Morning Glory Dresden Plate

Again on this one I don't have an exact date (uggh!).  I think it is from 2008, and it still isn't quilted (uggh!  uggh!).  I used an older line from Moda called Morning Glory, which I had picked up from a quilt shop, in Columbus, a few years ago.  Then a couple of years ago I was lucky enough to find some additional fat quarters to match the wovens that I already had.   Mix in some nice quality cream-colored fabric and a desire to learn how to do a Dresden Plate quilt ... and voila!   I should have smoothed it out on the design wall a little more before taking the picture though!  It is hard to see in the picture (because it blends in with the white design wall), but there's a cream-colored border OUTSIDE of the checkerboard border.  So this piece actually has three borders ... 1. Cream,  2.  Checkerboard,  3.  Cream.  While this is a lap quilt in terms of size, it will actually be hanging on one of the walls in our master bedroom when I get this quilted.

Postage Stamp Quilt - Update

Okay, had to do a little work on this one ... When I got done with the main body of the quilt, I added a 2½" cream border.  Then I added a 5" blue border - but I really didn't like it at all.  But I didn't want to just start chopping things ... so I gave it a couple of days to be up on the design wall (to stare at it).  Eventually I decided that the wide borders just didn't look right.  So I chopped them down to the same width as the cream borders.  I think I like it a lot better now! 

One group of fabrics - two quilts

Today I'm looking back to a pair of quilts that I made in November of 2008.   Both are made with the Miss Jump's Scrapbag line from Moda.  The first is an original design that I've been calling a "16-patch twister".

The second quilt, a basic rail fence design, was made with the leftovers.

Kasuri Hexagon Stars ...

For some reason I don't have an exact date on this one, but it's today's look back project.  I think I did it in late '08 or early '09.  I had gotten the fat quarter bundle at a shop in Mt. Vernon (OH) - it has an Asian feel to it.  Because of that, I wanted to use the fabric for a quilt that was more geometric in nature.  The templates for this are just one of those basic little template packs that you can get at JoAnn Fabrics in the quilting section.  It really was very simple to piece.

Postage Stamp Quilt - Update

I got 16 more blocks done for my postage stamp quilt .... It really is SO easy, and moves along fairly quickly.  Of course I'm using a strip-piecing method - I'm not sitting there stitching together a gazillion little 1½" squares of fabric.  From one Honey Bun and a couple of yards of cream fabric, I got 32 blocks, each 8" (finished).  I will probably leave off two of the blocks and just do a 5x6 block layout for the lap quilt.  Here's where it's at right now ...

Harvest Home

I'm not sure when I completed this quilt - but it was pretty early on in my quilting experience.  The main body of the quilt was done using nickel squares from Moda's Harvest Home collection.  The borders are each a slightly different color - although each one is gold.  I did some pretty ambitious quilting in the borders for this being such an early piece.  The quilting in the main body of the quilt is all just stitch-in-the-ditch.  I hadn't learned how to do traditional quilt binding yet at that point, so I turned over the edges of this quilt and stitched them down.

The Goose Is Loose (8/3/08)

My look back today is to a quilt top called The Goose Is Loose, which I finished on 8/3/08.  The pattern came from a magazine, and I originally started this project in a completely different color palette.  I had gone with a floral fabric for the background with teal blues and soft greens.  The "geese" were going to be all one color - a teal-ish blue in a bit darker shade than in the background fabric.  But I was a beginner quilter at that point, and my points didn't always match up, and things got a little wonky in some places.  So that project had gotten put in the closet ... waiting for another day to be finished. 

In the meantime I acquired a bundle of fat quarters in an overdyed fabric line, from a quilt show.  I combined that with some classic Amish black fabric as a background and I started over. 

Postage Stamp Quilt

Here's the postage stamp lap quilt that I'm working on currently ... It uses the Beach House line from Moda and some cream fabric.

Fall Is Here (10/7/08)

Ahhh .... just thinking about Fall puts a smile on my face.  I'm not a summer person - and it was close to 90 degrees today - yuck!  Anyway, my look back project of the day for today is a small lap quilt called Fall Is Here.

Dad's Coffee (1/10/06)

I made this quilt for my Dad back in early '06, as a birthday present for him.  The center blocks were meant to look like coffee cups, but unfortunately he didn't see it that way and thought that they were purses.  So the present didn't go over quite the way I had hoped ... 

Countryside Cottage Courtyard (7/25/08)

Countryside Cottage Courtyard is my look back project of the day.  I finished this quilt top on 7/25/08.  I found the pattern in a magazine, and I think the original pattern was called Concetta's Courtyard.  I changed the measurements and added a couple more fat quarters and made this top.  This happens to be one of the few tops that I've made with fabric from a major fabric store, instead of an independent quilt shop.  In choosing the fabrics, I started with the outer border fabric, a floral print, and pulled colors from it for the main body of the top.  Most of the fabrics were from a line called Countryside Cottage.  I have hopes of donating this quilt when it is finished. 

Americana Home ...

My look back for today is Americana Home (modified).  This was a pattern that I saw in a magazine.  I modified it slightly to use it with Jelly Roll strips and changed the size.  The top was completed in October of '08.  It's a lap quilt in size.