WIP Wednesday: Spray Baste Success

After 5+ years as a pin baster I finally made the leap to spray basting this week. And the verdict is... I like it! Yesterday I was able to baste 3 small-medium quilts in only a couple of hours.  I already stippled them and everything went well, no wrinkles appeared. Only downside, it did take a whole can of basting spray.

I also personalized an old quilt for its new owner. Wilson of course helped oversee the whole process.

Happy WIP Wednesday! Linking to Freshly Pieced.

"Salty" Another Sailing Themed Quilt :)

This quilt has been a UFO for far too long!  It's been basted since probably New Years, quilting was the hold up.  All done now!

The quilt has a patchwork of progressively taller pieces of aqua and low volume fabrics. I used some Tula Pink "Saltwater" and some Sarah Jane "Out to Sea" to keep the theme.

Ultimately I went simple for the quilting. A stipple in the patchworks and large waves in the borders and sashing.  I LOVE the way the waves look. And so easy to FMQ, too!

The patchwork sections are bordered in an aqua solid and I used the same fabric for the binding.

The backing is a polka dot aqua, blue, and black on white.

I feel like stippling is a lazy way to quilt, but you just can't beat it for texture.  I had originally tried to straight-line quilt the patchworks but it was pretty much a disaster. Stippling went without a hitch!  The quilt finished about 60" square and is awaiting its forever home :)

Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it Friday.

Calling in Sick

I had to call in to work Sunday.  The traditional fall season cold has finally caught up to me.  Needless to say, I haven't been sewing much. (Mostly been napping.)  So here's what's on my design wall this week, still working on the "watery scraps" quilts. The pink boxes quilt from last week is done and I'll post about it Friday. 

Linking up to Design Wall Monday at PatchworkTimes. Have a good day, everyone!

Scrappy Weekend Sewing

I had a productive last-weekend-before-Christmas.  I got all my must-do sewing done, so I got to work on things just for fun again.

I cut out the pieces for this aqua/low volume quilt first, then moved it off the wall to make room for the pink quilt, below.

I made these quilt blocks using the stack&whack -ish technique described here.  I mixed lovely Glimma prints with a white solid and a pink with black polka dots I've had forever.  And no, I'm generally not a pink sort of person, but I'm loving this.

I got this little quilt on the machine tonight. Here's my set up for FMQ, with Angela Walters Free Motion Quilting book off the the side for constant reference.  I made good progress on this tonight, so I should have finished pics soon!

Linking up to Design Wall Monday @ Patchwork Times.