Polka Dot Starburst Quilt

 Last Spring I fell in love with a fabric.  (I know, surprise, surprise.)  But the fun thing was, it had corresponding colors in polka dots!  I was in a polka dot faze.  Then only a week later one of my favorite bloggers released this design.  The freaky thing was she used the same colors that I already had picked out for this quilt.  It was like she read my mind and created a design just for me. :)

What a fun quilt to make!  I really enjoyed the process.  And loved how it turned out.

Originally I was going to quilt it similarly to how Megan quilted her's.  I even quilted 3 blocks like she did.  But I just wasn't feeling it.  It looked cool, but it wasn't giving the quilt the effect that I wanted.  I think the close together stait-line quilting I was doing at first didn't make the quilt very soft and snuggly looking.So I did what any rational quilter would do...I brought out my unpicker. :0)  Now this was no sit down and watch a movie process. It took my about 3 movies to unpick it. (No not consecutive, I have kids for heavens sake.)

I decided to quilt 1/4" away from the outside star and the inside star.  Nailed it! That was the effect I wanted.

 Stats:
40" x 50"
Started: 2013
 Finished: October 2013
Machine quilted by me.
For:?? Do you want to buy it??

Topsy Turvey Turtles

I have had this turtle fabric for a couple of years knowing that I would create an original design for a baby quilt.  Then this summer, my husband's friend from work announced that they were having a baby boy.  I was so excited to get to work designing this quilt.

Originally I had wanted to to a lot of the circles into turtles.  But adding the tiny turtle head, legs, and tail was not very fun nor easy... So I ended up with only two turtles on the whole quilt.  But I really like it that way.

The turtles are so cute!

I quilted 1/4" away from the circles going vertically with an indent on each horizontal row.

Stats:
40" x 50"
Started: Summer 2013
 Finished: October 2013
Machine quilted by me.
For: Kort's baby boy