Two Wedding Quilts and a Baby Quilt

FIRST WEDDING QUILT  

In the last couple of months, I've finished two wedding quilts and a baby quilt.  Veronica and Logan received a bright scrappy quilt that is called "Shattered Angles" and was designed by Susan Purney Mark.  I was signed up to take a workshop with her years ago when I was a member of the London Friendship Guild.  Fortunately I bought the book from her at our meeting Thursday evening as the next morning we had a major snowstorm and I couldn't make it in!  I followed the instructions in the book and started on it.  Years later, I finished the top and found backing for it and it sat in a basket for a few more years.  It is finally finished :-).

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The finished quilt.

A better photo of the colours.  Here you can also see the quilting by Chris Bogart.

The backing was an older Kaffe Fassett print which matched nicely.

 

 

 

ANOTHER WEDDING QUILT 

The next quilt was for Shaylynn and Caleb who got married a week later!  Shaylynn works in a flower shop so I thought perhaps flowers and maybe houses.  I played around with some patterns and settled on tulips and houses.

I used some fun prints for the doors and the houses were all done in black and grey prints.

I had just enough pink to add a few pink tulips among the yellow ones.

Here you can see the lovely butterfly quilting that my friend Chris Bogart used to quilt it.

The finished quilt

I had this grey fabric which worked great for the backing.  

 

 

 

 

 BABY QUILT

I made this baby quilt for the daughter of a friend of mine who had her first baby recently.  The pattern is "Ring Toss" by Swirly Girls.

  

I quilted this one myself with little loops around the rings

and some back and forth lines in the borders

I chose the colours for the rings from this giraffe fabric and it was bound with a grey binding.

Two quilts for Christmas!

I have greatly neglected my blog lately!  I found this draft from a long time ago!  Better get it posted.  For Christmas I actually did a lot of sewing.  I made this One Block Wonder quilt for my son Eric who loves trains.  It was actually finished a couple of months before Christmas. 

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This is the finished quilt.  I bought 7 of the train panels and layered 6 of them on top of each other to cut out the hexagons.  

I placed the 7th panel into the quilt and arranged the hexies around it.

Here you can see the swirly quilting that it's quilted with.  My long arm quilter, Chris Bogart, lives right across the street from me so it is very handy to get my quilts quilted quickly 😀.  She suggested the swirly quilting to look like smoke from the engine.

It was difficult to arrange the orange hexagons so they wouldn't look out of place.  A friend suggested making a star and replacing one of the triangles in the surrounding hexagons with one of the pieces.  I love how that turned out.  

The original panel

The rest of the orange hexagons were formed from the train wheels at the bottom of the panel and my husband suggested making those a track for the hexagons.

Another closeup of the quilting.

 This is the second quilt I made for my Eric's fiance, Alisen.  I consulted with him on the colours.  The pattern is "Suburbs" by Cluck Cluck Sew.

I had fun choosing fabrics for the houses, doors and trees

Chris Bogart did the quilting on this one as well and suggested a snowflake and swirl pattern for the snow.

The quilting looks great on the sky as well.

I fussy cut some of the fabrics for the doors and houses.

Love the winter foxes on this house.

 

A couple of random projects

A vinyl project pouch for a member of our small quilt guild's bazaar at her Church.  We were allowed to use her Church for sewing comfort quilts so we made donations for them to put out at the bazaar.  The colours are off on the photo; teal and yellow.

The back of the pouch from a mini charm pack.

I also finished off some selvage hotpads and a Valentine's one for the bazaar.

A comfort quilt for our local hospital's chemo unit finished. 

Quilting by Chris Bogart.

 

Busy Summer

 It's been a busy summer around here and I've been in the garage testing sewing machines and servicing them as well!  So I've been away from blogging for a bit.  And because quilting a quilt in the garage is more difficult to do and keep clean, I've been doing a lot of piecing and not finishing anything as yet.  With the cooler weather happening, I will need to set a few days aside to quilt some of my finished tops!

I have been making steady progress on the Positivities Quilt which is a Sew a long with Rachel Hauser of Stitched with Color.  Here are a few photos of some of the parts on my design wall.  Another installment will be sent soon so I can work on the next pieces.

More and more pieces finished and on the wall.  The background is a navy blue, but tends to look black in the photos.

The fabrics in the larger squares might be switched yet if needed when the rest of the pieces are finished

Some fun techniques are used in this quilt.

 

Another Senior's quilt

 I finally got another quilt finished for one of the seniors in our Church.  She loves flowers and her granddaughter said bright would be good ☺.  It was fun cutting out my scraps of Kaffe Fasset fabrics into squares and arranging them.  It's definitely a happy quilt.  We had a lovely visit as well.

Squares were cut 6 1/2" and the smaller squares 3 1/2"

It was quilted by my long arm quilter, Chris Bogart who lives right across the street from me.

The quilting design was a swirly one which worked well for the florals.

 

Finished quilt

Pull up a Chair

I came across a pattern at The Balcony Quilt Sutdio called "Pull up a Chair".  What a fun pattern.  The pattern is available online as an instant download.  I dug through my fabrics and found some fun colours in my Kaffe Fassett stash with a Free Spirit solid.  However, after I cut it out and stood back, there was not enough contrast to see the chair.  (Click on the photo to enlarge.)

 So I found a lighter background, but since I had all the background cut in the dark purple, I picked a lighter purple for a chair and ended up with two blocks!  The pattern is well written. I think I will be making more of these cool chairs.  It's a big block - the finished block reasures 15" x 18". 

 A foretaste of summer nights sitting outside!

Positivities - March block

We received the March block for the Positivities stitch along designed by Rachel Hauser.  It was a fun block to do; the center is paper pieced and the rest is done with templates.  The colour is a little off here as the 'blades' that are in the middle look dark blue, but they are actually dark green (pine).  Now we have to wait almost a month before the next month's pattern.

...and my block measures exactly 18 1/2"

I think the new block will go very nicely into the previous month's sections.