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A quilt and a winner

October 5, 2011 in Finished Quilts, MQG Posts with 11 Comments

The LAMQG had its second anniversary meeting on Monday night. It’s crazy how quickly those two years have gone by and how much The MQG has grown since then!

We coordinated an anniversary swap and I was sewing for Liz. Her adorable little baby girl is right at the age where they can always use one more quilt to put on the floor, so I quickly put together a little one for her.

I had to use scraps she gave me and I could only add one new fabric. Obviously I added the yellow. Oh and I cheated and added the binding too. Figured a stripy binding was worth a little cheating!

And thanks for all of your comments on the Quilt Retro blog tour post. I used the random number generator and the winner is Anita! Congrats and keep an eye out for an email from me.

Another finished quilt!

September 23, 2011 in Finished Quilts with 65 Comments

Ok – so I have no clue what to name this one so if you have bright ideas please leave ‘em in the comments! This is the one I was starting back here…

I have been leaning more and more on non-block based quilt designs but I also love to improv. piece so I have been thinking of ways to combine the two. I feel like this quilt is a good example of that. Personally, I love it.

I quilted with dense straight lines (as usual – expect to see a whole lot more of this outta me – I’m loving it these days) and then less densely through the piecing. You can see the quilting really well on the back.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Queen Baby Quilt

September 7, 2011 in Finished Quilts with 26 Comments

Sometimes friends having a baby have a great last name (Queen in this case) and you just gotta use it when naming the quilt! Well, that and the fact that I’m the absolute worst at coming up with quilt names and there you have it… The Queen Baby Quilt!

I loved the central gray sorta plus sign created in this quilt, and was doing that that again here. I was also exploring intentionally ever so slightly wavy seams. Not just cutting with no ruler, but also cutting both pieces of fabric at the same time (overlapping them a bit) before sewing them together. Fun stuff and something I’m gonna do more of. It’s a subtle difference, but it does effect your “wonky” look and I’m ever continuing to explore that… It’s endless that wonk exploration, isn’t it??

I did dense straight line quilting (yes, I’m stuck there right now) but I tried to mix it up a bit by outlining the blocks and then echoing that outline. And I filled in the blocks themselves with the wavy watery pattern I just did on my mother’s quilt. I will be handing this quilt off to its new lil’ baby owner on Saturday and I hope he loves and cuddles with it for years.

I’m headed to NYC for Fashion Week for all of 36 hours tomorrow. And in other exciting news, I found out that I’m going to the Emmys this year! Fun!! Project Runway is nominated and my fingers are seriously crossed that it’ll win. My outfit is 90% sorted out. Now I just need to get used to walking around in my new super high stilettos…

All finished.

June 6, 2011 in Finished Quilts with 9 Comments

The Nice Baby Quilt is all finished. So simple. It was perfect for needing to sew up a quick gift for friends.

I used lots of linen and Kona Ash which are very close in value. They really make the greens, yellows and bit of pink pop out of the blocks.

I used up my last bit of this Castle Peeps pink stripe with the binding and it was just a bit too short so I added some solid pink to make it long enough.

I’m finishing up my day job this week and will be back at full time quilting shortly! So many project and plans to tackle… I can’t wait!!

Placemat Pattern!

December 10, 2010 in Tutorials/Patterns with 15 Comments

Here it is – the pattern for the placemats! It’s so simple and easy. Really – 100% a project for beginners…

You can download the PDF here.

Be sure to check back on Monday – it’s Sew, Mama, Sew’s Giveaway Day and I’ll be taking part. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Rectangle Blues

November 18, 2010 in Finished Quilts with 109 Comments

Have you all seen Quilt Scene?? So much great stuff in here!

I was lucky enough to have a quilt pattern published in it!

And the Modern Quilt Guild also got a nice mention!

I made this quilt a while ago… so nice to finally be able to blog about it! I used a lot of Moda Crossweaves in it. They are so beautiful! A couple more photos…

Want a copy of the magazine? Just leave me a comment. I’ll pick a winner on Monday!

And it’s back to the sewing machine for me… Hope you all have great weekends ahead of you!

A Baby Girl Quilt!

November 8, 2010 in Finished Quilts with 12 Comments

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!

Have you seen the latest issue of Stitch?

September 13, 2010 in Finished Quilts, Other with 31 Comments

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!

Embracing Gray.

September 9, 2010 in Finished Quilts with 36 Comments

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!

Twin baby quilts

August 18, 2010 in Finished Quilts with 22 Comments

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!

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