Bed of Flowers Quilt Pattern

February has been another busy month for us at Quilting Affection.  I just realized that I didn't blog the announcement for the new quilt piecing pattern "Bed of Flowers". 

This gorgeous quilt finishes at 96" x 96" making a great size for a queen size bed.  The quilt is perfect for the use of blenders, it would look also look great with other fabrics from batiks to modern.   Using your favorite colors to inspire your creativity or room colors.

Bed of Flowers may look like a complicated quilt to make but it is real is not that way, the pattern is easy-to-follow with color diagrams.  The hardest part of this quilt is deciding how to custom quilt this top. 

More patterns are currently under development for a March/April release timeline. 

If you are interested in this pattern or any other Quilting Affection pattern, please check out the Patterns page in our store.  If you are a retailer and would like to carry our patterns in your store check out our wholesale page. 

Hope you enjoy this pattern,

Tina

Best in Show, Surprise!

Last Wednesday, I dropped off my Tulip Quilt for the Fair.  I was not able to go check back to see how I did until Saturday.  I had the biggest surprise and shock!  I had ribbons and signs on my quilt.  I received Best in Show Machine Quilt, and first place in my class combination Machine and hand applique.

I was so excited for the rest of the day, and all weekend.   What an honor, to enter my first quilt into any event and come out with awards like these.

If you like this quilt and would like it for your home or as a gift please check out my Etsy Store. 

Best in Show, Surprise!

Last Wednesday, I dropped off my Tulip Quilt for the Fair.  I was not able to go check back to see how I did until Saturday.  I had the biggest surprise and shock!  I had ribbons and signs on my quilt.  I received Best in Show Machine Quilt, and first place in my class combination Machine and hand applique.

I was so excited for the rest of the day, and all weekend.   What an honor, to enter my first quilt into any event and come out with awards like these.

If you like this quilt and would like it for your home or as a gift please check out my Etsy Store. 

Etsy Shop Now Open for Business

Today, I have finally Opened My Etsy Shop for business.   I have been of waiting for nice weather, I got good pictures of the Tulip and Deer in Minnesota Quilts.  You will find my Etsy Items on the left side or clicking HERE.  Please Check it out and spread the word.  I will be adding more quilts here in the future.

The Tulip Quilt  $800, Finished Size is 87" x 89", will fit on a queen size bead. the finished. 

The Deer Around Minnesota Quilt, $650 measures at 85" x 85".

For more information and pictures, please check out my Etsy Shop.


Tina

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Etsy Shop Now Open for Business

Today, I have finally Opened My Etsy Shop for business.   I have been of waiting for nice weather, I got good pictures of the Tulip and Deer in Minnesota Quilts.  You will find my Etsy Items on the left side or clicking HERE.  Please Check it out and spread the word.  I will be adding more quilts here in the future.

The Tulip Quilt  $800, Finished Size is 87" x 89", will fit on a queen size bead. the finished. 

The Deer Around Minnesota Quilt, $650 measures at 85" x 85".

For more information and pictures, please check out my Etsy Shop.


Tina

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Weekend of Pattern Designing!

On Friday, I sewed the binding on the front Tulip Quilt. now in the evenings during our downtime, I have been working on hand the binding to the back, which it should be done in a couple of days.  

For a few months now, I have been working on the drawings of some applique patterns I have been want to make up.  My husband has bugging me to make them up, so I made several differant version of the pattern this weekend. I'm close, but I need to tweak this once again and get some second opinions on these versions. I would love to show you these patterns, but I plan on making these up for patterns to sell here in the near future.  It was fun to work on a pattern that I designed, I have so many designs on paper that I want to make up here in the near future.

Today, I plan to start working on sewing together the Fat Quarter's Shops 2012 Designer Mystery BOM together.  


Hope you all had a good weekend!


Tina

Weekend of Pattern Designing!

On Friday, I sewed the binding on the front Tulip Quilt. now in the evenings during our downtime, I have been working on hand the binding to the back, which it should be done in a couple of days.  

