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Boxes Donation Quilt completed

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Yesterday I decided that I wanted to quilt something up quickly – so I pulled out this little 43″ square quilt that will be donated to one of the Outreach programs at Village Squares Quilters. Actually the real reason I wanted to quilt this little quilt yesterday was when I was getting ready to quilt the “Free” Quilt I had selected one of the Rainbows from Superior thread, but when I started quilting with it I didn’t like the shine on that quilt. So I choose a different thread. I had two bobbins with this Rainbow thread on it and I wanted to put the thread and bobbins (empty) away. So, I quilted it this quilt with that tread.
This top was pieced from blocks from a Stack n’ Whack project that I started in 2005. Last year the Village Squares Quilters had a UFO exchange. I donated part of this project for that. You can see the completed quilt the member made from the blocks I donated in the exchange. Remember the quilt I made from the UFO I received? (It was doanted to the Veteran’s VSQ Project.
My plan is to use the Donation quilts that I complete between now and the QQQ Birthday party to decorate the refreshment area. I think this one turned out really nice. Almost makes me wonder why I decided to convert this project to a donation project.
Because of the boxes I thought a quilting design with gift bows would be nice.

The bows show up better on the back of the quilt.

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I DID it!!!!

Monday, November 24th, 2008

I just finished sewing down the binding on the “Free” quilt this morning!!!!!! I made it with weeks to spare before my 50th Birthday!!!!

(Below is what is printed on the label)
Free Quilt

Pieced and quilted by Mary Anne Ciccotelli
Pelham, New York

Started: March 2000 – Completed: November 2008

Pattern: Sunbonnet Sleuth’s Y2K Mystery

One Saturday in March 2000 (at the beginning of my quilting adventure), my husband Tom went to Washington, DC for the day. While he was gone, I started surfing the web. I entered “QUILTING” as my search. Little did I know that my quilting life would be changed forever! One project I found was: “Sunbonnet Sleuth’s Y2K Mystery with 2,000 Charm Squares”. This mystery project was for all the quilters on the internet who had exchanged charm squares. I had not participated in any of these swaps, but I did have LOTS of fabric (with various fiber content) in the attic. I climbed the ladder into the attic with scissors in hand and started cutting strips of fabrics. When Tom returned home, I told him what I was up to and his comment was – “a FREE Quilt”! Little did he know what this “FREE” quilt would lead to and the real costs involved.

After completing 40 of the 81 blocks, I realized that my placement of the light, medium and dark values could have been better. To prove it, I set this project aside and started working on my Y2K Frenzy quilt (which also ended up on my UFO list). I decided that it would be nice to complete this project before I turned 50 years old as a visual example of how far my quilting has come. The one restriction I imposed on myself was that I could only use the strips of fabric that I had cut from fabric in my attic so long ago.

The big dilemma came when deciding what to use for the back. It felt wrong to take fabric from my quilting stash (which I have plenty of). I debated about piecing all the strips and squares that were left, but I didn’t want that many seams in the back of this quilt. So I compromised – I used some of the squares and strips along with fabric from the attic.

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Donation Quilt completed

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Yesterday I spent most of the day trying to get my desk under control. It has been left to its own demise for way to long, so that will have to be today’s project as well. But, last night I did quilt this donation quilt (36″ square). While looking over a few quilting blogs I saw this tutorial by Vivian and decided to give it a try on this donation quilt.

Not quite exactly like hers, but it was fun anyway. I was telling my husband last night that machine quilting is kind of like handwritting, each person can make the same letters but they all look so different.

I quilted at a really fast speed and the little knots appeared again. Lesson learned – quilting is harder to control at a really fast speed (but it does get don’t alot quicker).

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Feathers complete!!!!

Friday, November 7th, 2008
Feathers
(Purple & Green Sampler)

By Mary Anne Ciccotelli
Pelham, New York

Spring 2003: Top pieced as a sample for a

beginner quilting class taught at the Pelham Art Center.

November 2008: Quilted with different types

of feathers in each block and border.
Well, it’s Quilt Show time. I am soooooo excited. I can’t wait to see all the beautiful quilts made by members of my guild hanging in one place. I will be at the show all day Saturday, so if you stop by please be sure and say Hi!

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Back to School Quilt completed

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The Back to School quilt is completed and ready to hang in the quilt show this week-end.
When I sew the labels on I sew them on upside down so when you flip the corner up the label is right side up and easy to read.

Back to School
An original quilt design by
Mary Anne Ciccotelli
Pelham, NY

I like to have quilts hanging in my studio for the different times of the year. Last Fall I was surfing the web looking for an inspiration for a Back to School themed quilt. I saw this clipart at www.kidsdomain.com and loved it and decided to base a quilt on it.

