Birthday Quilt

54 x 63

My daughter wanted to make a friend of hers a quilt for her birthday last week, but she hasn't sewn in a while so I wanted something easy. I had 4 charm packs of something I don't recall and suggested she use it since it was already cut for her. I helped her pick a few more prints to add to the mix and she laid out this patchwork quilt.

She chose this black print from Hobby Lobby for the back.  I love it too. And it's perfect for her friend. The only thing I did for her beside coach her was to quilt it. She did all the sewing and the binding. Maybe she will start quilting with me more often!

Quilts make the perfect gift!  Hope you are getting all your holiday sewing done.  I've got a few more custom orders before I'm caught up. Then I'll get back to sewing the stash!

Splash of Color QAL - Blocks part 2

It's block time for the Splash of Color Quilt a Long over at Busy Hands Quilts. This is a fun quilt along because you get to pick your own pattern and your colors.  All you have to do is use black and white with a splash of color!

Blocks for the first quilt on the design wall.  I like it with and without the sashing!

And here is the second one. There are only 25 blocks in this queen size quilt.

Hope you are joining us.  It's not too late!

Mini Charm Chocolates Quilt - a Fat Quarter Shop Shortcut Quilt

This is a new pattern from the Fat Quarter Shop called Mini Charm Chocolates Quilt. Mine is made in Moda's Sunday Supper. This pattern is a new shortcut quilt for the Fat Quarter Shop Quilt Along.  You can find the free pattern here.   It has instructions for many different sizes. I chose to make the lap size.

The Mini Charm Chocolates Quilt Pattern features Mini Charm Packs which are 2.5" by 2.5" squares.

This quilt goes together super fast because there is not much cutting that needs to be done. I loved using the pre-cuts in this quilt.

You can see other Mini Charm Chocolates Quilts on the Fat Quarter Shop's blog today.

Gabe's Quilt

54 x 66

 I made this low volume lap quilt for a friend of mine that is getting married. Once again the picture isn't great.  Come on new computer!  I used the 6.5 HST accuquilt die to cut the triangles. It is so much faster than having to trim each and every square. There are 19 or 20 different prints in this quilt and I wish I had used more. I matched up a light and a dark for each square.

Since this was a wedding gift, I decided to use Minky on the back. I had to lower the size of the quilt to fit on the minky, but it is still a nice sized lap quilt. I was super careful when I loaded the minky on the rollers and it still stretched a bit in the corners. But after washing it lays pretty flat and it's super snuggly!

Linking with Busy Hands Quilts and Crazy Mom Quilts.

Custom King Size Log Cabin Cross Quilt

108 x 108

This is a king sized log cabin cross quilt made for a customer from my shop. She wanted a quilt based on a lap sized log cabin cross quilt so I had to enlarge it a bit. I kept the original width of the strips and just made them longer.  I found this floral print at Hobby Lobby and she chose some matching colors from the print to use for the outer layers of the cross.

It does look a little brighter in person.  The good news is that I finally got a computer ordered and now I will be able to post better pictures!