Lila Mae's Baby Quilt

This DARLING (if I do say so myself) baby quilt is for my daughters new niece, Lila Mae.

I probably love it so much because green is my FAVORITE color :)

I used half square triangles, made with my tutorial HERE.  The design was inspired by Kristin's quilt over at SadieBird blogged HERE

For the backing I used some 1970 grandma stash from April.

Here is a closeup of the backing and the daisy fmq :)

I will make this baby again real soon!

This quilt is 45" square.

I used 7-1/2" white and green squares to form my nearly 5" (4-7/8") half square triangles.  

The quilt is 10x10 hst's

Boomerang Wedding Sign In Quilt

For my daughters wedding, she wanted a quilt for the guests to sign, instead of a book.

We looked at a ton of different options, but she always came back to

  Emily Herrick's Boomerang quilt pattern.

 

I used 13 different fat quarters that I already had and a creamy yellow solid that was also 

just laying around begging to be put to use ;)

I did a sparse straight line quilting.  I will come back and quilt more after the wedding.

For the label, I used my printer and freezer paper.

The binding is mostly from Emily's newest collection, Technicolor :)

For the back, the groom wanted minky.  Thank heavens Dave's Bernina in Provo had the perfect match! ....and a special THANK YOU to Annette who happened to be in the store at the exact moment I needed it!  (She even delivered it right to my door ;)

****Back story- the day before I was supposed to give this to Ashley, I was madly trying to finish the quilt.  I only had just enough time to finish it if I didn't leave the house.  Well, suddenly I realized that I didn't have a backing :/ ...and NO time to go get one :(  I madly started calling friends to see what they had on hand.  April...nada!  Konda....something that probably would work, but..... Annette...BINGO!  She was at Bernina and found the perfect backing :)

AND, there is more!!!  So I had the quilt all the way quilted when the last row of quilting was not right :/  I didn't know what to do!  We had company coming at 6 for dinner and then we were headed to the Provo Temple with Ash and Dayan at 7.  I walked away from the sewing room and got busy with the company.  On my way to the temple, I texted April and begged her to let me borrow her spare machine.  She graciously agreed and left it on her porch for me.  We picked it up on our way home from the temple at about 10:30 pm.  I woke up early and made the binding and sewed it on.  I was able to hand sew about 3/4ths of it on and the label before the shower at 10 am :)

BE SURE TO COME BACK  on monday the 18th to get the info to join in on a Quilt-A-Long making the temple bag I made for my daughter.

The bag is blogged HERE.

Ashley's Wedding Quilt

Don't go freaking out or anything... yes, this is going to be a real post :)

I have hijacked my daughters computer.  Hopefully she doesn't see the pics of her quilt I uploaded before I give her the quilt tomorrow at her bridal shower :)

This quilt took me longest to make so far.

I began this quilt as a bom with my church group in September 2012.

Becky Morganson designed this quilt for a Block Party at Stitches & Sew Forth.

I did deviate with the layout and I added 5 more pieced blocks.

I really wanted my setting blocks to form an Irish Chain design verses the squares that Becky had designed.

I also wanted my yellow 1" squares to be scrappy :)

For the quilting I did a cross hatch straight line with fmq borders and zig-zags around the Dresden blocks.

In the white section of the borders I went for an art deco fmq thing-ie ;D

In the outer borders I attempted feathers.  I am super happy with how they turned out :)

 

It is a little easier to see the quilting on the back.

I have been saving this label for a very special quilt :)

I also had to make a "real" label so I tried my hand at printing one on my printer.

It totally worked :)

This quilt ended up 119"x109".

It's HUGE!!!

I sure hope she loves it!

Now to make her "sign in" quilt for the reception.

(They are having the guest sign a quilt instead of a book)

Potluck Baby Blankie

When we first moved to Payson, our sweet neighbor Jennie was only 10 years old.  

Now she is having her first baby in a few weeks.

I knew that I had to make her a special quilt for her new little boy :)

After making a Haul-It-All tote for the Moda Bakeshop, I had the better part of a jelly roll left to make into something fun.

I thought Potluck, the herringbone design and straight line quilting would make a perfect design for a baby boy blankie.

Of course, a special label was in order.

For the back, I used assorted American Jane prints.

I had hoped to use these letters for the straps on the Haul-It-All tote, but they were TOO big.  (I imagined them to be scrabble tile size ;)

For the quilting, I used my walking foot and did an organic line design ;)

Karen's Quilt is FINISHED :)

Ta Da!!! :)

In 2009, my friend Chrisann's mother, Karen,  passed away.

This quilt was made for Chrisann's brother Terry.

Terry's wife, Ruth chose the pattern from one of my first quilts.

I used some of Karen's clothes to make the quilt.

I made one for their father last Christmas.  Blogged HERE.

For the back, I used a grey chevron minky.

The quilt is for Terry's birthday :)  

Construction notes:  I used Pellon featherweight fusible stabilizer on the back of the knits.  I thought it was the same kind I had bought before , but it was not :/  This stabilizer was to thick.  It made for very difficult and laborious quilting.  I ended up breaking THREE needles while quilting it.

Half Honeycomb Haul-It-All

The other day when we were taking in quilts for our local quilt show (The Peteetneet Quilt Show) a lady on the committee came in with the CUTEST bag ever!!!  I asked her about it and she told me that it was made with half hexagons.

Well, my mind raced and raced until I could get home and make one for myself.  Would I use my JayBirds hexy ruler?  Hmm.... WAIT!!!  I have a Honeycomb pack of Happy Go Lucky!  That would work!  Right?

So, I sliced the hexies in half and arranged them all pretty like ;D

Then I sewed them in one giant continuous row, pressing after each seam was sewn.

...being sure to line each one like in the below picture ;)

Then I squared each end of the LONG row of braids and divided the LONG row into thirds. (If I had ended up making it into a table runner, I would have just divided the LONG row in half)

Next came the sewing into rows :)  ...and quilting it.... and then turning it into the CUTEST knitting bag ever! ;D

See :)

One large pocket for "stuff!"

One zipper pocket for other "stuff!"

For the full bag tutorial click HERE