltimore Blue block some pieces fit on top of others so I will use a marker to mark the underneath piece and sew that on (which I normally do anyway) then fit the bottom piece into the drawn background.

Clear as mud? Feel free to ask any questions this post raises for you lol.

Keri’s first big project

cajunquilter — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:10:54 +0000

While my youngest daughter learned to quilt (and still does a little sometimes) while we were homeschooling, my other two daughters haven’t really shown an interest. Well the oldest was living 900 miles away so that may have been part of it lol. Anyway Keri (oldest) has decided to try quilting. And she is loving it!! I am so happy. I want to know that someone in our family will continue to quilt after I am gone. There will be more babies as these grandchildren get older and they will need quilts!

Anyway here is a picture of one of the blocks she has machine appliqued. She is having a long time friend come in from out of town this weekend so we will be starting the quilting process next week. I will of course post a picture of the finished project as soon as it is done.