The Summer's Big Project

This is for my daughter's first apartment. She likes calmer quilt patters, so she can also have this maroon and blue star/trellis quilt from 1995!

Sew One and You're Done

I must have sewn the top for this fifteen years ago. The pieces are HUGE! I like the fabrics in it, but it's a large square and I had to piece the back. It didn't quilt up too badly. Giving to a friend.

Blues

Flamingos!

Snowball/Nine Patch

Hoffman Print

Over the Moon

Camper Print

 This is Pipsqueak Picnic from Sweet and Simple Baby Quilts by Mary Hickey (2003). I have owed a friend a quilt for a long time, and this camper print from Joann Fabrics made me think of her. I held off quilting it for a while, after the trouble I had with the Harvest Print. I quilted on the diagonal to stabilize it, then did more detail in each block. Fairly pleased with it!

Harvest Print

What we have learned: quilt on the diagonal. This just ran into some difficulties.

Baby Bow Ties

My favorite project of the summer. The green and silver fabric is so pretty, and everything came out beautifully square.

Purple Around the world

A neighbor's daughter is getting married, and her colors are purple and gray. Made it a little bigger, so it's more lap size. 

Triangles

This came out better than expected, but not as nice as the pattern. The minion print was interesting, but the triangles were too big for my taste.

Navy Around the World

One thing I've learned in 45 years of quilting is that no matter how much I love navy, it turns weirdly purple after about 20 years. Still like this one, with the Noah's Ark and library bears. The squares are 3 1/2".

Zig Zag

Since the pattern on this was rather plain (to accomodate the bold leaf print), I thought I would perk up the border by using a decorative stitch. I NEVER use the decorative stitches, but they seemed so interesting when I first go the machine.

Rows

Same amount of blocks as the Around the World, but uses a lot more solid (or in the case, tone on tone) print.

Fun fact: Walked into the fabric store today and did not buy ANYTHING. I miss calico. I need more light colored, plain fabric to go with all the cool prints people have given me.

Guilty of another one

It's just such a good pattern for showcasing  cool fabric and using up scraps. This fabric has cool dinosaur footprints. I should do more matching doll quilts!

Another four patch

It's easy to make two quilts of the same pattern, and fun to play with the color combinations.

Aside from a double bed and a twin quilt, that's everything I've done this summer. I'll post the seven crib quilt tops after I get them quilted!

Four patch

Two friends gave me a LOT of fabric this summer. One friend had a lot of purples, pinks, and large florals, so that was a challenge.

Around the World

This is my favorite pattern, since it's so much fun to play with the fabrics. This has a Winnie the Pooh fabric border that I apparently used for a quilt for my niece. I hadn't remembered, but my brother pointed it out.

Nine patch

I try to cut ends of fabric into either 2 1/2" squares, 3 1/2" squares, or 6 1/2" strips of varying lengths. This gives me a lot of ready made projects. The Valentine fabric is some that my mother bought for me, thinking I could make a celebration/ year of holidays quilt. That didn't happen!

More triangles

This time, I used a lot of floral and farm themed fabrics. I'm putting a sleeve on this so my daughter can hang it at work. She's a materials specialist for the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association, so it's perfect!

Triangles

Pretty sure this was the pattern I used for my daughter's kindergarten teacher's quilt when she got married in about 2004. I had used the same pattern for a baby quilt, intending to have it on hand, but since her son is about 12, I think that ship has sailed.

Note the fun frog fabric!

I'm back!

 It's only been, um, eight years since I posted. My Very Own Blanket no longer (for very good reasons) takes just quilt tops, but once I put the money into batting and backing and actually quilt the top by machine, I want the quilts to go to someone I know. Some of these will be donated to Westerville South's Gingerbread Cottage, and some to the Hanby Art Auction, but I don't know which ones yet. The rest I will just stockpile so that I always have a baby gift available.

It's good to get back to quilting. I think this one was pieced a while ago, but I just quilted it!

The pink and green was also the tail end of the 2011 sewing binge.