Tutti-Frutti Baby (Granny Square) Quilt finished

I finished piecing and machine-quilting my Tutti-Frutti baby granny square quilt. Quilting is very therapeutic when grieving. The finished quilt size is about 32 x 40 inches. The quilt is made from 2.5 inch fabric blocks only which are trimmed to fit into a square (8.5 inch) on-point blocks.

I chose red binding to bring it all together, and a pretty china-blue rose print for the backing.

French nine-patch finished and 500 quilt blocks fun

In my summer December vacation, I finally had some dedicated time for quilting again. I managed to finish basting and quilting my French Nine-patch quilt top, made with a couple of different Moda French General charm packs.

I backed the quilt with some Moda 3 Sisters Paris Flea Market fabric that was on sale from Hancocks of Paducah (my favourite online store, their prices, shipping costs and customer service are unbeatable). I did simple stitch-in-the-ditch quilting only on the large patches, which has made the quilt nice and soft.

I recently bought a fantastic little quilting book (at the university academic book store?!) called 500 Quilt Blocks by British authors Lynne Goldsworthy (http://lilysquilts.blogspot.com/) and Kerry Green (http://verykerryberry.blogspot.com/). This a fantastic book with excellent instructions and beautiful examples using modern and vintage fabrics. 

I find this book very inspiring and I would like to make a sampler quilt with my Kaffe Fassett fabric stash sometime soon. At the moment I'm playing around with Granny Squares block from their book with my small floral prints fabric stash.

Of course Sweety-Bird is assisting me: by pulling out all my pins and throwing it on the floor, and using the cotton reels as toys...

Pinwheel quilt finished at last!

 

I finished quilting and binding my water-lilies pinwheel quilt this week! It took almost 2 years for me to finish this quilt. I hand-quilted the centre of the quilt and the outer border I machine quilted. It is the first one of my quilts that I have quilted myself. The finished quilt is 83" x 83".

I used a Kaffe Fassett print, bekah in blue, for the back of the quilt. I used another Kaffe Fasset print, mirage stripe in blue, for the binding.

Here is another shot of the quilt on our bed. Unfortunately it has been raining so I can't take a photo of the whole quilt outside. Here is the link to the whole finished quilt top. It feels good to get such a big project finished! Yay!

French nine-patch quilt top finished

I finished sewing the French nine-patch quilt top yesterday. I'm not going to quilt this one myself, I'll have to get some quotes from the professionals. In the meantime, I'm going to make another pieced quilt top with all the leftover lighter coloured charm squares, I'm busy deciding on the pattern now.

French nine-patch quilt progress

I finished making 120 5"x5" nine-patch blocks, and started playing with the French General charm pack squares for the layout for my French nine-patch quilt. I purchased 5 Moda French General charm packs in total: 2 x La Belle Fleur; 1 x Le Petite Odile; 1 x Château Rouge; 1 x Esprit de Noel. I only used the darker background squares. The nine-patches were made from half-yard pieces from the La Belle Fleur and Chateau Rouge ranges.

I am about half-way with assembling the quilt-top now :)

I also managed to start knitting a cardigan. I chose a simple Kaffe Fassett motive from his Pattern Library book. 

Hexagon quilt kaleidoscope pieced backing

I added a border to my Curio hexagon quilt top. I think it finishes it off nicely. I decided to make a pieced back with the leftover fabric. I am trying out a kaleidoscope block template (Kaleido-Ruler) that my mom bought for me. It works great!

Curio hexagon quilt top finished

I finally finished piecing my Curio hexagon quilt made from a moda jelly roll and some additional yardage. I'm still undecided about adding a border. For detailed instructions on how I made the quilt, please see my Curio Jelly Roll Hexagon Quilt Tutorial.