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!

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.

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.

Victorian Kaleidoscope

I pieced and finished the first quilt in my make-shift studio (semi-finished guest bedroom).  Since the longarm is in storage, I had to quilt this one on the trusty Bernina, I survived the process.  I tried out a ruler I have never used, the Kaleido-Ruler by Marti Mitchell.  Unfortunately, I can't find the fabric line at this moment.  I'll keep digging to see if I have it. One thing I found I needed to fudge a little bigger on the half triangles to make the block come out.  That said, it could have been operator error as I didn't have complete instructions for the paticular pattern "spiderweb" so I was winging it as they say.  Anyhow, the recipient is my newest great niece, she's a little over 18 months old now - my how time flies.  Her momma will have to wait until I get to town, let's hope it's not another 18 months!

My New Home

We've finally moved into our new/old home.  We are getting to follow a dream by moving out of the city and into the mountains.  However, that entails remodeling a rather large building that used to house a church to fit our needs.  Why choose this of all things, well it allows me to eventually have a quilting studio where I won't have to climb around things.  It also allows my husband to have a place of his own.  Did I mention it was all on one floor?  Yippee, no more stairs.  Unfortunately, the quilt studio will be one of the last places to be finished, so I'm relegated to the one room that is semi done. It needs a bit of finishing, but hey I can get back to needle and thread, something I've been missing for the last few months.