Quilt Guild Name Tag Challenge - One Monthly Goal met
Finished the January One Monthly Goal which is also the first finish off the 2020 Q1 Finish-A-Long list. This post will be held until both January Secret Sewing projects have been reveled.
Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal January 2020 Finish Link-Up to link up your own proposed finish. My proposal post is HERE which was #32 in the OMG Proposed Link-Up.
The local Modern Quilt Guild decided to run a Challenge due the end of January meeting, new quilted Name Tags. The name tag is #1 on my 2020 Q1 Finish-A-Long list HERE leaving 119 left to go.
Being the first time I can make my own name tag without a required symbol being provided, I was searching for inspiration. The first thing was favorite colors: Yellow and Green! Which leads to favorite flower: Daffodil!
Here's Kipper in front of a few daffodils and then forsythia in a neighbor's yard back in our old town. A view that I will miss in March along with those neighbors.
Checked in with Dr. Google for patterns, found a few. Selected Piece by Number pattern.
Since the other Quilt Guild had a Post Card Challenge due the beginning of January. I could test a foundation paper pieced Daffodil. The search for how small I could go lead me to buy a book on FPP. Followed her instructions and others online and found that small pieces are possible.
Mom's Birthday is the beginning of February. She is a bee keeper and making the postcard for her birthday was the inspiration to take the Honeybee pattern also by Piece by Number and zoom the print-outs to match the desired final size:
It turned out just like I wanted it to. So then, how to make the card for the back? Oh yeah, I got a Cricut Maker and supplies including a glitter pen and cardstock. Using those supplies the 4" x 6" card was created:
While this turned out just like I wanted, continuing to try and work the Daffodil and my name in FPP into the Name Tag just didn't provide inspirational:
A rainbow quilt caught my eye on Pintrest and reminded me of the Kimberbell Basics table runner finished in 2017:
There were leftovers from the table runner. So the name tag background was organized as 6 x 4 squares to be cut down from the 2.5" squares left-over from the above quilt:
The squares were cut to 1.5" and laid out on a lined interfacing panel 9" x 6". Trixie came out to investigate the progress:
Hubby found a font that I liked. Roughly testing the letters cut out with the Cricut Maker looks like this:
Background laid out and letters ready to be pressed to the background:
Finally to the sewing machine! Background sewn together and ready for letters:
The 6th column made the name tag too wide for my short name so it was removed when squaring up. FMQ around the names and SITD: of the squares
Binding added with ties from a fabric bundle ribbon. I am so very pleased by how it turned out:
The binding was applied by machine for the second time based on Jen Strauser, Dizzy Quilter, Accurate and Attractive Machine Binding which turned out exactly as I wanted. I also tried trimming the corners as suggested by Bonnie Hunter on YouTube Quilt-Cam 1/5/2020. I will need to try it again with another piece to decide if I like that method.
What do you think? Any suggestions?
Link-Ups:
* Elm Street Quilts January One Monthly Goal Finish Link-Up as #69
Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal January 2020 Finish Link-Up to link up your own proposed finish. My proposal post is HERE which was #32 in the OMG Proposed Link-Up.
The local Modern Quilt Guild decided to run a Challenge due the end of January meeting, new quilted Name Tags. The name tag is #1 on my 2020 Q1 Finish-A-Long list HERE leaving 119 left to go.
Being the first time I can make my own name tag without a required symbol being provided, I was searching for inspiration. The first thing was favorite colors: Yellow and Green! Which leads to favorite flower: Daffodil!
Here's Kipper in front of a few daffodils and then forsythia in a neighbor's yard back in our old town. A view that I will miss in March along with those neighbors.
Checked in with Dr. Google for patterns, found a few. Selected Piece by Number pattern.
Since the other Quilt Guild had a Post Card Challenge due the beginning of January. I could test a foundation paper pieced Daffodil. The search for how small I could go lead me to buy a book on FPP. Followed her instructions and others online and found that small pieces are possible.
Mom's Birthday is the beginning of February. She is a bee keeper and making the postcard for her birthday was the inspiration to take the Honeybee pattern also by Piece by Number and zoom the print-outs to match the desired final size:
It turned out just like I wanted it to. So then, how to make the card for the back? Oh yeah, I got a Cricut Maker and supplies including a glitter pen and cardstock. Using those supplies the 4" x 6" card was created:
While this turned out just like I wanted, continuing to try and work the Daffodil and my name in FPP into the Name Tag just didn't provide inspirational:
A rainbow quilt caught my eye on Pintrest and reminded me of the Kimberbell Basics table runner finished in 2017:
There were leftovers from the table runner. So the name tag background was organized as 6 x 4 squares to be cut down from the 2.5" squares left-over from the above quilt:
The squares were cut to 1.5" and laid out on a lined interfacing panel 9" x 6". Trixie came out to investigate the progress:
Hubby found a font that I liked. Roughly testing the letters cut out with the Cricut Maker looks like this:
Finally to the sewing machine! Background sewn together and ready for letters:
The 6th column made the name tag too wide for my short name so it was removed when squaring up. FMQ around the names and SITD: of the squares
Binding added with ties from a fabric bundle ribbon. I am so very pleased by how it turned out:
The binding was applied by machine for the second time based on Jen Strauser, Dizzy Quilter, Accurate and Attractive Machine Binding which turned out exactly as I wanted. I also tried trimming the corners as suggested by Bonnie Hunter on YouTube Quilt-Cam 1/5/2020. I will need to try it again with another piece to decide if I like that method.
What do you think? Any suggestions?
Link-Ups:
* Elm Street Quilts January One Monthly Goal Finish Link-Up as #69
Pretty! Well done!
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