Your journey setting up your sewing room reminded me of when I set up my home office--a desk in the corner of my bedroom. I included pretty things too! I need to do something similar with my sewing room/office. Love the drawer storage and your cutting table. Thanks for sharing. Great job!
Hi, Cathy, I've just found you recently, and we've already spent a lot of hours together in our respective sewing spaces. On your jelly roll video, I noticed that you used your mat to measure strips, vs using the ruler. It felt backwards to me, and wonder if there's some reason you do so? Thank you!
What a beautiful quilt for a beautiful friend. And you both have the making of the quilt and the story behind it to share. I love that you kept going and didn’t give up and that you learned from your mistakes. A lovely story ✨💛✨
Such a cool pattern! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 You know, I’ve decided that I don’t need plaid piecing to match up, as long as the vertical lines and horizontal lines are close to parallel from piece to piece - as long as the fabric’s pattern is square, I guess you could say. Your blocks look so nice! And isn’t chain piecing gratifying? Your mind can wander as you sew, and then before you know it, a big chunk of work is accomplished. Can’t wait to see how your blocks are arranged.
I wasn't sure if buying men's shirts was worth it until I watched your video last night about the cost compared to your friend's quilt. Went to Goodwill on our way home and first shirt I see is a green stripe, men's XL, 100% cotton with a pink 1/2 off tag! Bought 4 shirts for $14. I love a treasure hunt that saves me money!
@@TheCatBirdQuilts Is warm and natural good cotton batting to use?? I got batting size twin 72 inches * 90 inches.. what rule is you using to cut the 2 inch square… I’m a beginner like to have all my stuff for the winter so I can try to do a quilt top…thank you
"It will not be noticed on a galloping horse." This is going to be interesting. I love what I am seeing so far. Don't you just love "Cliff Hangers"? Thank you for this video.
I made a jelly roll today 😊but, I didn’t start sewing it yet. LOL. I get too many things going at one time. I decided to work on my Great Granny Squares quilt that I had already started. I love this video Kathy and your quilt is going to be beautiful!
Hooray for making your own jelly rolls!🤩 As for doing too many things at one time--same, girl, SAME! But I usually go for the new project instead of working on something I've already started! 😂 Thank you for watching and commenting!❤️
I don’t like all the cutting so I line them up and slightly overlap strips then cut the row if same cuts for each strip😊hope that makes sense love listening to you so calming
Lovely blocks! It’s so funny to me that I hadn’t even remembered that it was jelly roll day, but guess what!?! Ironically, today’s sewing project just so happened to be with a jelly roll! I had made my own some time ago using beautiful selvages collected from my projects but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do with them. I decided to sew some of them into a sewing machine cover so I could reminisce about the projects I have made. So thank you for the reminder, Kathy. Good to know that I didn’t miss celebrating the special sew day! ❤️
Your color palette is perfect! I also started a quilt with a jelly roll last night, but I actually needed a lot more strips, so I dug through my stash and cut the equivalent of another whole jelly roll. I'm sewing two strips together, cutting them into equilateral triangles, and then assembling them into hexagons. It is definitely NOT a one weekend project! Like you, I wanted a quilt I really like rather than rush through it.
great video! how did you cut jelly strips from shirts? is there a tutorial? where i live there are no quilting shops and quilting fabrics are hard to find so i use a lot of repurposed fabrics in my sewing, i would love to make jelly rolls from these fabrics. take care
Hi Cathy I just came upon your channel..I love it! How do you not have a million subscribers? You are so pleasant to listen to and learn from..Thank you! I love Kaffe and all Free Spirit fabrics💞
oh my, I have a lot to say, today... I am so making that quilt!!!!! it's gorgeous!!! I wonder if making your own jelly roll may tweak your quilt making, just a little.... for jelly roll and other precut friendly patterns. My Jelly Roll Day is going to be a strip pieced piano key border, Mostly homemade, a few precuts. and maybe 2" - unless it's actually a precut. I love using precuts - bought on sale - for borders and bindings. I love strip piecing too... I'm a programmer/analyst - it's still science, but seeking repeatable patterns rather than the detailed life of a pharmacist. (which I appreciate more than you can know!) - I'm always looking for how to update a pattern to use strip piecing or disappearing blocks. the "race" quilt is really good for practicing seam allowances. I do variants on the theme rather than the "race" any more.... but getting used to a quarter inch seam - it's a good thing.
Have you tried seaming shirts into a strip using a mitre, like for binding? It uses more fabric but the entire seam would not fall into a future quilt seam, only a bit of it would. Might make the seams easier to deal with.
Aww! Thank you, Mable! All credit goes to my husband, Paul, who does the camera work, editing and sound engineering (and in this case, music selection!) ❤️
