SENTWALI Creative

Showing the net what my mind and hands have been up to.

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Finally finished this quilt. I purchased the quilt top from my guild’s auction and used it to practice on my handiquilter Forté with prostitcher . It was a bit of a challenge especially when one of the motors faulted and froze up part of the way through. After a warranty replacement by thequiltingconnectionwi I was back on track and finished the quilting, added the binding while still on the long arm quilting machine, also a first for me, added a hanging sleeve and gave it it’s first wash to call it done.

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Wanted to make Kwiksew pattern #3884 men’s shorts into pants. I extended the line to my inseam measurement and hopped it worked. It’s did mostly, but the ankle measurement should probably be wider. Fabric is a wool/wool blend purchased a large roll of from Canvasbacks factory sale, they’re no longer in business and I’ll probably e using this fabric to test patterns for years and years to come. Added a loop in the pocket to hold my keys.

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No longer afraid of sewing plaids. Had this fabric for a while now hesitant on working with it because I didn’t want my garment to look poorly made with stripes that didn’t match. Took the jump with Burda 6349, a pattern for long or short sleeve band or camp collar shirt. The pattern was pretty straightforward but I did have a bit of an issue setting the collar as the way the pattern has you sew the front to the yoke inputs a bit of play in the measurements. This summer weight woven plaid features a pattern matched chest pocket, sewn in “Jam!n 2022” label, serged internal seams and fantastic plaid matching from the front and side.

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A late birthday gift for my nephew Sean. A city scenes play mat with red and white ticking on the back. Sewed on another ticking square with drawstrings on the back of the backing before a pillowcase assembly so that the toys can stay on the mat with the ends folded up around them and the whole thing flipped inside out into its own drawstring bag. Bing bang boom, Jamin’s your uncle.

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A raccoon for Regan. My younger sister’s friend had a little girl, congratulations Tracy. My sister commissioned me to make another quilt for the new arrival. Her sister Ryan got a quilt a couple years ago, see below. Both feature half square triangles. This one has more negative space and a quilted raccoon as opposed to an appliqué.

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Another project done. Wanted a head to toe, or at least ankle, set for the days we’re living in. Came across this stretch knit at @joannfabricsofficial in blues, grays and pinks that I liked so I made a hoodie, jogging pants, hat (based on a 555 Soul hat i still have from the 1990s) and a tube face mask. Mostly done in the serger.

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Inspired by Hen House Hats recent video post I hit the second hand store after work and found two matching candlestick holders with a bit of weight on them. Stopped by Michael’s for two foam balls. Got home cleaned the candlesticks and chopped a flat on the balls. I came across a method to wrap the balls in fabric on the interwebs and found some appealing fabric in my stash and began the process of clipping then tearing strips to wrap around the ball, beginning and ending at the flat bottom, both with hot glue. When done I cut a cardboard circle to aid in the glue adhesion to the fabric and the metal holders. Cutting a hole in it for the excess overlapping fabric at the bottom of the ball. Then hot gluing the fabric-ball-cardboard assembly to the base. Topping it all with a hat, it’s intended purpose. Assembly of both took less than an hour. Featuring my 2021 custom hats made by Brass Rooster

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One of my many projects from this past weekend. Need to brighten up (literally) my finished attic space for some new equipment expected shortly. Hit up Goodwill for some new to me lamps. Found four, two matching brass, one clear glass, and one a silver toned metal with a shade. Took the glass one apart and sprayed the bright “gold” metal parts orange, got a replacement socket from my local Ace Hardware store, with supplement parts I didn’t realize I needed until i was in the deep end from the closest Bliffert store. Took them to At Home store to pair them with a lampshade. They had a great variety at even better prices than expected but the quantities or the large drum shades was lacking. They only had one of my favored tan, so I ended up going with matching white ones, which are still good though. Thanks to my sisters and for their opinion sharing when selecting shades.

