quilt monday
I made this quilt so quickly that I didn't even have a chance to post about it. That's what happens when your favourite niece is leaving for university and at the last minute(5 days before) you decide you ARE actually going to make her a quilt.
A few months ago, I had tossed the idea around of making her one so I had the pattern and I knew what colours/fabrics so that was all good. But could I pull it off?
The pattern is Simply Dashing by Highway 10 Designs.
It was so quick and fun to make.
I love the ombre effect the piecing gives the quilt.
And it was super fast to put together. I think it was two days to cut and piece.
One to quilt and two evenings to do the binding.
I almost did a square in square panto but went with one of my old time favourites, Bright and Breezy.
You can't see it well in the pictures, but the white is actually a tone on tone print of white circles. My niece is on a basketball scholarship and the print reminded me of basketballs.
I don't have purple backing in stock but this flannel print worked well.
I ended up getting the quilt to her a few days before she left. And even better, she had room in her luggage to bring it along.
Happy Monday!
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quilt monday
It's another baby quilt today!
I actually have quite a few actual quilts to show you, I just need to get pictures done of them first.
I haven't been making a lot of these lately. I've been busy making lots of quilt gifts and samples for the store and as a result, baby quilts have taken the very far backseat.
I had fun with this baby quilt and used some super bright fabrics and I love how it turned out.
I wish the camera had picked up the colours more.
It was a dark day when I took these, but the colours are so much more vibrant and alive in person.
quilted with Lovely
I quilted it with a bright green thread to match the green fabric.
It really popped on the pink.
Seeing these pictures makes me want to pull some fabric from my stash and start another one.
I used up all my fun flannel kid prints up for the backing.
It's a little crazy but it I felt it worked well with the front.
And in the end, it doesn't matter what the back looks like, it will be very well loved regardless.
Short and sweet today.
Happy Monday!
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quilt monday
10yrs ago, I made a few high school graduation quilts.
It quickly turned into making a grad quilt for each of my friends children upon their graduations.
And to make the quilts more special, each and every quilt was different.
I never repeated a quilt pattern.
For each grad, a year or so before grad, I ask the grad or close family members and go from there.
This year marked my sixteenth, and final, high school grad quilt.
And it just might be my favourite.
This is the Landmark quilt by The Blanket Statement.
I've made one for myself a few years ago, you can see it here.
I knew right away that this was going to be the perfect quilt pattern choice.
quilted with Camellia
The white is a white on white print, the green is from one of my favourite fabric lines, Nonna.
I so love this quilt!
The quilting was the perfect amount of softness to take the edge off the flying geese.
I debated between using the green or white for the binding.
I went with the green to match the backing fabric.
This was one of the few, if not only, grad quilt that I used a non flannel backing.
But this is what I had in stock so this is what I used.
Simply stunning if I may say so.
Happy Monday.
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