For a few months now, I have been working on the drawings of some applique patterns I have been want to make up.  My husband has bugging me to make them up, so I made several differant version of the pattern this weekend. I'm close, but I need to tweak this once again and get some second opinions on these versions. I would love to show you these patterns, but I plan on making these up for patterns to sell here in the near future.  It was fun to work on a pattern that I designed, I have so many designs on paper that I want to make up here in the near future.

Today, I plan to start working on sewing together the Fat Quarter's Shops 2012 Designer Mystery BOM together.  


Hope you all had a good weekend!


Tina

Tulip Quilt Done!

Well after almost of 2 weeks of quilting, I have finally completed quilting the tulip quilt.  I'm pretty happy with the final product.

I used Quilters Dream Deluxe Poly, to give it a little more loft.  Now, I just need to make and sew on the binding.  Hope to get to that starting mid week next week, after my Colorado trip.


Tina

Tulip Quilt Done!

Well after almost of 2 weeks of quilting, I have finally completed quilting the tulip quilt.  I'm pretty happy with the final product.

I used Quilters Dream Deluxe Poly, to give it a little more loft.  Now, I just need to make and sew on the binding.  Hope to get to that starting mid week next week, after my Colorado trip.


Tina

Huge Progress, but still quilting!

Well the last two days have been long and I'm still quilting on this quilt top.  In this week so far I figure I have put in over 14 hours in just working on this quilt top, and it has really paid off with some huge progress.

I have just about completed all the sashings, except the every last row.  All the middle blocks are now complete.  

I have now started working on the background of the Tulip blocks, now that my new ruler has come. 

I finally feel that the end is now near and I can't wait to get this done, so I can work on some other projects.

My goal, is to finish this top by Friday, due to the I will be leaving town on Saturday morning.

Stay Tuned, I will post as soon it is finished!



Tina

Huge Progress, but still quilting!

Well the last two days have been long and I'm still quilting on this quilt top.  In this week so far I figure I have put in over 14 hours in just working on this quilt top, and it has really paid off with some huge progress.

I have just about completed all the sashings, except the every last row.  All the middle blocks are now complete.  

I have now started working on the background of the Tulip blocks, now that my new ruler has come. 

I finally feel that the end is now near and I can't wait to get this done, so I can work on some other projects.

My goal, is to finish this top by Friday, due to the I will be leaving town on Saturday morning.

Stay Tuned, I will post as soon it is finished!



Tina

Quilting update!

The Tulip quilt is starting to show some progress.  This week, I have been working hard but it sure doesn't seem that way on this quilt top.  Monday - Wednesday was just nothing but working on stitching in the ditch.  

Then, on Friday I started working on adding details to the borders, that's when things just were not working out right for me.  

I just didn't like how the borders looked, so I gently took the whole design out.  Then I added the new design of a feathered look to it. I like that a lot better than what i had before.  

After I finished what I could on the borders, I started adding the designs to the inner green borders and the sashings.  It came out very nice!

 The white corners blocks, I also added a feather block.  

 

In the inner white blocks, I was trying to use a vine motif (below) and I just didn't think it went with the flow of the rest of the quilt.  So, Last Night I took it out and added a different feather block to it.   Which I don't have a good picture of right now, will get it in my next update on of the quilt top.

Now that I have the design finally worked out on this quilt, I can start making some good progress on it.    

Tina

Quilting update!

The Tulip quilt is starting to show some progress.  This week, I have been working hard but it sure doesn't seem that way on this quilt top.  Monday - Wednesday was just nothing but working on stitching in the ditch.  

Then, on Friday I started working on adding details to the borders, that's when things just were not working out right for me.  

I just didn't like how the borders looked, so I gently took the whole design out.  Then I added the new design of a feathered look to it. I like that a lot better than what i had before.  

After I finished what I could on the borders, I started adding the designs to the inner green borders and the sashings.  It came out very nice!

 The white corners blocks, I also added a feather block.  

 

In the inner white blocks, I was trying to use a vine motif (below) and I just didn't think it went with the flow of the rest of the quilt.  So, Last Night I took it out and added a different feather block to it.   Which I don't have a good picture of right now, will get it in my next update on of the quilt top.

Now that I have the design finally worked out on this quilt, I can start making some good progress on it.    

