#xplusalong is FINISHED! :)

Shortly after the #scrappytripalong was in full swing on IG, the #xplusalong started :)  I just had to jump on board, of course.

 

With the wedding madness, I wasn't able to finish this as quickly as I would have liked to, but it's done now ;D

A fun note about the binding and backing... my neighbor gave me a HUGE stack of fabric that came from her grandma's attic.  It is super fun, vintage and funky!  There were two fabrics that were PERFECT for this quilt :)  (The fabric is over 40 years old ;)  ..does that make me vintage?

This quilt is for my daughters bff who is expecting a baby girl at the end of the month. We are having a baby shower for her on Saturday.

She is naming her baby Austyn :) 

For the fabric I used a lay cake that my sweet buddy Emily gave me after market this past fall.  It's Happy Tones by Michael Miller

I did a daisy fmq.

If you'd like more info about the making of this quilt, click HERE!

Quilting Plans for the Week

I've been doing laundry, cleaning the house and returning decor items from the wedding.  I'd really like to get some quilting done today and tomorrow.  Here's what's on the docket...

Alexa's baby shower quilt for Saturday.

I need to turn this fabric into the quilt below. 

Hopefully my quilting mojo will come back soon.  It's hard to quilt with all of the mess still around in the house.  No matter how much I clean, there is still messiness everywhere that just wont go away :/

Xplusalong has begun..

Yet again, I have been sucked into an impromptu quilt along on Instagram ;D  It's kinda not hard to suck me into making a quilt... I am using the quilting as a distraction from the wedding chores to be done :)  It chills me out and makes me feel like the world is still a normal place ;)

I've had the Happy Tones layer cake from Michael Miller for a few months now.  It has been screaming to make it into something :)  I used a little of it to make this tote for a friend's daughter for Christmas.  Bogged HERE.

I thought it would work well with this fun pattern. 

I modified the pattern from the one the ladies are using on IG so that I could use a 5" square for the corner blocks instead of the 5.5" block that everyone is using on IG.

These are the cutting measurements I am using:

4- 5" blocks for the print making the "X" (4 different coordinating prints)

8- 2.5" white squares for the corner triangles of the "x"

1- 7.5" x 2.5" solid for the "+"

2- 3" x  2.5" solid for the "+"

4- 2.5" x 2.5" print for the ends of the "+" sign (all four squares are the same print)

I am making this quilt for one mf my daughters bff who is expecting her first child next month.  We are throwing her a shower on the 9th of February.  The shower was supposed to be today, but with our super fun, SUPER FAST wedding, we bumped it to next month ;)

I have 6 more blocks to go ;)

Happy Weekend!

ps- I am not sure I will get to work on this tomorrow :(  I really have to make the wedding cake and 16#'s of cream cheese frosting for it :)  I also HAVE to go shopping for a dress for me to wear :(  I REALLY hate shopping, I mean I REALLY HATE IT!  Couldn't I just wrap myself in a quilt?)

A bit of this... a bit of that..

Pressing tops :)

Pressing with yummy Cherry Blossom Best Press :)

Aren't they cozy and cute?

I was worried that my daughters wedding quilt would be too small for our Cal king bed...

Not so!  It fits great :)

As soon as the tops were pressed, April and I hit Gracie Lou's for backs for both quilts :)

I'm not showing you pic's today, just know that the backs are WILD and AWESOME!! ;D

Finally I made a block for a new IG qal (#xplusaong).  I was going to resist, but I am not sure I can.  I made this mock up out of UGLY charm squares :)  I'd like to make it out of a beautiful layer cake Konda gave me a while ago.  My pattern needs some tweaking to get it just right :)