YELLOW! Around The World

 I had an idea to do an around tgr world quilt in bright happy yellows with some other bright to define the shapes of the trips. 

This is IT! I am so pleased with it. I collected the yellows and the bright on a trip fabric shopping up in Anaheim earlier this year. I cut the 6 strips 2" wide and sewed a tube. Each Blick then is a 9" square with 36 patches.  That totals 720 patches on thus lap quilt!

I used a very light yellow for that backing with a random left over block. I free hand quilted an overall curvy meander in the quilt body with a geometric variation of a  wishbone in the border. 

For Lauren from St. Barts, for her 40th birthday. 

Pastel Rectangles for a Baby

 I have a sweet hearted friend who regularly reaches out to me with a description of a friend she would like to gift a quilt to. This description was, Mom is a 45 year old epidemiologist who had a 5 pound baby girl a month early. The dad is from The Netherlands. Their home is subtle and understated.  Can you do something geometric in solid colors? 

I like to finish the borders on my regular machine. 

I put a small top together of jewel,  tone on tone rectangles totally color jumbled. Sent it to Debbie, who loved it. But I thought on it and the next morning I selected a charm pack of pastels from my stash and made the same blocks but set them like THIS:

We both agreed on the second little quilt top and I added a border, quilted it on my frame in soft rounded motifs to soften the angles.  With a pretty pink and white back and a pink binding it is complete!

Bold Rail Fence Quilt

 This classic was inspired by Missouri Star tutorial 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PVIYk-2Ie8

I even used the border blocks idea with leftovers as the tutorial suggested. 

I put this bold lap quilt together with 2 1/2 inch strips cut from Anaheim M & L fabric strips. I quilted the borders densely and the body of the quilt much less dense. 

This was the project where my new Jazz2 started to behave (I figured it out) and I quilted it start to finish over 2 days. 

Up for sale on Etsy. 

Quilt for Great Grand Baby Girl!

 We are going to be GREAT GRANDPARENTS! Too exciting! Miranda and Alex are due soon, about 6 weeks from now. She asked for lavender and I showed her some of my fabrics. Lavender is not my usual choice but I did have these brights from JoAnn Fabrics Quilters Showcase collection. Add to that some solid lavender, light green and pink solids from stash.... half square triangles... and a generous crib sized baby quilt is created!

This was my first not "practice" Quilt I did on my frame. Didn't go as easy as I planned! Machine failed in the first row and actually took it in for service twice during the quilting. But learned a lot and feel like I'm ready to start tackling more complex projects! 

Vintage Look Churn Dash

 My third practice on the new quilting frame! A coffee stained muslin and muted basic colors in the traditional churn dash block. Taking my piecing cue from Missouri Star;

Disappearing Pinwheel Churndash Quilt Block - Quilt Snips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udz0x6g-Baw

I quilted this quite dense and in geometric lines (not curves) then used a pencil drawn stencil and regular foot on the JUKI for the borders. 

For sale on etsy

Soft Whisper Baby Quilt

 I made this little quilt for a friend's baby but then she had a BIG burly

boy and I realized this was not the right quilt fir that baby! So I put it up in the cabinet. When I got a new quilting frame I reached for it to practice. Steep learning curve. Some stitch ripping. Not good enough to offer for sale, but it served its purpose as a learning project!

Chandelier

 I do not even remember making this little quilt! But when I got my new frame for quilting I pulled this out, set up the frame and this is tge second quilt I quilted on the frame. By now I have several of the kinks worked out and started having fun!

For sale on my etsy store.