Quilts for Friends!

 

                                               I made this hexie quilt for a baby gift.
                                  

                      I wanted to do something different so I used some eyelet and ric rac on the border.

 

 

 

 

JEEP Quilt!

My friend Denise made this quilt for her son who loves jeeps.

she had me quilt it for her.

 

In trying to think what I could do thematically on the top and bottom borders, which were plain at the time, I thought... wouldn't tire tread be fun?

I ended up asking her if I could appliques some black tire tread on it instead of just quilting...

 

It turned out really fun!!

 

 

2 days later, I saw this while I was in traffic! Hey, I recognize that! I thought that was fun!

Mary Engelbreit and Yellow Brick Road

I finally got around to doing a Mary Engelbreit quilt with some of the fabrics I've been collecting over the years. Holly Holdermans last line Pam Kitty reminded me of ME and so I got inspired. I used some of both fabrics.

This is that good ol' Yellow Brick Road Pattern.

 

There are 3 different blocks in yellow brick road: They are all 9".

This one.

 

this one....

 

and this one....

 

You put them together randomly-ish and it looks like this:

 

I put a border on it that I saw on one of my ME notepads.

It was a lot of fuss to applique on all those little black tear drops...;o)

 

and there it is!...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer Flag Quilt

I finished my "Summer Flag" quilt just in time for the 4th of July this year.

I'm not very good at taking pictures of the construction phase, but i got one....

here are the flags pinned together in groups: a shield, and 2 stripes. It's funny how some fabrics go together perfectly and others, definately not. But my favorite quilts are scrappy quilts and as long as the pile of fabrics looks pretty together, it seems to work. That bright blue in the flag that's done, was too bright, but I was determined to use it anyway. I think it worked.

The inspiration quilt came from pinterest. I don't know who originally made that one, but I was inspired to try the pinks and yellows and pastels in a flag quilt. i used fabrics from my stash. Some of my very best. It was a little scary when it went through it's "homely" stage in the middle. I'm telling you, quilts, as well as kids, have a homely stage. In the middle of construction, i am quite often sure it's going to come out ugly, But it almost always comes together when you put on the finishing touches.

This one is no exception. In fact, i really love it!!

Some of the large flowers in the shields were too pretty to cover with a star, so they're just plain.

It wasn't quite big enough, so i added some triangles in the borders. I machine quilted some swirls with very thin white bobbin thread so it doesn't show much. I need that to hide my flaws. ;o)

Wouldn't be summer without a white picket fence....

Bring on the lemonade!

4" Hexagon Quilt

Another hexie quilt! love them. Many of the these fabrics come from Bonnie and Camille lines, but I added some random fabrics from my stash too. These hexie's have 4" sides.

 

including some strawberries....

 

 

I've always loved the new grandmother's flower garden quilt pattern, so I imitated those colors....

 

here's how I do a hexie quilt.

I lay the hexies out on a bed sheet so I can organize the whole thing. Then I can roll it up in between sewing sessions. That way I don't have to rearrange every time I get it out.

Sew together first in columns, then sew the columns together. Those Y seams aren't so bad when the blocks are big. for more click here.

 

I did a little of everything in the free motion quilting.

 

Can you see it on the back?

see the little apples? so cute.

 

 

 

"Painted Ladies" pattern by Fig Tree

 

 

 This is the "sundrops" line of fabric made into the "painted ladies" pattern.

It's super fun to make butterflies!

I added some fig tree browns in mine just to make it unique....

 

Auditioning backing....

 

so many beautiful fabrics go with this...

 

I thought of a border different from the pattern that would be fun...

 

the fabric for the border came from a bees and blossoms line, so it's sort of like my butterflies are flitting around honeycomb. :o)

 

 

LuLu's Yoyo's Blue Green and Brown

LuLu's YoYo's

in brown green and blue!

Gorgeous

thanks to my dear friend Cathy for the fabric!

(link to the free pattern below)

It has brown dot minky on the back....so nice to cuddle under.

Here is the machine quilting. I tried to imitate the pattern on the fabric a little.

I love this quilt!

It's a great easy beginner quilt.

the pattern by Pie Plate was free online. HERE

"Swoon" in civil war colors

Here is my version of "Swoon" by Camille Roskelley of Thimbleblossoms.

 

 

I did it in what I call "civil war colors." It's yummy.

 

I did 14" blocks instead of her larger ones. That way I could do more squares and add the cute stars in the sashing...which were a pain by the way, the way you have to lay out every sashing strip in just the right place because every star color was different. Remind me not to do that again!

 

As I've looked around, I find that the real name of this block is not actually swoon at all. It's a very old block (of course it is!) called by several different names. I'd sure like to know which is the most common. Anybody know?

"Broken star, Star of Bethlehem, Dutch rose, Star with diamonds, Star of the east," etc.

 

Whatever it's real name, it sure is pretty!