For Grandboy to be

  Name: For Baby Boy Huettmeyer #2

Design:  6" squares

Size:  39" by 46"

Fabric: Art Gallery

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white along the seams

Backing:  by Art Gallery

There is just something about Art Gallery fabrics.  That soft and silky texture just seems perfect for babies.  We have another grandboy on the way.  A second for our daughter and he too will be a woodland boy.  It was great to find these dark forest greens and twinkling stars.  I used a bit of the Buck Forest as well that I used for his big brother's quilt.    This one is ready for the mail and we will be seeing this wee baby sometime in the months after Christmas.

Not a baby quilt

  Name:  Guest Pancakes in Blue

Design: inpired by Tula Pinks Pancakes pattern that is no longer available

Size:  79" by 89"

Fabric: Stash fabrics in blues, Kona white and Kona navy

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in grey in free motion switch back

Backing:  by Amy Butler

 I started this quilt about a year ago after Stacey Day gifted me a whole pile of her scraps.  Her scraps are not like my scraps and there were a lot of blues.  Big chunks.  I had always loved the Tula Pink Pancake pattern so I started cutting up the scraps into what seemed like an enormous pile of 5" by 10" rectangles.  And an even larger pile of little white and navy squares for the corners.  I actually started it on my Featherweight at a friend's house but a bunch of other projects got in the way of making any progress.  Now this is quite unlike me as I usually work on one quilt at a time and finish it before I start another.  This one lingered in a basket.  It is destined for our daughter's house for the guest room.  I pulled it out again when I got my new Juki TL 2010Q and thought it would be a good one to work on while I got to know a new machine.

 In all honesty I have 4 sewing machines now and a serger.  I kept my Janome Horizon because it does things the Juki cannot.  And the Juki does things the Janome cannot.  I am giving away my 28 year old Kenmore to a friend and keeping the featherweight so it all makes sense.  At least that is how I see it. 

Anyway here it is a big giant queen size mess of scraps in blue.  It came together way better than I hoped and it really is quite striking for what is essentially an very simple pattern.  Quilted with Aurifil in dove, switch back free motion and backed in Amy Butler.  I bound it in the same dark navy Kona.  I think it is Storm.  A finish requiring so many clothespins and looking quite awesome in the fall late afternoon sunshine last weekend. 

Another one!

  Name:  For a Gramma

Design:  4" squares

Size:  35" by 42"

Fabric: Stash fabrics in orange, turquoise and grey

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

Backing:  a basketball print 

This one was done as a commission.  For a grandson in a family that is nutty about basketball.  The Gramma gave me some yardage and I used it on the back.  All basketballs all the time!  Anyway, it was fun to pull together this bright bunch of prints.  Some of which have been lingering in the stash far too long!  I used up the very last of that orange tricycle and scooter print in this quilt!

Well... a finish

 Name: Sweet Baby Girl

Design:  4" squares

Size:  35" by 42"

Fabric: Stash fabrics in pink and mint

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

 I finished this one ages ago in the summer in fact.  I think I have made 3 in this palette.  Gifted one, sold one and then this is up in my Etsy shop to replace the one I sold.  And then it sold.  So I think I need to make another!  A favourite it seems.  Modern yet classic. 

A quilt for a wedding

 Name: Sunshine and flowers

Design: St. Louis 16 Patch

Size: 56" by 68"

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

Binding and Backing: Kona Iron and backed with some hoarded Number print from Ikea

Well.  We had a wedding here last weekend.  3 years ago, when our daughter married here at our small farm, our good friends were such a tremendous help.  I told them that if ever one of their kids wanted to get married here, go for it.  Well.  Sarah got married.  To P.Y. and it was really great.  It was a lot of work but it was really lovely.  And of course with all the sun and heat wave and the struggling to keep everything watered, on the day of the wedding we had rain.  But nothing that a giant tarp couldn't handle strung up over the backyard. 

I made a quilt for the couple.  Something fun for picnics and movie watching. With lots of blue and flowers and especially daisies for the bride.  I don't always get pictures of the quilts once they are given but I took some this time!  And I used some hoarded number print from Ikea on the back.  Just a simple St. Louis 16 patch. 

And all the flowers for the whole wedding including the wedding party and bride's bouquet were all from the yard.  It looked fantastic!

