modern quilts & crafts
I have finished a quilt (← NOT an April Fool's joke). I gave details and showed a sneak peak of the quilting previously, and now it's done! Glee! I'm not great at coming up with creative names for quilts, so help me out. In the meantime, since the main fabric collection in it is Modern Whimsy, I'm calling it Baby Whimsy. Simple. I got fancy with this one and hand stitched the binding. Usually I'm impatient and machine stitch it because I am so close to finishing and want to … [Read more...]
I just remembered I never posted about this minky blanket I made for a my guild friend, Peg! I was late giving it to her (how late? it's February in Colorado yet my pictures show green grass --you do the math), so it's only fitting I'm late to post about it. Right? Yes. I'm including a little tutorial, since you can never have too many pointers when sewing with minky. I learn something new every time I sew with it! If I can save just one person from the cursing that ensues when you … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas from Alpine Wonderland! Here's a little table runner I whipped up last night to bring even more Christmas spirit to my home. What's more festive and fun than Nordic Christmas scenes? Nothing, that's what. I realized as I was photographing this little guy this morning that it could easily serve as a wall hanging, too. I can't decide which way I like best. What do you think? I made three 15" wonky log cabin blocks, then added a 2.5" strip of white around … [Read more...]
My Octagonal Orbs bee quilt is finished, packaged, and off to its deserving owner across the country. I sincerely hope it can provide her comfort and joy this Christmas. … [Read more...]
Happy Election Day, America! Lots of excitement here in Colorado. How about a nice, berry-hued table runner to greet November? I bought a jelly roll of Joel Dewberry's Heirloom on a discount a few months ago and finally busted it out to make a quick, non-fussy table runner for our dining table. Our house was looking way too bland and I've been SO into berry hues lately that this jelly roll was screaming to be sewn. All I did was piece together the jelly roll strips in an echo … [Read more...]
Guess what. I finished a quilt. Yep, and it was the quickest I’ve ever made a quilt, from my start time to when I finished. This is partly because it’s a simple patchwork quilt and partly because I didn’t follow my usual pattern of nursing the quilt for months and working on it here and there while picking up numerous other projects along the way and distracting myself from the quilt at hand. I wonder if there’s a medical term for ADD quilting. For this baby I used 6” charm … [Read more...]
Now that my dear friend Amiee received the quilt I made for her baby boy on his 1st birthday, I can finally show the finished product! I modified Camille Roskelley's "Coming Soon" pattern ever so slightly to make this quilt and, as I mentioned in my previous post, my fabric of choice was from the Backyard Baby collection that I adore. It's so perfectly boyish! Anything a little guy would want is in this quilt: bugs, snakes, ant farms, beehives, snails... in other words, all things icky … [Read more...]
I am happy to report my first finished quilt of 2012. I don’t really have a cool name for it, I just sort of call it The Marbles Quilt. (“Oooooh, aaaaah.”) Most of these fabrics are from Amy Butler’s oh-so glamorous Lark collection, with a couple other basics thrown in there. The background fabric is Kona Ash. The idea for this quilt arose from my desire to do something with circles. With the help of my circle cutter (holy COW this thing is awesome—it’s like a compass you used … [Read more...]
