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By Liz · Comments (14) · September 22nd, 2011

Why yes, I have been sewing up a storm lately! Or, at least, a lot compared to the first eight or nine months of this year. This one is now safely at home with my new niece in Colorado, so it can have its internet debut.

A big shout-out to my friend Carl, who commented on my much-loved stack of fabric with the suggestion to use the Rectangle Squared tutorial from Film in the Fridge. It had been on my to-do list, as well, and I was so glad for the reminder. (You should see the ones Carl made – FREAKING GORGEOUS.) Anyways, the blocks were simple and beautiful and came together very quickly.

I loved Ashley’s use of scraps in the border of her quilt, and couldn’t resist doing a bit of my own.

I had 17 fat quarters pulled for this project, each of which yields three blocks, so I ended up with 51 blocks. I made the front 6×7, which left me with nine for the back. I am SO happy with how the back came out. I loved the little patch of blocks like the front, I love the dark raspberry stripe in the middle. Really, really happy with it.

When it came to binding, I initially latched on to the Full Moon dots in Camel. But I know I kind of overdo it on those dots, especially for bindings. So I crowdsourced it, and posted three different pictures on Flickr and Twitter to get some outside opinions. Turns out, the dots were the clear winner. How could I argue?

Quilting was my swirly-girly all-over meandering in white thread. Pretty easy (minus all of the thread breaking – OMG does anyone else have this problem with a Janome 6600?), and quick to work up.

I don’t know how it happens that my brother’s kids have two of my favorite quilts I’ve ever made. At least, since they’re family, I’ll be able to see this one and Charlie with relative ease. Oh, and the kids, too.

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Categories : Finished Objects

Tags : aqua, baby quilt, gift, gold, green, pink, rectangle squared

Raspberry Lemonade

By Liz · Comments (9) · July 14th, 2011

Would you believe it? A finished quilt! It’s a miracle! As is the fact that my two almost-4-year-olds were cooperative enough to hold it while I took pictures.

Of course, I started this one before Ellie was born. The fabrics, in fact, were largely from the first stack I pulled for Ellie and then changed my mind, but I’m glad I didn’t abandon the idea entirely. I was hoping to have it ready to go when the lovely Miss Quinn was born, but alas, she is already two months old. I suppose having my own high-needs newborn is a good excuse, huh?

The design is quite simple: 6×3″ (finished) bricks of prints, with 3×3″ squares of white. I experienced some degree of doubt when I was working on it, but as it got closer to finished, I found I really loved it.

I knew even before I cut the fabric for the front that I would use this pink/fuschia/yellow dot from Lightning Bugs as the binding. You could say the entire quilt was inspired from the binding. A little backwards, perhaps, but it’s such a delicious color combination.

As for the back, I knew I wanted to use big pieces of solid pink/fuschia/yellow, as well as some scraps from the front, but couldn’t quite decide how to put them together. So I popped over to the Quilt Backs group on Flickr, and found my inspiration from the delightful Patch Andi.

For the quilting, I wanted to keep it minimal. This quilt has so much delicious Heather Ross fabric, I wanted to keep the whole thing really soft. The quilting is just straight diagonal lines, every 6 inches. I love that it has the effect of looking a little random against the rectangular bricks on the front, since only some of the white blocks have an “X” and it goes through only one half of the bricks.

Off it has gone to Virginia, hopefully to be enjoyed by sweet Quinn (and her parents, dear friends who stood up at our wedding) as she stakes out space for a girl in a home of two big brothers.

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Categories : Finished Objects

Tags : baby, bricks, fuschia, gift, Heather Ross, Lightning Bugs and Other Mysteries, mendocino, pink, white, yellow

Summer Storm

By Liz · Comments (11) · December 3rd, 2010

Vacation Finish #3 of 3!

Behold, finally finished, my Pinwheel Sampler quilt. The quilt-along started last March, and I had the top completely assembled by early May. And there it languished in a pile, a quilt with no deadline and no recipient, destined to fall to the bottom of the to-do list.

When I first started it, I knew exactly the color scheme I wanted to do. I long had the idea to do an orange-and-raspberry color combo, and I liked the idea of gray sashing. I added pinks and blues for a little more variety. The whole thing reminded me of those wonderful summer thunderstorms. The rain breaks the humidity, and something about that gray, diffuse light miraculously makes the bright summer flowers seem even brighter by contrast. That was what I thought about the whole time I was making it. And yes, those small pinwheels in the sashing were totally worth it.

