More Quilts

[sakon76]

First up is the quilt I made from someone else's trash. The purple/pink floral fabric was a wadded-up bundle of scraps in the free bin at the Bargain Bazaar of Costume College 2014. You know what they say about one seamstress' cabbage being another's quilt materials? :) I turned the freebie into a pretty nice little baby quilt for Esther, who is Wonderful Husband's oldest friend's daughter... and just a couple weeks younger than Squiddle. I used Bonnie Hunter's free "Dancing Nine Patch" pattern and gave it to the recipient while we were all in England last year.



That little quilt pretty much jumpstarted me back into quilting more seriously. So I did a sewalong with Natalia Bonner on her Piece N Quilt website as well that December, thinking if I finished it in time, I'd give the quilt to my inlaws for Christmas. It was pretty close, but I did manage to finish Christmas Sparkle the day before we boarded the plane to England.



Then, once we got back, I pulled out a quilt top I'd finished years ago, and got to work on a belated Christmas/birthday present for my sister. I don't still have any of the packaging, but I'm 90% certain this quilt was originally from block of the month kits at Joann's. I used two rolls of batting I'd inherited from our grandmother, so there's a little bit of her in this too. This was also the quilt where everything went wrong. It took not weeks but a couple months to finish! Still, I stuck with it, and the end result turned out fairly nice.



Now I need to either page back and find photos of the quilts I made for Squiddle, or take new ones. Then I'll be up to date on documenting my quilts here. For now.

Comments

[tainry.livejournal.com]

Wow! Pretty quilts!!! That last one is in one of my fave color combos - that Provencal blue/yellow thing... ;D Awesome!

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Very pretty! I especially like the last one. :)