Clouds

    Name:  Clouds

Design:  4" squares

Size:  36" by 44"

Fabric: Stash fabrics 

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

Another baby quilt on the barn wall.  This one is for my son-law's sister baby to be.  Grant has many sisters so I will be kept busy as the family expands!  Simple patchwork with Kona lake and a number of Kona greys along with some Dear Stella prints, Carolyn Friedlander, dots and Alison Glass Twigs and Branches.  The feature print is from SarahJane for Michael Miller from years ago.  I cut the print to show the cloud whales mainly.  Bound in Clown Stripe and quilted in Aurifil Dove with a cross hatch straight line quilting, this one is ready for baby.

I've Got Sunshine!

Name:  Iv'e Got Sunshine

Design:  Gemstones block from Rachel -Stitched in Color

Size:  64" by 84"

Fabric: Stash/scrap fabrics, low volume fabrics for the background

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in dove in straight lines 

Okay.  Really love this one.  I finished this one just a little bit ago and it is already waiting to be gifted in Quebec.  My sister in law asked me if I would make a quilt for her to give as a special wedding present.  Modern.  Young couple.  Maybe mid century modern tastes.  Neutrals.  I asked, could I put in a bit of colour?  Maybe yellow with the grey?  And away I went.  This is the third quilt I have made using this block.  You can check here and here.   I once again went for the offsetting setting triangles using 2 different fabrics and took it up a notch with matched binding!!!! The backing is a Joel Dewberry print and the little strip of grey that you see on the back is the custom label with the name of the quilt, the wedding date and the names of the couple.  I free motion wrote all that on there.  Dense straight line quilting in Aurifil 50 wt in dove.  So much fun.  I do love it when quilts catch the wind on the clothesline.  

Brocket

   Name:  Brocket

Design:  8.5" squares, inspiration from @janebrocket

Size:  85" by 85"

Fabric: Anna Maria Horner, AMy Butler, Snow Leopard Designs

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in off white, 1/4" from each seam

Backing:  classic stash fabrics in small florals

So I was totally impressed with Jane Brocket's carefully curated botanical fabric choices in a quilt she was putting together.  I found it after Anna Maria Horner shared the picture in her feed earlier this year.  I knew I had many of the fabrics already including a 1/2 metre of the a rose print from Snow Leopard designs for Free Spirit fabrics that I had found at a thrift store last summer for 50 cents.  I almost destashed it in January but pulled it back out and held on to it.  Inspiration hit!  I collected a few more prints, found many in my stash already and started cutting up all these flowers into 8.5" squares.  I tried as much as possible to capitalize on the flowers when I cut it all up.  Then I had to place it all on the design wall for maximum impact.  And this is a biggie, people.  And it is on the bed.  It sleeps well and is a burst of colour for summer. Super simple quilting in Aurifil 50 wt, off white.  Happiness.

I Spy for Harrison

  Name: I Spy for Harrison

Design:  4" squares

Size:  56" by 63"

Fabric: Stash fabrics, Kona Medium Grey and Timeless Treasures Clown Stripe In black

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in dove i

Backing:  Hoarded Little Golden Books fabric

So our wee grand boy is growing up fast and it was time to make him an I Spy quilt.  I have made a lot of these over the years but this is the first time I am making one for family and I have been saving some special 4" squares just for this purpose.  There are some hoarded Heather Ross fabrics and even some Pima cotton llamas from yardage I bought in Lima almost 29 years ago.  It is beautiful beautiful cotton and this was the first time that I cut into it!  I loaded this one with all sorts of stuff that our little guy is interested in.  Lots of owls and apples.  So much fun! 

Quilted in Aurifil 50 wt in dove and bound with Clown Stripe.  I used Golden Book fabric for the back.  I have been saving that for several years.  I stumbled upon it on a discount rack and bought the rest of the bolt.  Yep. 

This one is done and tied with a bow.  We will see him for Easter.  I cannot wait. 

