Katie's Drunkards Path- You've never seen one like this!

Katie made this amazing Drunkard's Path quilt using odd shaped curves and assembling them in a random fashion. She used quite a contrast of solid colors- bright red-orange and gray.

It took me a while to find the right 'orange' thread, but eventually settled on a coral. Gray was no problem- I have 3 shades of that on hand already.

I wanted to do 2 different textures and decided on a jaggedy/fire-y for the orange and pebbles for the gray.  I was thinking of lava fields perhaps?

My fingers.  For scale purposes.

A lot of the areas were connected, but there were a few "islands". I started by doing all the orange areas, then started from the top again with the gray.

The back.

The solid area of the back is pretty neat too.

Thanks for this unique one Katie. It was fun!

Blue Pinwheels

Norene made this simple blue pinwheel quilt. I decided to really go bold with the quilting on this one.

I used a royal blue thread so the quilting would really stand out in those white spaces.

I really like how it turned out. Although it was a little nerve-wracking- there's no hiding a little flub here and there with this!

a peek at the back.

Thanks Norene!

Katie's snowball quilt

Katie made this amazing quilt with just one snowball block and some hand appliqued flowers sprinkled throughout. I love the color placement in this quilt!

I quilted an all-over pattern on this one except for the red flowers which I outlined and filled in petals in-between the red petals.

Thanks Katie!

Butterfly strip piece

Katie made this awesome quilt which was made by strip piecing and hand appliqueing the large butterfly.

I dug the ruler out for this one, but kept it simple in the colored parts with just some swirls.

The center was fun to do too.

I love how this one turned out!

Thanks Katie!

Amazing Grace

Lori made this adorable quilt using a panel with the words to 'Amazing Grace'. Her little granddaughter sings this song in church with her Grandpa and it is pretty much the sweetest thing you'll ever hear. So this quilt was made and given to her granddaughter for her birthday.

I quilted musical notes and treble clefs along with some swirls all over.

Music notes and treble clefs were a first for me, but not too hard after drawing it out a few times.

Thanks Lori!

Sweetwater Market Quilt and DGS June blocks

Alyce made this amazing quilt from a BOM kit by Sweetwater. 

The block centers are printed.  Alyce requested to outline the labels, swirls everywhere else and straight lines in the border. 

The kit has you add some embroidery embellishments to the labels.

What a neat quilt- I really enjoyed this one Alyce! I even considered using one of the recipes printed in there, but I guess I will have to see if I can read it in one of these pictures as I didn't follow through on keeping a copy of it.

These were my Do Good Stitches blocks for June.  We made an alphabet quilt.  I wanted a mix of easy and more challenging letters, but even the Y wasn't very hard to make.

Thanks for stopping by!

Baby HST Quilt

Katie made this adorable baby quilt with HST's. I just love how the quilting turned out.

I custom quilted the diagonal areas with loops- figure 8 style and triangle style.

I also love the one random pinwheel.

Thanks Katie- I had fun with this one!

Scrappy brick quilt

Joyce made this neat scrappy quilt with rectangles.

I did a super simple flowery swirl design all over.

Thanks Joyce!

Jessica's Charley Harper quilt

Jessica made this neat quilt with Charley Harper fabrics. She really let those amazing prints shine with this brick pattern.

 

An all-over feather seemed to fit the bill for this quilt.

The back. Thanks Jessica!

Bitty blocks baby quilt and Splendid Sampler blocks

Katie made this adorable baby quilt called 'Bitty Blocks'.

It's a pretty gender neutral color pallet so I kept the quilting the same with big swirls and bubbles.

the back.  Thanks Katie!

It's been a while since I last posted some of my Splendid Sampler blocks. We have just reached the half-way mark with block #50! I'm just a few blocks behind (4 to be exact) I've dusted off the old DMC floss and am loving the embroidery side of this project. I do the hand work in the evenings and when I'm done with a block I find myself at a loss with nothing to work on. What do I do?!? Just sit here and watch tv?  lol

 

Such teeny-tiny hexies! Each side is 1/2 inch. I felt like I was sewing together Skittles! I love-love-love how it turned out, but don't foresee any more tiny hexies in my future.

 The tiny red bit of fabric bled into my white background when I rinsed out my marking pen! Ack! And I have used that fabric in 9 other blocks. (the tomato pincushion above too.) I'm going to have to figure out how to save them.  But I washed and rinsed out the rest of that fabric so I think the problem is solved from here on out.

 A neighboring town is full of black squirrels- a pretty rare thing, so I made my squirrel black. And purple. :)  Also because I don't have any brown 30's repro. Does it even exist? I haven't seen any.

Those are just a few of my latest blocks. You can find all the Splendid Sampler blocks and FREE patterns here. The patterns will be free and available until sometime next year when they will be made into a book.