The prospect of two weeks in paradise with no sewing machine was what finally got me off my butt to piece the back (which I’d pictured in my head LONG ago), quilt it, and get the binding all ready for vacation. The back is my sort of clouds-and-sky idea, gray clouds at the bottom, and pinwheels flying away in the sky above the clouds. Too much? Over the top? Ah well.

I stippled the whole thing in gray thread. Stippling never seems to feel like a particularly natural motion to me (I prefer the loops, which move so much easier in my hands), but I got the hang of it and it looks reasonably even. The binding is a Joel Dewberry Modern Meadow print, with just the right shades of raspberry and pink.

I should call this my “just-barely” quilt. This is the one in whom lies Franken-batting, which was about a quarter-inch too small in one corner, but close enough that I could make it work. I also apparently had the measurements wrong in my head, because the back was almost half an inch off at one point, too. I had to shave a little off one side to make it work, but I sure as hell wasn’t taking it apart and re-doing it. I ran out of spray basting not once, but twice, and had to finish the last quarter of the quilt with pins. And I finished attaching the binding with barely a day left before we took off.

But it’s finished. It’s big (about 65″ square). It’s washed and cozy. And it’s staying right here, at my house.

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Categories : Finished Objects, Quilt-Along

Tags : blue, gray, orange, pink, pinwheel sampler, raspberry, scrappy

Just because I want to

By Liz · Comments (6) · March 8th, 2010

[This post brought to you by the magic of scheduled posting, as I am not doing any sewing at all while I'm in Florida this week...]

I have fallen into the trap that so many quilters do: I am forever working on quilts for someone else. New babies, family members who need a special gift, a commissioned quilt for a friend, and not to mention the bee blocks. All of the quilts that I have swimming around in my head that I simply want to do seem to get pushed to the back of the to-do list. I’m trying to integrate some of those designs and colors and ideas into the “have-to” quilts. And, of course, I only “have to” make them because I’ve said so. I do enjoy making them, otherwise I wouldn’t do it at all.

But there’s something refreshing about making something simply because I want to. There is no intended recipient, no deadline. I showed these blocks to my husband, and when he asked “so what are these for?”, I was pleased to reply “for fun!”

I’m making these along with the P.S. I Quilt Pinwheel Sampler Quilt-Along. What can I say? I can’t resist a good quilt-along.

I’m going with mostly stash fabrics (though I admit to buying a few more to add to said stash). I’m using raspberry/fuchsia, orange, pink, and aqua, with gray (Kona Ash) as the background color. So far, two weeks completed, I’m loving it.

Hopefully this will turn out as nice in reality as it looks in my head.

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Categories : Piecing, Quilt-Along

Tags : aqua, fuschia, gray, orange, pink, pinwheel, raspberry

Girly Zig-Zag

By Liz · Comments (5) · November 21st, 2009

Well, I’ll say one thing in favor of making the same quilt several times over: it gets faster every time. Or, at least, that’s the case with Amanda Jean‘s no-triangle zig-zag.

I cut, pieced, and assembled the entire top during our retreat on that delightful little Featherweight. It was only too funny doing it in the presence of the person who wrote the tutorial. She could scarcely believe that I was able to put it together so fast, and without laying out the whole thing. I assure you, the first time I made it, I had every piece laid out on my guest bed, and put it together one seam at a time. I was terrified to move it, as I was sure I’d lose my place or put it together wrong. The second time, I set out the rows carefully and did them one at a time, but didn’t have to lay it all out at once. This time, I chain-pieced the whole thing. It was a little ridiculous.

Anyways, it was a commissioned quilt made for my friend’s mother, as a gift for a new baby. She requested pinks, lavenders, and creams (the cream fabric in between each row is actually a subtle print, not a solid, which gives it a warmer look close-up). The back, on specific request from the purchaser, is a small pink print. (Hard to see, photos were taken quickly and in less-than-ideal light.)

As with anything I’ve done multiple times, I’m now ready to put the pattern aside for a while. But it really is a great one, so I imagine I may come back to it again someday.

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Categories : Finished Objects

Tags : baby quilt, pink, purple, zig-zag

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