Vintage Sheet Turned Quilt 4 D. O. N. E

Woohoo, Yippee.......hand quilting, binding and all. YES, it's all done! "I'm so excited and I just can't hide it. I know, I know you'll love this quilt". Okay, enough of singing. I'm so surprised at how quick I got this done. I was thinking I would start the hand quilting and then it would sit in a UFO pile. But no.....I was all business finishing this quilt. Please don't look at this too close. Remember I did hand quilt it and it shows. This was my first attempt at hand quilting and I just pray no one ever sees the back of it. lol I did the binding in the sheet scraps. I didn't want to waste a bit of this precious sheet from my childhood. I still had a few bits and pieces left over, I placed them in my scrap drawer. Who knows where they'll show up. I have various quilts and throws in the family room. This one will reside in our bedroom. Maybe on our hope chest. I'm not sure yet how I'll display it. I'd have to bring it out to show it off, no one ever goes to or through our bedroom. (which is a good thing, it tends to be a bit messy) ;)

Vintage Sheet turned Quilt 3-Question

OK, I think right when I took the picture, I might have answered my own question. But, let's see. When I hand sew, I was taught (by mom, and she's not a sewer, soooo) to double my thread and then knot it. However, it's now causing a problem. See picture...both thread don't come through smoothly. One is always loose. I have to pull it from the back, once I figure out which one is loose. For the time being, I've used a little Quilt basting spray on the thread. Just thinking it would hold the "double" thread together and pull both through tight. I hope this makes sense and someone knows what I'm talking about. Do you quilt double or single thread?

Vintage Sheet turned Quil 2-Hand quilting.

Calling all hand quilters. I decided to go with hand quilting vs machine quilting. I used the same material on the backing as I did for the front, so it's really thin. Thank goodness for the batting in between. Maybe between that and the "glue" and my stitching it will stay together somewhat. My plans were to use this quilt, but I'm really afraid to. Especially since I'm hand quilting it and this is my first project and I'm not sure how well it will stay together. I guess we'll see when it's done. I have one block down and 14 to go. *sigh* Let me know what you all think, how does this look? I used a very soft pink for hand quilting.

Vintage Sheet turned Quilt 1

Here ya go, got the top together. And, if I do say so myself. I LOVE IT! One of my readers said it was Holly Hobbie print. Not sure if I spelled the hobby/hobbie right. I do know this sheet is stamped "American Greetings Inc." I have a feeling this is going to take Patches place. Patches is the quilt at the bottom of my blog with E and the hubs. Now, I'm not sure how to quilt this. Any suggestions??

Vintage Sheet turned Quilt

I asked my mom awhile back if she had any of my childhood sheets left. She kinda looked at me funny. She said "they were girly, E won't like them". I said "they are not for E". She was really confused then. Then it clicked with her, "you are going to make something". After all these years she still had my favorite childhood sheet set. It was pretty worn out. However, I was able to save some of it. Here's what I've cut so far to start a quilt with. It's pretty thin, so I'm not sure it will be able to take machine quilting. Maybe, just maybe this will be my first hand quilting quilt. We'll see.

I even saved the top and bottom trip of the sheet. It's double layers thick. This would make a good border.

So cute............

Now you see why it was my favorite. I'm going to trim each block in the same color of blue that's on the block. I managed to get 15 blocks from this twin flat sheet.

Stayed tuned for my progress on this.