Tag Archives: machine quilting

Under the Sea Pillows

These pillows were my first foray into quilting! I got the High Seas 5″ squares on sale and paired them with a light gray background fabric.

I did a simple loopy free motion design on the 5″ square layout, and some coral-like wavy shapes on the half square triangle layout. This was me figuring out how to do free motion quilting effectively, including wrangling the excess fabric, what speed to move at, and how to control the whole situation. More about free motion quilting next week! 🙂

The backs for both the pillows are this adorable whale fabric, and I’m planning on making a shirt out of the leftovers. 🙂

Project completed April 29, 2019.

Jelly Roll Rugs!

These are some mini jelly roll rugs 🙂 A jelly roll (technically trademarked by Moda Fabrics) is a roll of 2.5″ x 44″ strips of a fabric collection, and usually has 40-ish strips. I modified the RJ Designs Jelly Roll Rug pattern to use 20 strips for each rug so they’d turn out to be doorway-ish-sized. The assembly is super easy, all the strips are sewn together, and then you fold and sew precut batting strips into the long strip of fabric. So then you have a long strip of fabric folded around batting, and swirl that around itself to make the rug. It was a bit fiddly but I used my walking foot on the machine to help guide the fabric through evenly. Apparently if you use the whole roll, or even two rolls, for one rug you can get a supersized jelly roll rug, which I might make for my living room.

The fabric line I used is called All Weather Friend by Moda Fabrics. I gave one to a couple for their wedding, and “all weather friend” describes marriage perfectly! 🙂

Tutorial here. Project completed June 18, 2019