Katie, a friend from The LAMQG is having a baby girl! I made her this cute simple quilt.
Nice and pink but some green mixed in!
I did some fun and easy curly quilting. I really like this simple and whimsical quilting for a baby quilt. Keeps it nice and soft.
And a simple back – I do love those Wildwood trees!
There’s an article in there written by yours truly!
About what we’re all up to with our modern quilting! Needless to say, it’s exciting to see this:
And I never showed the finished “Yellow Pop’ Quilt ’cause I had to wait for this to come out first, so here it is…
I’m in love with the yellow stripy binding.
Hope that your weeks are all off to a good start. Happy Monday!
That’s certainly what I did with this quilt, so that’s what I’m calling it. It’s on our bed and staying there! I love it and so does my husband. Not girly at all this one… I really like the simple graphic nature of this quilt. I offset the columns a bit giving it an asymmetry that I’m loving.
The fabrics? Konas Medium Gray, Coal, Charcoal, and the RK Gray Quilters Linen (which I LOVE by the way) are all in there. The background is Kona Ash. And then the yellow is a Kona as well – it’s Butterscotch. The one patterned fabric is a Heather Baily print.
I pieced together a back with the remaining fabric.
It’s already being enjoyed by everyone!
As a side note – thanks for all of your comments on straight line quilting. It’s clearly a topic that a lot of people are thinking about. Moving my quilting in different directions is something that I’m eager to do and I feel I might surrender to some long arm classes… I am tiring of stippling, and am not very attracted to many other simple free motion patterns. Straight lines really appeal to me though and the options are endless, but impossible to achieve well on my machine. I’m all about making quilts at home from start to finish, but at a certain point there are limitations… I just know the second I go and try long arming one of my quilts I’ll be ruined and never want to quilt a quilt on my home machine again. What to do? Oh the trials and tribulations of a quilting obsession!
I finished up a pair of cute baby quilts for a commission. For twins who are on the way! I made a couple of pillow sleeves to go along with ‘em too.
Why can’t I ever coordinate photo taking with no fold lines in the quilts??
These were fun to sew up. I haven’t been working with lots of white or these colors in awhile so it was fun to go back to them for a project!
On another note, a dear friend of mine is a finalist for the Dwell Room for Improvement contest. You don’t have sign in or anything to vote for her, so please do! It just takes two quick clicks and a free living room make over could be hers so vote for her! Thank you, thank you!
It’s been awhile since I’ve finished a quilt that wasn’t on a deadline. It was nice. Some friends who are having a baby girl are getting this one!
This quilt confirmed for me that I am not as much of a fan of the washed crinkled look when the quilt isn’t stippled. Stippling leads to a nice even all over crinkle, but other quilting… not so much.
I’ve been trying to stretch myself and NOT stipple quilts… it’s hard for me! But there’s inspiration everywhere. I saw this photo shoot with Megan Fox recently. Do you think others are obsessively looking at the quilting too??
Happy Monday!
I know you all just saw this quilt top – but it’s now finished!
I ended up binding it in black (this is my first use of black in a quilt ever) and I’m really happy with the outcome.
And of course I did another of my usual pieced backs:
I really enjoyed working in all neutrals, but now back to color!!
I’m feeling crazy busy these days. A tad too busy, but when it’s all quilting all the time that’s keeping you that way, how can you complain??
A quick little class sample for an Improv. class that I’ll be teaching at Common Threads Studio in Pasadena.
And why am I currently so obsessed with the color combo of gray and raspberry?? I can’t get enough!
Ok back to the sewing machine I go!
So busy these days that this is my first finish of 2010. A cute and simple baby quilt for some friends who are expecting but don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl. Their first baby got this quilt, so the idea was that the quilts are different but still sort of match.
I had a great time drawing attention to all of the little critters with the quilting.
The back:
It’s so much fun to put together baby quilts quickly. I might have to do that a couple more times before I tackle another bed quilt.
This will be the last quilt that I finish in 2009. How do I know? I have zero going right now. I’ll need to remedy that soon. Been too busy with the holidays to get anything started recently.
Meanwhile, the quilt!
It was my Christmas present for my father. All Kona solids this time around and I tried to go for colors he would like. Somehow I didn’t think loads of solid white with bright fabrics involving polka dots and/or birds (kinda sums up a lot of the my stash…) was gonna fly for my father. And there’s actually no white in this – the light color is a light grey – Ash.
Another shot of it.
This is the first time I’ve ever put a border on a quilt. I’ll be honest. I didn’t initially picture it with one but I just could. not. make. one. more. block. I love the results of all solids, but they don’t make for exciting piecing. But I do really like the border in the end. And my father loved the quilt!
I did a very simple pieced back:
Can you believe that it’s almost 2010?!?
Wish I had a more exciting name for this quilt (edit: I’ve named it April Retangles!) because I’m so happy with how it came out.
I improv. pieced wonky rectangular blocks like I did with the Lantern Bloom quilt, using the gray to unify all the blocks. It’s a lap quilt, measuring 48″ x 59″.
I love this quilt. I really really do.
I used some gray Kei dots on the very simple back.
And the binding is a stripe from Red Letter Day. I think it works really well.
