Working On My 2023 Temperature Quilt

 

This past week I have been diligently working on my 2023 Temperature Quilt. I absolutely love the way it is coming together. I love the fabric and I love the triangle. This is my favorite Temperature Quilt I have done so far.

It all began with the design. Of course, each year I look at a ton of Temperature Quilts online. Then the tuff decision of what to do with mine. I loved the circle and did that two years in a row.

 I have a triangle quilt that I absolutely love and thought maybe my Temperature Quilt should be triangles. I made this triangle quilt when following along with the improv triangle sewalong with Nicholas Ball on Instagram.

So, I sketched out the triangles, did some figuring and decided what size the blocks would be. The triangles are an equilateral triangle; 60-degree angles. My drawing is not an accurate 60 degrees. I used this Creative Grids Kites Plus Ruler, because my other 60-degree triangle ruler is a large 12” triangle. The blocks are a finished 4” x 2.5” There will be 14 blocks (2 weeks) across, and 27 blocks down. This finished quilt will be 56” x 67.5”. That is a nice throw size.

Then, probably even more difficult than design was choosing the fabric. Don’t get me wrong, I love choosing fabric, but it does take a lot of thought, and I also had the help of my daughter. I decided that the entire quilt would be Art Gallery Solids. I have the entire line of color swatches that I purchased from Woven and Woolly. Having these swatches makes choosing fabric so much fun.

Each fabric represents a five-degree range. The triangle is the high temperature for the day and the background is the low for the day.

The triangles were cut using the 60-degree ruler. The backgrounds were cut in half using the same ruler. The fact that I used a solid fabric that is the same on the front and the back made this a lot easier. I could just flip the other side of the rectangle instead of having to cut a mirror image.

After the triangle blocks were pieced, I trimmed them to 3” x 4.5”.

To indicate the beginning of each month I put a little white triangle in the upper left corner.

Once all the blocks are labeled on the back and in order in bags labeled by month the piecing is quite easy.

I have 48 weeks pieced together so far. I am hoping it will not take me long to finish this quilt, but I do have other things I should be working on right now.

 

Blessings,

Candy

 

Retreat 2015

This past week the Seven Sisters Quilters went on their First Annual Winter Retreat. It was so great to have an entire week. It was relaxing and at the same time I got a lot of sewing done.

The first thing I did was to put on a binding. First project done in no time.

My next project was to start my challenge quilt. The Bayside Quilters are having a color challenge this year. The color I got was orange. I am almost done. I just need to do some quilting in the solid orange area. I will go into further detail in an upcoming post.

This is the back of my orange quilt. 

For the past year I have been working on Tula Pink's 100 Block City Sampler. I had decided before I began that I would be done in a year. I only got 40 of the 100 blocks done so my quilt only has 40 blocks. At retreat I sewed together 20 blocks that were previously cut out and I put the top together. 

This is the back of my Tula Pink City Sampler Quilt. 

I went to see Tula Pink in September. When she talked about her City Sampler she explained that it was her take on the Dear Jane Quilt. In 2004 I was in a Dear Jane Bee and made some of the blocks. I never did anything with them. I thought the back of my City Sampler would be the perfect place for them. I finished up these blocks and got the back put together. 

I started this quilt in a class at Bayside last Spring. The class was taught by Terry Kramzar.

I was not happy with the white flower on the light purple background. There was not enough contrast,  so I stitched around the white with a darker purple thread. I am not exactly thrilled with this quilt, but at least it is done. 

I made this for a shop sample to highlight some of our new fabric. 

This is my Alaska Quilt. In 2013 I went on an Alaskan Cruise. Of course I had to find a Quilt Shop everywhere we stopped. All of this fabric and pattern was purchased in Alaska. I am so glad to get this done. 

I made this Tunic with fabric from the Florence line by Denyse Schmidt. I am very disappointed that this is a bit snug. I might need to make another one a little bigger. 

I made this Three Yard Quilt for a shop sample using Gramercy by Art Gallery Fabrics.

We all had a great time at retreat. I will post more about it later.  

Pandora

We just got this fabric in last week. It is Pandora by Timeless Treasure.

Two of our regular girls, Margaret and Earleen fell in love with it immediately and had to make a quilt. We did not have all of the fabrics to make the pattern that went with the fabric so we changed it up a bit and made it larger. We are offering the pattern free with the purchase of fabric.

Margaret liked it so much that she made another in purple.

Some new Batiks that came in last week.

More new fabric. The top 3 are from Art Gallery and the bottom 2 are from Robert Kaufman.