Baby Buggies Quilt

 

Norene made this adorable baby quilt with a few printed panels and plenty of solids.

 

I did some outlining around each little baby, puppy and corresponding mode of transportation and filled the background in with swirls.  I did each border with a different design.

 

Flowers, waves, triangles, circles, pebbles, feathers, C2C... I think that about covers it.

Ric-rack with an echo in the border and a triple scallop in the outside border.  I used a light gray thread throughout the quilt.

Modern Bricks

Norene made this neat modern looking quilt from a jelly roll.  

For the border I did a super large loop and then echoed it a couple times.

It may be hard to see, but for the center I quilted a paisley swirl and then every so often I would do one more echo with loops.

Jessica's Baby Quilts

Jessica made these baby quilts.  The first one is so cute- she used scraps from 'oink-a-doodle-moo' fabric line.  I love the secondary 9-patch these blocks make with the sashing.  

I did a paisley swirl and rick-rac in the border. 

And this sweet little pinwheel quilt out of Lily Pulitzer fabrics.  

In the center I did an all-over flower, swirl, and leaves design and then a scalloped border with a loop.

Thanks for letting me quilt up these adorable quilts Jessica!

A Lilly Pulitzer/Judi Madsen Baby Quilt Mash-Up!

Oh my goodness I love this quilt!  When Jessica (the Lilly Pulitzer fabric Queen) dropped it off and I saw those big blank 'windows', I knew exactly what I was going to do!  

I recently ordered Judi Madsen's new book 'Quilting Wide Open Spaces' and have been itching to attempt a few things from it.  

The 'In the Meadow' designs paired well with the bright floral fabrics, which also feature a few butterflies itself.  

The genius part about this quilting design is that due to its over sized design, there's no need to worry about resizing it to fit your block.  Just print off the pages from her CD, slip under your quilt and trace.  I used a water soluble marker.  No math, no lining up just perfectly...pretty simple.

I kept the quilting very straightforward in the pieced 9-patches, because the fun fabrics are the star there, and not the quilting.  That's where my "Judi Madsen" stops, and my "keep it simple" approach stepped in.  

Ha ha!

A solid back!

Now I want one for myself :)

Twister Rainbow Quilt

Norene made this twister quilt out of some of her scraps.  I love how bright and colorful it is!

Since the edge of her border was pieced, it was perfect for something other than feathers.  It's easy to decide to just put a feather in a border, but sometimes feathers just don't "go" with the quilt and you need to do something else.  And because it was pretty wide, I needed something tall.  This is what I came up with.  

For her 'twisters' I ended up doing C2C because it was the only thing I could come up with where you could travel across the whole row without stopping 50 times.  Other than an overall design, which I did not want to do on this quilt.

It turned out pretty neat I think!

Norene's Jelly Roll quilt

Norene made this quilt from a jelly roll.

I quilted a large loop in the border, then echoed it a couple times.

In the center part I did a paisley swirl, but every so often I would do the last ring of loops.  

That's all I got for you today!

Katie's Red White and Blues

Katie made this matching set of red, white and blue little quilts.  Very dazzling indeed!

She did such a lovely job with these log cabin borders, I had to showcase them with a little quilting flare.  With cream colored thread, I did a half flower loop design...

And free flowing feathers in the center.  Then I changed to a navy thread and did the dark areas of the border.  A narrow, pointy leaf blade with a little spiral in the red center squares, as you can see above.

A sampling of the back.  Hooray solid back!

Thanks Katie!

A couple from Joyce

Joyce made this lovely quilt from a jelly roll pattern.

I quilted free-flowing feathers all over and a half-feather in the border in a dark brown thread.

Oooh.  The back.

She also made this adorable dino baby quilt.  

I did another go with the rick-rac border.

I really like how the loopy sashings turned out.  The dinosaurs are left unquilted.  They are small enough to get by without it and they look fine the way they are.  Joyce agreed.  Plus, I don't own thread to match all those colors!