Upon completing the first display section I felt it was too large – so it became the rod pocket. The second display unit was complete with my embroidery machine. I could not face cutting all those little back pieces again. When I finished the top (white borders without the crayons yet) a couple of my critics suggested putting numbers on the calculator keys. It was turning to Winter so this project was put away. Almost a year later I pulled it out to work on it again. I changed the borders to a brown fabric and added the crayons. I decided to take my critics’ advice and add numbers to the keys. I had most of the numbers embroidered on when I realized that the numbers on a calculator are not in the same position as the numbers on a telephone. I had used the telephone placement. I had to unpick the 1, 2, 3, and 7 and embroidery them in the correct place. Luckily the 4, 5 and 6 are in the same position on either device. I also did away with the “%” key and moved the “X” key to make room for the “0” key.

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Turkey Quilt completed

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The Turkey Quilt is completed.



I used 606 Spray on the back of silk leaves. I quilted the veins into the leaves to make the leaves more secure.

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3 Lables sewed on

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Today I sewed on three labels. Feels great to be finishing up these projects. The first label sewed on was on the Morning Quilt.
(If you are wondering why the leaves and vines are blue – because the yellow is out on my printer and I didn’t want to go to Staples before I printed the label.)

Here is the front of the quilt – sorry for the angel – my quilt holder is at work.
Here is the label for Splash of Silver. Now it is comletely done.

The third label for a quilt that Emily finished. It is going to be mailed here on the East coast so we decided it was silly for her to take it back to Utah just to have to mail it back to the East.

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Tied baby quilts

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Today I bound (by machine) the two baby quilts that the Young Women have been working on the past two weeks at our Wednesday night activity. Each quilt has the same flannel on the front and a different color of flannel on the back. Also the ties are different colors. My granddaughters love the tied quilts that I made for them when they were born. After washing these quilts some of the ties look like they are having a bad hair day, but they still look cute. Can’t wait to see you Baby X and Baby A. (I hope their mother isn’t reading this – think that might ruin the surprise!)

Work on my VSQ Challenge quilt continues but I am not at liberty to share the pictures as of yet. I have the post in draft form and it will post on Oct. 14. I think that I am almost done with the top and will be ready to start quilting soon. It is only 25″ square so I think it might get lost on George.

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Ebay Mania completed!!!!!

Monday, August 25th, 2008
Well – alittle behind schedule, but it is completed. I started quilting this in February but then we went to Idaho for my dad’s funneral. I put it away and it did not get worked on until Tom was at scout camp and I decided that I should get it out and quilt the borders (this was before George arrived – so this entire quilt was quilted on my Bernina). Sorry for the angle shot, but Tom is at work and I still don’t have my own quilt rack.
Back of the quilt.
Verbage from the label:
Ebay Mania
During the Spring of 2002, I decided to make a quilt that looked like the Double Wedding Ring quilt my Great-grandmother had made for my mother. One day, I was on e-bay looking for fabrics for this project. When I saw a listing for over 1,000 – 2” squares of vintage fabric, I decided this would be perfect. However, when the squares arrived, I realized they were too small. A few days later The American Quilter magazine was in my mailbox and I noticed the Confetti quilt. I decided I would use all 1,237 squares to make that quilt. I used 1,042 on the front of the quilt and the rest were used on the back. The squares that were trimmed off after the quilt was quilted were used when constructing the rod pocket.

(FYI – If you are counting the squares, three of the squares are covered by the rod pocket.)

Made by Mary Anne Ciccotelli
Pelham, NY

Top & back pieced Summer 2002
Started quilting February 2008
Completed August 2008



A picture of the rob pocket using the leftover squares.
Close-up of the rob pocket.

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#2 quiltied on George

Saturday, August 16th, 2008
I pieced this top February of this year while I was in Idaho. It is for a wedding gift. Well, I had plans not to be rushed completing this quilt – I know you have not heard anything about it since March. Well – last night I put the borders on , pin basted it and started quilting it. I LOVE the table that came with George. Having so much level table space to the left of the needle and behind is wonderful. I am really enjoying quilting with George.
Here I am working on the feather border.
Another picture of the feather border.
The quilting is completed! (It about 10:30 AM on Saturday morning.) The wedding is at 3:00 pm and the reception starts at 6:00 pm.
I decide to sew down the binding with the sewing machine, that way I can for sure be done before the wedding. I don’t want anymore wedding quilts hanging over my head. (Please be patience, they are coming. I know, you are not going to hold your breath – that is probably a good idea.)

I like the corner design I did. I think it is a good transition from the feathers.
I even quilted the year & bride and groom’s names on the quilt. (Do you think that will count as a label – probably NOT!) You can only really see the brides name, but the other are there. Trust me!

Now to do a quick clean up job in the house since Tom will be home in a few hours (and I need to iron his white shirt for him – the QUEEN of Last Minute is in good form today.)

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