Baby Quilt for Audrey

 My sister in law commissioned me to make this quilt for a friend of hers.  I was super excited when they choose this design. 

The colors they wanted were purple.  Purple was hard for me because I am not a purple person, but with the help of my little girl who loves purple, we were able to find a delicious pallet of purple fabrics.

 The back is super soft and fuzzy Minkie.  I love the way the quilting textured the back.

My favorite part of this quilt is the fuzzy brown bear.  I appliquéd him on and them did a really thick zig-zag stitch around him (he is not going any where :0).

 I also quilted her name at the bottom of the quilt.

Stats:
33" x 40"

High Quality Cotton fabric on the front
Soft and Fluffy Polyester batting
Soft, Fuzzy Minkie on the back
Machine quilted

Started March 2013
Finished March 2013

UFO #36: Melissa's Baby Quilt

Back before Christmas my cousin Melissa asked me to make a quilt for her new baby.  Of course I would do it, any excuse to make a quilt is great to me! :0)  The fun part was, she already had the fabrics for it.  I love the colors she chose and I love the way they all go together.

She chose a simple pinwheel pattern contrasted with white (my new favorite contrast color).  I love how the white makes the quilt look so modern and clean.

I chose to do a scrappy binding.  And the quilting was done by Barbie Mills.  She did a wonderful job, doing the all over loop design.  I actually studied this quilt and traced it with my fingers over and over so that I could learn to quilt this pattern. 

This quilt has been finished since January, but Melissa's family has been sick for the last couple months so I hadn't been able to get it to her.  Finally we arranged a play date. And now this cute little girl has her quilt.

 

Thanks Melissa for letting me make a quilt for your beautiful baby girl!

 

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