Quilt 18

This is my first baby quilt sized quilt. So it’s approximately 36x36. Since it was so small, I was able to pin it on my countertops. This little baby quilt is for my new niece or nephew. My sister said she wanted a grey and white quilt. This is not a jelly roll quilt. It’s random grey and white fabric I had. 

I didn’t follow a pattern and just sort of figured it out in my head. However, I cut my side pieces too short, so that’s why I say it’s approximately 36x36. It’s actually a bit smaller 

Quarantine 2020 Quilts

Quilts 15, 16 and 17 I made during the Covid-19 Quarantine of 2020. 

Quilt 15 I started in 2018 and intended on giving it to my niece for a Christmas gift. Well I never got around to finishing it. I hadn’t even finished the quilt top. The quarantine was the perfect time to quilt as we were stuck at home. 

I love the floral backing print on this quilt. My 7 year old daughter wants to keep it for herself! We do love how this one turned out!

Quilt 16 I made for a friend. Yet another Jelly Roll Race Quilt. I love this Moda Catnip fabric. 

Quilt 17 I made for my 10 year old son. Somehow i have never made him his own quilt! I love this black and white jelly roll print so it seemed like the perfect print for a 10 year old boy. He can hopefully enjoy it for years to come! 

Quilt 14

Quilt 14 I made as a baby gift for my nephew. I gave it to him at Christmas 2018. 

I love the ease of this quilt.  It uses a jelly roll, but gives it a different look than the Jelly Roll Race quilt I love. 

Quilt 13

Quilt 13 I made as a wedding gift for my cousin Susan. 

She was married in October of 2018.

I am a big fan of Jelly Roll Race Quilts! 

Quilt 12

The 12th quilt I made, I finished some time around September 15, 2018. If by chance anyone stumbles upon this post, I am blogging it simply because I want to keep a record of all of the quilts I have ever made. Do people read blogs anymore? Do people read this tiny blog anymore?

This little quilt turned out so cute. I ended up gifting this to my niece for her birthday. 

Quilt Number Eleven!

Quilt Number Eleven!

I need to start changing up my quilts a bit, but I love the look of the Jelly Roll Race Quilts and seem to sew a lot of them.

I don't remember why I bought this fabric, but once I was half way done with it, I decided it was the perfect quilt to sew for my mom's upcoming birthday. I have made a lot of quilts for family members, but this is the first I made for my mom.

Don't you just LOVE this backing fabric!!!! I love the color and the print! The fabric is by Moda - Big Sky Montana!

Quilt Number Ten!

Quilt Ten!!!! This is probably the second quilt I ever started. I can't even tell you when I started this. I made the blocks for this at a local quilt shop in a block of the month club. The quilt shop is no longer in business and has been for a while. So this has been sitting in my closet unfinished FOREVER!!!

I quilted it right before Christmas this past year on my first ever experience using a long arm machine. I rented one from a different local quilting shop. I also quilted quilt seven and quilt eight at the same time. It just again took me forever to actually bind the quilt and finish it.

I had a lot of fun using the long arm machine. I was so intimidated by it, but it was so easy! I can't wait to use it again. But for the small throw quilts I usually sew, I can just do those on my machine at home.

I like the start quilting pattern I picked. It was completely different than what I would normally go for.

Again this is probably a quilt that will end up on my daughters bed. Simply because she loves blankets!! And she is a five year old hoarder!

Quilt Number Nine!

Quilt number nine is a throw quilt I made for absolutely no reason, so it means it's a quilt for me!! Until my blanket loving 5 year old steals it from me and it appears on her bed!

I made this using a Jelly Roll from Gingiber by Moda  called Savannah. I love the colors of it!

You can almost see, but the backing is a light yellow color. It took me a little longer to finish because I forgot to put my walking foot on my machine, and broke my machine. So I am currently borrowing my sisters sewing machine until I figure out a new one!

Quilt Number Eight

Quilt number eight I started three years ago before we moved into our current house. I knew which colors I wanted to put in my then 2 year old's room. Pinks and mint!

