Sweet lavender baby quilt

This baby quilt was pretty fun to make, and I finished it just last week. I started out thinking I was going to make a double hourglass quilt, but you know what they say about making plans...



I used various lavender and pale green prints with a charcoal gray Kona cotton solid. Once I had cut all my fabric and layed it out on the floor I wasn't loving the charcoal as the solid color. It looked too drastic. So I changed my pieces all around, and I really liked the result.



The quilting is another free-motion design using a petal-y flower design.



For the Backing I used the charcoal gray with a lot of the extra scraps to make this funky design; I'm not totally sure I like it.



I am eventually going to make that double hourglass quilt using the pale green and the lavender material, but I am going to use a pretty solid white instead of the charcoal. I think it will make the quilt even more girly.

If you are interested in making your own double hourglass quilt Cluck, Cluck, Sew has a great tutorial here, and even if you don't want to, her blog is full of AMAZING quilts! It's totally worth checking out!

Wonky quilt

This quilt is a really fun one made up of wonky stars, flying geese, and cute little houses! It started out as random wonky pieces that I was thinking about using to make a bed sized quilt, but I lost interest. Instead I used the pieces I had completed, and worked out a way to make a crib sized quilt.

A few of the blocks are based on the classic log cabin quilt square, done with a wonk!



The backing is a really fun fabric that I picked up at Joann's a while ago, and I just love it!


The quilting design again comes from Patsythomasdesigns.com, and I think it's called peacock. I'm really glad I chose to use gold thread because I think it looks nice with the quilt top and the backing. Although you can't really see it in the pictures.


I don't have any plans about what to do with this quilt. I was thinking about selling it, but I decided to hang on to it for the time being.

150 foot tall giraffe!!

This is a baby quilt that I finished a month or two ago for some dear friends of ours who just had their first child, and this quilt was especially for him.

It's a pretty simple square quilt design with his name appliqued to to the front, fussy cut animals in some of the squares, and a soft flannel for the backing.


The star animal has to be this 150 foot tall giraffe!


I particularly liked this picture of the bright orange binding.

I've been working pretty hard trying to get my machine quilting skills developed, and I think it turned out pretty great on this quilt. I got the quilting design from Patsythomasdesigns.com. That site is great if you need some creative ideas for the actual quilting!


I hope baby G grows up to love the quilt as much as I love him already!!

I'm still not good at blogging

So I have finished three baby quilts and a cute tiny wall quilt since I last posted!! Why are there no pictures here you ask?? Well the answer is... I just haven't got around to it. I'll try to post them soon!