Greek Cross Quilt

This past weekend I showed my cousin how to do machine binding and used this quilt as demonstration.  I started it last year as part of a quilt along.  I got the top done, but never went any further.

I’ve seen a few quilts with black/white binding so I thought I’d give it a shot on this quilt.  It looks fab!

I had a few crosses left over (actually I found one more after I’d already made the back) so I put them in a scrappy backing.

Some of the backing fabric is a DS Quilts print and the pink is a cheap Joann’s fabric that I got a loooooooooooooong time ago when it was on clearance.  It has glitter in it.  This quilt truly is a WIP!

I used my quilting bar to try to quilt straight lines.  For some reason, though, the quilting bar seems to go on the right which dictates that the quilt has to be squished under the arm instead flowing of out the side.  I tried to use the quilt bar backwards, but that wasn’t as successful as I hoped.  The binding is a black/white floral print from Bernatex.

This cute little fox fabric is my favorite block.  The finished quilt measures 44 x 70.  The background fabric is Kona ash.

Now, here is the quilt my cousin made!!!

I am a bit jealous of how fantastic her quilt turned out.  Look at her first time ever FMQ!

I am linking this up to WIP Wednesday.  Have a great Wednesday!

Just Three For August

I’m linking up to TraceyJay’s “Just Three” linky party.

Here are my goals for August:

1.  Finish up Esther’s Across the Sea quilt—made last year.  It’s basted and ready to  go.

2.  Finish up Bea’s floral coin quilt.  It’s also basted and ready to go.

3.  Make some bibs for a friend who is having a baby boy later this month with some stash fabric (of course!).  She lives in Turkey so I need to get these in the mail asap.

I hope to get all these projects out of the way within the week. 

The winner of the book Pretty Little Potholders is

#6 SUNNY!!!!

Have a fantastic weekend!

Finished Greek Cross Quilt

Since I decided to make two more of the Greek cross quilts from the Across the Sea Quilt Along, I went ahead and finished up my "trial" quilt over the long weekend.  I didn't wait to put the border on it or the fancy pieced back because I plan to make a 4 x 5 block quilt for Esther by this Saturday morning for her birthday, and then another larger quilt for myself out of the latest two

Denyse Schmidt Joann's collections. 

I wasn't sure how I was going to quilt it because normally I would just do some free motion quilting all over it. But you see, someone has given me a HUGE roll (literally a bale) of polyester batting.  It is the perfect size for a baby quilt, so anytime I make a small quilt,

 I try to use it.  Let me go on the record and say I hate this polyester batting and its poofiness.  So, I peeled off one

layer from the batting and went for it.  It was usable, but certainly not ideal.

The back looks good.  I just winged a box in a box (no tape to guide me) and then straight lines using the edge of my

walking foot as a guide.  It's bound with the stripe print from one of the cross fabrics.

Here's an up close shot of the quilting.  You can tell my squares aren't perfectly centered or symmetrical, but I just

needed to get this quilt done so I could move on to the next one.

I've got some of the blocks done for Esther's quilt and hope to share a pic of that soon.