Design Wall Monday

This is the quilt I made with my sister this weekend. We had such fun. She made one too. I used all of the solid fabrics from our guild challenge. I like the way it turned out.

 

Here is my sisters. She is making it for her grand daughter who picked out the fabric (with some guidance.)

 

To see more quilts, check out Judy's blog.

Look What Norece Made

Norece sent me an email sharing the quilt that she made using my pattern. She bought the hand-dyed  fabric from Vicki Welsh. It is about 100 inches square. 

Her version is much larger than mine. I ended up not adding the small squares along the edges, but I really like how they look. I never posted a picture of my finished quilt, but I just added batting and backing then bound it. I'll see if I can dig one up and share it. 

If you want to make one, I make up guidelines. It's not really a pattern in that it doesn't tell you how much of what to buy, or step-by-step directions. It just gives dimensions for the pieces needed. You can find it here. I did post sorta-kinda fabric requirements for the quilt I made here.

Found a picture of mine finished, it's not a great picture but you get the idea. I used multicolored dotted fabric for the back and pebbled the whole quilt, large in the background and much smaller in the colored squares.If you click on it you might be able to see the quilting.

Thanks Norece, for sending me the picture. I think you might have inspired me to make another one of these. 

Design Wall 2 February 2013

Finished the top now I need to quilt it. I'm going to use minkee that was donated by a friend. You may notice the last row...yes it's on upside down. I'll take it apart and make it right before I quilt it! It was late and I just didn't notice till after it was all together and pressed. I have pastel colors for the backing/batting, but only a yard of each so it will have to be pieced.

I still have a couple more baby quilts to make. I think I may take one of the tops I have done already and use one of them. Maybe this one. It is still just a flimsy so needs to be used, and it is nice and bright.

Design Wall 28 January 2013

This is a very fast small quilt, only about 30 x 40. This is for the guild charity. I still need to find a bit of fleece to back it. This is a free pattern that can be found here. The fabric I used is from my stash...yay!

This one is another for the guild charity. I have had this pattern for a while, and found the pattern here.  I think I will use fleece for this one as well. A simple quilt pattern, maybe in the zig-zags.

I sewed with a friend this weekend that got me started quilting again, thanks Deb! I picked out the fabrics, cut the fat quarters up and made the first top in a jiffy. I got all the blocks done for the zig-zag quilt and put it together yesterday. It feels good to be doing some sewing again.

If you want to see what other folks are doing, check out Judy's blog.

Design Wall Monday-October 22, 2012

Yay, this is finished except for the binding. I finally decided what it would be and will put it on today after work. The baby will be born tomorrow, so I'll wait for the name, quilt it into one of the blocks and send it off.

Here is the next baby quilt. I won't finish it quite yet...I have  a wedding present to finish first, so it's ready to go with me to California and be delivered at Christmas time. I have to admit I think I like this one better. It is going to have white for the sashing and the rest of the background. I am going to move the first three and last three letters so that there only need to be the two blocks in the corners. I like the shapes of many of the letters in this one better than the first. These are not sewn together yet, so I'm going to change the Y. It's the only letter I don't like on this quilt. I'm going to have the tail drop straight down, like this Y.

I was at IKEA yesterday and found this. It's in the form of a twin duvet, but there is plenty of fabric for the back of the alphabet quilt. Though there are Swedish letters, I can go with it. The gray quilt is backed with green fleece. It is a mottled color that matches the R very well.

To see more design walls, check out Judy's blog.

Alphabet Blocks Idea

What do you think of the tumbling blocks in the corners? I think they might be fun. I've got all the letters done and I like them. It was fun to go through my scraps and choose colors that I thought would work. I like these letter shapes much better than the previous ones. The only one I'm not too happy with is the Y, I may have to redesign that and make another one. The H is a little spindly, and maybe there should have been holes in the B, and maybe the A.

Putting the letters together was a bit like a puzzle, and I may have at least one or two more quilts in me yet.

Design Wall October 15, 2012

Here is what is on the design wall at the moment. I finished the first alphabet quilt and decided to do at least one more, but with a few modifications to the shapes of the letters. I used graph paper to draw them out, and am being a bit more intentional about the shapes and colors I am using.

Here is the plan with the altered letters. I found some free graph paper online and printed out 8 squares to the inch, because I'm making 8 inch squares, then I just count the squares to know how big to make the pieces. It makes it much easier.

Here is the finished top. I like the way this one came out too, and now I just need to quilt it. I think I'll probably use gray thread for the quilting, though I may end up using matching or complementary colors for quilting the letters. I planned to use a fleece back, but perhaps I'll change that to flannel, much more baby friendly.

To see more design walls, check out Judy's blog.