Bowyns Stars

I made this quilt for my brother-in-law and his wife's baby, Bowyn. I just love the soft colors and florals. I was going through a floral phase when I made this. The fabric if from RJR Fabrics, that is all I can remember. This quilt is super duper simple and would be great for charm packs. I will do a tutorial on this quilt with charm packs probably in June or July when some of my charm packs I ordered come in.

This is the first quilt that I actually custom quilted. I had always done a meander on my quilts but wanted to try something new and fun. I watched a lot of youtube videos on free motion quilting and came up with these patterns to fit into the star and the borders

 Here is the backing, I actually forgot that I did the backing like this until I found these pictures. I kinda like it. good way to show off the large scale print and the border acts like a frame for it. That would be my oldest daughter Emma trying to get in on the picture. My girls LOVE quilts. I can not lay one out to take pictures or to just look at without them running on to them and wrapping themselves up in them. Makes me so happy!!

Another Favorite

okay, I realllllly love this one, probably one of my top 3 favorites that I have made. I love this one because the bright colors. It is just fun. I originally started this quilt with the intention on using just one block pattern through. I had rented a book from the library, Carol Doak's 300 paper pieced blocks, which I failed to return and found out that I owed $50 for it! Totally worth it though! I was so excited to start paper piecing. The only problem was that when I finished my first block, I didn't want to do the same one again because there were so many other blocks in the book that I wanted to try which actually worked out great in the long run, I got to make 9 different blocks and it produced a very cool quilt. I made this for my brother-in-law and his wife for their baby, Gwenyth. I really hope she enjoys it as much as I did making it.

Here is a close up of one of the blocks, you can kinda see my quilting - I wanted to keep it geometric feeling with the quilting and didn't want to distort the block with meandering. I really like the way the quilting came out. I used a water soluble pen to mark where to sew.

Another quilt block. Most of my fabrics in this quilt came from Joann's - gotta love the 99 cent fat quarters!

The flannel backing

One of my FAVORITES!!!

Okay, so for the next week or so, I am going to post pictures of some of my quilts I made in the past. this one is one of my favorites (I wanted to keep it for my living room). I made this for my husbands best friend, Resse, and his wife Kim. They were expecting their first child and decided not to find out the sex of the baby (They had a girl, Delaney and she is so stinkin' cute!!). I chose these fabrics because they are very country and the Lord is a big part of their lives. I love how how the crosses pop out of the circles. I found a picture online (bad memory, I cant remember where I saw it) and it said the pattern was the scrapbuster quilt from Material Obsession by Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke. I immediately went online to purchase the book then found out there are 2 books (Material Obsession and Material Obsession Two) so of course, I had to purchase both books! hehe. FYI, this pattern is in the Material Obsession two book...

Well, just so you know the scrapbuster pattern doesn't look anything like my quilt and for a second I thought I had purchased the wrong books because I couldn't find it (Although I did find MUCH inspiration in these two books). But I was dead set on the cross pattern. I kept staring at the one labeled "Scrapbuster" and realized the other person whose quilt gave me the inspiration was that pattern just every other block was rotated. Here is what the original pattern looks like in the book - Beautiful huh!

So if you make your blocks a little differently, this is what I got

It is crazy how different they look! This is my first piano key border and love it! Will do it again on my next scrappy quilt. This quilt was pretty labor intensive as I wanted to have at least 5 fabrics in each wedge and only made my strip steps long enough to cut 3 maybe 4 wedges from it (I didn't want anyone to notice a repeat of the fabrics. I did stay consistent with the corner pieces being blue polk a dot and green polk a dot. I wish I would have done 4 different ones instead of two, maybe like a rust orange polk a dot and mustard yellow but what is done is done - I still love it.

My backing fabric, I did the fold over binding (this was before I realized I LOVE hand sewing the binding on)

A close up of my quilting I did on it - not the best but I was trying out the l's and e's I learned in a machine quilting class I took.

This quilt measures probably 70" square