OMIGOSH! Crib Quilt

This is the last of the crib quilts I've been quilting. This little quilt used the leftover blocks from my OMIGOSH! quilt. I thought the aqua in the border fabric looked good with the blocks.

I marked lines and curvy quilted one way with those. I did think about quilting horizontal lines in the top and bottom borders but I decidedthere was enough quilting. Besides, I was tired of quilting all these little quilts and just wanted to be done! This quilt measures 35" by 46"

All 7 of these quilts used pieced batting but this last quilt was a real mishmash of pieces. The pile of batting pieces that had been stacked in the closet is gone, at least for now.

Most of the quilts have pieced backings but I didn't take pictures. It was freezing outside when I took these photos, 12*!

It feels good to have these quilts finished and ready to be passed along to a charity. Now I can start working on a quilt from my list!

Linking to To Do Tuesday, Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put Your Foot Down, Stitch Sew & Show,  Needle & Thread Thursday 

OMIGOSH!

At the Jane Stickle retreat there is a quilter who loves to issue challenges, she actually finishes them too! Usually I'm not interested but one challenge she suggested last November was the Omigosh! quilt. 

Since this quilt was already on my to be made list, I decided to participate. Here is my small finished quilt. The double 9 patch block and the shoofly blocks finish at 4-1/2". She measures 46" by 51". The borders are my own design. I didn't want plain white borders.

Spiral quilting was the perfect design for this quilt with so many tiny pieces. Son 2 is an accountant and I had him figure the number of pieces in this quilt. The final figure is 4513. I am so glad I didn't make a full sized quilt! In an earlier post I had figured the number of pieces and came up with a different number, but hey, never argue with a accountant.

My spiral quilting isn't perfect, don't get out a compass!

The back is a pale blue & white pinstripe fabric.

And the fabric roll.

You can read more about my Omigosh! journey here.

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OMIGOSH! Borders!

The borders are on OMIGOSH! Right now it measures 47" by 51" and there are a total of 4090 pieces! This little quilt is right up there with Dear Jane and Nearly Insane in the number of pieces in a quilt. I am SO glad I didn't make a large quilt. 

For the borders, I decided to use the fabrics that were in the 9 patches and make piano key borders. For now there's a wider white outside border. After quilting some of that border will be trimmed off.

I'm planning on quilting OMIGOSH! with my sewing machine but for now it's going in the to be quilted closet until I'm in the mood for machine quilting.

I think the yellow fabric actually looks yellow in these pictures, not greenish-yellow but the 4 square blocks still all look pink. Half of the 4 squares are orange.

It's nice to be able to take pictures outside. Most of our winter has been mud but since it snowed and was 3* this morning, everything is frozen. Outside pictures are the best.

Linking to Peacock Party, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, TGIFF!, Brag About Your Beauties, Finished Or Not Friday, UFO Busting

OMIGOSH! is a Flimsy!!!!

There is a lot sewing involved in OMIGOSH! I am SO glad I decided not to make a full sized quilt. Right now my little quilt measures 42" by 46-1/2" but I think I want to add borders. That means more sewing.

The above photo is enlarged to extra large. Here's the same photo in medium size which looks more true to life. 

Remember, the blocks finish at 4-1/2".

The yellow seems to overpower the fabrics in the 9 patches but in real life, they don't. Also, the 4 patches all look pink, half of them are orange.

I used white Bella for the background fabric. I wanted the colored fabrics to shine and glow and they do. I used a different fabric for the shooflies because I thought if I used the same fabrics as were in the double 9 patches, the pattern design would be lost. I hate it when I look at a quilt and can't see what the design is. That's fine if that's what you want to make, but it's not how I want my quilts.

Two important tips for making an OMIGOSH!, starch! I'm not a starch person normally. I do use starch for hand applique pieces but in this case, starch is your best friend. I used Niagra spray starch I buy at the grocery store. 

Also, cut your fabric strips the length of your fabric, not across the grain. Or, in other words, cut your fabric the same direction as the selvage.

I was asked several times if I pressed the seams open, NO WAY!, that means I would have had to pin every seam intersection! There's about a million seams in this thing. When I hold the flimsy, I can tell I'm holding something. I can't imagine how much a full size quilt would weigh.

I took a picture of the backside of 2 of the blocks. I do need to press the back again but you can see how it all easily locks together. If I would make another quilt, I would press the same way. You need to make sure you press your double 9 patch blocks differently than the shoofly blocks.

I confess, I used fat quarters for this project, not teeny little scraps and I do NOT feel one bit guilty! I save all scrap pieces less than 1-1/2" for a friend at retreat. She can make her OMIGOSH! from scraps.

I'm off to sew again, I'll be back when the borders are attached.

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Orange RSC

I'm not making my OMIGOSH! in conjunction with the RSC but I thought I'd show the orange 4-patches I've pieced.

Then I went ahead and completed 2 shoofly blocks to see what they'd look like. 

The challenge with these shoofly blocks will be to make sure I get the 4 patches turned the right way.

Sewing the white triangles onto the 4 patches is going to keep me busy this week. Once the white triangles are sewn onto the patches, they need to be trimmed to size. 

I'm also planning on using pink for 4 patches.

These little 4-patches finish at 1".

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OMIGOSH!

I've started a new quilt that I've wanted to make for several years, OMIGOSH!.  I'm not going to make the full size version. A small crib quilt will suit me just fine, large enough to say I made it but small enough I won't loose my mind.

For the past two weeks I've been sewing teeny, tiny, little 9 patch blocks. There are 49 pieces in a 4-1/2" finished block! 

Forty-four 9 patch blocks are needed for my version, here they are, trimmed and ready to go! Aren't they cute?

Now I need to concentrate on the alternate shoo-fly blocks.

Linking to Put Your Foot Down, Needle & Thread Thursday, Peacock Party, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, TGIFF!, Brag About Your Beauties, Finished Or Not Friday, UFO Busting