The Wolf Quilt Is Finished

I told you all that I was working on a custom quilt for an online auction

 that my daughter was involved with. 

 The quilt had to have a wolf theme. 

 Specifically a Teen Wolf theme. 

 It is not something I would usually do but since it was what was requested so

I made the best darned wolf quilt ever!

Without further ado here is my interpretation of what was requested.

The triskelions were appliqued as were the words. 

 I even made the words in the same font as Teen Wolf! 

 Liz quilted it overall with snowflakes. 

 I bound it in Kona Pepper which is what the triskele's were made with.

Here is the label, I used my stamp, signed it and put my signature pinwheel on it.

  You can see the quilting a little bit in this photo too. 

 So I know it isn't my usual but all in all I think it came out very well. 

 What do you think??

I will be in Toronto when this posts but will be checking in to see what you guys think.

~XOP~

Wolf Quilt Progress

I have been diligently working on the wolf quilt. 

 It began with a panel, 2 actually, and some wolf border fabric. 

 Have you watched Teen Wolf?  

It's on MTV and it is young and fun. 

 My eldest DD is the one so involved with the fandom. 

 Recently they were raising money for Wolf Haven. 

 They are a wolf conservation society.  

They were hoping to raise enough money to sponsor the wolf pack for a month. 

 So far they have raised over $10,000 so far!!!  

My plan for the quilt? 

 Use the panel in a circle around a triskelion.  

One of the characters in the show has the triskele tattooed on his back.  

I decided to use the same triseklion as corner stones in the outer border. 

 There was not enough of the wolf fabric for the border so I added words.  

The winner chose the words. 

 So here is the quilt in progress.

 First I had to trace the triskelion.  It was in a 16.5" square so my light box was not big enough.  I used the window for the tracing.

 Here it is all appliqued down.

 I cut the panel apart and put in sashing. 

 The triskelion went in the center.

Then I traced and appliqued the 4 corner triskeles 

Next up was tracing the words and doing the applique. 

 Thank goodness I could watch season 1 of Dowton Abbey as

 it took me about 4 hours to get all that appliquing finished!

Notice that I got a new TV for my sewing room too!!!!

I was able to watch Dowton Abey on the Blue Ray player.

SWEET!!

The light box sure came in handy for this project!

I was pretty excited to figure out how to make the font of my words match the Teen Wolf font!

All finished!

I decided to put wolf fabric on either side of the words to make a top and bottom border like this

I split the rest of the wolf fabric you see in this border, vertically to make the side borders. 

 I had to piece them and managed to piece them so they matched almost perfectly. 

 That was great!  

I didn't manage to get a photo of the finished top but will show the quilt once I get it back.

I handed it off to Liz today to work her quilting magic.

Now I can work on the next two projects.

Have you chosen a Valentines project?  

I'll be sharing one soon.

If you want to play along get your favorite Valentine fabric, a charm pack will do.

One plainish coordinate, oh a FQ or half yard should do 

and a yard of background fabric.

I can't say more about it than that but it is going to be fun!

Have a wonderful day!

~XOP~

IKEA Goodness and Scrappy Trip

It was a great weekend over here! 

 I have a lot to share but will break it up into a few posts. 

 My hubby and I put my IKEA cubbies together on Saturday. 

 I pulled a muscle in my back this week so I have not been able to do a lot of moving or

 packing up Christmas (still). 

 I managed to snap a pic of him assembling the bigger unit.

Here are the units all assembled. 

 I did take the dragons down and that shelf too. 

 That's where my TV will be going.

I ran over to Cori's and picked up some stuff that I ordered too. 

 She ave me the cutest little silver bunny and a gift certificate for my Christmas present.

I love that girl!

I don't know if it was just me but I had no idea that there were words on The Proberbial Quilt pattern!

I guess it makes sense but I just thought it was cut up stuff.

I also bought some bias bars. 

I need to make some bias strips for a quilt, for an auction that I had committed to.  

The auction was put on by my daughter and some o her friends to raise money for Wolf Haven via the Teen Wolf Sterek fandom. 

I bought some panels to use to make the quilt. 

 As I was in my *new sewing room* cutting the panels apart and making the squares all the same size, I laid it out on the floor. 

 Hmmmm.  

How to put this together. 

 I laid it out like this and then it hit me...BAM!!! 

 I will keep the wolves like this and copy them on the right.  

That leaves a whole in the middle so here's where my brilliant idea comes in...

The fandom is Sterek.

 The 2 characters people in this group are shipping are Stiles and Derek. 

 Derek has a triskelion tattoo on his back. 

 I can use the bias bars to make a triskelion for the center block!!!

Cool right?? 

 I sure hope I can pull that off!! 

 Yeah, embrace your fears baby!!!

Then, and I totally blame Jeannette, 

I made a scrappy trip around the world block.  

She wanted me to cut a 2.5" strip from every piece of fabric I was putting away.

That would have taken way too long!

 I wanted to try the block and see if I even liked making it too before I committed to an entire quilt.  

It was fun to make up this block. 

 Now I have to decide if I want to make it all scrappy or use the fabrics from this line. 

 Peacock with Alison Jane Smith.  

I bought quite a bit of this and along with a few solid prints this would make a great scrappy trip.

So hubby brought up some tubs of fabric and I put those away, unpacked my closet and now I see two more bins waiting for me now too.

I went upstairs to my sewing room around 1:30 and when I looked up it was 5:30!!

OMG I am so in love with having my own space.

I do need an ironing space upstairs though. 

Running up and down the stairs kind of sucked.

Any suggestions for a small ironing space?

I will be having some fabric and other things up for sale on my blog tomorrow.

If you are interested in anything please email me!

Have a great night!

Back to work for me tomorrow, UGH. 

I just want to keep playing in my new space.

~XOP~

Wolf Quilt Up For Auction to Benefit Wolf Haven

My DD1 is involved in a campaign to raise money for a non profit organization called Wolf Haven.  They are going to adopt the entire pack for a month, maybe more if they can raise enough money. 

 I am going to use some wolf panels and some companion wolf fabric to make a quilt. 

 It would be a throw sized quilt. 

 If you are interested in bidding please go here and

 leave a comment with how much you are willing to bid. 

 The starting bid is $40.

  Please see if you can help out the  wolf conservation society.

I will most likely use some Kona solids to pull it all together. 

 So if you are interested in saving some wolves, maybe this is something you can do!  

Happy sewing

~XOP~