Little Houses

I found the inspiration for this quilt at Moda Bake Shop
http://www.modabakeshop.com/2012/08/neighborhood-charm-quilt.html
Made for Adelle, for her housewarming.  The backgrounds are different muslins coffee dyed at different times.  The border was also very white, so I coffee dyed it to match the neutrals of the charm pack. I got the border fabric at Quilt-In-A-day shop in San Marcos on quilt-run 2014, in the back warehouse 50% off fabrics.  As soon as I saw it I thought it would go well with this charm pack!

Free Spirit Tumblers

This small goodie used up a pack of charms named Free Spirit.  There were 30, no repeats.  I have 3 charms left over..... sewed them into a random black and threw it into the orphan block bin.

The white on white background fabric was a leftover from my Mom's stash.  It was used as the solid color in a double bed-sized  Irish Chain quilt she hand sewed and quilted for my niece.  The charm squares are bright and happy.  I meandered all over it and used random scrap strips for the binding.

This exists for no know reason.  Just to make me happy!

Zipper for a House Warming

I watched a tutorial on a zipper quilt at Missouri Star Quilts, made with charms from the "Little Black Dress" collection, which I owned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtLL4liuW8o#aid=P8uoPkjwZvw

I added some pink (recommended by Racquela), a little grey, a few pieces of yellow, altered it a bit to make it lap sized, and machine quilted it with a 2 inch grid.

It's for a friend, who has recently moved into her first home!  I wrote the inscription on the back. 

8 Pointed Star

This quilt goes back to 2005.  I got the star fabrics from a fabric-of-the-month club, and immediately thought of my neighbor.  Made the little wall quilt, but then got embarrassed, assumed she would not like it because it was so small.

Fast forward.  Sharon has become an avid collector and maker of quilts. (I shared some instruction and she has been happily hooked ever since!) She was at my house and saw this little quilt and told me she LOVED the colors, and the design.  I pulled it down and confessed I had made it for HER many years ago, but thought she might now know what to do with a small quilt.

Needless to say, the quilt now has a new home, and is finally where it was always supposed to be.

Baby Weave

This is a real fun quilt to make; it just LOOKS complicated.  It's made with 2 1/2 inch strips and some solid rectangles.  You attach one strip, then slice the new block, turn it, attach another strip, and so on and so on.  Eventually you finish a block, and put them together however it pleases.  Shopping for all the different strips was more than half the fun!

I love stripes, they make the BEST borders.  Had this one in the sewing room, I liked the blues and greens, so it was added on.

I used this block in a Halloween quilt named Halloween Quilt for a Little Girl.

https://modafabrics.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/simply-woven-quilt/