2012 Blogger's Quilt Festival

It's time for the Blogger's Quilt Festival hosted by AmysCreativeSide.com.  It's a virtual quilt show and there are always so many beautiful quilts to see.

My problem is, each quilt I make is my favorite, each and every one.  It's hard to feature just one!  But here it goes.

I named this quilt Simple Kites Patchwork Quilt.  It was my first time making Half Rectangle Triangles, and it was easy and simple.  I pinned a great tutorial for HRTs, here.  I asked my long arm quilter to use this flying kite design and I love the way the quilting turned out.

I piece the backs of 95% of my quilts, it's such a fun way to use up scraps and to add interest.  The quilt measures 66.75 X 41.5.

Blogger's Quilt Festival Stats
 Finished Quilt Size - 66.75 X 41.5
Machine pieced, and quilted.
Quilted by Janiel Miller
Best category - Throw Quilt

This quilt is listed in my etsy shop.

May your bobbins always be full,

Modern Patchwork Rainbow Quilt

This was such a fun quilt to make.  I had just a dab of fabric left from the stack I won.  I used most of it in the two previous quilts.  I rounded out the quilt top using lots of Kona Chartreuse.  I had not a smidgen left for the back, so I used grays and whites and a small print for the quilt back.

 It's now in the shop.

May your bobbins always be full,

Colorful Patchwork Quilt

When I made the Simple Kites Patchwork Quilt, I had plenty of fabric left to use in this quilt.  I added tons of fun prints from my stash to make a u nique patchwork design.  I love keeping patchwork totally random.  It kinda drives Bob crazy, but I'm the designer!

It's in the shop.

May your bobbins always be full,

Simple Kites Patchwork Quilt

My problem is, I always love each and every one of the quilts I make.  This quilt is no exception; I love everything about it.

 In the shop.

May your bobbins always be full,

By the Sea Quilt for Baby or Toddler

Another finish!  I made this with a boy in mind, but I think it would work for either a boy or a girl.  I've just listed it in the shop.

May your bobbins always be full,

On The Go Baby Boy Quilt

I'm so happy with this finished quilt.  I think it'd be perfect for a baby or toddler.  It's listed in the shop.

May your bobbins always be full,

Simply Solids HST quilt

Front and back.

Quilt is finished and in the shop.

 I really love this quilt, both the quilt to and the "jazzy" quilt back.

May your bobbins always be full,

Erin's Blue Elephant Quilt is ready to go

You may remember that my granddaughter Erin asked me to make her an Elephant Quilt like the one below.  I told her I'd be happy to, but she couldn't be in a hurry.  She wanted her elephant to be blue.

I really didn't like much about the above quilt.  Way too much white, with an elephant plopped down towards the bottom.  I was sure I could do better, while keeping with the spirit of what Erin asked for.

I decided to do small 3" triangles for the elephant body, and some square patchwork for the ear.  I tried to place a bit of dark where I thought the eye should be.  I did some green HSTs to imitate grass; and found some blue batik for the "sky".  I used Kona Deep Blue for the binding.  Over all I'm very pleased with the quilt top.  Below is the back.  I used some leftover 3" triangles for the center band.

Erin moved to the North Carolina Coast, this month, and so far I don't have her new address!  When I get it the Blue Elephant Quilt will be on it's way.

May your bobbins always be full,

Bloggers Quilt Festival ~ Spring 2012

 

Well, it's that time of the year again.  I've decided to show of my Swoon quilt for the Spring Edition of the Blogger's Quilt Festival.  I just finished putting the binding on this week.  Already two people have claimed it, we'll have to see how well that works out!

In January I joined the Swoon-a-long, over at I'm a Ginger Monkey.  It was the first QAL I've done.

Here's the quilt top:

And the back:

I used Kona Coal for the background fabric and Kona Charcoal for the binding.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

May your bobbins always be full,

Ta Da Echo Quilt complete

 I'm absolutely in love with how great this quilt turned out.  Here's the front:

And a close-up of the quiliting:

The stitch pattern is called Target, and I love how well the squares are "targeted".  And here's the back:

I love using bits and bobs of left-overs to make an interesting quilt back.  I used Kona Charcoal for the binding.

May your bobbins always be full,