A Cozy Dog Quilt

 I cut most of my novelty dog scraps into a four and a half inch tumbler pattern that I made on the computer many years ago. It is a paper pattern that I printed. I have since then bought a couple of tumblers but none of them are the exact same size so I continue to use this exact one for dog quilts.

So I cut these scraps many years ago and every once in a while I pull them out add some new Fabrics to the collection and put together another quilt. Now that I've started selling some of my quilts on Etsy I decided to try a dog quilt and see how it will sell.

I simply lay them out 9 blocks across by 8 blocks tall. The resulting little quilt is 32 inches tall and 28 inches wide. That's a nice easy small size for both mailing and quilting in the ditch along the tumbler shapes.

I backed it with a piece of dog paws flannel that I purchased at Jo-Ann Fabrics when it was 50% off. I'll let you know if I'm able to sell it!

SOLD BY CHRISTMAS 2021

A Baby Girl Quilt for Leila

 Leila is a nurse, who went to high school with my son (!) who I just love working with. Mother to 2 boys, a NICU nurse, a Cosmetic Procedures RN, and now expecting a BABY GIRL!

A tumbler, alternating with a 4-patch cut into the tumbler shape, surrounded by a 5" border and quilted 1/4" from the blocks. The inspiration for the tumbler 4-patches comes from Missouri Star Quilt Company...

Baby Birdie

Dramatic Baby Tumbler Quilt

I made 2 tumbler quilts at the same time, for the second sons of two different friends.  This one is dramatic, bright, not traditionally baby colors, and the setting is also unusual, the tumblers set into columns, and balanced one on top of the other.  I used a black and white charm pack (with a few black and white squares left over from other projects) and a little over a yard of red cotton.  I discovered my Wal Mart has 100% cotton solids for $3 a yard.  I have washed it, and it's color fast.  Who Knew?

This one is also stitched in the ditch.

Scraps from: http://anita-rancherita.blogspot.com/2016/10/baby-quilt-challenge.html

Sporty Tumbler Quilt

For a friend's second child, and second boy, I chose a tumbler pattern.  I love this pattern, there is so much variety in settings, color, placement.  I started with a sports themed charm pack. I used this same charm pack in another baby quilt recently and wanted to use the same colors but make this look totally different.  I used a near solid blue sparingly, then more intensively to give it a modern look.

Simply machine quilted in the ditches.
The other quilt is at: http://anita-rancherita.blogspot.com/2017/03/play-ball-baby-quilt.html

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!

Midwinter Reds

Just a little tumbler quilt made from a charm pack named "Midwinter Reds."  I'll use it as a table runner.

Several Dog Quilts

I adore my dogs!  each dog in the home gets a quilt.  I have never had a dog chew up their quilt........ their BED, yes, other blankets, yes, but never their patchwork.
FRANNY'S quilt was from a fabric with squares with dog pictures, and for the border; pink wiener doggies!

And Jazzy has a quilt made from the TUMBLER pieces I have a bag full of.  The border for my Jazzy dog is musical notes!  Anytime I find a FQ or an eighth of animal fabric I snatch it up; cut tumbler blocks, and then go through them for the next dog quilt I make.  How many dog quilts have I made like this?  Hmmmmm  My Manfred, my Jazzy.  Sharon's Emily, Suzanne's Lucy and Ben's Roxy.  I guess that's 5.........

Roxy... is Ben's Good Old Girl.  He rescued her at advanced Doggy Age, and she adores him like only a dog knows how to do!  For Christmas, I made her her very own warm Tumbler Quilt!