Quilting | Ingrid Barlow

Needles of all sorts.

January 26, 2011 By IngridBarlow 2 Comments

Last week I was in a crafty mood and my hands were busy doing something many hours of the day. I had 2 hand projects on the living room couch and any spare moment I had I picked up a needle of some sort.

I finished the top to “Bloom.” I still have to do all the machine blanket stitching around the appliques. I’ll need to mentally pump up for that before I tackle it. Not the greatest picture of it…should have turned the lamp off on the right side…oops. I think if we have a little girl this would be darling on one wall of her bedroom. We shall see in a couple weeks…

I also knitted up another “Bunny Tail” hat for a new baby.

Next item in my brain–starting to think about Valentine’s Day. Let’s just say homemade love notes + sweet cookies + forcing bulbs!

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Friday’s Craftiness

January 15, 2011 By IngridBarlow 1 Comment

Yesterday I actually made some good progress on a quilt. The pattern is called “Bloom” by Thimble Blossoms and the fabric is by Fig Tree. Actually I have a couple other projects that I want to use the Fig Tree fabric in, so I have to get this quilt done so I know how much scrap fabric I have. Always looking to the next project…so typical.

I also found some ribbon to go around my bunny ears on “Bunny Tail.” We gave the hat to our friends last night, and I knew as soon as I saw the baby that the hat was going to be a little big. Total bummer. My gauge was perfect on it and I made the 0-6 month size but… I remembered the baby was born around Thanksgiving but for some reason that seems like forever ago, so I was thinking bigger. Her little 7 week head will have to grow a bit. On the positive side, the nice thing about knit is that it can fit loosely for a while and then stretch a bit. A good lesson learned for me on this one is that I should make notes next to the pattern about how I felt on the sizing, yarn used…etc.

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Mug Rug

October 28, 2010 By IngridBarlow Leave a Comment

I was inspired by Mary over at Pin. Sew. Press. to make a little mug rug. A quick and easy project. I used some of my favorite Joel Dewberry scraps and some rustic muslin.

Here’s my version with some flying geese. I still need to quilt it and bind it which will add so much.

I do have some Bliss that I would like to use to make one, but I haven’t cut into any of it yet and this is more of a scrap project, so I will just wait. We’ll see what the main project is for my Bliss fabric first.

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Anything Goes

October 22, 2010 By IngridBarlow Leave a Comment

I made a little progress on my newest sample for Anything Goes. Really, I must say it, anything goes when it comes to fabric for this quilt. Plus, it is such a fast and easy pattern that you can get several done before Christmas. Patterns are available here!

Binding and backing ready to go.