Lovatt Quilting

Christmas Tree Skirt

2012-01-02T15:47:00.001-06:00

To make a great tree skirt using the 10 degree wedge ruler. First you need three different fabrics. Cut into strips

A...12 strips...5 1/2 x width (my red)
B...12 strips...3 1/2 x width (my green)
C....6 strips...2 1/2 x width  (my black print)

Fabric needed......A...2 yd
                             B...1 3/8 yd
                             C    3/4 yd
                           Backing 3 1/8 yd
                           Batting 54 x 54
                           Binding 5/8 yd

Sew the strips together...will have three of these strip sets. Offset the strips by..top to bottom...2 inch, 3.5, 2.5, 3.5

You will also have three of these strip sets. Offset these by starting with bottom red...3.5inches, 2.5,3.5,2Now it's time to get the ruler out. Put the 45 degree line between the green and the black fabric. Cut 6 wedges per strip set. So a total of 36 wedges.18 wedges each pile Sew the wedges together. Two at a time and then sew those together so you have four. Keep going till you have them all together but leave one side open. Now I just need to find some backing. Hope this makes sense and you can make one for next year. Happy New Year.

2011-12-08T20:31:00.001-06:00

CHRISTMAS RUNNER

One of my daughters was looking for some Christmas decorations. I made these up for her. I started the runner on Saturday and finished today....so fast and easy...love it. Might have to make up some more of these some day.

The snowman were a paper piecing kit I bought years ago...finialy made it up, not my favorite thing to do. The greatest thing was that I used only fabric that I had in my stash.

Been awhile...

2011-11-17T11:51:00.001-06:00

Hello everyone, it has been so long since I have posted that everything has changed on these settings. Don't know how to get the writing under every pic, not sure I know how to even get this on the main wall.

I have had a very busy year but have got a little sewing done. Things are settling down now so will have lots of time to sew now. I still check in on the other blogs I follow from time to time and get inspired.
Well better go for now and see if I can figure out the next step and I will try to get back into being a better blogger.
Happy quilting everyone :)

New Stash

2011-02-09T22:09:00.000-06:00

I had to add these to my stash. It is the month of love, so had to buy them. I have always wanted to make a red and white quilt so here is a good start. Now I need to find a pattern. Any ideas from anyone?

some finished ufo's

2011-01-23T22:35:00.002-06:00

First finished object

Second finished object :)

Binding

2011-01-13T20:21:00.000-06:00

I was quite pleased how this one quilted up with a bunch of swirls. I got the binding sewn down last night so now on to the hand stitching it down.

Love all the sweets :)

Fall table runner that is also waiting for the binding. That is tonights project.

This quilt my mom quilted with the longarm and I just love it. The butterflies are perfect for this summer quilt.

The swirls are fun on the curved border.

Then there's the half butterfly landing on the border.

Mom did a great job quilting this and I can't wait to finish and use it this summer in the camper :)

Proof

2010-11-14T20:50:00.000-06:00

Sorry that I have been such a bad blogger. Here is proof that I have still been sewing. I found this fabric in Ashern one day and had to buy it for the stash. Hope to use it sooner then later.I have been working on the boxy stars and I'm very pleased on how they are turning out, 8 done and 12 more to go. My first scrap project and hope to do many more.

Started my third block and only have about 40 more pieces to put on, I do enjoy it :)

Happy sewing to all.

2010-08-30T20:02:00.000-05:00

These placemats were so very easy and only took two days and 8 fat quarters. If you have lots of fat quarters to use up this is your project.

Boxy Stars. I think they are turning out all right.

All done the plates now I just need to find the backing material.

Life's a rose

2010-08-07T16:37:00.000-05:00

Today is the day that I have time to down load EQ 7, hey. I hope it's really user friendly.

Have a great day.

I'm back

2010-08-05T13:40:00.000-05:00

Hi all,

If you all have been wondering if I have given up sewing, I have not. It has been a very busy summer. I was able to do some camping and there is still more to come.

This is one project that I finished. I wanted to hang it in my screenroom but have not got my act together to make a hanger for it so took down the Canada one and put it up there, it works.

