Cheerful Hexies

I bought a great bright charm pack and a new template; a half hexagon that cuts 2 half-hexies from each charm.  Then I saw a magazine ad in a catalog that was a pattern and template for about $20, and I realized my half hexies would be perfect, I didn't need to buy another pattern or template!

So, 42 charms, some white muslin, and an afternoon later, here is the darling bright quilt I made!

Updat3: SOLD on etsy

Split 4 Patch

This block is fascinating to me, so I have made it a few times, experimenting each time with the colors.  This one used a collection of 12 fabrics (1/8 yard cuts) I received in a fabric of the month collection, mixed with neutrals from my stash.  The collection included several florals so I selected a green leafy fabric (bought on a quilt run just for this quilt!)  for the border.  Quilted on my new machine 1/4 inch from the seams and meandered on the border, the batting is a fluffy polyester, very thin, so it's a nice cuddly quilt.  It is for my friend, Marinee. 

Autumn Table Runner

Simple simple simple!  3" blocks set on point. Autumy sunflower scraps and other things from other quilts.

Scrappy Triangles Wedding Quilt

This one was made from scraps from the floor, the scrap bin, boxes lying around.  Even the binding came from the scraps of bindings box!  Was also learning how to cut and sew triangles from a ruler.  Plus trying out the new sewing machine fro quilting!  When Em mentioned how much she liked it; it found it's home.  Interesting; I was thinking of her when I made it, since she has an eye for artsy, asymmetrical and non-traditional quilts!

Too Young To Quilt?

Ryan's mom April helped me take a footprint (Ryan would NOT allow a handprint!) for his Christmas ornament.  Youngest quilt class I have done yet!

When he gets bigger will he still want to paint on quilts?  I bet yes! 

Racquel's Christmas Table Runner

I could always count on Racquel to talk me OUT of buying more fabric!  Since I have a serious fabric hoarding addiction, when I would check what's for sale each day (they post at midnight and I work all nighters!) Racqui would look over my shoulder and encourage me to "just y no!"  Well....... until she saw THIS Christmas collection!  She loved it and egged me on to buy it and make it for her!

And no wonder!  They are beautiful fabrics.  So I bought the charm pack and made a simple table runner for her Christmas table.  

Baby Memorial Quilt

Sometimes I buy some fabric and even stitch it together.  These fabrics were in a collection of fat 8ths I got during a quilt run a few years back.  They are sweet, innocent, old fashioned classical baby fabrics.  I put them together, found a great stripe from my stash for the mitered border, then it went in a closet.  Until just the right baby came along, who's brief life mattered so much to his parents.  I knew just which quilt top I had, and pulled it out and finished it.

  Baby Dale, 2009.