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!

A Happy Go Lucky Baby Quilt

Here is a little baby quilt finished today! Doesn't it just make you feel Happy (and a little go Lucky, too, maybe?). I'm loving the fresh colours. I went a little improvisational, beginning with a charm pack of Happy Go Lucky by Bonnie and Camille and a plan to make stars... then adding a couple of pinwheels... then making tiny pinwheels with the scraps from the stars... et voilà!

I decided to change things up and attempt curved corners on this one. I actually decided this AFTER I made the straight binding, and then realized my mistake AFTER I cut the corners off! Thankfully I had enough fabric to make another length of binding, this time bias. Whew! Although wrapping my head around the method was more than my pea brain could bear, despite the excellent instructions found here at Jona's wonderful blog, Stop Staring and Start Sewing! Well, I managed it with a just a couple of cluster cusses. (PSA: DON'T iron after you've drawn all your lines with a Frixion pen... DOH!)  The binding fabric is from Jenean Morrison's line Silent Cinema.

I quilted 1/4 inch from the seams with white Aurifil in 50 wt. I finished it off with a little hand quilting on the borders, also using my growing collection of Aurifil (this time in a 12 wt.)... aaaaah, bliss. And here she is!

Ruby Tuesday: Part Two

Ruby Tuesday Part One coincidentally fell on a Tuesday with Ruby fabrics, and Ruby Tuesday Part Two has also come on a Tuesday with Ruby fabrics times two! Confused yet?

I had two Ruby charm packs from Moda and so made two sweet baby girl quilts with cheery spring pinwheels. It was snowing this morning, so these quilts are as bright as it gets around here today. I stippled one, and straight line quilted the other. They are both backed with a pink flannel from Valori Wells I found at my LQS on sale. Still need to bind them! I have some solid pink from Kona that will be nice, I think.


It's neat to see the different quilty qualities that show up depending on how the quilt is quilted. YKWIM? Hope your Tuesday is terrific!

A Ruby Tuesday

Today I am enjoying the hope of spring in the air and working with cheerful Ruby fabric by Bonnie and Camille for Moda. I've paired it with Kona Snow and am sewing up happy pinwheels for a baby quilt. How can I not smile?