This quilt I made about a year ago. I bought the fabric on a shop hop. I have entered it in the quilt contest, theme this week is logcabin. It is so hard to get the colors to show up right on the camera in the house. I love the logcabin pattern and I'm sure there will be some amazing quilts in the contest, you can do so much with this pattern.

This is the project now. The dresden plate. All this fabric was in my stash, mostly from my trip to Vegas. I'm making up my own pattern of how to assemble it all so hope it looks ok when finished.

Hope you all are having a great summer.

Please Vote

2010-07-09T15:13:00.000-05:00

I have entered this weeks quilting contest at quilting bloggers with my O Canada wall hanging. It would be great if you could make it on over there to send a vote my way.

Go to the bottom of my page and you will find the icon that says quilting bloggers, click on that then go to weekly contest. You will find me there and thanks in advance for the support.

give away

2010-07-05T22:08:00.000-05:00

Have a look at this new give away from downunder.

It's Monday

2010-06-07T17:07:00.006-05:00

http://stores.ebay.com/Janes-Fabrics

http://janesfabrics.blogspot.com/

I don't have much new and exciting in my life today but did find another great blog to check out.

Summer time

2010-06-06T13:11:00.001-05:00

I made this one for the new camper trailer. I thought it was nice and summery looking.

It will be my first try at scalloped edges, so I guess I have to make bias binding another first. Sorry mom this is number seven to be quilted. You will be soooo practiced up. I can't wait to see all these quilted.

Another great give away to check out

2010-06-05T13:43:00.000-05:00

I was out cruising blogs this morning a found another GREAT give away. Cathi makes the most beautiful hand dyed wool and I really hope that I win them but I have to tell you about them too to have a better chance at winning. It's over at shakerwood quilts picture of it in my sidebar. Go and check it out and good luck.

I will be back later to show you all what I have been out to.

Have a great week-end.

great give away

2010-06-01T17:49:00.002-05:00

Hope everyone is having a great day. We finialy had a day without rain here.

I was just over at bejeweldquilts.blogspot.com and she has a great give away happening right now so hop on over and tell her that I sent you. Good luck

2010-05-29T17:54:00.003-05:00

This is the latest project. I used my walking foot to quilt it and I'm happy with the way it turned out.

This is the new purchase this week. I have always loved to camp and I have never had a camper that you didn't have to set up eg.. tents, tent trailers. I can not wait for the first camping trip in June. I have already warned the bf that now I can bring some quilting with me. Maybe my old sewing machine prehaps.

Have a great week-end.

Life

2010-05-16T20:20:00.005-05:00

I have had a very busy week-end. I found my tiger lilies. This is only about a quarter of them though, I hope the weeds did not choke them out. I have a HUGE blister on the plam of my hand from 4 hours of weeding. Our weather was SO beautiful these last two days.

Went to Canadian Tire and bought a few flowers so had to plant them. One of my daughters picked out these pansies. We also bought this little fence thinking it would keep out Sam (our puppy) from the flower bed, we hadn't even finished putting it up and he had jumped over it, so time will tell.

These are the beautiful flowers my girls bought me for Mother's Day. It means so much to me that they spent their own hard earned money on them.

This is Sam relaxing. This little green pillow pal was his Christmas present and right now he takes it everywhere. Now that is life isn't it.

I didn't get around to putting on my binding, maybe tomorrow!

Have a great week.

2010-05-13T20:10:00.002-05:00

I have been spending sooooo much of my time reading everyone elses GREAT blogs that I'm not getting much else done. I must spend about 1 hour every evening, when I get home for work, on my computer. Everyones quilts are so beautiful.

I do almost have my 9 patch one quilted. I do so love my walking foot. I'm hoping to put on the binding this week-end. Cross your fingers.

I also need to get out to my flower beds and weed. I know my tiger lilies are under those weeds somewhere. It's going to be a busy week-end.

block 2

2010-05-05T20:01:00.002-05:00

I had blogged March 5th that I was going to work on my blocks and finish one block a week. Well it only took me 2 months. There are 60 pieces to this block. Stay tuned for block 3!

