Quilt for Rowie

I finished this in Jan.  Used a bunch of stash fabric. And did a random half square triangle pattern.  I love these charley Harper prints. 

32 - finish a quilt

First finish in two years.  Year that’s right I have had years where I finished 10 quilts but 22 was a big dry spell for me.  I did work on various projects but nothing was finished.  This one I started and finished in a month it’s a baby quilt for my friends baby.  It’s bigger than it looks, as it’s almost official crib size. I love the amount of stripes in this one.  I keep buying striped fabric and I especially love red/white stripes.  The quilting is entirely freehand I wrote the babies name, mom, dad, love Katie, 2023, and more in the quilting although it’s hard to just identify.  It crinkled up so nice in the wash.  I did add a homemade tag where it says the babies last name on the front and <3 Katie on the back.  

100 City Sampler (actually 72)

In 2018 I did the Tula Pink City Sampler quilt along.  Surprise I only did 76 blocks I think but I only ended up using 72 in my quilt.  I used all scrap fabric for these blocks.  When I laid the blocks all out I hated them together.  I disliked them with sashing and together as a block they were so busy.  I finally landed on side sashing in low volume just using fat quarter in my stash.  I also had to quilt it with two different threads although you can’t tell in the finished project.  

I abandoned this project many times but this year I made it a priority and completed it. It has so many flaws and so many things I just don’t like.  I washed it and it’s imperfections are growing on me, but it’s not really my style.  I do love the binding this old old Jay McCarroll habitat fabric for the win.  

Thanks to the tree swing for providing me a line to hang quilts on although I did drop several pins in the yard and did not recover them.  Thanks to everyone who’s given me their scraps over the years I used many in this.  

The back is uninspired but again I was using fabric I had on hand rather than more and I didn’t want to use yardage for a quilt I was meh on.  

It also fits in well in my family room.  

Quilt in Progress

This is an in progress project.  It started as a challenge with IMQG like 10 years ago where everyone brought aqua, orange, yellow fat quarters and we tore them apart and everyone took some.  I added in some other scraps I had of the same colors and I have been improving this guy it’s maybe baby sized now.  As I move outward I am adding in more low volume so it will gradually be white on the outter edges.  It’s slow going though.  I need more low volume scraps apparently I use them a lot (three other wips) have them.  One of my goals for the year is to make 365 days and I hope within this project I will finish this gal.  

6 - Quilt for Niece

My second finish of 2021.  I actually started and finished this one in the same year.  My brother recommended “millennium pink”. Which I had to google.  It’s basically like a light pink. I added in some other colors and then found a vintage sheet with those colors and used it too although mostly on the back.  The pattern is something I have seen before but I don’t know where I just winged it as I did it.  I quilted it in like a light purple thread which is almost impossible to tell from these photos.  I made a little tag for it.  I do like to include the babies name but since we don’t yet know her name I just signed mine.  I love the softness of the quilt because the backing is vintage sheet it’s Super soft.  Anyhow I can’t wait to meet her.  And I will say baby quilts sometimes are soooo quick maybe I need to make a few more.  

 

5 - Charm Quilt finish 2021

This charm quilt was made to replace the one that was stolen in my van back in 2017.  Charm squares are from fabrics from my stash as well as some from friends.  I love a charm square quilt because it uses sooooo many prints things you never would assemble together.  

The back is all random fabrics I had intended to use a single solid but then decided to use prints I would never put together in years.  

This is actually the very first quilting cotton I bought?  It’s a weird Michael Miller hot sauce print I have no idea why I bought it.  But I only just now like 20 years later at using it.

21 - quilt repaired

The quilt I keep on my bed has binding come undone.  It was hand sewn and probably poorly.  So I replaced it with new binding.  The new binding is much brighter pink but it was fabric on hand but I don’t dislike it.  

The quilt is mostly vintage sheets - both the flower prints and yellow are sheets so it’s sooo soft.  

Jones was my photographer and this one is so big I couldn’t really even hold it.  I need to find a tree in our yard I can hang quilts from. 

Up closer. 

From 2011 when I finished this quilt. 

Improv Quilt for My Niece

I finished this quilt for My niece over a month ago she’s only almost 3 months old now.   But only just now mailed it out to her.  It’s not exactly matching her nursery because I wanted to use more bright colors.  Originally I was making rosette blocks you can see one in low volume lower left and one in pinks upper right.  I abandoned that and was going to make half rectangle triangles after I made several I didn’t like that either.  So then I merged the rosettes and triangles and made it improv style mixing in scraps from other quilts and my stash.  

I like the finished product.  I added a tag from a scrap as well one side says her name and one aide mine. The back is just larger scraps sewn together.  

Not there was one picker that ran thru the quilt but I just left it once I noticed the quilt was entirely quilted.  

I think this is my third finish for the year.  Now I have zero gift projects on my list so it’s only selfish quilting left.  

And here’s a picture of the cutie from Halloween.  I can’t wait to meet her.

18 Some Other Quilt

Finally a second finish in 2019!  I got two charm packs off my friend Lindsay for a steal.  I mixed them with excess from a Michael Miller challenge I never finished, to make this baby quilt.  Total time to complete was not much but actually sitting down and doing it seemed to be ages.  My half square triangles aren’t perfect but it works.  I used scraps for binding and backed it in this Michael Miller houndstooth that I seem to have tons of.  I also made a small tag in the corner to label it.  

Pretty soon I will send it off to a friend who’s baby is due super soon.  

16 -Cat Quilt

This so far is my only finish for 2019 and it’s not really a big one.  I made these cats as part of a quilt along challenge.  One i actually won a prize for.  I think the cats are super fun.  The purple one is my favorite.  I quilted this as quilt as you go using thread that matched the color of the cat although you can’t tell in the photo.  The quilt as you go made it possible to do more intricate quilting and i will likely do this again on another quilt soon.  The cats all have white whiskers.  

It’s backed in a fabric I bought like 10 years ago for another quilt, the blocks are joined with fabric and the binding I pulled together from scraps that I have cut in 3 inch strips.  

I love how it turned out.  It is such a fun quilt so colorful.  I sent it off to JJ who is going to make it a wall hanging.