Do Good Stitches Update

Here it is!  My Do. Good Stitches Haven group quilt for December.  I had the gals make a super simple block for December- since it is such a busy month.  I said to just sew random strips together into a 12.5 inch block, but to keep warm and cool colors separate.  I had no real plan as to how I was going to put the blocks together, but this layout got in my head, and I made it work.  I tried to have it go from reds in one corner, to blues in the opposite corner.  Now that it's finished, WHY didn't I move that one pink-ish block to the other corner to make it nice and balanced??  Oh well!

When quilting a charity quilt, I just want to do something simple and quick and get it done and move on.  But at the same time, I also want to try out something new, experiment a little, or practice a design to get better at it.  So, I ended up doing a simple loop meander in the wide border and something new in the orange.  I saw this rick-rack design in a post by Kathy and thought it not only looked really neat, but simple to do.  I love it!  I have since done a few more borders this way.

I had the idea of quilting the warm colored blocks a different texture than the cools.  So I did a large McTavish-ish thing in the warms, and a paisley swirl in the cools.  It didn't contrast like I somehow thought it would.  Pointy swirls and pointy swooshes are pretty similar in texture I found out.  Quilting fail. 

The back.

Our snazzy label.

All quilts must be walked and spun around on by my little guy before they go home :)  I tried to keep the quilt gender neutral, although there is quite a bit of pink in there.  It could still go either way I think. 

(sorry my pics are not oriented the right way.  I'm a terrible and lazy blogger!)

Here was February's X + block.  Did I share this already??  I think I did...

No, pretty sure I didn't.  Here's the link to the tutorial which makes a 7.5 inch block.  But we used Megan's measurements to make a 12 inch block.

Well, I know I haven't shared this one!  Just as I get one quilt completed, it's my turn again!  This time it's a little more tricky.  But not too tricky.  This block is called Honeycomb and you can find Marla's tutorial here.  It is really easy to make although you do paper piece the corner units.  But it is super easy paper piecing, so it's not scary at all.  I'm having the gals use mostly pinks, greens, yellow and oranges and using a fun print in the center.  And a white solid or white on white for the background. 

I really love the look of this block and I think it will be fun to quilt too!  I always have that in the back of my mind when I pick out these DGS blocks. 

Linking up to Amanda Jean's Finish it up Friday.  

I'm the ding-dong who put the web address in the wrong place :)  #23.

Junk Quilting for a Junk Quilt

Carol made this neat scrappy quilt using up a lot of her lights.  She called it another one of her "junk quilts"!  I was planning on doing an all-over with just a couple few design motifs, when I thought of doing 'junk quilting" and quilting a little bit of everything on it!  

And I mean EVERY. THING!  I did just about every design I could think of--a little bit of just about everything I have ever done on a quilt.  All kinds of flowers, feathers, and leaves, swirls, paisleys, pebbles, ribbons, butterflies, meandering...

...Plus several new things that I've been meaning to try out.  Like these simple little loop flowers.

And squared off feathers.  And things I've learned in classes like the loop/ribbon design in the bottom right from Sally Terry.

And this flower design I saw on some of Jenny Pedigo's quilting.  

All kinds of things!

I try to keep a little notebook by my computer to doodle quilting designs I come across that I want to try out.  So I was finally was able to try a bunch of them out on this quilt.  

Now, keep in mind that I wouldn't do this on just anyone's quilt.  I knew my customer would like this whole concept- she is THE most laid back and easy-going lady I know.  And she loved it!  She is going to enjoy finding all the little things I snuck in there.  And it was so much fun to quilt!  I think I will have to do this again, only on one of my own quilts.  If I ever get around to finishing anything! 

Thanks Carol for telling me to quilt whatever the heck I want on your quilts and then loving it every time!  I don't think she is calling this a 'junk quilt' anymore!