Twice as Nice

Are you feeling the Holiday season upon us? Things are definitely picking up around here so if I seem to be sparse I'm still here I'm just busy! These quilts were made for boys who share a room I opted for coordinating patterns and fabrics instead of making two matching quilts. The patterns I used were Pow Wow and Spin cycle by Cluck Cluck Sew you can find the patterns here http://cluckclucksew.bigcartel.com/ I love the instructions on the pattern they are so clear! I only found about a dozen other quilts patterns to try from this site. Have a happy Holiday season! Here is a closer view:

Above Spin Cycle

Above Pow Wow

Above pantograph Spilt paint By Anne Bright find it here

http://www.annebright.com

Above pantograph http://www.longarmstore.com/quilting-patterns/packet-patterns/season-nature-packet.html

A Christmas Table Topper

 This was a table topper I pieced together a few years ago when I was learning to square up blocks. I haven't ever got around to quilting it until now. These were simple hourglass blocks built from half square triangles I used a six inch squares sewed a 1/4" down both sides of a center line and then squared them down to five inch blocks. I have been loving the orange peel quilting everywhere and I figured this would be the perfect project to give it a try. This was definitely less challenging than I originally thought it would be. Here is a close up of the front quilting:

 

 

 

This is what the quilting looks like on the back:

Overall I am really happy about how this turned out and I can't wait to use this on my table this Holiday season.

A Quick Christmas Project

     I got the opportunity to teach at Quilt guild the other night on how to faux chenille. I looked up Chenille in Google to see what was out there and there were plenty of chenille baby blankets which are a super cute idea but I wanted to do something a little different. So this is the quick project I came up with.
      I took three layers of green and red fabric stacked them and sewed the lines for chenille. (If you don't know how to do this please search for it there are plenty of tutorials out there make sure you are sewing on the bias.)  I then Ironed a piece of Heat N' bond light onto the back of my chenille piece and  I used the Accuquilt dye similar to this one http://www.accuquilt.com/studio-isosceles-triangle   to cut out the triangle for the tree and the bottom inch of a letter for the stand. I then cut the chenille into the tree  using a chenille cutter  and sewed around the tree 1/4" in  to anchor it to the pillow top. I then assembled my pillow to be the size of my pillow form which was 18"x18."  I chose to turn my fabric so the lines of chenille were horizontal but this would be darling with the chenille on the forty five degree angle too.  Here's a close up:

Tree of Life quilt

 This was a quilt I got to make for My Girlfriends Quilt Shoppe. About a year ago the shop had a triangle exchange using the 2" triangle papers by Edyta Sitar and I got to make a sample of her quilt. This quilt is called the "Tree of Life" and is out of the book "Friendship Triangles". Let me tell you this book is awesome! I only have a million more projects I want to make from the book. Once I completed this quilt I just couldn't bring myself to quilt it so I had my friend hand quilt it and she did an awesome job! Here is a close up of the quilting:

Fireworks!

I just finished this quilt for My Girlfriends Quilt Shoppe and let me tell you it was so much fun to sew. The pattern is Fireworks by Thimble Blossoms.  I love how it turned out and I had so much fun quilting it. I did a square meander pattern and it fits this quilt so nicely! Here is a close up of the quilting.

Tumblers

 I love it when something comes together like this.  This quilt was a breeze and it gave me an opportunity to use the Layer Cake Tumbler by Missouri Star Quilt Company. This Template is amazing easy and there is hardly any waste. The fabric is Prayer Flag by April Cornell for Moda. I used three layer cakes and one yard for the top, this made the quilt nice and large for our King size bed. I quilted this quilt with a pantograph from Urban Elementz  "New Delhi #2".  Here is a close up of the quilting: