recycled quilt

I wanted to post a better pic of the polyester fabrics - they are pretty. The pink has a very nice texture on it. I love that. The most dedicated reader of my blog called her polyester quilt "indestructible." That is a good thing. I live in a small city - but, I still like to have the house cool at night to save heat and these quilts are so warm.

I buy old yardage of polyester most of the time when I see it. Polyester fabric shows at  yard sales all the time and on craigslist - people seam to think its trash. Therefor they practically give it away! I love cheap fabric. Polyester is easy to work with in quilting. The color never fades and its easy to wash/dry. I love it and am not ashamed of that at all. Here is another quilt I just made from polyester fabrics -- The green solid is a cotton sheet. In person - the dark color is brown - not red.   Ill take another pic in the AM in real light. I stayed up way too late tonight. Im hoping for a snow day tomorrow. Fingers crossed. 

My house turns into a real mess when I pull fabrics for new projects. I like to pull as many as I think I like for what I have in mind --- I pull WAY too many. And then, when I start cutting I start weeding out the ones I like.  I made this quilt for a friend who has a son who needs a warm heavy blanket for the Maine winters. She wanted a old looking quilt but one that also was a boy quilt. Dog. My friend also wanted a "girl" quilt - I have an idea to put bright green/pink or purple circles in some of those squares but - I had to send a note to mamma to see about going that wild. Here are the pieces of the "boy quilt" in a pile -

Hi Everyone - I started working on a new quilt -- I posted two pics tonight. One with flash and one w/o it. The fabrics look great in person. Im working on it.

Im Finally quilting again - I want to make another quilt using a pattern I tried a few quilts ago. We will see if the new quilt has the same presence as the other one. Maybe its workable pattern?

I know Ive posted Pics of these quilts before - but, here is what they look like up on show walls!

I have a huge variety of vintage 100% polyester fabric. Lots of the pieces are 6-7 yards long and 60 or so inches wide.  The 100% polyester section of my stash accounts for probably only 20% of the whole but, The pieces are so big that they are a challenge to work with when I dont like them but present a great chance to get in some huge pieces for color blocks in quilts ...  I got all this fabric last summer, from craigslist (site unseen). And ad showed up for 30 boxes of fabric for 20.00. I jumped on it. I was sorta new at sewing and did not care - (I would still buy it now) - Anyhow ... here are some projects Ive made from that fabric.  The above quilt is double sided - no batting - 100% polyester. The above quilt is 100% polyester - no batting - polyester back. (Gees bend copy) The above quilt is 100% polyester - poly back, also and a cotton batting.    ...

I added a green boarder to all of this. I hope I can finish up this quilt soon - Im afraid that moving it around so much might make parts of it get stretched out -- oh well. I still dont know quite how I want to quilt it anyhow. Ill have to cut a few more blocks worth of pieces to finish putting the 4 piece blocks on the outside edges. I think the quilt is really a good one - it was fun to cut the pieces and have then line up. Ive not really been able to do that in the past.

My Grand Mother is a first class lady and a huge hoarder. She has a 8 bedroom farmhouse packs frull of stuff and, good for her!

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Here are some pics of 100% polyester quilts Ive made... All of those quilts are 100% polyester from the 70's - I bought out a grandmothers stash last summer at a yard sale. The fabrics have great color fast-ness and are easy to quilt with. Please dont be afraid to quilt with any fabrics you have around your house or have access to.

Funny pic, right? Ha - another vid with bad sound - but, here is some information on free motion quilting. I love the straight stitch machines they are making now. Lots of the old singers are very good, too. I love free motion quilting - and this is a quilt, another made from all recycled fabrics. The batting is the batting made from recycled soda bottles. I think its called dream green. The batting is a nice weight and a good loft. The loft helps make the free motion quilting show up. Here is a pic of the quilt before it was finished. Its all applique.

ive made some nasty quilts. i feel like im ready to sew a new quilt right over the old ones that suck. i want to just make new tops and cut off old bindings and sew the new tops on and put on new bindings. my quilts will end up like dig sites in the future. or, the thing that never will dry and molds. if i quilted a new top over an already made quilt that would be a heavy ass quilt! i love heavy quilts. i started a jeans quilt tonight -- but, its not boring because the jeans are all jeans that a painter tossed out. so, they have all this paint stuck on everywhere. pretty cool looking. maybe ive got a new front for this ugly ass quilt! i made this b-4 i ever heard of the gees bend quilters, it was one of the first quilts i ever made.

i love to free motion quilt. i like circles and patterns but, also really likes lines, grids and cross hatching. i fee motion quilt using my domestic sewing machines. i have one of the high speed straight stitch only machines. i just got the machine a few months ago and i love it! it seems like the faster i free motion quilt the better my results are. the domestic machines were way to slow for me. even for piecing the machines were too slow. above is some of the stitches made with the high speed machine. im very happy with the way they look. that was a quilt i made for a friend. its 100% polyester - i found boxes of the fabric last summer and saved every box! i love quilting with the polyester. i stitched out that pattern over the top of the whole quilt - at high speed! it was fun - but, might have looked better if I did lines instead.