Tranquility

A couple of months ago, I borrowed Bliss' idea of her Easy Peasy quilt and made this quilt as a wedding gift. I used Sandy Gervais' Tranquility jelly roll, a fat quarter for the thin border, and some yardage for the outer border. It went together quite fast and I was very pleased with the look.

Heart & Home

Heart & Home was another fun quilt to do as the blocks were simple to make and it didn't take long to finish. The instructions for this quilt are found in a book with the same name, Heart & Home "Quilt of the Month" by Suzanne McNeill. As in a previous quilt I did, Vintage Holiday, I used fabrics from the Oak Leaves and Reel fabric line, plus a few others. The instructions give yardage for both the use of jelly rolls or fabric yardage, so that was helpful as I used yardage. Cathy did the wonderful quilting on it.

Vintage Holiday

This modified log cabin block pattern is found in Heart & Home "Quilt of the Month". I used many fabrics from the Oak Leaves and Reel fabric line, plus a few others. The pattern is written so one can use a jelly roll or 2.5-inch strips. I used yardage, since that is what I had, and just cut strips as needed. It was a fun pattern to do and was given as a gift.

wips

wishing i was working on this...

but, i'm stuck working on this.

i went scrappy. (and i'm happy).

Thanks for all of your advice.
In the end, I opted for FREE (and to stay in my pjs all day).
It feels good to know I finished the girls' beds without spending any money.
(Now I can spend money on the rest of the room.) :)

This is the end result.

My girls LOVE to show everyone the pillows that they designed.

I LOVE the sense of self confidence they get whenever they look at their bed.

I just made a basic Log Cabin. I cut all of my bright scraps/stash fabrics into 2.5 inch strips (or you could use a jelly roll). I started with a square 2.5 x 2.5 and added to it, sewing, cutting, ironing, sewing, cutting, ironing. I put a square of white as my last log cabin layer. I made 63 of these blocks and sewed them together in rows of 7 by 9. That's it.

Here's my tip. I didn't realize that you could sew a log cabin wrong. But you can. See my picture above. Be careful when you sew the 4th fabric on. It should be touching the 1st and 3rd fabrics, not the 1st and 2nd.

One thing I liked about this process was that I had a lot of 2.5 inch strips. I pieced them together for the binding. Overall it turned out to be a great way to use up fabric that I've had forever.

i need help (with the back end).

I made these two quilt tops for the new girl's room.

(Remember the pillows I showed you?)

The best thing about these quilts is that so far I haven't bought ANY fabric... it's all scraps/stash.

once again i opted for fast, cheap and easy.

(yes. I have been called a QUILT SLUT before.)

But.

Now I'm stuck.

I found PERFECT back and binding fabric at Hobby Lobby, but it wasn't even on sale.

I had planned on piecing the back with scrap pieces... but I don't know.

What do you think?

Can I back them without spending money?

or

Should I just go buy the fabric that I already found and love?

And, help #2... I'm NEVER real good at naming quilts. Any suggestions?

plus. I'm sick so I'm kinda all around poopy today.

polka dot wonder.

I LOVE this quilt.

I had so much fun collecting polka dot lights and darks for it. One baby quilt I made used only black and white for the background and bright polka dot fabrics for the circles. hmmm. Black and White Challenge?

Yeah, if you make it, use this how to that Bliss wrote up.

AND, don't sew each individual piece for the sashing and border... sew long strips together and then cut them. My sweet sisters told me this trick AFTER I sewed 5 of these quilts...

Red & White Courthouse steps

Anything for you, Jen! Here is the picture of my red/white quilt. It is also the courthouse steps pattern and uses red/white stripes for the vertical strips and shirting material for the horizontal strips.

I did this quilt with Grey a few years ago - so we may want to see if she still has the pattern. I tried to measure blocks/strips etc., but I did a terrible job (it was one of my first quilts!) and I don't want to give you wrong measurements.

Variety is really what makes this quilt fun. Grey had been collecting shirting fabric and red/white stripes for some time. (which is why she had enough for me to make one as well!)

Here is a close up of the blocks so you can see the material and my unperfectness.

old time courthouse steps...

This is my FAVORITE quilt!

I inherited it when Todd's grandmother was donating it to charity because it has some frayed areas around the edges. It was made BY HAND by her great-grandmother (I think). It is hand quilted and hand pieced. I'm not sure, but I think the some of the lighter pieces are just the darker pieces bleached. (Did they even have bleach back then?) Anyway, I think this would be so fun to make with your stash. Of course, I highly recommend using your sewing machine, and your rotary cutter.

Bliss has an adorable red and white ticking quilt that I think is also this courthouse stairs pattern. (The one hanging in your bedroom.) If we ask real nice she may post it for us. I REALLY want to copy it.

Quilt Stats--
The whole quilt is 5 blocks by 6 blocks.
Each block measures 13x13 inches.
The center brown square is 2.5x2.5 inches.
There are 6 strips around the block, each measuring 1.5x1.5 inches.

Cabin Tracks

Cabin Tracks was a fun, but time-consuming quilt. It uses lots of scraps--especially strips. This is the first quilt I had my friend Cathy quilt on her computerized long-arm; otherwise, it would still be in the stash of all my finished, but unquilted quilt tops! I entered it into our county fair this fall (2008) and got a blue ribbon. I was pleased! The pattern is from a 2003 Quilt Sampler magazine, made by the Stitcher's Crossing, a quilt shop in Madison, Wisconsin.