I'm on a ROYGBIV Roll!

This is what happens when you re-organize your fabric shelves and see what you all have there.  I love to organize by colour.  This quilt emerged when I sorted my scrap strings.  And this one when I sorted all my fat quarters and larger scraps!

It was so fun, fun, fun to make! I have referenced it before and I will reference it again, because it is such a great tutorial. Go see Jeni Baker at In Color Order and her Plus Quilt Tutorial.

I backed this one with some snuggly flannel from Riley Blake in a lovely bright red. I quilted it using the "wavy" stitch on my Bernina (stretched as wide as it could go and at length "3") and my walking foot. It was so easy peasy and so satisfying because a little wiggle is totally unnoticeable, unlike with straight line quilting. I'm so happy with the results.

The binding is a fun orange Pezzy Print from American Jane. All pieced with Aurifil in 50 wt of course. I used Aurifil in a light gray for the top quilting and a rainbow variegated for the bobbin, to add colour to the reverse side. Dimensions are 36" by 52".

As much as I love it, it is a little small for the growing members of my family and even for me.  It will soon be up in my Etsy shop!

ETA:  I completely forgot to give credit to Becca at Bryan House Quilts!  Her Rainbow Plus Quilt has been such a part of my quilting subconscious for a while now I barely realized it was not from my own brain!  Becca's, however, is a sophisticated and grown up version which is absolutely breathtaking.  Go look!!

 

Blogger's Quilt Festival, ROYGBIV Category Quilt Entry

Welcome to my blog, and my Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry in the ROYGBIV Quilt category!

This scrappy quilt top emerged from my machine last spring after colour sorting all my string sized scraps!

 You can find the tutorial I used to construct the string blocks over at Film in the Fridge. Or, a similar method is shown in Elizabeth Hartman's book, Practical Guide to Patchwork, under the quilt "Valentine".

 

The backing I finally chose is simple a turquoise sheet from Ikea, the binding is called Itty Bitty RicRac by Lakehouse Designs. I pieced it all and quilted it all with Aurifil thread, using a rainbow variegated thread on the back, which I love. The quilting is an all-over grid done on my machine, diamond-y like the blocks.

Quilt Stats: Dimensions: 59" by 71" 

Fabrics: scrap strings 2" and less, centre strips are made with Habitat Dandelions by Michelle D'Amore for Bernatex. Binding is Itty Bitty Ric Rac by LakeHouse Designs. Backing, Ikea sheet. 

Batting: Warm & Natural 

Thread: Aurifil 50wt for piecing and quilting 

Completed August 2013

  Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy looking around the Blogger's Quilt Festival!

Blogger's Quilt Festival

Welcome to my Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry in the Baby Quilt Category!

I made this little quilt this summer for my Etsy shop. It was purely a therapeutic exercise, beginning with a pretty charm pack (Happy Go Lucky by Bonnie and Camille), some coordinating solids (a white and Bella's Robin's Egg Blue), and then.... I just went from there. I saw stars, then I saw pinwheels, and then I saw stitches. It might sound like I hit my head, but I guess I saw this quilt!

I decided to round the corners of the quilt, and thusly got an education in making bias binding. Thanks to Jona Giammalva! So that was fun. The binding fabric is one of my favourites, a print from Silent Cinema by Jenean Morrison.

The stitches I envisioned were big, colourful hand stitches in thick Aurifil thread - in both 12 wt and 28 wt. These I added to the top and bottom borders.

And here are the stats in a nutshell:

Dimensions:  31" by 36"

Fabrics: Happy Go Lucky, by Bonnie and Camille

Robin Egg Blue, Moda Bella Solid

Winter White, Free Spirit Solid

Silent Cinema, by Jenean Morrison (binding)

Hello Pilgrim, by Lizzy House (backing)

Batting: Warm & Natural

Thread: Aurifil 50 wt (piecing) and Aurifil 12 wt and 28 wt (hand quilting)

Completed June 2013

So that's it for me here!  Hope you enjoy the Quilt Festival and have fun looking around at all the pretty!

Previous Quilt Festival Entries: 

SPRING 2013

FALL 2012

Scrumptious Baby Quilt

Oh, I almost forgot to blog about this one!  I finished hand quilting it while on vacation:

It's made with a charm pack of Scrumptious by Bonnie and Camille for Moda, and some coordinating Kona solids in pink, green and orange. The french text background fabric has generated a few inquiries on Instagram, and I bought mine from Kloth and I wish I could say it was easily found, but it isn't... oh, oh, oh! I just went to look and she has it in again, hooray! It's by Stof and is called Merci Beaucoup! Isn't it pretty? Quick! Buy some!!

I wish now I would have used a creamier white for the pieced border, to match the text fabric better, but it actually does look closer in real life.

The little deer in the text print reminded me of the little deer in one of my favourite lines from Moda, by Jesse and Lauren Jung, Hideaway. So it is used on the back. Sweet, sweet little deer!

The binding is also a favourite print and colour of mine, from the Silent Cinema line by Jenean Morrison. I also used it in this baby quilt.

 I pieced the entire quilt on my machine with my usual Aurifil, and the hand quilting was also done in Aurifil, in a 12 wt. Final dimensions are 31" by 38". And it is for sale in my shop!

Photos of Our Epic Trip!

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have noticed that my family and I took off for the month of September, hopped in our motorhome and saw mucho stuff! We drove from our home in Western Alberta to the Oregon Coast, down to San Francisco, over to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, and then back north through Zion and Arches National Parks. That's about 7,982 km (4,953 miles) for those who like numbers!  We finished *JUST* as the US government decided to shut down all the Parks. Nice for us to not have our trip affected in any way, but ever so sad for all the folks since then who wanted to see these spectacular places.

Anyways, we left on August 31 and arrived back home on October 2. Words can't describe what a fabulous time we had, so hopefully a few of my favourite pictures will (click on through to Flickr to see the whole album of favourites if you are so inclined...). Also, my sons, who have their own YouTube channel have put up a couple of Vacation Vlogs, if you'd like to see us "in action" so to speak. Or maybe you are just here for the quilts, which is fine and dandy too! More to come on that end of things to be sure!

   

Curio Kaleidoscope Quilt

Popping in to pop up some pictures of this pretty:

I started this one a while ago and in a madness of missing my machine after being gone for more than a month...I quilted her up! (And thusly avoided the mountain of laundry we generated camping for a whole month!)

Maybe I'll come back and post some pictures of our holiday when I climb out from under the chaos and get back into my routine?

 
Oh, and stats:  dimensions of this quilt are 77" by 85". I made it with a fat eighth bundle of Curio by Basic Grey for Moda, some yardage of the same line, and Bella Solid in Snow. I followed Don't Call Me Betsy's Kaleidoscope Quiltalong (now a couple of years old) for the pattern. I quilted with a meandering free motion and pieced it with Aurifil in 50 wt. and the binding is Painter's Canvas by Laura Gunn.