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Quilting Affection are excited to announce that our new website is now up and Open for Business.  We have a new look and feel. We are now offering Moda Fabrics and Quilters Dream Batting along with our Quilting Finish Services.  We have also have expanded our T-shirt Quilt Services. The blog post have been moved into this new page also.

For those of you who have been following my blog, please remember to subscribe to our new blog page, due to the blogger website is now being redirected to this page.  You can subscribe to this blog by clicking on the on the "Subscribe to Our Blog", under the Archive box to receive the latest blog posts.  We are in the process of still moving all our old blog post from Blogger to this website.  It will take sometime since we will be doing that manually.

Our normal post will be starting post will start in tomorrow.  Please look over this new website and please let me know what you think! 

New Project - Reproduction Quilt

While shopping at quilt show this past weekend, I spotted this kit in one of vender booths. Then I looked up and fell in love with the display quilt hanging up in the booth.  I have always loved the reproduction quilts they are so warm and inviting to me.  So I had to get the kit, for my bed.

Collection for a Cause - Warmth by Moda is an reproduction of an 1830s variable star quilt found in New Jersey. The proceeds from this collection, will be donated to Habitat for Humanity. The finished size of the quilt is 81"x 94".

The nice part about this kit is that it comes with a jelly roll, charms, layer cakes, background fabrics, and binding fabrics. All you have to buy is the backing, which I have found and will order to make sure I have it on hand before the fabrics are no longer available.  The jelly roll will be used for the stars, the charm pack will be used for the corner squares and the layer cake will be used for the center of the squares.

 As I start work on this project, I will keep you posted, on my progress.  It has been years since I have done a variable star, so this should be fun.

Tina

New Project - Reproduction Quilt

While shopping at quilt show this past weekend, I spotted this kit in one of vender booths. Then I looked up and fell in love with the display quilt hanging up in the booth.  I have always loved the reproduction quilts they are so warm and inviting to me.  So I had to get the kit, for my bed.

Collection for a Cause - Warmth by Moda is an reproduction of an 1830s variable star quilt found in New Jersey. The proceeds from this collection, will be donated to Habitat for Humanity. The finished size of the quilt is 81"x 94".

The nice part about this kit is that it comes with a jelly roll, charms, layer cakes, background fabrics, and binding fabrics. All you have to buy is the backing, which I have found and will order to make sure I have it on hand before the fabrics are no longer available.  The jelly roll will be used for the stars, the charm pack will be used for the corner squares and the layer cake will be used for the center of the squares.

 As I start work on this project, I will keep you posted, on my progress.  It has been years since I have done a variable star, so this should be fun.

Tina

Husband's Project!

Yesterday was a very productive day for quilting in my house, hope it was the same for you.  I finished part 4 of the Easy Street Mystery, The colors on it are coming together and I am excited to see what it will look like.  While I was working on that project,my husband was working on his own project.

The last couple weeks my husband has asked my to show him how to quilt.  So, I thought about different easy, beginning project for him to do.  I  remembered the Jelly Roll race pattern, I saw on Missouri Star Quilting Tutorials.  I had a couple jelly rolls to let him choose from.  He had been practicing on my old New Home sewing machine working on his quarter inch seam allowance. I also had him watch the video a couple of times.  Then he started sewing all the ends together, then sewing all the sides together, by late yesterday afternoon, he had finished his first quilt top.  All we have to do is to quilt and bind the top. So Proud of him and he did a good job on his first attempt.

Today, I will be working on some housework, hoping to have it all done by QuiltCam 2pm comes on this afternoon.  Then, I will work on some older quilting projects I really need to finish.

Hope you all have a nice Sunday.

Tina

Husband's Project!

Yesterday was a very productive day for quilting in my house, hope it was the same for you.  I finished part 4 of the Easy Street Mystery, The colors on it are coming together and I am excited to see what it will look like.  While I was working on that project,my husband was working on his own project.

The last couple weeks my husband has asked my to show him how to quilt.  So, I thought about different easy, beginning project for him to do.  I  remembered the Jelly Roll race pattern, I saw on Missouri Star Quilting Tutorials.  I had a couple jelly rolls to let him choose from.  He had been practicing on my old New Home sewing machine working on his quarter inch seam allowance. I also had him watch the video a couple of times.  Then he started sewing all the ends together, then sewing all the sides together, by late yesterday afternoon, he had finished his first quilt top.  All we have to do is to quilt and bind the top. So Proud of him and he did a good job on his first attempt.