For Modern Babies

      Name:  For Modern Babies

Design:  4" squares

Size:  35" by 42"

Fabric: Stash fabrics in yellow and grey

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

Backing:  by Alison Glass

I finished this yesterday and stomped outside to take pictures on the barn wall.  The snow was over my boots but this baby quilt was nice and sunny.  And yes, it is late February and yes, this is the west coast.  But we got hammered with about a foot of snow on Friday night.    Anyway, this is my standard baby quilt in 4" squares.  I used a selection of yellow and grey fabrics and it could be for either a girl or a boy.  Quilted in Aurifil 50 weight in white on the diagonal.  I backed it with an awesome Alison Glass print, in black on white so the quilt is reversible as well. 

This is available for sale in my etsy shop because the other yellow and grey quilt sold.  Happy dance!

Wow! Another Finish

 Name: Blue Ducks

Design:  Maryline Collioud-Robert

Size:  48" by 64""

Fabric: Stash solids, mostly Kona

Binding:  Kona Lagoon

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in variegated Blue and Raspberry, #4647, diagonally and on the block lines

This one was just fun.  A total explosion of colour with really great contrast between the warm and the cool tons.  The piecing was a bit of a nightmare.  Lots of bias edges and fiddling around but it is done.  I had no idea how to quilt it or what colour to use for thread but I found that I had a spool of variegated Aurifil 50 wt in shades of pink, bright raspberry, turquoise and white.  And you know, it totally worked.

It is brightening up the barn in the winter sun.  It is now living on the downstairs couch for snuggling. 

Dimension

 Name: Dimension

Design:  Nydia Kehnle

Size:  65"" by 78""

Fabric: Kona Cotton in Jade Green, Teal Blue, Pool, Windsor

Binding:  Jade Green  Backing:  New Bedford, Rising Sun Wallpaper by Denyse Schmidt

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in bright Turquoise, 5005 in an irregular grid

I finished this quilt a few weekends ago.  It sitting waiting for a sleeve as I will pop it into our guild show next month.  This is a fabulous design from Nydia Kehnle, called Dimension.  It is paper pieced and I biggie sized it with extra blocks to make it much larger.  The 3 D effect is quite the thing.  It is made entirely from Kona solids for the front and binding.  And I bought them all at Sew Sisters.  If you read this quick and pop over there, they may still have their Konas on sale for the weekend.  Quick!

It was a breezy day when I took these pictures.  The grass was so green even though it was mid winter.  It was just a tease though as we were hit with snowfall and cold this week and we look like we live in a winter wonderland today. 

I backed the quilt with a wonderful Denyse Schmidt print.  Mostly grey with a bit of a sheen and a small print.  Almost a bit masculine.  It was a perfect fit.  Quilted with a bright turquoise Aurifil, in an irregular grid.  Lots of clothespins for this one! 

Modern Baby

Name: Pinkness and Grey

Design: 4" squares

Size:  35" by 42"

Fabric: Kona solids

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in Dove grey

Binding: Clown strip in black by Timeless Treasures

Backing:  By Dear Stella

I have been on a baby quilt roll because I decided I needed to do something with all the quilts I keep making.  This one is for sale in my new Etsy shop, Baby By Blueberry Patch.  Just for fun.  Simple 4" squares in pinks with a splash of grey.  I used the clown stripe binding and a lovely black and white print from Dear Stella on the back.  Already to go. 

Gifts

  Name: Gifts

Design:  Quarter Log Cabin by Liz Katsuro

Size:  96" by 96"

Fabric: Purple, red, a touch of dark blue and low volume stash fabrics

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in Dove grey, straight lines

Binding:   Kona Rich Red

Backing:  Story Wideback by Carrie Bloomston

Phew!  Finished this one just before school started this September.  I am entering it in Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival.  I made this large queen size quilts for a commissioned wedding gift.  It is HUGE!  Definitely at the size limit of what I can manage on my Janome Horizon, that is for sure.  This is a quarter log cabin design by Liz Katsuro and the block orientation gives a wonderful three dimensional effect.  The colour palette was by request and is supposed to invoke romance.  What do you think?  Rich purples, rich reds, a touch of dark blue against contrasting low volume fabrics.  

In order to make the colours work, I grouped the dominant colours in the blocks for each of the rings of blocks, radiating from the centre blocks.  

Quilted in straight lines, in Aurifil dove grey and backed with Carrie Bloomston's Story wideback, it is a finish!

Check out all the other quilts entered in the Blogger's Quilt Festival.  It never disappoints.