Valentine Wall Hanging

I LOVE this wall hanging.  I love the bright colors.  I love the cute birds.  I love the hand-stitched words.  And I love all the appliqué.

 

Stats:
30" x 30"
My first quilted loops!
Started: January 2013
Finished: February 2013

UFO #28: Zig Zag Red Riding Hood Quilt

 I'm addicted to zig-zags right now.  Last year I found a pattern that let you make zig-zags without half square triangles.  So of course I had to try it.  This is made from a "jelly roll" which made the process so quick.

The back is not my favorite, I was being cheep and just used the extra strips to piece the back so I didn't have to buy so much fabric.  But who really looks at the back any way, right?  It's the front that I'm in love with.

 Anyone need a throw quilt?

Stats:
53" x 80"
Machine quilted
Started: Spring 2012
Finished: January 2013

Baby Quilt for Cesar

Here are some ideas I have bouncing around in my head:

Idea #1:

 The pinwheels in the back would be all different shades of purple (or they could be a bunch of girly colors like pink, purple, yellow...).  The Teddy bear at the bottom would be a fuzzy brown material with cute buttons down his belly.

Idea #2:

Same type of design as above, only the blocks in the back ground would be just squares in different shades of purple or different girly colors.  (Go to this web sight: http://www.flickr.com/photos/patchworkpottery/5019177785/in/set-72157594146167247  It would look like that only a bear instead and different colors.)


Idea #3:

  White and purple nine patch blocks that look like a chain when their all done with 3 or more teddy bears.


Idea #4:

Different blocks like pinwheels, nine patches, star blocks  with some blank spaces where I'd appliqué fuzzy teddy bears and flowers.

You can leave a comment below if you like one, or have other ideas.

Ombre Chevron Baby Quilt

(For Celeste)

I love, LOVE this quilt.  First, I love zig-zags.  They are so fun and easy to make when your making them the non-half triangle way.  Second, the quilting on this quilt, makes the quilt.  Third, I love using white fabric in quilts. It makes them so clean and modern.

My original plan was to have  4 shades of pink.  (I even have the 4th pink cut out.) However, I miss-calculated my fabric requirements and got 1/3 less than I needed. So if I would have put the 4th color in the quilt would have been oddly long. 

The quilting on this quilt is my favorite! Once I got the hang of it it went smoothly and was very satisfying.  I used the soft, fuzzy Minky on the back.  I was very nervous to quilt the Minky after reading other posts about how difficult it can be because of how much stretch it has.  So, I pin and spray basted it for extra security.  And it went smoothly.  So smooth that there was never any mumbling under my breath (unlink the Minky quilt I am currently quilting for my little boy).

Stats:
 44" x 31"
Started: February 10, 2013
Finished: February 16, 2013

Scrap Quilt #2 for Project Linus

This quilt was made from my scrap bins, but are the more girly fabrics.

I quilted this one in a loopy pattern.  Is it just me and my quilting table, or is fleece hard to move as you quilt?  Mine seemed to want to stick and I had to use a lot of muscle to keep it moving smoothly through the machine.

The quilt has no batting, but it has the soft fleece back.  It makes a great wrapping-up-baby-quilt.

Stats:

40 x 47
Started: Spring 2012
Finished: January 2013

Triangle Quilt

 Sometimes I just get a hankering to cut out fabric for a new quilt. This happened last week.  I had seen this quilt on line and pinned it, then the high quality solid fabrics were on sale at Joann's, so the timing was right.

My triangles are 6 1/2", so it came together really fast.  I love the bright colors and the blue on the back is a gorgeous shade of blue.

Stats:
31" x 48"
Machine quilted 1/4 from all ditches
Started: January 14, 2013
Finished: January 18, 2013