Rainbow Could-a-Been Scrappy Quilt

I really love rainbow quilts!  When I saw this one on pinterest, it was love at first sight!  Immediately I began pulling scraps to make this one.  But when it came down to it, only 3 of the 12 fabrics ended up being from my scrap bin.  Oh well, a scrappy quilt is on the todo list.  

I did, however, use the remaining fabric of all colors on the back of this quilt.  I've never pieced a back like this before and it took rearranging and rearranging to get it just right.  Well, right enough for what I had to work with.  It was either this or buy some gray to match the front.  I don't think that would have been as fun as this colorful back.

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Even Boys Can Quilt! - Part 2

Yesterday I blogged about David's Quilt and today it's Luke's turn!  It was so fun to teach 2 of my boys to sew.  Luke also chose his own fabrics and sewed the top.  The difference with him is that he wanted to quilt his own!  Since he was tall enough I helped him by standing behind him and holding on a little so he wouldn't get too far off the lines.  Here's his quilting, which isn't bad for a first try!

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Even Boys Can Quilt and Quilting Confidently

This is David, my 8 yo son, and his first quilt!  Week took this week off school and he and his bigger brother each made a quilt.  It started with David wanting to make his big sister a pillow as a welcome home gift.  She is an intern at our church camp.  Anyway, he had so much fun with that he asked to make a quilt.  I let him choose hi fabrics and I gave him a couple choices for patterns.  After some seem ripping due to flipped squares and some crocked lines, he finished the top.  I quilted it for him as he is a bit short and can't reach the long arm handles!  Tomorrow we should have Luke's finished so stay tuned!

I usually don't share WIPs, but I just love this one and I am excited to share it.  Had to put off my finish to help the boys.  But this one is ready to be quilted and should be done next week!

Gemma at Pretty Bobbins asked if we had any tips to quilting confidently.  I think you can't worry if your quilting is perfect.  It will never be perfect, unless you have a computerized longarm!  Sometimes I see someone's quilting and I think I couldn't do that on my longarm, I bet that would be so much easier on a sewing machine!  You domestic machine quilters probably think it would be easier on a longarm!  But we'd both be wrong.  It's only easy after you've had lots and lots of practice.  So if you're new and practicing, quilt with thread that matches your top so it can't be seen as much and then love, love, love it however it looks!

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Three Fire Escape Quilts

I just finished up this set of three lap size quilts. There were supposed to be one big king size quilt for my bed, but after I cut all the fabric and had some of it on the design wall, I was not crazy about the colors.  My bedroom walls are  chocolate brown just like the ladders in the quilt and it would be lovely on my bed, but it just isn't me.  I guess I'm not a flowery kind of girl!  I didn't think my husband would like it either.

So I also didn't like the matchy-matchy of the rows in the original pattern.  So I started changing things around and came up with these three quilts.  They are all quilted with a different pattern, and they all have different binding.  The back is the same on 2 of them, but we'll get to that in a minute.

First Quilt
Binding - Orange

Quilting -  Feathers A La Mode

I like the top on this on the best, it must have been the first one I did.

The back would have looked better with a brown binding, but I was digging through the scrap bin as it was for more fabric.  I like my backs to match the front as much as possible, so, as I did with all three backs, I used what I had.  The large piece of brown is a different color than the front, so couldn't use it for binding.

Love the quilting on this one! Now don't think I'm a great quilter...the pattern is really forgiving so long as you keep your motions smooth and flowing.  Didn't really have to stay on the lines to make this look good.

Second Quilt

Binding - Scrappy

Quilting - All That Jazz

Scrappy binding came from the back of the first 2 quilts after I trimmed them.  I think it's better than the orange, but still not my favorite with this back.

I really wanted to do a free motion fire pattern on this quilt, but thought jumping straight to that would be disastrous!  So I used my fire pantograph instead.

Third Quilt

Binding - Brown

Quilting - Free motion loops and flowers

This binding is the correct brown and looks great with the back.  I had enough fat quarters left to put them on the back of this one.  Then I split up the rest of them for the other 2 quilts.  This is my favorite back!

I thought the loops and flowers would go nicely with the flower prints on this quilt.  It was much faster to quilt this one, but it doesn't have as much quilting as the other ones.

So, which one is your favorite? Leave me a comment and let me know!

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Seaside Belle Wave

I started this beautiful Belle Wave quilt last month. The pattern came from Faith of Fresh Lemons Quilts and was easy to follow.  I started with this set of fabric that I had picked in my color class.  My feeling was soothing:

 Reminds me of the beach.  I was short a green and blue fabric when I made this fabric pull.  After my last shopping trip I was able to find the fabric I needed to make this quilt.

I am also trying to learn how to use curves in photoshop to make my pictures look better.  I can say that I don't have that mastered yet!  But I did take my pictures in the shade next to the light outside today.  This helped a lot in my starting point for editing the photos.

First try was in the shade facing the sun.  Great at showing the quilting, but the color is wrong.

Then I switched sides and shot with the sun behind me.

I edited this photo 2 times trying to get the nice soft colors to show.  I think the first one is better, but the blues aren't quite right.  I found lots of tutorials on editing photos of people, but need to find one without people.  Anyone know of a good one?

The closeup of the quilting turned out the be the best colorwise. I used a new pantograph called Curlz. Kinda reminds me of the waves so it seemed fitting for my soothing beach quilt.

The back is long strips of fabric from the front.

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