2010-05-03T22:53:00.004-05:00

I have been a bad blogger these days. I have a few projects on the go, finally got to my machine quilting of my 9 patch tonight.

My sister made this picture above. I love it. She draws it out then colors it in with special gel markers. I love the colors.

Hope to be posting some finished projects soon.

Have a great day.

Thread catcher

2010-04-19T22:22:00.003-05:00

This is the best invention. The thread catcher. It only takes 2 hours to make. The top part on the table is a pin cushion.

For those of you that read my first blog about my mom moving back to Canada, well it's happening JUNE 15th. Mom I forgot to put in your e-mail that I love the star quilt. It will look awesome after you quilt it.

Quilting show

2010-04-11T23:08:00.005-05:00

It was that time of year again. The biggest quilting show in Manitoba. It only comes every two years and I don't miss it. These are my items I bought. I was very impressed with myself that I didn't spent my whole pay cheque this time!! I just loved that fabric, it came in a pack together for 50 bucks, I thought that was a great deal. These are little Kimono's that I think are so cute. The paper hanging from the sleeve is an english name transfered to Japenese names. The love letter book is a pattern book of letters of the alphabet. My youngest daughter wants her name on her quilt, so I have no excuse now to get it started.

After being at the quilting show and seeing all those beautiful quilts it gave me inspiration to come home and continue on my, with the quilting. It is coming along quite quickly.

Have a great Monday

Finished

2010-04-05T20:41:00.008-05:00

This block seemed to take forever. I'm so glad that I changed the blocks from the cream background to the prints. I'm happy the way it turned out. Well I was finishing these up I was thinking "What next"?

So I thought that it is time to quilt one of my tops. I don't have time in my life to hand quilt so I love this new trend of machine quilting. I will be using my favorite tool, the walking foot. So I tried to take some pictures as I was using my other favorite invention, 505, spray basting.

This is much faster then having to hand baste the layers together and much easier on the knees. Don't think it would work for hand quilting. This is for you Karyn.

Take your backing, right side down and lay it on the floor and tape it down so that it is quite taut. Take your batting and lay it on top, it's like spreading out pizza dough, I find it easier to have a helper to spread it out evenly. Then lay the quilt top on the top, centered, and make sure that everything is smooth.

Now get that helper to help you peel back half of the top two layers carefully. With the 505 spray, spray the backing (wrong side) not the batting because it will just soak in and not be as affective. Keep that helper around to help pull the batting back into place and make sure it is very smooth. Do that by smoothing out with your hands and walking around on your knees.

Next spray the back of the quilt top with 505 and then pull back over the batting and smooth out once again. When you are done with that side you repeat the same order with the other side. So you are only working with half of the quilt at one time. Much more managable. It is not an instead bond so you have time if you need to make some adjustments. The hardest part for me is finding enough floor space. This is only a single, doubles are really hard.

Now it's ready for the walking foot! I'm using a very simple design. Keep you in touch.

Have a great day.

Blocks are done

2010-03-30T22:30:00.003-05:00

This special cake was made for Darren's (boyfriend) 50th birthday. He is a firefighter and I thought this would be perfect. He really enjoyed it.

I felt that I would never get these blocks done. Now I'm ready to put the sashing on and cornerstones. That will go much quicker. I spent an hour today cleaning up my sewing room and I noticed that I have A LOT of fabric to use up. The true sign of a quilter!!!

Would anyone be able to tell me how to but these pictures in the order I want them. The second picture I pick I want it to go under the first but it alway goes on top of the first picture. Can you please help?

Have a great day. Happy quilting.

Birthday

2010-03-23T17:52:00.002-05:00

It was my birthday yesterday and I had a great day. I had the day off work and did all the things I love to do. I started it off by sleeping in and then taking Sam for a long walk. I spent the afternoon sewing and I feel that I'm not getting very far very fast with these new blocks. My sewing machine is working better. Apparently I can't use a size 70 needle anymore. After 6 years of using a 70 I can't anymore, I find that wierd.

