Dandelions and Elephants

 Name:  Dandelions and Elephants

Design:  4" squares

Size:  36" by 44"

Fabric: Stash fabrics 

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white across the diagonals

Our son and daughter in law's friends are having their second and a quilt was needed.  This is for a soon to be born baby girl and the design directions were yellow, grey and elephants.  I felt some satisfaction that I was able to go shopping in my stash and find just that.  I used some of my favourite Michael Miller Kiss Dots in Fog.  I seriously love that fabric and have bought yards of it.  It is getting increasingly hard to find and it needs to be reprinted please, Michael Miller.  It is the best small dot, and the best grey.  Perfect for baby quilts, bindings, backings. It just is perfect!  I also used some of my hoarded Stof Fabric grey print, seed heads?  I have always called it Dandelions but whatever it is, I love it.  And it should be reprinted too!  I quilted it on the diagonals in Aurifil 50 wt in white.  I love quilting on the diagonal like this.  I don't mark it... I just drive, corner to corner.  So much fun!

Just a simple 4" square design.  Perfect for tummy time.

BC Wildfire Community Quilts Project

  Name: Using it up

Design: Side braid by Jeni Baker.  

Size: 56" by 68"

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white on either side of each square

Binding and Backing:  Blue and white print from the stash and backed with an Ikea sheeting

This summer, British Columbia has been hit extremely hard with forest fires.  Fires so bad that many people have been evacuated including the entire towns of both Cache Creek, 100 Mile House and Williams Lake to name a few.  Many of the alerts have now been cancelled but British Columbia remains in a state of emergency as a result of the wide spread fire action across the province.  Sadly, a large number of homes have been lost in the wildfire action.   I grew up in the Cariboo and the fires came close to the ranch where I lived.  I felt a great need to do something.   A group of quilters started a relief community quilting project with the idea of providing comfort quilts to those impacted by the fires.

I made three donation quilts for this project and they are currently in the mail and on the way.  Our guild, The Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild, has quite an active community quilts, charity quilt giving group always on the go.  I used some donated fabric and batting and supplemented from my stash to make these quilts.  Charity quilting is a great way to use up some lingering fabric and bits of stuff.  All three quilts were quilted with my go to thread, Aurifil 50 wt in white.  I hope that these will bring some comfort to help.  

  Name: Just a bit bright

Design: St. Louis 16 Patch (tutorial at Sew with Sass)

Size: 55" by 70"

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white on the diagonal

Binding and Backing:  stash fabrics

   Name: Rectangle Squared by Film in the Fridge

Design: Inspired by a quilt found on Pinterest by Kati Spencer and published in Scraps INc.

Size: 48" by 54'

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white

Fabric:  Various prints and Kona White

A gift for a friend

   Name: Scraps Springs Eternal #2

Design: Inspired by a quilt found on Pinterest by Kati Spencer and published in Scraps Inc.

Size: 67" by 67"

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt ilight grey, irregular grid

Fabric:  Various prints in orange, nayvy, aqua, red, grey and white and sashed with Kona Ash

Binding and Backing: Kona Navy binding and backed with a thrifted sheet.

I have been most busy this summer but I have not been keeping up to date here so I have some work to do.  I am more often found on Instagram it seems as so many bloggers have migrated.  You can find me there at @cathyeric  Anyway, I made another one of these scrap quilts this summer.  It was the first finish of the summer in truth.  This quilt is based on a picture I found on Pinterest.  As quilt by Kati Spencer in the book Scraps Inc.  I do not have the book but I do want to credit her design.  Not having the book, I made my blocks 18" square and with strips of varying widths in a controlled colour palette.  So much fun.  This is the second one of this design.  Here is the first.

Backed with a thrifted sheet in sunny bright yellow, I gave this one to a dear friend who just bought lake property and will be cabin building.  A quilt was in order for sure.

Run Wild Child

 Name:  Run Wild Child

Design:  4" squares

Size:  36" by 44"

Fabric: Stash fabrics 

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white in cross hatch

This quilt is for a friend's grandson. I used a selection of stash prints including a wonderful Dear Stella black and white print, some MOMO Oh deer, and some other fun ones that work well together for a baby boy.  OH!  Some birch trees by Patty Sloniger from Backyard Baby.  I used my regular 4" squares and had fun with the print placement.  Quilted on the diagonal in Aurifil 50 wt in white and this one is going in the mail today!

And on a side note.  We were visited yesterday and today by a flock of Eurasian Ring Necked doves!  What a sight!  They landed in a Cascara tree to enjoy the berries without any noise but the sound of their wings in the tree.  They are not a small bird by any means and the tree was shaking.  I think they pretty much cleaned the tree and then they were off.