Leaf Table Runner

My daughter and I made a second fall table runner recently for our coffee table. We chose some rich fall leaf colored scraps for this one. I love these small projects for her (she's 12) because they are small enough for her to finish in a week or two and not get bogged down.

I did a simple quilting on it by a small meander on the leaves and X's on the border. I was going back and forth about adding more to the white part but I decided that less was more on this project. 

 I was hoping to get two Christmas runners done, but that didn't happen. So we'll have to move on to spring runners in the new year. December is such a busy time of year. 

Pumpkin Table Runner

My daughter and I made this cute table runner for our new hallway table that we found at a garage sale recently. She picked the fabrics for it using mostly scraps. I sewed the HSTs and the leaf pieces and she did the rest of the top. 

Then I surprised her and had her quilt it!  She is only 12 and has never used my longarm before. I got it all set up for her and taught her how to quilt a horizontal line with the locks. She did mostly random spacing but kept it about a quarter to three eights of an inch apart.

I finished our table runner with a cute orange polka dot print. Since these pictures have been taken, we've added some fall décor to the table. I love walking by it every day!

 

Jewel Tones Scrappy Quilt #1

This is the first jewel tone quilt made from the scraps in the photo below. I actually cut the scraps into 3 quilt kits. It's amazing how far scraps will go. This quilt is going to a friend of mine who loves red. The deep rich colors in this quilt are perfect for her! (and they go nicely in my living room, I was tempted to keep it!)

Here's the pile of scraps I pulled out a while ago. I used all three sizes of my scraps - 2.5" squares, 5" squares, and 2.5" strips. This is enough for 3 quilts and then some. I still have quite a bit left over in a bin. When I finish the next 2 quilts, I will see if there is enough for another quilt. Such a rich, deep beautiful rainbow of fabrics!

 

Sunshine Quilt Pattern

60 x 72

Here's a new pattern called Sunshine that I recently finished. This one is the throw size and I love how the stars in this version look like the sun. You can find the pattern here. It comes in 5 sizes from baby to king. There's a sample baby size below. 

I had some fun trying out some different colors for this pattern. I'm partial to blue, but the yellow and green one reminds me of summer citrus. 

Hopefully you see a version that you like. You can grab your pattern here and make one this week!

Love Strings Quilt Pattern

56" x 72"

I called this pattern Love Strings because of the little blue squares make up the hearts and the green is the connecting strings. I originally designed it in red and black which you can see below which would be perfect for a February quilt. Since it's summer time, I went ahead and make it in turquoise and lime green which is one of my favorite color combos.

 I have been wanting to make a quilt with a checkered background for quite some time. It just took a while to find the right pattern to put it with. Check out the red and black version and the red and teal version.

How about a monochromatic version? This one has beautiful green blue shades.

a three color version

This baby version is oh so soft looking in pinks and grays. 

You can find my new Love Strings pattern in my etsy shop. It comes in 5 sizes from baby to king. Which version do you like the best?

Another Lakeview Terrace Quilt

60 x 70

Finally finished is this Lakeview Terrace Quilt I started several months ago. This is the second quilt I have made in this pattern. You can see the first one here. This one got some bright and happy fabrics! I made it all from scraps. 

For the quilting, I choose a wavy line with alternating loops. It was very easy to quilt. I just put one line per strip. Something different for a change.

I had nothing in my stash big enough for a back so I decided to make one from matching pieces. I wanted to use some of each color and this is what I came up with. I really am trying not to buy backing fabric unless I have to. 

One for picture just because I love it! Those soft colors are so pretty.

 

Postcard Quilt - throw size

While I was making a postcard quilt for a customer, I found some triangles in some similar colors but not the ones that I like to use. So I thought I would make an extra postcard quilt using those pieces up. You can hardly tell that I did because there are so many different colors in this pattern already. 

I love this gray print from Joann's. The wavy white lines look great with the wavy quilting. It's like they were made for each other!

My favorite shot of the quilt on the couch. Such beautiful colors. I love making this one. Get one for yourself in my etsy shop.
 

Triple Dot Quilt

This is my new pattern called Triple Dot. It's so fun and modern! It is designed with 3 colors in mind, but you can even use scraps. I chose to use 3 fabrics for each color. The pattern had cutting instructions for 3 fabrics, 9 fabrics, or scraps so you get to choose. 

I finally made a pieced quilt back. I haven't done one like this in a while. All one color just seemed to solid for the light colored front. Plus it looks playful just like the front!

This pattern would be perfect for a summer quilt in red, white, and blue. The printed white background gets shown off in this version. 

Aqua blue is one of my favorite colors, so I set it off with a black background. Very stricking!

But this navy blue version with the greens is probably my favorite. I would have made this one had I designed it before I sewed up the test quilt. I would sew it up with a textured blue background from Moda's Nantucket Summer fabric line. You can find Triple Dot in my Etsy shop. 

 

Scrappy Queen Quilt

100" x 100"

My scraps have been busting at the seams waiting for me to do something with them. I have been using up the bright fabrics this year in several scrappy quilts (one more is almost finished). But I don't tend to use the brown ones and the duller fabrics so I set out to intentionally use those fabrics. I picked this pattern because it used a ton of pieces. I started to make a throw size quilt, but found that I had enough to make a queen so who not make a big one? 

The solid is Kona Windsor. I even found it in a wide back so I wouldn't have to piece it together.  I had thought about using black or gray, but neither one seemed to go with the color in the fabrics. 

The sun doesn't ever seem to hit my house at the right angle to get a nice bright photo indoors, but I tried anyway. I think it would look good with some navy shams and a different headboard. Back to work, got lots to do!

Memory Pillows

Recently, my friend asked me to make her family some memory pillows from the shirts of her father-in-law. She gave me 4 flannel shirts and 3 cotton dress shirts to make 12 pillows. She wanted all the flannel together and I was able to make 9 pillows from those 4 shirts. I used the back of the shirts to make the back of the pillow. 

I used the 3 cotton shirts to make 3 pillows and used the backs again for the backs of the pillows. These were 12 x 18 pillows.  The pillows were a great way to share when you have a limited amount of shirts. They turned out super cute!

 

Lakeview Terrace

60 x 70

This is a scrappy quilt made from some leftover fabrics that have been sitting in my closet for a couple years now. I had a bunch of 5" strips that I didn't want to put away because I loved the color combo and thought it would make a good quilt. So I grabbed some olive green to go with it and used the tutorial here to make the blocks. 

I had some white on white dot print in my stash, so I decided to use that rather than a solid. It looks nice here, but I accidentally made 3 extra blocks and now I don't know what to do with them. They probably won't go in another scrap quilt because the background will stand out. But maybe they could do in a scrap quilt like this one.

Backing was a hard choice for me, but I went with a solidish looking dark blue. Purple or green would pull out too much of either of those colors and blue seemed a neutral solution.

I love this pattern so much, I started another one with a bright and happy color scheme. The blocks are currently in progress, but I'll have to purchase a backing for this one I think. 

It will be perfect for spring!