Tina

2013 Designer Mystery BOM- Month One

The last 3 days, I have been quilting the Tulip quilt.  Yesterday, afternoon I finished all the ditching everything and started some of the detailing.  So I think I need a break from it today, so I will be going to the studio and working on some projects I want to catch up on.

Last week, I received a package from the Fat Quarter Shop, I was the start of the 2013 Designer Mystery BOM, with the finishing kit.  So the other day, I decided to get this one started. The first of the 12 blocks, is called "Strawberry Picking".  I had never made a block like this one so it was a little challenging, but fun!

First, I need to sew all the strips together, and make sure they all lined up.

Then you need to make all the half squares, which was easy, then sew them into two different sets.

Finally, the challenge was to sew everything together and make everything line up.  After a few mistakes I finally got it. Yeah!

I love the colors of this years BOM, and cant wait to see next months looks like. 

2013 Designer Mystery BOM- Month One

The last 3 days, I have been quilting the Tulip quilt.  Yesterday, afternoon I finished all the ditching everything and started some of the detailing.  So I think I need a break from it today, so I will be going to the studio and working on some projects I want to catch up on.

Last week, I received a package from the Fat Quarter Shop, I was the start of the 2013 Designer Mystery BOM, with the finishing kit.  So the other day, I decided to get this one started. The first of the 12 blocks, is called "Strawberry Picking".  I had never made a block like this one so it was a little challenging, but fun!

First, I need to sew all the strips together, and make sure they all lined up.

Then you need to make all the half squares, which was easy, then sew them into two different sets.

Finally, the challenge was to sew everything together and make everything line up.  After a few mistakes I finally got it. Yeah!

I love the colors of this years BOM, and cant wait to see next months looks like. 

Quilting and Catching up!

Tulip quilt is now on the longarm and the quilting has started.  Started with all the stitching in the ditch first, which will probably take the rest of the week to complete.  Then, I will add the details to the quilt.  Make sure you follow my Facebook or Twitter Accounts for updates on the quilting progress.

While, the tulip is on the longarm, I decided to do a little catch up on some of my 2012 Designer Mystery BOM, I left off on Block 9.  So, I pulled out #10 "Sunday Drive".  I was fairly easy of a block to do, like the others in the past.

Now all I have left is #11 & #12 and I can start putting this quilt top together, which I'm looking forward to since 2013 Designers BOM has started.

Tina

Quilting and Catching up!

Tulip quilt is now on the longarm and the quilting has started.  Started with all the stitching in the ditch first, which will probably take the rest of the week to complete.  Then, I will add the details to the quilt.  Make sure you follow my Facebook or Twitter Accounts for updates on the quilting progress.

While, the tulip is on the longarm, I decided to do a little catch up on some of my 2012 Designer Mystery BOM, I left off on Block 9.  So, I pulled out #10 "Sunday Drive".  I was fairly easy of a block to do, like the others in the past.

Now all I have left is #11 & #12 and I can start putting this quilt top together, which I'm looking forward to since 2013 Designers BOM has started.

Tina

Preparing the Backing for Longarm!

Today I prepared the backing for the tulip quilt.  This process takes awhile and is little harder when you are dealing with a larger quilt top.  

The first step in the whole process is figuring out what size I needed for the backing.  When making the backing for the Longarm remember to add 4"-5" all the way around. 

Next, is to cut the number of pieces needed which was 3 pieces at 98" long.

After cutting the pieces, I removed the all the savage pieces.  This allows the backing to give a little more.  Savage need to be removed to make sure that the quilt backing can move around.

Once all savages are removed I laid the backing out flat with right side up and place another piece on top of it with the right side down.  This puts the right sides together.  Then pin the longest sides the pieces together.

Once pinned, I took the backing pieces to the sewing machine and using a running stitch made a 1/2" seam along the side that was pinned. After I finished the first set, I layed the pieces out again and layed the finally piece on top and of the now larger piece with right sides together, then pinned and sewed again.

Once all your pieces are sewn, I press open all the seams.  If I lay the seams to one side this will make the seam area too bulky for the long arm to stitch through. 

Now all the sewing and pressing is done, I made sure all the sides are square and will lay flat.  Now that it is square it is ready for the longarm.
 

Now to pinned on the long arm!


Tina