My girls and boyfriend bought me a Wii fitness and sport, so we had some fun with that too. It was a great day.

I also had today off and did some more sewing and I still feel that I'm not getting very far with these blocks.

Hope to post the finished blocks soon. Have a great day

FRUSTRATED

2010-03-17T20:31:00.003-05:00

I'm having trouble with my sewing machine again. This time my thread is breaking every 5 minutes. I haven't had time to take it back to get looked at again. I miss being able to sew for hours with a good movie. I have been working on my hand applique blocks, they don't sew up as fast and you don't get instant results.

Have a great day.

New Blocks

2010-03-08T22:39:00.001-06:00

These are the new blocks. I thought the other ones were boring. So that picture of chain sewing down a few is now getting picked out. So much for saving time!!!! It will take longer this way but I'll be much happier with it. The ones I have done with the cream I think I'll put them in the back some how. This is my first applique block, I can't figure out how to rotate it. I'm on piece 12 of 60 on block two.

Have a great day!!!

Their back

2010-03-05T13:41:00.002-06:00

My machines are home. They couldn't find anything wrong with them so I guess they just needed a good cleaning.

I have been working on my hand applique quilt and I take it back that my goal is one a week. There are up to 60 little pieces in each block so I think it will be more like a month for each block.

I'm going on a little holiday for the week-end. When I get back it's back to work on my latest project which I have changed my mind on how I'm putting it together. So stay in touch and I'll let you know on Monday.

Have a great week-end

ELNA'S

2010-02-24T22:56:00.002-06:00

Very sad day for me in my sewing room tonight. My NEW Elna has not been working well the last couple of days. It has been skipping stitches so I thought well it's getting fixed I'll get my 26 year old Elna out, well it's skipping stitches too but worse then the new one. I have done a lot of sewing on this old one. So I guess they are both going in to get fixed.

I guess I'm forced to work on my hand stitching projects. All true quilters have one of those on the go that sit in the corner for times like this.

So my goals are to pull that project out of the dust tomorrow and get one block a week done. It's a beautiful quilt and I hope this motivates me to get it finished.

Great night at the Olympics, 4 more metals :)

Have a great day!!!!

2010-02-22T23:32:00.002-06:00

Hello everyone,

Hope you like the looks of my new page. It has taken me hours to do but I did get to watch Canada win gold in Ice dance at the same time. GO CANADA.

Good night.

2010-02-21T21:57:00.003-06:00

I have had a busy two days sewing and watching the Olympics. I was cutting for hours yesterday, about 6 hours, 400 2x2 squares yuk.

Our Canadians have been having a hard time getting the job done to get the gold. It was a very exciting day to be watching the games. I really thought that we would win the hockey game. Miles of chain sewing when the ski cross racing was happening, that was exciting.

Putting the blocks together well watching the hockey and two man bobsled. Five done only 20 more to go. Have a great Monday everyone.

2010-02-20T18:01:00.002-06:00

Hope everyone is enjoying the Olympics. Last nights gold medal from the Manitoba, John, was GREAT.

I have been having a hard time deciding what to work on next. I was going to finish my mystery quilt that I started about 2 years ago but decided not to because I don't like it. My workmanship in it was not very good and I don't think I like the fabric anymore. SO I started cutting out my peach fabrics that I bought in Vegas. It's just a lap size so won't take to long. I have been doing very well with not going to the quilting store.

GO CANADA

2010-02-15T19:33:00.003-06:00

Is everyone enjoying the Olympics. I love the winter Olympics. I was suppose to curl tonight but the other team defaulted so I get to watch the gold medal ceremony now, SO HAPPY.

I'm on a 8 day stretch at work so haven't had time to get into my sewing room to decide what to work on next. I work evenings tomorrow so maybe I can get a few hours to play in there before work.

FINALLY FINISHED

2010-02-11T17:40:00.004-06:00

I finished the borders last night!!!! It's huge. My floor space is not big enough to lay it down and you can see that it is hard to hold up. I took one picture with it folded in half so you could see the borders better. I'm quite pleased with how it turn out. You can't see the true colors here, the green looks nicer in real life.

