Here is a collection of my finished quilts. I will add projects here as I finish them (and update backlogged projects as I get the chance). Enjoy!
This quilt was made for a friend of mine whose wife is expecting a baby boy in April. I love their daughter and was so excited when they found out they are having a little boy! The quilt is was a quick little project made of charm squares and flannel. It should be nice and snuggly for the newborn, and plenty durable to be dragged around by a toddler.
I left the corners rounded and added a little label.
Here's the full quilt laid out on my queen-sized bed, for scale. I hand quilted around the solid blue squares in pale yellow thread. I'm not sure what I was thinking, hand quilting a baby quilt, but I think it was perfect. I also and sewed the binding on, which I haven't done for a while, and decided that I like the look a lot, even if it does get pretty hot sitting under a quilt while stitching!
This was my first commissioned quilt. A friend of mine asked if I would make a quilt for her mom's birthday and I was happy to oblige! She said her mom likes green, so I picked out as many different green prints as I could get at Joann's in fat quarters. I think there are 14 different fabrics! I then used a rail fence block and pieced light, medium, and dark prints in each block. Then I organized the blocks so the dark print would run in a zig-zag through the quilt, leaving the light and medium prints random.
I used left over "rails" for a stripe down the back, and machine quilted along the zig zags to bring out the pattern. I found a great variegated green thread that blended well with all the different prints.
I was stumped as to what to call this quilt, all I was coming up with were things like "the green quilt" or "zig-zag" but my husband said it made him think of subway maps, so I decided to call it "The Green Line" as in a transit line! I wrote the "green" in the label in green sharpie, which bled a little bit, but I like the detail. I added my friend and her brother's names since the quilt is really from them. I'm told she loved the quilt! It feels good to know it's being used and loved.
Little Herbert was displeased that I used his our bed to layout the blocks. But then he relented when he got a new blanket...
This is a t-shirt quilt I made for my husband's birthday. We went to UC Davis, which is home to the largest student-run spirit organization in the country, the Aggie Pack. Every year every student gets a t-shirt with a new design, and we wore ours to death. So since they weren't really fit to be worn in public anymore, I cut 12.5" squares from the front and backs of all four of my shirts and two of his, used simple sashing, and free motion quilted around the designs.
The backing is a patchwork of fat quarters in blue and gold, with a little label.
This is my favorite quilt I've done so far. It was made using Amanda's (of CrazyMomQuilts) first quilt-along directions, though long after the actual quilt-along had finished! I got all the batiqs that Joann's had, and paired them with a cream solid. I wasn't sure I loved the blocks when I had them all made, they seemed heavy on the pink side (not my favorite color), but after playing with sashing and setting ideas, I think everything balanced out and I ended up LOVING it. I machine quilted it around each of the white areas, about 1/4 inch from the seam lines, letting the quilting accent the block designs.
(Sorry, I don't know how to rotate the pictures without re-loading them!)
The backing for this quilt was an advantageous find, a cream and brown batiq that had some wonderful swirls but was calm enough to not overpower the front. It also worked well with the cream colored thread I used to quilt, since my machine quilting skills are still in development. I generally wait to name my quilts until they are finished, so I have a better idea of the whole picture, and this one took a little bit of brainstorming to come up with the appropriate name. I thought it looked very rainforest or jungle like, so since the Hubby and I are big Disneyland fans, the quilt became the Jungle Cruise.
This quilt was inspired by a line of fabric I picked up during a Shop Hop. I couldn't resist the different produce prints, and they screamed canning. I had seen a quilt like this at a local farmers market while I was in college and decided to try it out. It turned out to be super simple, and the quilt came together quickly. I only wish I had made it a little bigger. It's too small to really be a lap quilt, so I recently added a hanging strip and plan to hang it in my office. The name was inspired by the "Flea Market Fancy" fabric line, and was slightly modified to match the inspiration for the quilt, the Davis Farmers Market!
This is Starry Lane from American Quilting and Patchwork magazine. My husband and I have very different temperature preferences at night, so I set out to make a twin-sized quilt for my half of our queen-sized bed. As you can see, with the overhang the pattern allowed, it is as big as the whole to of our bed. Oh well, I like it anyways! I picked as many different all-purple and all-white prints as I could find and used them in the outer parts of the stars. This was also my first attempt at machine quilting, which went very badly at the beginning. I broke down and signed up for a class at my LQS, after which the process went much more smoothly.
This is the quilt I am most proud of. It was my first true quilt, and a gift for my brother. The pattern is from Quilts from The Quiltmaker's Gift, and it uses the Trip Around the World pattern, made entirely of 3" squares. I don't even want to know how many are in this thing. It was strip pieced and hand quilted (because I had no idea how to machine quilt it!), and took me the better part of two years on-and-off to finish. The quilt now lives in their guest room.
This was my absolute first quilt, and somehow I don't have any pictures of it completed. It was a baby quilt for my niece, and supposed to be sheep floating around in dreamland. I think the pinwheels were appliqued, not even pieced, and the sheep are felt and fleece. I had fun making it, and there are some precious pictures of baby A wrapped up with it at the hospital when she was born.
