Another lap quilt completed

 After making the quilt for my aunt from a layer cake, I had 17 squares left, so I rooted around in my stash and found enough fabrics that went with the focus fabric to make another lap quilt.  I found the perfect border fabric at Cherished Pieces and finished this quilt last week.  I quilted it with all over loops with a salmon coloured thread.  I gifted this one to another senior friend from my Church.  

This is a very fun pattern to make from Anita Solomon's book "Rotary Cutting Revolution".  (Click on the photo for a larger view.)

The finished quilt

Quilted with loops

 

Canada/Hockey jelly roll race quilt

 This morning we delivered a jelly roll race quilt with a Canadian theme to friends of ours.  He's going through treatments for cancer so a quilt was needed for him and his wife ☺.  I started out with a camping theme as they have a trailer so I figured they could use the quilt in their trailer if they are able to get away this summer.  However, all my camping fabrics were pink or more suited for children.  I spotted the panel that I used on the back at a quilt shop and ordered it online.  When I got it in the mail, I noticed it said "hockey" on it.  Our friends are avid hockey fans too so that gave me the idea to do the jelly roll race in Canadian fabrics.  I used 54 strips of Canadian fabrics (2 of each print) and the quilt turned out to be 59" x 64 1/2".  They loved the quilt and we pray it will help a little to know others are thinking of them while they go through a difficult time. (Click on the photo for to enlarge.)

The colours look a little yellow as the morning sun was shining on the quilt.

Some of the prints in the quilt.  I was thrilled to find the maple syrup fabric awhile ago

The poppy fabrics are among my favourite Canadian prints

The Canadian word panel which I used in the back of the quilt

 

My friend sent a picture of the quilt in her family room with her teddy enjoying it 😀.  This photo shows the colours of the quilt quite accurately.

150 Solids in One Quilt

 In 2012 I participated in a stash builder program from Mad About Patchwork in Ottawa.  Over a year we received 150 Kona cotton solid fat quarters.  I kept them together all these years as I had a dream to use all those lovely colours in the same quilt.  I found Tula Pink's 100 Modern Blocks book a few years ago and thought perhaps I could use that for the challenge. But, how to combine all those colours successfully?  

Kaffe Fasset to the rescue.  He mixes warm and cool colours in his fabrics effortlessly and pulls it off.  So, I used all 150 of the solids with some Kaffe scraps in each block and hoped they would go.  It was actually amazing how easily the design came together.  I arranged the blocks by colour from darker to lighter from bottom to top and fell in love with this arrangement.  I was originally going to use grey for the background, but this quilt demanded yellow!  

Julie Cassidy quilted it with straight lines through the blocks and custom feathery quilting in the yellow.  Click on the photos to see the detail of the lovely quilting.  I was very happy with the way this quilt turned out.  It will be added to the pile of quilts for the grandkids to choose from when they graduate from High School.

The yellow is softer than it shows on this photo

I had a large piece of this happy Kaffe Fasset fabric in my stash which I scored in a sale bin years ago and this worked perfectly for the back

A close up of Julie's beautiful quilting

 

Kaffe Fasset Mystery Quilt finishes

In 2018, Hyggeligt hosted Kaffe Fasset's mystery quilt.  I had kept up quite nicely with the blocks until the 2nd last month and then life got in the way.  I got them out last summer and finished all the blocks.  But, I didn't want another queen sized quilt so decided to play with the arrangements until I could come up with two lap quilts.  The fabrics with the kit were generous so I was able to make up a few extra blocks in the right colours and dug into my stash to make the two quilts work.  I'm very happy with how they turned out.  My neighbour across the street, Chris Bogart quilted then both with a nice overall design and they are now in the grandkids' graduation quilt collection. (click on the photos to enlarge)

First clue and instructions plus a little gift of FQ's

The shipment came in a handy box to store all the instructions and first blocks

We received a lovely gift of some KF FQ's

                                      

This is the first quilt with the blues and cool greens

I had a lovely Kaffe print which I could use for the back

A rounded swirly pantograph for the quilting that Chris used

The second quilt made of the rest of the  warmer colours plus additions

close up of the quilting

This backing was one of those lovely internet purchases where I sent Chantal at Hyggeligt a photo of the top and asked what she would recommend for backing.  She just got this in and I ordered it right away and it was perfect!

 

These two quilts were finally finished and bound in early March.