A Quilt Festival

I am joining in the Quilt Festival hosted by Park City Girl.

Its so hard to make a decision as to which quilt is my favorite. Its like choosing which child is your favorite. But, nonetheless, the quilt I chose to showcase is my Fall Scrap Quilt.

The picture above shows it hanging on my sewing room wall. I have draped a sunflower garland across the top. I love sunflowers and fall, so this picture says a lot about me.

More pictures of it hanging on the clothesline:

More Quilting Dreams

I am planning a new quilt! This will be a wedding gift needed by January 16, 2010. As usual, it needs to be a quick quilt, but it needs to be "cute", too. This pattern is in the November, 2008 issue of McCall's Quick Quilts.

This simple pattern only requires 5 inch squares, but by carefully arranging the tan/beige/cream blocks, the quilt has depth. The darkest squares are used on the outside and slowly fade to the lightest squares in the center. The tan/beige/cream blocks are alternated with various colored squares.

I already have what I hope is enough of the colored 5 inch squares that were a gift to me from a friend. They are 5 inch charm packs!!! No cutting at all needed.



I will have to purchase some tan/beige/cream fabric to make the alternating squares, but that will be easy and I already have some in my stash to get me started.

What do you think?

Grandma's Vintage Quilt Top

This is quilt top made by my grandmother at least 50 years ago, if not more. I've been trying to figure out how to finish it in a way that looks right. I originally planned to hand quilt it, but now am considering free motion quilting. What fabric to use for the back is also something to figure out! Maybe a plain white or beige muslin?

Yesterday when I was thinking about this, I imagined my grandmother looking over my shoulder while I worked on it. I'm sure she would approve of anything I come up with, to tell you the truth. She loved so many of the same things that I do..... quilting, gardening, cooking, home life.....

This is a picture of the whole quilt top on a bed.



These are close ups of some of the fabric. Can you see the little Chinese men?







This quilting project is on my 2009 Sewing To Do List, so I better get busy on it or it will be rolled over to my 2010 Sewing To Do List!

What to do with Curious George?

I recently hit the end of a yard sale when the seller was ready to get rid of everything and picked up five yards of this Curious George fabric for $1.00. Yes, that's right, 20 cents a yard! At the time I envisioned it as a backing fabric for a baby quilt. I'm not sure what colors to make the quilt top from. Any ideas? It would definitely be a baby boy's quilt.

Sorting Fabric Strips While Watching Football

I have found a way to work on the Early Autumn Quilt Top that doesn't involve the sewing machine.

Sorting the strips into sets for each block:



Stack on the sewing machine ready to be put together in spare moments:

Lori's Beach Quilt - D. Morgan Print

This is a quilt I made for my daughter a few years ago. She was living near the beach at the time and picked out the D. Morgan beach scene panel and matching fabrics. I'm not sure how I came up with the surrounding block design, but it was my own concoction. I machine quilted it with diagonal parallel lines. She has washed and dried it numerous times and it has held up well.

A Sneak Peek at Early Autumn

Here is a sneak peek at the quilt I am currently working on. This quilt's name is EARLY AUTUMN. The colors resemble the way the flowers, trees and other plants look this time of year. They still have some color, just more muted and just beginning to change into their Autumn shades. The colors in this quilt are browns, pinks, roses, yellows and golds. There will be a matching border of muted rose colored fabric which has the faintest little swirl design in it that reminds me of a gentle Early Autumn Wind.


EARLY AUTUMN