Blogger's Quilt Festival

This is the TENTH Bloggers Quilt Festival I've joined, and this past June maked my 5th year quilting.   

This time I'm showing off this Delectable Mountain quilt made with Lush Uptown.  When I made the blocks I decided early on to make half of them complete blocks and half mixed, with two fabrics. Because I used 21 fat eights, I only had so much fabric to work with. I'm really please with how the quilt top turned out. I ended up with only one orphan block; talk about cutting it close!,  This quilt top measures 76" x 50", a nice size to use for napping or reading a book.

I love the quilt back, too.

The color of the quilting thread is Honey 32607, and the pattern is Old Oakky.  I love working with my long-arm quilter Janiel Miller, on this part of the process.

Thank you for stopping by my blog, browse around if you have the time.  I'm linking up to Amy's Creative Side, she does a wonderful job with the Quilt Festival.

May your bobbins always be full,

Lush Uptown Delectable Mountain

It took a little while to get back in the swing of things.  Yesterday, when I started on the binding for this quilt, I wasn't sure I really knew what I was doing!  Thank heavens it all came right back.

I love the quilt back, too.

The color of the quilting thread is Honey 32607, and the pattern is Old Oakky.  I love working with my long-arm quilter Janiel Miller, on this part of the process.

These are our two new dogs.  Ben, is a terrier mix, one year old, and Frisco is an American Cocker, seven years old.  They get along great.  It's the first time we've had two males.  These are dogs number 11 and 12 for us, in 50 years of marriage.

May your bobbins always be full,

A Tall Stack

Bob and I are finally home from our six week anniversary trip.  We had a great time, each week was wonderful.  Before I left town I picked up this stack of four quilts, they are all ready for binding, I just have to find the time.  This weekend is looking good; I'll keep my fingers crossed.  From the bottom, this is a queen sized sample quilt I made, and it's staying here at Casa Prytz; next up, a Pale Geese quilt for a surprise gift; then the Dolce quilt for the shop; the top one is a Lush Delectable Mountain quilt that may just stay here, too, I really love it.

May your bobbins always be full,

The Quilt Back for the Delectable Mountain Quilt is finished!

When I piece a quilt back there are so many choices to make, just like when I make the quilt top.  For this one, I felt the Lush Uptown fabric got a little lost in the Delectable Mountain blocks; I decided to feature one of the beautiful trees and a deer in the corner, from my favorite print.  I pulled some solids and started cutting and sewing.

I love how the block turned out and I think the bokeh is kinda cool, too.  Below, is the quilt top.

May your bobbins always be full,

Delectable Mountain Quilt Top is finished

The quilt top is finished, and I'm a happy camper.

When I made the blocks I decided early on to make half of them complete blocks and half mixed, with two fabrics.  Because I used 21 fat eights, I only had so much fabric to work with.  I'm really please with how the quilt top turned out.  I ended up with only one orphan block; talk about cutting it close!

This quilt top measures 76" x 50", a nice size to use for napping or reading a book.

The rest of today is "cleaning the house" day, because we're having our card group here, tomorrow.   Wednesday we go to San Diego, for one of Bob's infusion appointments, and I'll probably go to the zoo.  I love the San Diego Zoo.  Thursday, I'm hoping to get to the quilt back for this beauty.

May your bobbins always be full,

Delectable Mountain layouts

Mirror Image Zig Zag Mountains Stacked Lanterns

Mirror Image Mountains Jagged Diamonds

Zig Zag Mountains Stacked Lanterns

Zig Zag Mountains 

These are just a few of the possible layouts using Delectable Mountain blocks.  Today, I'm stitching my blocks together, and I've decided to do my version of the Zig Zag Mountains.  These images were found here.

May your bobbins always be full,

Delectable Mountain Quilt, Laying out the strips

I'm still making Delectable Mountain Quilt blocks.  I have made progress, but I'm not taking any shortcuts.  I think this would be an easy block to make mistakes on, if you get in a hurry.  I took a break from cutting and stitching to take some photos of  the process.  Instead of posting 9 photos, I put them in a short presentation.

May your bobbins always be full,

Delectable Mountain Quilt progress

Despite my best intentions, I got ZERO sewing time, yesterday.  Today, I was able to start sewing after lunch.  I took some photos of the process.  I've decided to make two sets at a time.

Lay the half square triangles right sides together- lights and darks are opposite each other

Cut them into 4– 2" strips- make sure you are cutting the correct direction!

Rearrange the order of the 4 strips so they will make a delectable mountain

Stitch the 4 strips together, then stitch both sections together.  I've decided not to stitch the two sections together, for every set of two.  That will give me more versatility, for the design I want.

Here are a couple of potential layouts.  This block is very versatile.  Now, I better get back to stitching; I have about eleventy million sets to cut and stitch.

If you want to make your own Delectable Mountain blocks, the link is here.

May your bobbins always be full,

Delectable Mountain Quilt

After my pillow-cover making project, I had 23 Fat Eigths of Lush Uptown left.  I decided to make a Delectable Mountain Quilt, so I started cutting.  From each F8 I cut two 8.5 inch squares, that took up most of each fabric piece.  Then I cut the same number of squares of Kona White.  I recently had to re-do a quilt back, and couldn't reuse the Kona White for that, so I used that fabric for these squares.  "Waste not, want not", is a good policy.

The next step was making the HSTs.  I set aside some of the squares for a later project and got busy.  I used the traditional HST method.  Today, I spent my time trueing up the HSTs to 8 inch squares.  When I first started quilting I tended to skip this step.  Older and wiser, maybe, I usually always true up, now a days.

These steps have taken up four days, of "quilting time", and tomorrow I'll be on to the next steps - (Lay the half square triangles right sides together- lights and darks are opposite each other.  Cut them into 4– 2" strips- make sure you are cutting the correct direction!  Re-arrange the order of the 4 strips so they will make a delectable mountain and stitch them together.)  I think this step could take a couple of days.  This is the block tutorial I'm using, if you're interested.

I soon hope to show you a Delectable Mountain Block, or two.

May your bobbins always be full,

Some Lush sewing

I recently fell in love with Lush Uptown by Erin Michael.  I was kinda late to the game but I managed to purchase some yardage, there wasn't a great selection available.  I wanted to spruce up the throw pillows on our leather sofa.  I really like the way they turned out.

Some close ups of each pillow cover.

I used my newly acquired mitering skills on this one.

I also managed to score a Fat Eighth Bundle of Lush, and I'm thinking of a quilt.  I used one of the fat eights for the above center panel.

Imagine that!

May your bobbins always be full,