Category Archives: Quilts

Bloggers’ Quilt Festival! My Amy Butler Apron Quilt

Bloggers’ Quilt Festival! My Amy Butler Apron Quilt

This is my first time joining the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival!  Check out Amy’s Creative Side for all the details.  There are so many awesome quilters out there!  Thanks for sharing!

This is one of those projects that starts as something else when you buy the fabric!  I bought this great Amy Butler fabric to make a reversible apron but when I came home from the store and read the apron pattern….well, the fabric went into the stash!  What was I thinking!  Years later, after getting a tumbler template, I cut up all that apron fabric and this quilt was born!  Using my design floor, I decided on this arrangement.  I challenged myself to leave the edges and this is my first attempt at a shaped border.

It  measures 63″ x 81″, so I think it makes a much better quilt than apron!

 

 

Thanks for looking!  And just keep stitching!

Linda

 

 

Christmas Table Topper

Christmas Table Topper

Here’s another Christmas quilt by Marty.  This will be a table topper for Christmas.  I love quilts for tables, so pretty!  Just for fun I’ll put random quilts on our dining room table.  For Marty’s quilt we used Quilter’s Dream 100% cotton select batting, it has excellent drape.  I decided to use a very tight and curly pantograph called Oodles of Doodles and I changed from my original plan of red thread to a rayon gold thread by R&A.  It was a small spool from my embroidery stash and I was sweating bullets that it would run out!  But thankfully, it didn’t!  I’ll have to ask Marty to send me a pic of her house all decorated with her Christmas quilts!

 

Christmas Ribbons

Christmas Ribbons

 

Aren’t Christmas quilts fun!  I have to admit that I have a Christmas UFO hanging in my closet, just needs to be quilted!  Maybe next year I’ll quilt mine!  This is one of three Christmas themed quilts Marty brought me for quilting.  It was fun to follow the style of the quilt and quilt it with ribbons and a fun flower in the negative spaces. The thread matches in the negative spaces but I love the great texture it creates when the light hits it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The batting is Quilter’s Dream 100% cotton select and the thread is Superior Threads OMNI.

 

 

How’s your Christmas sewing going?  Have a great stitching weekend!!

Linda

It’s a big one!

It’s a big one!

 

 

Marty’s made another really great quilt and it’s a big one!  The quilting design is a freehand E2E called Tear Drop Echo meander.  It seems to move around the quilt which is perfect for the squares and rectangles of this quilt.  The batting is Quilter’s Dream 100% cotton select and the thread is Superior Threads So Fine #50.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love how the medium brown thread changes from a light to a dark depending on the fabric.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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