Shinning Star Quilt

So, tonight I am going to share with you my absolute favorite quilt I have made to date. My inspiration (okay, I pretty much copied the block) came from Red Pepper Quilts. I saw this and just fell in LOVE!!! I made this quilt for my Brother-in-law and his wife for their new baby boy, Brycen. I had won this fabric on facebook only contest from a magazine. It was a fat quarter bundle from P&B textiles called Spring Street. This fabric line has been my ultimate favorite. I have made 2 quilts from the bundle and have enough left for one more! Talk about getting your monies worth! (well, if I had to pay for it). okay... here it is

The quilt that Rita at Red Pepper Quilts made had a large white sashing that created other little stars in the meeting points, I didn't have much time to do all that and to be honest, I was done with the half square triangles (well, for a little bit). There are 64 pieces in each block. I had planed on doing a 3 x 3 quilt but ran out of time and went with a 2 x 2 and added 3 borders (white, colored blocks and another white.

I just love it! My wonderful and amazing husband bought me a basic longarm machine (bailey pro 15) for Christmas and I was able to use it on this one. My favorite pattern to use on my quilts lately is this drunken feathers pattern. I bought the pantograph at quiltscomplete.com.

I know it is kinda hard to see. I have only been taking pictures of my projects with my phone (Never thought in a million years I would have started my own blog!!) I also put this in the mail before taking final pictures of it when the binding was all done. I did a really scrappy binding using all the fabrics in the quilt top - just made everything pop. Maybe this summer I can sneak it away and do a mini photo shoot with it and update this post.

Fire quilt

So, my mom wanted me to make her a quilt for her and my dad. When I was trying to figure out a pattern and color scheme, I decided I wanted to make them one for their camper. They like to be at the beach or a lake when they go camping so I thought these fabrics work so well in representing a lakeside campfire. Every time I see these pictures, I want to sit in a nice comfy chair by a cozy fire and snuggle up with this quilt (maybe even have a fruity umbrella drink in my hand) ahhhh....

These fabrics are 2.5" precut strips from timeless treasures.The pattern I got from my quilt shop, I can not remember the designer but I believe it was called sea glass. I did tweak the pattern a little bit by adding an extra row. The original was a 3x3 and I wanted to make sure it was big enough for a grown man to snuggle with it.

There is Emma again! silly girl.

You can not really see the quiting, it is a medium size meander in a variegated thread. For the binding I did the fold over from the backing fabric. I will do a tutorial on that in the near future. Basically after you are done quilting, cut the batting even with the quilt top and then cut the backing fabric 1" wider than the quilt top. Fold in half and iron and then fold it again and stitch it down. Super easy, super fast.

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