Sunday, October 24, 2010

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!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

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.

Friday, October 22, 2010

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!