My Quilting Projects

I've been busy since Christmas.  Here are the projects I've completed (well, mostly completed).

This is a onesie quilt made for the daughter of a friend.  It's her favorite outfits from her daughters first year.  In hindsight, I would not add the purple strips in the between, but you know what they say about hindsight, right?

The overalls is my favorite block.  I also had sewed bows and flowers I'd taken off the original clothes.

This is a very special quilt.  My mother-in-law's Grandmother gave her this Drunkard's Path quilt top when she graduation from high school in 1963.  It's been stored in her cedar chest ever since.  She gave it to me in September to quilt for her.  I've honestly been a little scared to work on it.  I didn't want to mess it up.  The quilting isn't perfect because there are puckers in the piecing and the borders were wavy, but I'm really happy with how it turned out.  It had several stains that I was worried about getting out, but after soaking in a tub of oxiclean over night, the whole quilts glows.  

In February, a friend contacted me about making a baseball jersey quilt for her son.  I love how it turned out.  Both this quilt and my mother-in-laws are going out in the mail on Monday. I can't wait to hear their reactions.

And my last almost finished project is my jelly bean explosion.  It still needs to be quilted.  I'm debating whether to use cotton or flannel on the back.  I love how it turned out.  It's my first try at closed cubes.  My next one block wonder is going to have open cubes in it.  Exciting (to me anyway).

The kids have also started working on a bug jar quilt for their science co-op teacher.  It's going to be so cute.  I'm doing cutting and measuring, but they are doing everything else.

Words to Live By

Each new quilt is my favorite and this is no exception.  I think I like this one especially because, there was no pattern or plan when I started.  I had about 15 orphan blocks (blocks left over from another project) and tubs of scraps.

I like to make words so I made "Love" the same size as the other squares and it grew from there with friends pitching in to give me word ideas.  I've always made rectangular quilts, but this one said it wanted to be square.  It's 58x58 finished.  I pulled all my coordinating scraps to make the piano key border which really made it come alive.  There are little pieces of every quilt I've made in this quilt.  That makes it really special to me, getting to revisit all of those projects and the people that I love that they were made for.

This quilt also really spoke to me for the quilting.  I did my up and down wavy "finger" stitch on the outside border.  The inside border had a diamond pattern so I followed it with wavy lines.  For the inside, I did a fun curly loopy stitch.

This quilt is going to a charity auction for The Smallest Gifts which supports families through the grief of losing a baby.

And now I'm on to my next two quilts: a paper pieced string quilt for a special someone and a 1st year baby clothes quilt for a sweet friend.  After that, I have a Tshirt quilt to make for a friend's son's Christmas present and a Yoda quilt to make for the Cade-man.  And then...maybe I'll start on the quilt I have planned for my bed!  It's going to be a busy fall y'all!