4 Baby Quilts

These are 4 baby quilts that my Mom did the tops and I quilted earlier this year in 2014.

This was a kit Mom purchased about a year ago on sale.  It is a flannel panel with pieced border. Pattern Quiet Jungle by Wilmington Prints. Very simple. I used the large left over hunks of fabric for the back. I quilted with a large stipple.

Size 34" x 52"
SOLD

This is a Pincushion Boutique Sweet Treat flannel top and Minky backing kit. I used Leah Day's Topographic Map quilt motif.  No batting.  I like how the density of the quilting made the overall quilt very pliable.

Size 37" x 48". 
SOLD to Mary Mc

This is a Pincushion Boutique Sweet Treat flannel top with a fuzzy Minky-Like back kit.  I did a large stipple. No batting. 

Size 37" x 42" 
SOLD to Mary Mc

 This pattern was Baby Fences by Queen Bee.  The top is cotton and backing is a blue Minky.  I quilted Leah Day's Echo Maze in the center (very large). The outer border I used a dog footprint motif that I think I got from a Quiltmaker magazine many years ago. I drew the motif onto golden threads paper.

Size 37" x 47". 
Donated to Fences for Fido (via Susan Wente).

Ribbons

Sept 2014 - Dec 2014

Mom made this quilt top several years ago.  It was a pattern from a magazine but I can't find the notes on it at the moment.  I decided to use Sally Terry's Hooked on Feathers quilting motif.  I had taken a class from her at the Salt Lake HMQS Home Machine Quilt Show in 2010.  I'd liked the appearance and the No Backtracking but just had not suck up the courage to do a quilt with it.  I put this on the frame in Sept and was making great progress.  Really liked the outcome and the challenge of going in and out of each ribbon.  However it is such a large quilt that I got bored with it after about a month and couldn't get myself to continue for weeks on end.  I only used two threads, white in the white areas and a Superior Rainbow in the ribbons so it wasn't the thread changes that bugged me.  Then winter came along and it gets cold where the frame is set up.  Eventually I just forced myself to spend 30 minutes a day to get it done.  I really do like how the quilting came out and will try more of the elaborate versions of Hooked on Feathers. Size 80" x 92"
 

Quilter Academy - Freshman Year project #6

Nov - Dec 2014

This project is actually before what we did as project #5 in the book.  This is Carrie's Interlacing Circles.  At first I didn't want to make this one as it just such a small quilt, the book has it as 27x27.  But after doing project 5 I figured I need more practice to imbed the new habits. Therefore we went back in the book and did this project.  Because they are small quilt tops they went together quickly.  Mom had a few issues in putting the blocks together as she didn't see circle pattern from the picture in the book and the directions did not explain the pattern well enough for her.  Therefore she had to take apart most of the blocks she had sewn in rows.  Once she saw the circles in the block pattern she had no issues.  Mine is the pink/purple quilt.  Mom's is the blue/aqua quilt. Each is 39.5" x 39.5"

Quilter Academy - Freshman Year project #5

Oct - Nov 2014

I read the instructions for Harriet's Double Nine-Patch Chain quilt.  Started work on my version of the quilt but got distracted with life and didn't work on the project for almost two weeks.  When I went back to it, I forgot the details and did not re-read the instructions so made all of the  corner blocks the same instead of half of the blocks being mirror images.  Also totally went back to my old habits and did not fan any of the seams.  I was too far into the project when I realized my errors to undo them.  I was able to coach Mom so she didn't laze back into old habits.  Another issue I had was that the tan fabric I had chosen must have been of a lesser quality as the fabric did not behave well and no matter the straightening to the grain the subtle cross hatching in the fabric was always becoming crooked.  One other item I screwed up on was the border.  If I had measured the quilt before adding the borders I would have realized that it was just a small amount over the width of the fabric and so cutting the borders lengthwise would have been better.  Mine is the purple and bright floral, Mom's is the orange and small floral.  Each are 57 x 57.

Yellow Brick Road Baby Quilt

Nov - Dec 2014

My Mom made this quilt top in 2014.  The pattern is Yellow Brick Road. It was a kit that she purchased several years ago.  I was given a large pink fleece fabric and decided to use it as the backing.  To keep the quilt light weight I did not use any batting.  I wanted to practice echoing so I first meander with hearts and stars then went back and echo those shapes to fill edge to edge.  I enjoyed the quilting process and did not get bored with it.  I also like how the combination of the cotton top and fleece back became very soft and pliable. In the borders I tried a new motif for me based on swirl hook from Angela Walters's book Free Motion Quilting.  The problem I had was keeping the motif consistent both in style and size.  I think my issue with consistence was due to my getting bored with the motif.  In the future I need to figure how I could establish register marks to maintain consistency.  The corner stones were quilted using Square 1 from Angela Walters's book Shape by Shape.  I had a couple of false starts but perfected the method and like the result. 
Size: 56" x 56"  SOLD to Mary Mc