Stars

A while ago I quilted this fun quilt for one of my clients. Can you believe that she bought this top at a yard sale? It amazes me that someone would sell this for only a few dollars.

In the background I quilted a tight filler, inspired by the McTavishing technique. This technique is great when you want to give the illusion of sky or water.

In the stars I just quilted in the ditch, and then did 1/4 inch quilting inside the blue border. (The blue fabric strip on the outside is the binding. I frequently have clients ask me to attach the binding for them and/or finish the binding by hand.)

Outfox the Fox

I know I'm a little late getting these posts up, but better late than never, right?

Last summer/fall I quilted two quilts for Lizzy House, an amazing fabric designer. She was releasing her fabric line, Outfoxed, along with some corresponding patterns.  I had so much fun quilting her quilts.

The first quilt I did was for her pattern, Outfox the Fox! You can purchase it here, in her online store.

In each of the puzzle pieces I quilted a different geometric design: horizontal, vertical, diagonal lines, and circles.

In the background I quilted concentric rectangles, 1/2 inch apart.

Here's a close-up shot of the background. Doesn't it look so cool?

I also quilted the Colorist for her. You can read more about that one here.

The Colorist

As promised, here is the post about the second quilt I quilted for Lizzy House. This is her quilt, The Colorist. I absolutely love this quilt. It's a color circle. I just did one in all solids and it looks really cool, but more about that later when it gets finished. (You can buy the pattern here, though, if you want to make your own. It's a fairly easy pattern. The trickiest part is putting the whole thing together, because you are sewing basically a giant circle. But it turns out looking great!)

For this quilt I quilted concentric circles. In the outer background they are 1/2 inch apart, and in the inner sashing piece and inner circle they are 1/4 inch apart.

In each of the color pieces I quilted vertical lines.

In case you missed my previous post, you can see how I quilted her other quilt, Outfox the Fox, here.

Price Change Notice

Please note that due to the rising costs of cotton, my wholesaler has raised the price of batting.  It is now $7.99 per yard, effective February 3, 2012.

Mike's T-Shirt Quilt

I've been working on a t-shirt quilt for my husband for what seems like years (probably because it has been years!).  I finally got it done this past week.  He's so excited to have a quilt big enough (he always says that the quilts I make us aren't long enough to cover his feet.  I don't know what he's complaining about.  They cover mine just fine!).  It ended up being about 72 x 90.

I gathered up all of his old, random t-shirts to make the quilt.  I used a solid grey minkee on the back, and bound it with a black/grey swirl print.

I quilted the quilt with a tight overall meander.  I outlined certain parts of the designs on some of the t-shirts, and then stitched words or images into some of the blocks.  For example, on his "No I will not fix your computer" t-shirt, I quilted a desktop computer.  And, on his Verizon Wireless t-shirt I quilted "Can you hear me now?"

It turned out way bigger than I expected.  When I laid it out on our bed to take a picture of it, I was surprised by how large it is.
But, it turned out great, and Mike is super excited to use it.

I used Superior Threads monopoly clear on the top, and Superior Threads So Fine! Smoke (a grey colored thread) in the bobbin.

Honey Bun Quilt Idea

Last summer/fall when I was going through my extremely large (and out of control) fabric stash, I found a Honey Bun that I had NO idea where it came from.

I don't particularly purchase Honey Buns.  I'm more of a Jelly Roll/Charm Pack/Layer Cake kinda gal.  What is a Honey Bun?  It's a roll of 1.5 inch strips of fabrics from a single line.  This particular Honey Bun was from "Oh Cherry Oh" by Me & My Sister for Moda.

So, since I didn't remember buying it, and I had no idea what to do with it, it sat on my sewing table, unrolled, for about two weeks.  Then, suddenly, it hit me.  I was having a baby girl in a few months and if I sewed the strips together it would be the perfect size for a baby quilt.

Like most of my own personal projects, it's been sitting at the shop waiting for its turn on the quilt machine for a while now.  I finally got some time last Saturday to quilt for myself (I'm still technically on maternity leave until Tuesday, but I just couldn't help it! I had to quilt something!) so I threw this on and quilted it up.  I used a light pink colored thread (So Fine! It's a Girl!) and quilted an all-over flower design.  It turned out really great.  I got it bound later that night and in the wash, and my baby girl was able to use it over the weekend.

Spring Quilt Along FINALLY finished

Last April I joined a Quilt Along for the Verna quilt and bag pattern by Kate Spain over on Above All Fabric.  Well, I made the quilt top pretty quickly but didn't finished the bag until September of last year.  The quilt top has been sitting at the shop waiting to be quilted for months.

Last week I finally got some time to quilt for myself.  I've been on maternity leave, waiting to be medically cleared to go back to "work" and I finally got the clearance on Thursday.  Saturday I came into work and quilted a bunch of things for my new baby (her single baby quilt was getting very used and she needed some more to alternate with it), and this quilt was one of them.

I used a not-quite white colored thread (So Fine! Snow) and quilted flowers in the outer border, leaves in the sashing, and giant daisies in the blocks.  It turned out so great, I couldn't have been happier with it.  It didn't take very long to bind, either, only about an hour or so.  It's since been washed, dried, and is currently in use under baby girl today.  :)