Vintage Fall Trucks - by Erica ...and me!

This Pattern is called "Vintage Fall Quilt" its by Ericamade.

Super cute!

it's not quite done, but i wanted to get it up while it's still October. :o)

Look at all these gorgeous fabrics. can't wait to play with them!

there are several fig tree fabrics here from coney island and hazel and plum

I love my turquoise trucks!!! they're so big i imagined a HUGe quilt. but its not.

I just finished the leaves and i'm arranging them. I added a third row of leaves on the top row because, well,  i love them.

If you look at her pattern, you'll also see i added 2 more trees.

I hope it's not too messy.

Four. Weeks. Later.... (sponge bob-ish)

It was so hard to get good coloring on these photos...Ugh!

I had to find a random not so gorgeous fabric for the border, but it was just right for the quilt.

anyway, i am absolutely delighted with this!!

it was iffy for a while there. it was in it's homely stage for a long time.

til the border went on in fact...

you may notice i dug up one of the trees. it was too busy.

still not quilted. but i love how it turned out!

it's getting backed with a really cute turquoise bandana fabric from walmart!

Over the Meadow by Jan Patek

Oh my goodness.... this quilt turned out so nice!

It's called "Over the Meadow" It's a block of the month quilt.

but it's more like a "seasons" quilt to me.

spring, summer, fall, winter

I really should have posted the blocks as I went.

It's been a two or three year process.

but each one is special..  the dog here is wool.

I did one piece of wool in each block.

This one is by far the biggest. the beehive.

Lady liberty is so cute! My daughter says she wrong. whatev...

I have just a few of the original "fern hill" fabrics in it.

some of the reds like in the flag and background here and the border mostly.

Many of the fabrics are from my stash.

the witch is so cute! ...and her little woolly black kitty.

love the turkey too. their was some discussion about the weird thing sticky out of his chest

It's a turkey beard. yes, they really have them! Check it out. but they're black not red like th epattern showed, so mine is dark. hahah

Holly and berries!!

I did this block last. partly because it wasn't Christmas yet. partly because it intimidated me a bit - finding just the right fabrics for it, because, its about my favorite block.

the snowman will get some eyes once I've quilted it.

Falling behind in my quilting ladies!

Im not sure how I will quilt it, but it will be great!

Red and Brown Butterflies

Done! I've had this quilt in my mind since I first went to the Phoenix Quilt show and saw the red buttons display.

 

 It was cuter in smaller square, but you don't know something like that until you've already done it. :P

 

I really love all the chocolate and dark reds.

 

 

I also love the scrappy look.

 

I used lots of beautiful fabrics including some from Jodi Barrows civil war fabric lines.

 

 

 

 

Album or Chimney Sweep Quilt

I saw an old quilt at the Gilbert Museum and it inspired me to make one. 

I like the block name 'Chimney Sweep.'  The blocks in this pattern resemble the bricks in the opening of the oldest style chimneys in America. 

Women also used this block a lot for album quilts. Quilts where each women in a community would make and sign a block and give the quilt to someone. 

Milk and Blossoms by Fig Tree with "Date Night"

This is a cute cute pattern I found. I did it on navy with "Date Night" fabric.

I had the hardest time getting a good picture of it. This is best I could get. haha

I enlarged it so i had to make my own measurements...

Need to make few more in others colors eh?

Grizzly Mountain Quilt by square in a square/ jodi barrows

It took a couple of years, but my Grizzly Mountain quilt is finally done!

Love love love the colors...

and all the little triangles...

Theres over 900 red and white half square triangles in here. that's not counting the triangles around the stars!

How do you make that many HST's?

Here's how to make alot of half square triangles.

This isn't the best tutorial but i can't find all my pics.

Take your two fabrics and lay them right sides together.

Draw lines in a grid. Sew 1/4" down both sides of the lines

(Don't draw the diagonal line you see on this fabric. oops)

How to Calculate making 4 half square triangles from 1 square.

DIVIDE the UNfinished size you need by .63

For example: if I want a 3" hst, (2 1/2 finished size), that would be 3/ .63 = 4.76. So the lines would be 4 3/4" apart.

 

Then you'll cut the squares apart in an hourglass pattern.

Be very careful as you cut, cut right on the point where the lines intersect or they'll come out all crookedy.

When you open them, you'll have lots of half square triangles.

They don't always come out perfect, you may have to do some squaring up.

I used my sashiko 2 machine to quilt this!

I love the hand stitched look. you can see them on the red triangles. I wouldn't do that much again with that machine, that was a bit over the top. It took sooooo long....

and looked just as good machine quilted as hand stitched.