Quilt 39! - Cinderella

 Cinderella, made with a PHQ swap in the nineties. I had the blocks all together with the QNM June 1995, waiting to be sewn. Not sure why I waited so long to make this quilt but it is completed and will make a nice travel quilt.

 It finished at 76" x 100" so is a nice large twin. Lots of different fabrics on the back, using many of my purples from back in the nineties, too.

It's interesting to see all the different fabrics from 15 - 20 years ago. A little piece of history here.

Quilt 38 - Under the Sea!

 Another quilt using leftover fabrics! What fun!

 I found a fish fabric for the back I already had, too,

and finished it with a nice machine binding!

Quilt 37 - Raspberries!

I officially quit doing long arm quilting for others this past week when I had another birthday pass. After nine years, I thought it was time to get moving on some more of my quilts. It was a hard decision as I had so many wonderful customers but I can already tell I made the right decision!

Here is the first quilt I made with leftovers from another quilt.

 I've always been a fan of strippy quilts!

 Always the close-up and 

the backing! Why do I like fun backs?? I guess it's the surprise factor and also a way to use up the rest of the extra pieces. About an 1/8" of a yard of fabric is all that was left of these scraps.

Quilt 35 & 36 - Black & White Quilts!

This is the 2010 Black and White BOM I worked on again this year. Finally completed, and glad I went forward with it!

 This quilt was made for a great nephew who was born on the 4th of July. That will be an easy birthday to remember.

 I followed the theme and colors shared with me.

It was a fun quilt to design!

Quilt 34 - Camouflage Quilt!

 This camouflage quilt was totally made in a weekend. A very easy pattern but it highlights the fabrics. From Atkinson Designs, The book Happy Hour. I resized the blocks to 12" finished which was simple to do with EQ7. 

The recipient was overjoyed!!

Quilts 32 & 33!

 I took scraps from Lacey's baby quilt and made this quilt for a baby girl. It's always amazing how many scraps you have left over, isn't it?

 Here it is quilted with some hearts and daisies!

 Then, scraps still left, I made this dolly quilt for Lacey for Christmas. She loves her baby dolls and always has several in her crib at night with her.

I used a soft minkie for the back. 

Quilt 31 - A Cat for Dana!

An 8" quilt for a friend's 70th birthday. Our group makes birthday quilts for special years and this time, it will be small quilts all attached to each other. Can you tell? She loves cats!

 

Don't know why but I always like to see the backs of quilts!

Quilt 30 - Quick Medallion Quilt!

Using another one of those easy patterns from Villa Rosa Designs, I made this quilt rather quickly. 

 Of course, combining all these fun fabrics was the best part!!

 Then deciding which to use for the center . . .

I went with this combination.

 All ready to quilt.  .  .

And completed with the machine sewn binding. 

Quilts 25 - 29! Charity Quilts!

 These are scraps left from Under the Big Top that I made last summer for a great nephew.

 This is a charity quilt and I also have learned a neat way to sew the binding on entirely by machine. 

Here is a close up!!

 These are leftover pieces from the Chevron quilt I made for another great nephew earlier this year.

 What shall I do??

 I am pretty fond of strippy quilts so I started putting pieces in rows, cutting up a few larger pieces and all of a sudden I had a cool finished quilt!

 I am afraid my binding stretched the edges a little. 

I like this basket weave pantograph for this quilt, giving it a contemporary feel to go along with the colors.

And here is another machine sewn binding!

 I used the above pattern for the next three quilts. So quick and easy and cool results!

 Again, leftover fabrics from a quilt I made last year. Isn't it amazing how much fabric is leftover sometimes, even from a kit?!

 Another machine sewn binding. . .

 more details. . .

and, a pieced back - just happened to have these fabrics in the closet, waiting for a use.

 This began with a pile of scraps as I was cleaning out my closet and giving fabric away a couple of weeks ago.

 I began pressing it, cutting it up in rectangles, added some fun polka dots and bright fabrics and all of a sudden I had two more baby quilts made.

 I used swirls on both of them - one a pantograph and one freehand. The above quilt binding was a bright turquoise.

 I did buy this cool backing drastically reduced at a quilt shop as I realized the colors were perfect for these quilt tops in the making.

 Looks like this is the pantograph!

 Finished with a binding of sunflowers like the back!

Back two! Whew, I think I'll take a break and rest!

Quilt 24 - Construction Quilt 2

It's been a year now since I began this blog to see how many quilts I could get done and reduce my stash. I did not make a quilt a week but I have completed 23 quilts. One of the quilts listed took about a week but it was strictly quilting for someone else.

So, has my stash been reduced in size? It does not look like it from my closest picture, yet it must have been because of the finished quilts. I have made and shared several quilts with others which was one of my goals. I will continue to work on the stash this coming year and keep posting!

I have started some more projects and bought more fabric. An endless cycle I guess but this blog helps me keep up with what I have done and that is good.

Here is the most recent quilt.

 It is the second "Construction Quilt" - quilted a little differently and I pieced the back with leftover flannels I had from some other quilts. Just barely had enough but it will make a soft warm back.

I also went back to sewing my binding first by machine then by hand. I just can't seem to master the all machine binding yet. Maybe I'll give it another try some day.