Disappearing 9 patch cont

 

Here's a few of the blocks up on my design wall! It definitely is coming together quickly.  I am able to sew it between other things.

Disappearing 9 patch

I have some fabrics from Hawaii that I am going to put into a quilt (I cannot share what I have done with the other fabrics yet).  I decided I would do a disappearing 9 patch.  I used up my trusty Accuquilt to cut 5" strips, then I subcut those into 5" squares, then sewed the nine patches together.

I think I am going to call this quilting springing from Hawaii, because it's spring like colors and some of the fabrics came from Hawaii.

I love how easy disappearing 9 patches go together, and how interesting the design ends up looking.

Memory quilt finished

I have my first finish of 2021! Not bad for being in January!

Here is the finished quilt! I love this quilt pattern because it comes together so quickly.  

We decided to use 108" flannel on the back.  I did a meander on the quilt.  

I used black to bind the quilt.  I really like this pattern for a memory quilt. 

S family memory Quilt 1 part 2

We have most of the strips for B's memory quilt from her dad's clothes cut, so we started laying them out on the wall.

This is the fun part.  And it definitely comes together quickly at this point! it's just long sewing.  

Most of the pieces fit on my design wall, which helped with putting it together and making sure everything was in the right spot and to make sure nothing that was similar was next to each other.

Eq8

I know I have posted about this before, but my mother in law gets me the BEST Christmas gifts!

 

 

 

I have known about EQ8 (Electric Quilt) for a while, but just hadn't justified the cost of it.  BUT oh my gosh!! If you don't have it, it's worth EVERY penny!!

 

I have already used it to help design multiple quilts (Now to find the time to sew them all!) I love that it will give me yardage requirements, no more second guessing and running out, or having to draw it all on paper and do the math!

On EQ's blog they are running a contest.  Using the Coco Chic fabric line, design a quilt.  This is what I came up with.  I like the strips and solid blocks. 

One of the best things about EQ8 is how easy it is to audition different fabrics.  Here is another shot of the same quilt, with one fabric changed.

  

Here is a third shot of the quilt, with a slightly different design.  Instead of using cream blocks, I added some star blocks.

If you have ever been on the fence about getting EQ8, I would say GET IT! It definitely is a wonderful program that will end up saving you time and money! It it so handy to have (as you will see in some future posts ;) )

Memory quilt 1 part 1

 

One of my friends husbands passed a few years ago.  She gave me clothes to make quilts for her & her 3 kids.  One of them was here, so I asked if she wanted to get started on it.  So we decided to start on it.  She really liked the Ray Quilt and asked if we could do that for her quilt.  

So we started ironing on the interfacing and cutting up some strips.  I decided starting on hers would be best since it would take the largest strips.

It was nice because she was able to decide how she wanted it laid out.

Round robin 2021

I LOVE round robins.  I love swaps, I love getting to know other quilters. 
 

 Someone that was in my Round robin 2020 group was running her own, so I of course wanted to join!

Here is the block:

This quilt will actually be for my friend, Becca after she graduates college.  She picked out the design, then picked out all the fabric.

It's always interesting to me to see what fabrics and such other people pick.  Becca has a good eye for color.

The pattern is from http://627handworks.com/ 

I enjoy paper piecing! And love how the hexagons look.

For this round robin we also had to include some fabric so our swap partners can use some of it in each of the rounds!  I am excited to see how this ends up turning out, and what blocks I will get!

Calendar

I have seen this calendar floating around in a few groups I am in, both for exercising and quilting.  I am going to use it for quilting :)

I will color in each day that I color.  So far this year I have sewn every single day!  I know this will not always be the case, but so far I am happy with it! I have a lot to share!
 

Instagram swap

 I love doing swaps on Instagram I meet such interesting people, and get to try out many quilting techniques with making

I did this swap last year, and someone else made these kitties.  And I decided I would make them this year.  I was kind of disappointed there weren't more kitties.

Here is the top I made all finished.

Here is the back of the quilt.

Here is the mini quilt that I received!
 

Spool blocks

I thought it was time to do an update of my spools blocks.  Last time I updated about them was in August. In August I had 295, and I currently have 330.

I haven't been working on these as much, I have been using other quilts as my leaders and enders.  I still think I want to do this by colors, but I am not exactly sure how I will end up doing them.

I could do red, orange, yellow, green, blue, but then where do I put purple, and the whites, and the blacks? I still have time to decide though!

Rail Fence finished

I finally finished this quilt! I started it in November 2018!  I enjoyed the process so much.  I liked the size blocks I worked with.  I used 2.5" x 4.5" bricks.

I quilted with circles/swirls. 

This was the third of quilts I was making for my friends kids.  Hopefully they will be well covered until High school graduation.

 

Pokémon Quilt done

Here is the pokémon quilt all quilted!!!  
 

I used some flannel on the back.  For the binding I used the same colors from the front.  

I am so pleased with how this quilt turned out.  I wasn't sure how much I would like it, because of the random colors, but I am very happy with it!

This quilt design is by Carolyn Friedlander, it's called Ray. In essence it's a really big log cabin quilt.  She has a "coloring" page you can use to keep track of what you want it to look like, and all the measurements! Definitely check it out if you are looking for a quick & easy quilt to make!

Pokémon quilt

Well I shared the pictures of a few pieces of the quilt cut out and on my design wall, here are some more pictures:

Here are a few more rounds that I had sewn and laid out on the design wall.

Another picture on the design wall, with a few more rounds and I have started sewing the quilt together.

This was the last time I could fit it on the design wall.  It was getting a little heavy to fit up there!

And here is the finished top!!!

This quilt really only took my one day of sewing.  It went together SO fast.  I think the hardest part was cutting out some of the longer strips.  I really liked this pattern and could see myself using it again!