New Wave Quilt with Amy Butler Love

It's Finished and I LOVE it!!!

This pattern came from one of my favorite blogs Oh, Fransson!

And the fabric came from a sweet lady on Etsy plus some Kona Khaki from Joann.

I used 12 fat quarters, but the dimensions didn't quite work out the way the pattern explained.  I like to prewash my fabric, so once i did that, I couldn't get the full 9" shape.  8.5" works just fine and left me enough extra for 2 more rows!
 

I pieced the back with leftovers and an extra half yard of my favorite Amy Butler pattern.  Then, machine quilted in the ditch to make a beautiful wave design on the back!  This was the first quilt I've made using my walking foot.  What a difference!!!

I can't get enough of this quilt!!

Circle Quilt!

I first saw this circle quilt on one of the blogs I read.  It was adorable and looked pretty easy to make, so I decided to give it a try.  I bought a Tula Pink Nest charm pack and cut all of the squares into circles using a sundae dish.  The brown fabric is a bed sheet left over from my Figgy Pudding Quilt, and I bought a couple yards of my favorite Nest patterns for the borders and backing.  This quilt came together very quickly, but still presented challenges.  For the first time in a while, I wanted to machine quilt the entire quilt. I stopped machine quilting because I was never happy with the results; puckers, shifting etc.  I had to rip out a few seams and redo parts of this quilt, but I think I know what I need to do next time to improve.

I will post pictures of the back as soon as my photography helper gets home!

Figgy Pudding Christmas Quilt

It's finished before Christmas!  I've been working on this quilt for about 3 months, and I did not think I'd have it finished before Christmas.  After a suggestion from a reader, I decided to hand quilt snowflakes in the blocks; I thought that was going to take forever!  I machine quilted around the trees which was a challenge, but I think it motivated me to try machine quilting for my next project. It's so much faster!

For the back, I used ideas from the blogs I read and found an inexpensive brown sheet that was almost the perfect size.  I really like how the scrappy stripes turned out too.  I cannot remember whose blog gave me that idea, but I noticed that most people were piecing their quilt backs in some way and I wanted to try it!

I've said this before, but I absolutely love this Figgy Pudding fabric.  Now, I'm off to make some Figgy Pudding Christmas placemats with the scraps.

Merry Christmas!

Big Pinwheel Quilt

So, I like pinwheels.  This is another pattern from a quilt calendar and the largest quilt I've ever made!  I had to use several templates to cut out all the pieces, but it was pretty easy to put together.  Then, I hand quilted an outline around all the pinwheels.  I'm starting to think that I don't quilt enough. I suppose I pick out pretty layouts and don't want to overshadow them with quilitng.

Here's the backing with a cute pinwheel tag.

Reproduction Ragtime

A quick and easy ragtime quilt made from reproduction fabrics.  Of course, I don't remember what year the originals were produced!  haha. 

You can't have a quilt without a sleepy cat laying on it, right?  This is Sweetie.  She's 17 years old and quite happy with her lazy cat life.

Mardi Gras Ragtime

I made this quilt for my Aunt Penny.  She loved New Orleans and Mardi Gras, so we decided a Mardi Gras themed quilt would be perfect for her.  We found 3 "Mardi Gras Lady" t-shirts to use in the design.  The flannel fabrics make this a heavy, warm quilt.

Aunt Penny (left) and myself about five years ago.  She passed away September 2008.  :(

Pinwheels

I made this quilt from a pattern in a quilt calendar.  It took a while to cut each piece using a template, but assembly was easy because all the pieces fit into squares.  I had a good time deciding how to arrange all these bright colors.  I think this was my first attempt at hand quilting.  It was simple to just quilt in the ditch around each pinwheel.

Ragtime

The Ragtime quilt started it all!  I made this quilt in a class at Designing Memories in West Memphis, AR.  It was quick and easy.. great for a beginner.  It took as much time to cut the raw edges as it did to assemble the quilt!  After this quilt, I invested in some spring loaded scissors.

Royal Cats Quilt

I call this one Royal Cats because of the colors of the kitties.  They are bold colors with gold accents.  This was the first traditional quilt that I made.  Basically, I knew how to cut out pieces and sew straight. The blocks look great but the quilting is horrible!  Oh well, I have to learn somehow!  I love the paw prints backing.  I'm a cat lover if you can't tell :)

Blooming Nine Patch

This quilt was my first very detailed quilt with lots of cutting and small piecing. My mom and I picked out the fabric at Designing Memories in West Memphis, AR. We went back and forth between blues, purples and turquoises, and I think it turned out great! It reminds me of the bottom of a swimming pool. The back is a blue and orange pebble pattern. I have a tendency to use crazy backing that doesn't exactly match the front.

Pinwheel Baby Quilt

I made this quilt is 2004 for my best friend's daughter, Makenzi. It's the perfect girlie quilt with a traditional pinwheel pattern.

Flowery Scrap Quilt

This quilt started as a mission to use some of my scraps. Turns out, I bought just as much fabric as I used! I chose white sashing that has tiny white flowers on it... then the off white backing with tinywhite flowers... then if that wasn't enough flowers, I used a stencil to quilt a flower in the middle of each square.