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. 

Bright Stars for Heather

 Young Heather came to us last summer as a new grad from seminary to intern with Brenda at St. Andrews. At the same time Pete had graduated and was also interning as a Deacon. 

We enjoyed our young new age Deacon interning (barefoot) to remain connected to the earth with Seasoned Pete also finding his voice and role in the church. 

Heather was ordained and has accepted a post to minister to students at UCSD. We bid her good bye and good luck with a bright modern quilt of stars, peace and inclusion. We will have it autographed and prayed over on her last Sunday at St Andrews.