I gave it to her for Christmas this past year. And because she loves blankets, she was very excited about it. I quilted it at a local quilting shop, using their long arm. I love the heart quilting pattern!

I absolutely love the colors on this quilt. And I think it's safe to say this is my absolute favorite quilt! 

Quilt Number 7!

Quilt number SEVEN, was a Christmas gift for my new baby niece. It was finished about a day before Christmas, so I wrapped it and never took a picture of it! For this quilt I used two Jelly Rolls, but only about half from each pack. I had a really hard time finding only a pink and grey Jelly Roll, so I had to remove the blue!

I used 6.5 inch strips for this quilt and ended up making 80 - 6.5 by 6.5 inch squares. For my back I used super soft matching flannel!! It was so cozy, I wanted to take a nap with it!

Originally quilt number 7 was going to be a quilt for me. But that quilt was set aside to finish this one first. I might have finally finished that quilt a few months too late.

Quilting, quilting and more quilting

My forth, fifth and sixth quilts!! 

This is my first Jelly Roll Quilt. Wow was it easy! It came together so fast, I love fast projects. And I absolutely LOVE the fabric in this quilt. Surprisingly, this is a quilt I made for myself and kept for myself!! Out of the 6 quilts I have made, I have only kept 2 for myself. 

Quilt number 5 is a quilt I made for my sister and her husband for their wedding. I also love how this one turned out! For this I used Jeni Baker's Side Braid Pattern. This is the mini version.  I love Cotton + Steel fabric. 

 

 

 

And quilt number 6, is a quilt I made for my niece for Christmas. Yet another Jelly Roll Race Quilt. This fabric is Lullaby by Kate and Birdie for Moda fabrics.

I am currently working on quilt number 7 (ANOTHER QUILT FOR ME!!!! And ordering fabric for quilt number 8. Picking out fabric is so much fun! But also so difficult!!

Quilts from Baby Clothes

After I finished my first quilt in the fall, the wheels were turning for my next quilt.  When my daughter was born my sister-in-law gave me a bunch of special outfits her girls wore when they were babies and instead of handing these special outfits to someone else I knew I needed to do something with them for my sister-in-law. That's when I decided to be an over-achiever and sew TWO baby clothes quilts for my nieces for Christmas.

Since I only had about ten outfits, coming up with my design took me a while. I eventually decided to use the babies outfits and create a bunch of hearts! Once my design was determined, I then procrastinated about cutting up adorable, perfectly fine baby clothes!!! Once I started I was very happy I did. I love how it turned out and more importantly my nieces and sister-in-law loved them!

How I created them:
After getting over cutting up baby clothes, I cut the clothes so I could add fusible interfacing to the back of the clothes. Then I traced various sizes of hearts onto the interfacing and cut out my hearts.

I than laid out my washed purple piece of flannel and determined my design with the hearts and pinned them in place. Next I carefully zig-zag stitched around each heart with a darker purple thread.

Then I pinned together my batting and another piece of flannel for the back and quilted with long lines with the same dark purple thread - avoiding the hearts. Lastly I binded it and I had two fabulous quilts for my nieces for Christmas!

I did a few test runs of appliqueing the hearts onto flannel first to figure out what worked best. I did a couple without the fusible interfacing and it works SO much better with it! This is my 2nd and 3rd ever quilt, so this was pretty simple!

When adding my hearts I also added an initial for each of the girls, so they could tell their quilts apart!

I can't wait to some day make these for my kids with their baby clothes, but we all know that won't happen until my kids are at least 20!

My First Quilt

I am so happy that I completed my first ever quilt last week!!! I completely love how it turned out! It's not perfect but its good enough for a first quilt! My sister and I took a "class" from her awesome Aunt-In-Law who has been quilting for years. We followed the beautiful pattern from Quilting is more fun than Housework. It was a great quilt to learn on and as you can see my son loves it!

 I can't wait to make my next one.... now just to find the time.