UFO #5: Light House Baby Quilt

 Many, many years ago I found this light house fabric at Joanns.  I fell in love.  I quickly created the quilt top.  This was before I knew the correct way to paper pieces, so I was still doing it the hard way.  This was also at a time when I was learning how to do applique (the turn under kind).  (Since then I have decided the only way to applique is raw-edge.  I like the look of it better, it always turns out perfect, and it is soooo much easier.)

The reason this quilt has never been finished is because it had a large blank area.  Originally I was going to appliqué a star there.  Remember that I was doing the turn under kind of appliqué.  Have you ever tried doing a star that way? It is near impossible.  So I gave up.  Then I had the brilliant idea to applique the baby's name there.  But I had no one to give this quilt to.  So it sat for years.

Recently our renters had a baby.  A boy.  And his mom LOVES light houses.  PERFECT!

I was so excited and the best part, I love the name.  It was the name I had wanted to name my little boy only my husband claimed at the time that "It wasn't a real name."  Funny because we named our son Tayo. (Don't tell my husband, but it's not a real name. :0)  Now when I told him our renters named their baby Even, my husband said, "That's a cute name."  (Where was that comment 2 years ago?)

Anyway, I am excited to be able to cross off another UFO.

 My favorite part of this quilt though is the quilted clouds.  Don't you love them.  I think it really added a great finishing touch.

 Stats:
40" x 50"
Started: 2009
 Finished: October 2013
Machine quilted by me.
For: Even and Mary Beth his mom (our renters)

Meghan's Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt

Last spring my mom fell in love with one of Moda's fabric lines called Mama Said Sew.  We decided to put together a quilt for my brother's wife since black and red is her favorite color combination. 

We were on a disappearing nine patch kick (still one of our favorite blocks to do).  They are so simple and come together so quickly.  My mom did one charm pack and I did another.  Then I put them all together to make the quilt top middle. 

If you have been following my blog long you know that boarders are my least favorite part so my mom did that (which she doesn't mind).  I pieced the back (something that terrifies my mom).

 

Then I took the quilt over to a neighbors house were we basted it together.  I taught her how to baste a quilt a while back and we did it on her ping-pong table.  Did you know that basting on a ping-pong table is great.  I want one just for basting.  I don't think her ping-pong table has been used for it's original purpose since. :0)

I then stipple quilted the whole quilt.  This was the biggest quilt I have stipple so far.  And...it really was not that bad.  I think I'm getting the hang of it.

My mom finished it by adding the binding as she is the "Binding Queen".  My mom and I really should do more quilts together as we like to do different parts of the quilt.  We may be able to finish them more often.:0)

Stats:
Started: Spring 2013
Finished: October 2013

65" x 70"
Made by Dorene and Britney for Meghan
Warm and Natural batting
Machine quilted in stipple by me