Three Quilts in One Post
Last time I popped by, I had a pile of quilts to bind, a dorm quilt to finish and the end of summer to savor. I am happy to report success on all fronts! (Still working on those bee blocks, though. Sigh.) Three of the quilts in the aforementioned pile were donated to the girls' elementary school for their annual summer carnival. At the two-day event, there is a quilt booth where you buy chances on a wheel. Once all the chances are sold, the wheel is spun and the winning number gets to choose which quilt they would like to take home! This process repeats until all the quilts are spoken for or the carnival comes to an end. I donate to this event every year and just love hearing afterwards who took my quilts home.
This is the Libby Quilt which I had the pleasure of testing for Erica of Kitchen Table Quilting. It is a very fun quilt to make. The cutting and the piecing take very little time and I love that it works well with large and small scale prints. For my version, I chose to use Heather Ross's Sugar Plum line - it definitely has a Christmas vibe to it! I quilted it with different motifs on the stripes and a swirly thing in the background pieces. I had a hard time parting with it, but you can only have so many Christmas quilts and we are at our max here. It makes me happy knowing it ended up in a great place, with a sweet little girl who will love it for her own.
And speaking of Erica, I used one of her big block patterns (February!) to make this next quilt. I bought a fat quarter bundle of this Robert Kaufman lawn, Woodland Clearing by Liesl Gibson (out of print), last summer while traveling in Michigan. Paired with Kona cotton in Grass (one of my favorites!), these 36" blocks really shine! I free motioned a double orange peel design for the quilting and I really like how it turned out. The backing is a lawn floral print from the same line with all the front colors in it. You'll just have to trust me that it is beautiful because I forgot to take photos of the back!
The final quilt in the donated trio was also made from the same fat quarter stack as the one above. This quilt is entirely made of lawn, including the backing fabric (it's a solid aqua). I cut the fat quarters into 18" squares and then made half square triangles. It's a good reminder that simple shapes on a large scale pack a punch and really give you the opportunity to show off the fabric, play with value and scale. I quilted this with my very favorite loops on the long arm at Quilted Joy (where I quilted the other two as well!). I don't think I will ever tire of this pattern. It just works well with so many different quilt tops and is easy to achieve.Back soon with the dorm quilt! Pinky swear.