One Thing, One Week Challenge - Success! (Just Barely!)

Sorry for the terrible picture but I JUST finished and there isn't time to wait until daylight to take a better one! I thought I had lots of time but then yesterday spent over twelve hours out of the house and then came home last night and had to make treats for my kids to take to their class pool party today! That, combined with having four kids (one of them being a nursing baby) almost did me in. But I made it! And it feels good :)

*Edited to add* Go see some better pictures here!




This quilt is made entirely of vintage/thrifted sheets and is straight line quilted. I'll try and get better pictures up soon!

Check out Amy's Creative Side to see who else finished the challenge!

Have a great week!
Bethany

Vintage Sheet Baby Quilt Finished!

It's done!









It's actually been done for about 10 days. I was waiting to get a photo outside but it's been so stinking cold (it went down to -24 Celsius last night without the windchill!) that I finally settled on taping it to the wall to get a decent shot of the entire quilt!

I love this quilt! I'm not sure if it's the simple design, the vintage sheets or how little it cost, but I have plans to make more for sure.





Now all it needs is baby :)


Happy Monday!
Bethany

Vintage Linens Baby Quilt

I started a new quilt on the weekend. I decided to use vintage/thrifted bed linens (I now own around 20 sheets and a few pillow cases too!). Here is the quilt top finished.











The last few quilt tops I've made are still waiting to be basted and quilted, but this one is already about half quilted! In the past I've done all my quilting on my mom's Bernina, but she lives 25 minutes away and I really wanted to be able to quilt this one at home. I've only ever straight line quilted and that's what I had planned for this quilt. I have a walking foot for my Kenmore but it is having feed dog issues and the stitch length was all wonky. At the last minute I decided to try stippling with the darning foot. After practicing on a 6" x 6" piece I went for it!

It's definitely not perfect. A couple of times I've made loops or crossed over stitching, but overall, I'm really happy with it. My wrists, on the other hand, aren't so happy. I think it's just a pregnancy thing :)

Hopefully I'll have pictures of the finished quilt in the next few days. It'll feel good to have a finished quilt!

Have a great day!
Bethany