Quilt-A-Day, Day 5

This month, I've challenged myself to blog about a new or recent finish every day!

Today's quilt is a special gift for a friend's new grandson, using my Bricklayer pattern. The working theme was blue, green, grey, white, and animals.

I put together a selection of animal prints, and the ones chosen by the new mom went beautifully together, so all I had to do was add in a few coordinates.

I am loving the fabric combinations, so I look forward to making another quilt with the leftovers from this project!

 

Quilt-A-Day, Day 4

This month, I've challenged myself to blog about a new or recent finish every day. Today's quilt is a simple patchwork design of yellow and grey squares.

I love this color combo!

Lately, I've been using leftover scraps on the back for added interest whenever possible!

This one is already on its way to a new owner!

 

Quilt-A-Day, Day 3

This month, I'm challenging myself to blog about a new or recent finish every single day.

Several of my recent custom orders have been remakes of quilts that have previously sold. I've lost count of the number of Backyard Baby quilts (Patti Sloniger, Michael Miller Fabrics) I've made over the past two years! It is such a nice palette for a boy's room, and the fabrics have a wonderful smooth hand to them.

I still have some left in my stash, so I'm sure I will keep on making them!

 

 

Quilt-A-Day, Day 2

This month, I've challenged myself to blog about a new or recent quilt finish every single day. Today I'm sharing our guild's mystery quilt project:

Each month, we were given steps and instructions to complete, without knowing what the final product would look like. I chose some fabrics from Bonnie and Camille's "Scrumptious" collection for my project.

I chose to make mine a square lap/crib size, and omit the borders.

The finished quilt is definitely a little different than what I usually make -- I'm used to having much more fabric variety, and I'm not sure my lights and mediums had enough contrast to show off the design. However, it was an enjoyable experience, and I look forward to seeing everyone else reveal their projects at tomorrow's guild meeting. It is always a surprise to see how the pattern looks in different fabric combos!

 

Quilt-a-Day Challenge, Day 1

In the past year, I've issued myself two blogging/quilting challenges. In June 2013, I challenged myself to quilt a stack of 19 flimsies in 20 days (you can read about that challenge here, and see the finished stack of quilts here). In December 2013, I blogged about a recent finish every day in my "Twenty-Five Days of Quilts" series.

Well, it's time for another blogging challenge (seems to be a six-month cycle!), so this month, I'll be blogging about a recent or new finish every day. I have a lot of recently finished custom orders, and a stack of unquilted tops, so I should have plenty to show and tell over the next month!

I'm a big Joel Dewberry fan, so when a customer recently requested a twin size version of a Modern Meadow baby quilt in my store, I was happy to oblige!

I'm loving the simplicity of the half square triangle design and how the white solid lets these beautiful prints shine!

Most of the prints are from the Modern Meadow collection, but there are a couple of other Dewberry fabrics in the mix as well.

Hopefully, it will look great on its new owner's bed!

 

May Finishes

Here is this month's collage of finished quilts!

I've been busy with lots of projects that I haven't blogged about, so I'll be issuing myself another blogging challenge in June. Stay tuned!

 

Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry #2

Here is my second entry in the Blogger's Choice Quilt Festival, Spring 2014:

I have served as our quilt guild's block of the month chairperson for the past five years. It has been a fun an interesting challenge. For this block of the month series, we started with a few Kaffe Fassett prints in the "cool" colorways -- purple, green and blue -- and paired them with a mint green solid for the background.

Although we used several large scale prints, it was fun to see how they looked "cut up" in everyone's blocks!

When it came time to assemble the quilt, I knew I wanted to do a straight setting, but I wasn't sure what colors or fabrics to use. While walking through the quilt store, this striped fabric caught my eye. It seemed to bring all the various hues together, so I framed the blocks in a dark purple, and sashed them with the stripe. I love the energy it adds to the quilt!

For the backing, I used one of the large scale Kaffe Fassett prints (adding a little batik strip on either side to make it fit the width of the quilt!

I am entering this in the Large Quilt Category.

Head on over to Amy's Creative Side to see the rest of the entries!