Today, I will be working on some housework, hoping to have it all done by QuiltCam 2pm comes on this afternoon.  Then, I will work on some older quilting projects I really need to finish.

Hope you all have a nice Sunday.

Tina

"Coquette Tulip" Quilt

One of my most recent quilts I finished, was this one I have name "Coquette Tulip".  This quilt was my first commissioned quilt and was started this last September. I was asked by one of my husbands co-workers to make a quilt, for her mother in law.  She left the design and colors, to up to me.  The only thing, that was asked was to make it in warm colors and to be made into a full size.  

I began with looking for blocks that would work though my EQ7 and my Blockbase programs.  After, I found a couple different blocks i made a couple of mock up designs in various warm colors. Her choice was this modified weatherpane block and she a lot of yellow, greens, and reds colors.  

Next I began searching the various fabric combinations or collection through some of my favorite websites.  I found a couple of fabrics and had her pick the one she liked  the most.  She picked the the Coquette Collection from Moda.  So that following weekend, my husband drove me to Capital Quilts to see what they had in that collection. They had one bolt of what I wanted to use.  So, after I was done shopping in that shop we headed to Web Fabrics in Northern Virginia.  When we got to Web Fabircs we found all the fabrics I needed to make the top.

It took me about, 48 hours of sewing over several weeks to finish the top with out the borders.  The hardest part was setting the blocks on point.  It was my first time to sew a quilt on point and I found it was fun and challenging to figure out.  After finishing the top, I had to go back to Webfabrics for more fabric for the borders and the backing.  They had just enough on the bolt for the backing. 

After finishing the top I marked the quilt with designs I made from varies parts of the border and the backing. The quilt was laid out on the floor as the quilt sandwich and pin basted it with hundreds of basting pins.  

The quilting was all done on my Janome 7700 sewing machine. I started with stitching in the ditch first, then worked on the free motion quilting on the sashing, and the middle blocks. Then worked on the borders to finish quilting.  I finished the quilt with making the binding with from the green fabric.

The label was designed by my husband with his Brother Embroidery Machine.  I just told him what to put on the fabric and where I wanted the label at.

Over all the customer loved the finished quilt, and also I fell in love with this quilt   I hope to make more quilts like this in the near future.

Tina

"Coquette Tulip" Quilt

One of my most recent quilts I finished, was this one I have name "Coquette Tulip".  This quilt was my first commissioned quilt and was started this last September. I was asked by one of my husbands co-workers to make a quilt, for her mother in law.  She left the design and colors, to up to me.  The only thing, that was asked was to make it in warm colors and to be made into a full size.  

I began with looking for blocks that would work though my EQ7 and my Blockbase programs.  After, I found a couple different blocks i made a couple of mock up designs in various warm colors. Her choice was this modified weatherpane block and she a lot of yellow, greens, and reds colors.  

Next I began searching the various fabric combinations or collection through some of my favorite websites.  I found a couple of fabrics and had her pick the one she liked  the most.  She picked the the Coquette Collection from Moda.  So that following weekend, my husband drove me to Capital Quilts to see what they had in that collection. They had one bolt of what I wanted to use.  So, after I was done shopping in that shop we headed to Web Fabrics in Northern Virginia.  When we got to Web Fabircs we found all the fabrics I needed to make the top.

It took me about, 48 hours of sewing over several weeks to finish the top with out the borders.  The hardest part was setting the blocks on point.  It was my first time to sew a quilt on point and I found it was fun and challenging to figure out.  After finishing the top, I had to go back to Webfabrics for more fabric for the borders and the backing.  They had just enough on the bolt for the backing. 

After finishing the top I marked the quilt with designs I made from varies parts of the border and the backing. The quilt was laid out on the floor as the quilt sandwich and pin basted it with hundreds of basting pins.  

The quilting was all done on my Janome 7700 sewing machine. I started with stitching in the ditch first, then worked on the free motion quilting on the sashing, and the middle blocks. Then worked on the borders to finish quilting.  I finished the quilt with making the binding with from the green fabric.

The label was designed by my husband with his Brother Embroidery Machine.  I just told him what to put on the fabric and where I wanted the label at.

Over all the customer loved the finished quilt, and also I fell in love with this quilt   I hope to make more quilts like this in the near future.

Tina