Quilt #5!

 This is the last of the quilts made out of Jake's clothes for his family. 

This one is for Julie.

Each of the 20 white blocks in this quilt are from Jake's dress shirts. 

The white blocks are sashed by fabrics from the Kashmir IV collection by Moda.

I also used some pieces of white shirt on the back.

The quilt measures 61 X 72 so it will be a perfect size of quilt to snuggle up with on the sofa.  It's been washed and dried on a delicate cycle in my front loading washer and drier and

is wrapped and ready to be delivered.

Giddy!

One of my next projects involves a layer cake and some yardage of Sandy Gervais' Giddy collection.

I am planning on making a full size quilt for the bed in our extra bedroom.  I'm thinking pinwheels but might change my mind.  I've been known to do that.  This collection came out several months ago but I am just getting around to making something with it.

Julie's Quilt Top!

 Julie's quilt top is finally ready to quilt.

 All of the white blocks in this quilt are from Jake's dress shirts.

For the sashing I used prints from the Kashmir IV collection by Sentimental Studios for Moda.

I will be quilting it this week so tune in later to see the finished results.

Watermelon Chic!

 I found this cute kit at JoAnn's in Cedar City this weekend.  When I got it home I decided that I wanted the quilt to be a bit larger. 

I used fabric from my stash for some of the blocks and the back and binding.

The kit came with some very cute fabrics.  I wasn't sure about quilting on chenille so I just sewed a diagonal line from corner to corner of those blocks and stippled the rest.

I used an 80/20 cotton poly batting.

 After I finished binding the quilt I washed it for my favorite crinkled look.

The quilt measures 36X36 and is now ready to be given away at a baby shower this weekend.

A Spring Skirt!

Whitney bought the Urban Girl Wrap skirt pattern by Kati Cupcake so she could sew it this weekend.   She  started out with help from her Aunt Liz and then me.

The pattern called for a ruffle so we were able to use the ruffler foot on my machine.

 

 

This was a very easy skirt to make, I think I will make one for each of the girls and myself.

A Future Quilter and a Christmas Quilt!

Lily decided to find out what this machine is all about. (not) She just wanted to play around.

I think she just stuffed a pencil in the tube that holds the batting roll.

Meanwhile, Lily's grandmother(my sister Shelley) was busy quilting this cute Christmas quilt.

Shelley was very ambitious, she quilted Christmas trees and stars in the blue border,and holly leaves and holly berries in the red borders.  In the center she quilted a large stipple pattern and individually quilted each appliqued star. 

Fun, Fun!

Last Monday, right after I finished Ann's quilt.  We loaded this quilt of Morgan's.

She made it for a friend who is expecting a baby boy this spring.

This friend also happens to love Dr. Seuss.  All of the fabrics are from the Dr. Seuss collection except the binding which is a multi-colored stripe.  The back of this quilt is so fun.

Morgan did her own quilting which is a retro square design.

Most of the blocks are off-set but a few of them have the square right in the middle.

Morgan, you did great again!

Ann's Quilt

My Aunt asked me to do the quilting on this beautiful quilt that she made for her bed.  I was nervous about starting because I didn't want to mess it up.

I quilted a continuous curve pattern in the pieced blocks and

a circle feather in the floral blocks.

I love the back, she could put either side up on the bed.

Here is a closer view of the quilting on the borders, shown from the back.  I free-handed circles in the narrow green border and I quilted ribbons in the wider pink border.

This whole quilt was done free-hand.  I did use a template to draw a circle with water soluble marker, then I followed the circular line.  A quick spritz of water and the marker was gone. 

Ann loves the quilt, I'm glad.