Ted's Birthday Quilt

This one was hard to give a name, so I just went with a simple 

"Happy Birthday".

I hadn't given my youngest brother a quilt yet, so a birthday seemed like a good reason!  We don't exchange gifts normally, so it should be a good surprise.  

Let the pinning begin :)

The pattern is "The Mall" from "Strip Smart 

Quilts 2" by Kathy Brown.  I made 2 small changes.  First I increased the border from 5" to 6.5" and secondly I made a solid black inner border, only 3/4" instead of the 2" scrappy one in the pattern.  I love the framing effect of the thin black inner border.

For the quilting, first I did a bit of stitching in the ditch, then some hand-quilting in the inner area. The border I did with some free motion loopy meandering.

Another Scrapbuster :)

I started this one in October/14 and finished it the first week of Jan /15. Do you recognize the pattern? ... It's  "High Five" from "Sunday Morning Quilts"  (by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison).  Since this is a baby quilt it is only 36 x 54, not nearly as big as Amanda Jean's in the book, but still a good way to use up some scraps.

I  machine stitched in the ditch between the blocks, hand quilted an x in the centre of each small square , and did a little extra hand quilting in the big squares. We spent a few days at Niagara Falls over Christmas and I totally enjoyed the veiw while doing some relaxing working on this one.

2014 QUILTS

Two More Charity/Plus Quilts

**** Happy New Year !!!!

These quilts are being donated to Fresh Start Maternity Supports in St. Thomas Ontario.

This one I hand quilted.  Watching TV is so much more relaxing with  a quilt to work on.

The second one I quilted on the machine with loops and a flower in the centre of each plus

I've been working on scrappy log cabin blocks. So far I have 38 made, I need 64 to make it finish up at 80x80

So many options on how to arrange these blocks !!! So far I like this layout, but that will probably change by the time all 64 blocks are done :))

"CRAZY QUILT" 

ready for a new home :)

This was a fun one to play with when I needed some colourful easy sewing for a pick-me-up.

Sister Act

  Who better to make a quilt for than your sister ??  

Especially when she's as amazing as mine is!

This one came together pretty quick.   

56 x 56

The pattern is from Gerri Robinson , found in the Jan/Feb issue of McCall's Quilting. 

 I made it a bit smaller ( I was using material from my stash and ran short! )

Crazy Quilt

I started on this shortly after I first began quilting in the beginning of 2012.

Blocks are 9 inches, finished.
 So far it measures 54 x 63....  I think that's as big as it's going to be

This past weekend I found some great sales while visiting my sister in the States, so I stocked up on batting.  Maybe this quilt top will finally be finished which is kind of sad because I sure will miss it brightening up my sewing room wall!

Some blocks turned out a bit wonky, not a lot of rhyme or reason to this one, just fun :)

How to quilt such a busy quilt???  Any suggestions??