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Sister is expecting and I made her a quilt for the new baby, Sean. He’d be born other the year of the Ox, the same as me (June 1973). Collected 1/4 yard of fabric from other family members and including those in this quilt featuring a patchwork Bull, yarn couching and radiant themed quilting. With the remaining fabric I made a patchwork horse.

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One of my oldest friends and fiancé are expecting. So I made a quilt. Used a kente cloth print and some complementary tone on tone fabrics.

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Was commissioned to make this by my younger sisters friend in Baltimore. Well not exactly this bag, originally it was going to be a dupe of something else she liked online by another manufacturer, but I wasn’t successful with that and was able to salvage enough of this woven African fabric and leather to come up with this. It has a zippered pocket inside as well as other internal content management. I think I’ll stay in my lane and make things I know I can accomplish. That, or experiment with much cheaper and readily available materials.

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Pieces is Empowerment. A throw sized quilt experimenting with different quilting techniques made of of pieces left over from my Empowerment quilt and it’s backing.

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Rhino for Ryan: My sister commissioned a quilt for a friend that was having her first child. I’m not one for “sexed” baby quilts, don’t look for blue or pink quilts from me. Here I piece half square triangles in grey and white for the main body of the quilt and add a pieced border of white, and soft shades of orange, green, purple and yellow. I trace out a rhino on the white fabric and mate it with a yellow chenille fabric and sew on the line, leaving an opening to turn it out. It was then edge stitched onto the quilt. The letters for the name were made of four layers of the leftovers from the quilt and stitched in lines 3/8” apart and cut for a custom chenille, note for the future: for chenille, sew the lines parallel to the bias and never with the fabric grain. Quilted with a walking foot and bound with the grey fabric from the half square triangles. Congratulations Tracey!

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There is a optical illusion challenge in my quilt guild. This will be my submission. I titled it "No; I really am straight". Finished September 3, 2017. This is made with outdoor (Sunbrella) fabrics on the front and a nylon rip stop fabric on the back and it has ties sewed into the binding so that it can be rolled up and tied to take on a picnic. Note all the red lines are parallel to each other.

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Empowerment, Quilt (XL Twin Size):


This quilt was inspired by a small art piece I completed in a retreat workshop given by Jim Smoote the summer of 2016.  In the workshop we were able to draw inspiration from many magazine pages and clippings, various drawn symbols and shapes and papers, markers, pencils or many different colors. The major design element of the Harlem Renaissance inspired silhouette was his design. I used it to cut out a vibrant orange head to place on a black background and combined it with magazine pictures and graphics for my workshop piece. The combination of the bright head on the black background kept coming to me as something powerful, it made my head hang higher. For this quilt, I added the Adinkra symbol Woforo Dua Pa A “ When you climb  good tree”, the symbol of support, cooperation and encouragement, in chartreuse at the corner. Symbolic mountains, with the plains beyond and a setting sun can be seen in the quilting

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Finally took pictures of my 1949 Chevrolet 3100 pickup truck. Pictures taken in Milwaukee's Washington Park and on the grounds of the Milwaukee VA Medical Center, there are many historical buildings on the site.

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Its almost there. I’ve been asking friends for a while for their old jeans, there worn the better. I finished piecing and tying this quilt at my Quilt Guild’s annual retreat in Ellison Bay, WI. Used various shades of blue denim jeans in this quilt and tied it with a dark red acrylic yarn, (tip, use a strong sharp curved needle for this) and a scrim covered kind sized 100% cotton batting that can be stitched 8-10″ apart. 

Note: This is my quilt, made for my bed. I wanted it to go down to the side rails and down to the floor at the foot as well as be able to be tucked under the pillows.  Now I just need to figure out how I want to bind the edges.  I have plenty of denim left and may make some long pieces to be Velcroed under the mattress at the sides and possible make some decorative pillows, but I’ve never really been “that guy” with pillows all over my bed. Maybe a dog bed for Lacey