quilt shows

Every 2 years, our local day quilt hosts a quilt show. At the show in 2013, a quilt I quilted won first place(you can read about it here). Earlier this year, Nadine brought me a quilt she was entering in the show. She said she wanted to win this year and wanted me to quilt it. Challenge accepted.

For some reason I ended up not getting a full picture of the quilt, sorry!

We kept the quilting simple. I wanted the piecing to be the real feature of the quilt. I did a water stitch in all the background; it is really easier on the eyes than a stipple I find.

In the dark green outer border I did a simple piano key to just hold it down. All the yellow got a ribbon stitch.

There was some fullness in the center so I water stitched all the lighter purple sections. All the green leaves and flowers I wanted to leave so they would pop after quilting.

All the dark purple print I ditched. That was fun lol. The quilt measures 104inches square and took me just over 6 days to quilt.

Now Nadine has a lot of binding to do before the quilt show on the 23rd. Good luck Nadine!

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quilt monday

This is the third baby quilt I made from a fat quarter stack of Safari Playground. You can see one of the other quilts here.

quilted with Surf's Up

I absolutely adore pinwheel baby quilts. So quick to make!

I pieced the some flannels together for the backing.

As usual, I regret not hoarding some of this fabric line.

It makes the perfect baby gift for a boy or a girl.

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swaps

I used to do quilting swaps all the time. Recently I've taken part of some that have been posted on Instagram. The latest wa s the Home Sweet Home mini swap.

This was the mini I made.

It turned out super cute. I love the little houses.

I water stitched the entire quilt except for the houses.

This is the quilt I got in return; all the way from Australia.

With Christmas getting close( I heard there is only 13 Saturdays until the big day!!), I am going to take the rest of the year off from swapping. Instead I am going to work on a not so little something that inspired me a few years ago on Instagram.

Another Scrappy Trip quilt.

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Preppy the Whale.

Could this be any cuter? When my sister in law told me that they were having a boy, this quilt quickly jumped to the top few quilts I wanted to decide between. So I sent Erica a few patterns and had her pick. This was the winner.

Erica was planning the nursery in shades of teal; both blue and green. I picked Kona solids in those shades from the palest to the boldest. The background I couldn't decide on. I actually ended up buying another fabric as well but Boy3 convinced me to go with the bubbles. It was the right choice.

I wanted to keep the quilting simple so I went with what I thought was an appropriate panto called Seaside. The thread; a variegated in blues and greens.

I found a fabulous grey chevron flannel print; soft and snuggly!

Now I need to get this boxed up and mailed off to the cutest nephew ever!

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