Celtic Heart - finish #011

A new baby means a new quilts! An acquaintance of mine wanted me to make her a quilt for her new granddaughter. This was my first commissioned quilt. Due to their Scottish heritage, she wanted something with a Celtic look and loved the look of a Celtic Heart. I didn't want to do applique for a baby quilt and ultimately found a Pretzel heart paper piece pattern on Etsy for only $3.50.  I decided to go with a medallion type quilt with this pattern.

The colors her daughter picked for the nursery were pink, light blue, and light green. I decided to go with mainly light green and pink for the front and incorporated the light blue with the backing fabric.  She wanted a quilt that her granddaughter could use as she gets older, so she didn't want a baby size quilt. Originally, I had planned for the quilt to be 60x60; however, it ultimately turned into a 66x66 quilt! 

Using the Pretzel heart pattern, I blew up the pattern to 150% percentage for the center and used the pattern at 100% for the corner anchors.

Once I finished the focus pieces, I wanted to come up with a way to have interesting borders.  I love the way it turned out!!

Quilting: The center medallion hearts are outlined and filled with pebbles. The corner and side hearts are outlined and filled with paisleys. Stripes on the side are filled with a alternated narrow and wide candy ribbons. Along the edge of the striped borders is a row of hearts. The remaining is filled with stippling that has hearts thrown in.  I definitely went all out with the heart concept!

Fabrics: I used Kona solid for the green background fabric. The pinks and purples were calico fabric from Joann's. The binding is Cotton + Steel honeymoon fabric.

Photoshoot location: Kennesaw Farms - Gallatin, TN

PS - I used my Juki TL-2010Q for all the piecing and quilting. This machine was a dream to use! I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to quilt their own quilts. This quilt was 66x66 and fit in the machine's harp space with ease.

Ten - finish #010

I finished my 10th quilt and appropriately named it ten.       

Kiss Kiss Quilt finish #009

I bought a jelly roll of Tula Pink's Elizabeth fabric and had no idea what to do with it.  Then, one day on instagram, I show a post of someone using Tula Pink's fabric with her Kiss Kiss Quilt Pattern.  This looks like a great use for the jelly roll I had bought.  This quilt was very quick to make the top.  I've been holding the top for 7-8 months while I finished the Technicolor Galaxy quilt and the Unicorn Baby Quilt.  Now that those are done, I can finally get around to quilting this quilt. 

A couple months ago, I purchase the Christina Cameli's Wild Quilting class to learn who to do wild quilting (or graffiti quilting).  My favorite technique she used was mixing 3-4 quilting motifs to get a wild quilting look.  So that's what I decided to do over the entire Kiss Kiss Quilt.  The motifs I chose were: paisley, spirals, pebbles and mctavishing quilting.  I chose these because they are motifs that come easy to me or that I really like the way they look.

So far, my Juki TL-2010Q is amazing!! It is some much easier to do free motion with this machine than the Singer 8500Q I purchased.  I highly recommend the Juki for anyone wanting to do free motion!!

I actually finished this before Christmas, but it has taken me a while to get around to taking the pictures.

 

 

 

WIP

This quilt is made of Anna Maria Horner Skipping Stones and some Tula Pink Eden fat quarters.  My original thought was to make a king size quilt for our bed; however, half way through I decided it was too scrappy for the bed.  Since I had enough blocks for a good size throw quilt, I thought it wouldn't be a waste if a quilted it up. 

This quilt will be a gift to my mother.  She has been anxiously waiting for me to make her a quilt and with her birthday in February, I should be able to finish it just in time.

I designed the block myself.  For each block you need:
Light (low volume) fabric - 4 - 7.5*3.5, 4 - 4.5*3.5 and 1 - 4.5*4.5
Color fabric - 8 - 4.5*4.5 and 4 4.5*3.5
Finished block is 18" square.

Unicorn Baby Quilt - finish #008

We I was excited to find out that our friends were expecting a baby.  I was even more excited to find out they were having a girl.  I had been wanted to make the baby quilt in the Quilters Mixology book with curved piecing for a long time.  I used plastic template sheets to make the templates.  I traced the template with a washable pen and cut out the pieces.  Angela Pingel's method of sewing together curves worked well.  The only adjustment I did was add a pin to the end to make sure I ended up in the right place.  I decided to go all out for the quilting.  I love the way it turned out and can't believe that I was able to make this quilt in less than 2 years of quilting!

Quilting complete, just need to bind

Technicolor Galaxy Finished #007

I finally finished the Technicolor Galaxy quilt and was able to gift it to my grandmother.  This was a long project.  I enjoyed the project; however, I learned that I prefer to work on one thing at a time.  So waiting for each new lesson for the quilt slowed down my process.  I'm glad it's done and I learned so much.  I highly recommend this quilt for any new quilter or quilter wanting to try new techniques. 

X and + Quilt Finish #006

We have been busy moving and I'm finally getting around to posting the finished X and + Quilt.  I finished this back in November.  Thanks to KathleenQuilts's Free motion Friday for suggestions on how to quilt my quilt.  I love the way it turned out!