Bright and Happy Spring Quilt

Here's a cute spring quilt I just finished.  It started out a with a different pattern though.  If you look at the picture below you will see large blocks of 5 pieces.  It seemed too blah or something.  What could I do to change it?  I cut each block into 4ths like a DNP.  That made the pieces much smaller.  I think it helped...what do you think?

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Wall Hanging

So many pretty quilts to see at the Blogger's Quilt Festival put on by Amy's Creative Side.  Here's my entry for wall hanging.

I made this quilt after I repainted my sewing room. (It used to be our school room and the walls were blue, red, orange, and green.  And yes, I loved the colors for that purpose!) My new color was turquoise and I wanted to hang a quilt on the wall, but all my other quilts were too  big.  So I picked some colors that would be bright enough for my taste, yet not clash with the wall.  

Here it is on the wall.  The walls are not baby blue, but really turqoise.  It's in a corner of the room that is dark and hard to photo.  I picked this carpenter star pattern because a throw size quilt of half square triangles sounded painful!  I figured a smaller version would help get me through my fear.  It did.  I love this quilt and I have a larger HST quilt in progress.  

The quilting was simple - straight lines on the prints, semi-mirco stippling in the white and feathers in the borders.  I say semi because I have never stippled so small before and that was as small as I started out and knew it would look funny if I went any smaller.  Small stippling can be quite the workout - but it was totally worth it!   

Pattern:  Carpenter's Star

Size:  33 x 33

Quilted by:  Me

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the festival!

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Throw Quilt

I hope you have been enjoying the Blogger's Quilt Festival.  If you don't know what that is or you haven't entered your quilt yet, you can go HERE to find out!  There are many beautiful quilts to be seen.

 My entry is this pretty quilt that I made for our church's quilt minsitry.  We give quilts to people who are hurting or who need a special hug.  This particular quilt was a work of love for me.  I don't usually custom quilt our quilts, mainly because of how much time it takes.  But this one seemed to need something different!  Half way through I remembered why I don't like to custom quilt!!!  I think I need to post that by my machine...remember why!

The red rectangles have a diamond pattern in them with e's and l's surrounding.

Each large print has an encouraging word quilted in it.  The one above says faith.  I aslo used joy, peace, hope, and comfort.  I hope that whoever receives this quilt will be comforted by these words, knowing that the Father loves them so much.  The back shows all the detail of the quilting.

 

One more picture that shows that the blue quilting lines are supposed to look like they run through the quilt.

Finished Size:  49 x 58

Quilted by:  Me

Thanks for looking and enjoy your day!

Brown Bear Baby Quilt

The cream fabric has little bears playing, flying kites, and having a picnic!  I forgot to get a close up!  Quilted with free motion loops.  It's cute and ready for a baby boy!

Animal Critter Baby Quilt

So cute, I'm tempted to keep it!  But alas, it was made for the ministry by the pastor's wife!

Slashed Squares

This is a full sized quilt made of blue, gray and yellow.  It started out to be a lap quilt.  No shashing, and just a paisley border that matched one of the prints.  Well, it just didn't look right.  Added some sashing and now we're getting somewhere!  The leftovers were cut to make the border.  Then I talked my daughter (who was the only one not to have a quilt on her bed) into taking this one.  I made 8 more blocks, while she seam ripped 2 of the sides.  Then we put it all back together.  

My daughter gets cold at night so I used 2 layers of batting.  Being my first attempt at this, I wasn't sure if it would roll straight  and stay flat on the machine.  It went well, and she is now nice and cozy!    If you look closely you can see 4 of my family members somehow managed to get in my photo!

What do you do...

when your son asks to redo his room?  You make him a new quilt of course!  He had one of the first quilts I made (which was before the Big Lady got here).  So I let him pick all his fabrics, the pattern, and his paint color.  These are not solids, but mirage looking fabrics we found at the local quilt shop. Except from the gray which is a mirage from Connecting Threads.

I had enough gray left over so I made him a simple pillow case.  He's happy since he did all the choosing and I'm happy it's done!

Carpenter's Star

I finally made a small quilt for my sewing room wall!  Since it was small, I wanted something harder than what I usually make.  So I picked one with half square triangles.  I even challeneged myself on the quilting.  I did straight lines on the inside parallelograms and tiny meandering on the white parts. (I need to practice even smaller!)  Then I feathered the border - still practicing that technique too!

Isn't She Cute?

This doll is so cute!  I made it for my little girl's birthday next month.  She saw the one on this website and picked the doll she liked best.  I even let her see the pieces cut.  She wanted to me make socks for it too.  So I added some that match her dress.  But then no more peaking!  (She's only going to be 3 so I'm hoping she'll forget about it!)  I cut the pieces in one day and sewed her the next morning.  It was really easy following the directions.  And this coming from a non sewer!  I only make quilts!!! It was so easy that I'm thinking of making her a skirt for her birthday too...oh no, I may be a sewer yet!  Hop on over to Make It - Love It and see the 3 dolls she  made.  They are fabulous.

I made a skirt for my doll, kinda following the directions from Make it Love it.  I'm not so good as to add sleeves or pockets.  Let's not push this sewing things huh?!  But she has directions for boys and girls clothes that would be nice to make.

Pixilated Horse Quilt Finished!

Here is the finished quilt that I started in November.  I love the look of the 5 differet cream fabrics that my son choose.  The horse turned out great too, except if I were to do it again I would choose some brown grays for his nose.  The grays stand out too much especially when you are closer to the quilt.  

I mapped out the whole picture, counting square and cutting as big a strip as I could so there would be less sewing.  The strips go up and down, but you could go sideways if you wanted.  

Used the leftovers on the back, except for the top strip.  I was running a little short!  I used brown thread to quilt the horse and cream for the rest.  I also outlined the horse, which I would not do again.  It doesn't add anything to the front and it is visible on the top strip on the back.    I will definetly make another pixilated quilt again, perhaps somethinig else next time!