So what to do next?

I had a very busy day at work today so I don't think it will be a sewing night. I really have to clean my house tonight. I know at some point in the evening I will end up in my sewingroom looking at all the posiblities for the next project. My room is like going to a store. I think it's time to do something a little smaller. I saw a pattern for bed runners. They are kind of neat, just like a table runner but bigger. They are meant to keep your feet warm. Who would of thought.

Blogging

2010-02-10T20:11:00.006-06:00

I have been trying to figure out some new things on here for about an hour now and I think I'm going to give up now. I envy those people that can fly through the computer and figure things out so quickly. So I think I will go and sew on my borders. Something I think I'm much better at doing.

All most done

2010-02-07T19:43:00.000-06:00

Sam thought he needed to be in this picture, so I just gave up and let him in, isn't he cute. This is the center of the flannel quilt. I hope to have the borders on by the end of the week.

What quilt to do next? I only have about 15 to choose from.

2010-02-01T20:53:00.000-06:00

Hello everyone,

Sorry I have not been around for awhile. I have had the flu for three days and have not been able to sew, or do much of anything. I'm hoping to be able to get back to work on the flannel one tomorrow. I'm so close to having the blocks sewn together.

This quilt is a quilt as you go reversable one. I did not really enjoy working on this one and will most likely never do another one.

My buddy Sam has sure enjoyed keeping me company on the couch this week-end.

2010-01-26T21:50:00.000-06:00

Dainelle knit her first scarf. It's the Italian flag for her boyfriend Dustin's birthday. He is very excited to wear it.

2010-01-22T21:07:00.000-06:00

It's Friday night and I'm taking a break from sewing on my flannel quilt. It's coming along quite nicely. I was also having some smarties as I was sewing and thinking of my chocolate quilt. I bought this as a kit in Vegas. I don't usally buy kits but I loved this fabric. Chocolate is my best friend. I want this one quilted with hearts all over it, for my love of chocolate. Well I better get back to my sewing. Hope everyone has a good week-end.

2010-01-19T13:54:00.000-06:00

It's amazing that my poinsettia is still alive in January. It has never happened before. I have bought big fancy double plants and spent a lot of money on them and then they die in a month. I think the secret is not to water them.

2010-01-17T23:24:00.000-06:00

Hope everyone had a great week-end. I had a good one. Darren and I went skating on the duck pond at the park last night. We both need some practice on skates. It was beautiful out last night.

First two set of blocks for the flannel quilt.

First flannel

2010-01-14T14:19:00.000-06:00

Stay tuned and watch the development of this one. It will be a warm one!

Off to work now to pay for my fabric habit.

quilt tops

2010-01-13T20:42:00.000-06:00

Underground Railroad. It was very fun to make and have a miniture one of the same almost done.

This pink, red and black one I took an advanced class and learned a lot of new techneques.

It has been a busy last couple of days working and sewing. I also curled on Monday night and lost again. Oh well there is always another game.

Went to see AVATAR last night in 3D and it was awesome. My first 3D movie.

Here are some pictures of the latest quilt tops. Mom I'm hoping you will quilt them for practice.

2010-01-10T15:07:00.001-06:00

Sorry correction number one. I'm forty something not forthy. Have a great day

2010-01-10T13:51:00.000-06:00

Hello everyone!

I'm so new at this blogging stuff so have patience with me. I have been on a lot of other quilters blogs so I thought why not start one for myself.

I'm a forthy something year old single mother of three teenagers, a career women and I love to quilt. My dreams are someday to sell a quilt. Don't know HOW, WHEN, or WHERE but it will happen someday. It's good to have dreams I have been told.

My mom is moving back to Canada (from 16 years in Australia) sometime this year and hopes to buy a longarm quilting machine so who knows the quilts might just be flying off the machine. It will be such fun working along side her. She is a wonderful quilting and creative person.

So I'm hoping to keep you all updated on my dreams of getting my first quilt sold.