Thursday, April 21, 2016

Fold and Sew quilt

I've been working on a new (to me) technique with very little cutting.  It's called fold and sew (check out Fold and Sew National Quilters Circle on youtube) and was created to use layer cakes and charm squares.  Essentially what you are supposed to do is lay a charm in the middle of a layer.  Fold the layer over the charm on one side, sew a quarter inch seam, do the same for the opposite.  Next you do the remaining two sides.  But, I can never leave anything the same, so I changed it up.  I used 2 colors of yardage, cut in 10-in. squares and some smaller rectangles/squares from each color.  From the pictures you can see that I flipped between large orange squares and large blue squares.


 For the solid orange inner areas I did a pebble quilt fill, my first on my DSM (sadly the long arm is still packed), the other areas are just channel quilted. Hopefully some baby will wear it out so I can make him/her another one!

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Newest Baby Quilt

Finally a great-nephew is born into the family.  Alright, he was born over a year ago but with the move I kind of got behind.   It was fun to put together out of charm squares from a pattern in Perfect Quilts for Precut Fabrics.  I used Robert Kaufman's Urban Zoologie because I just had to giggle at the animals. The quilt was not a wide as I wanted it so I added an extra border, you know kids don't just stay in one spot--they like to spread out.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Lily Pin Cushion

I took a short detour from quilting and made a pin cushion.  It is hand stitched, aargh, and I'm not a pin cushion type of person, but my guild had a workshop and I thought I'd give it a try.  It turned out kind of cute if I say so myself.