Best Friends QAL, the first one is complete

Boy, photographing a queen-size quilt is a challenge.  I finally hung it from the rain gutter, above the garage door.  I really love how this turned out.  It's a housewarming gift for a great couple.

I had 6 quilts to put the binding on and this is #5, only one more to go, and it's another Best Friends quilt.

 

May your bobbins always be full,

Best Friends QAL, First Quilt Top is Assembled

I'm making two of these Best Friends Quilts at the same time.  This is the first quilt top assembled.  I included the bottom photo so you could see how freakin' big this is!  I didn't measure it, but it's supposed to be 96 inches square.  Talk about fabric-wrangling!

Now, to work assembling the second quilt top. 

May your bobbins always be full,

Best Friends Quilt Along, Courthouse Steps Blocks

Two (not great) photos to show off the 32 Courthouse Blocks I made for the Best Friends QAL. These took 2 weeks! Now to assemble the 2 quilt tops.

 

May your bobbins always be full,

Best Friends Quilt Along, Pineapple Blocks

These are the first Pineapple Blocks I've ever made!  Now to work on 32 Courthouse Steps blocks. 

May your bobbins always be full,

Best Friends Quilt Along, Economy Blocks

 I'm still plugging away at the Best Friends Quilt Along.  Here are the 16 Economy Blocks.  Now, I'm going to make my first ever Pineapple Blocks.  Wish me luck!

May your bobbins always be full,

Best Friends Quilt Along

I decided to do the Best Friends Quilt Along, sponsored by the Fat Quarter Shop.  I did a fabric pull from my stash, including 2 different quilt kits that I decided not to make.

Then I got busy.  I decided to make 2 sets of everything, so I will end up with two Queen-size Quilts.  The blocks are all paper-pieced, the first block was a Log Cabin.  Here are my 24 Log Cabin Blocks.

I just laid them out willy-nilly!  They turned out to be Improv Log Cabin blocks because I made an error and didn't want to use Jack to fix it.  I just kept going and I think they're fine.  The next block is an Economy Block and I only need to make 16 total!

May your bobbins always be full,

Red, White and Blue Baby Quilt Top

New quilt top. I used the leftover blocks from the Tile quilt, that's going to Quiltcon, as a starting point for this baby quilt.  It measures 42" square. I even had the red Kona in my stash! The star fabric was the backing of the Tile quilt.  It feels good to use m stash!

May your bobbins always be full,

Positive Queen Quilt Top, first edition

I take getting a commission for a custom quilt pretty seriously.  When Amy asked me to make her a certain quilt, I knew I could do it, but there was no pattern or tutorial for a similar quilt, that I could find.  I decided that my best course of action would be to make a "trial" quilt top, writing a tutorial as I went.  The quilt Amy wants is made of solids, and very modern.  I wanted to keep the trial quilt top modern, but I wanted to use fabric from my stash.  These are the fabrics I used.

I kept pulling and rearranging fabric, until I was pleased.  Then I got going with the math and writing the directions.  I'm going to post the tutorial a bit later, it'll be here, if you're interested.

The quilt top turned out perfect, to me, and it was pretty easy to put together.  It's just very time consuming putting together a queen size and wrangling all that fabric.  I told Bob we may need a larger house, if I keep this up!  (Just kidding, and he knows it.)

Here's a shot, outside on the grass, and below on my bed.

I'm thinking, this first edition of the quilt, may need to stay at Casa Prytz!

I'm linking up with Sew Cute Tuesday.

May your bobbins always be full,