Two Small Quilts

Finished size - 45" x 45"

I made this quilt awhile ago. I'm not even sure when but it was within the last year. I was inspired by this blog post whose idea came from this tutorial. I used 10.5 inch squares to make the half square triangles and quilted it with both machine and hand stitches. 

The Churn Dash quilt below was originally intended to be a version of Flea Market Dash, a Jen Kingwell design from the book, Quilt Lovely. I tried to pull it off but I just couldn't make the whole thing work with the fabrics I had on hand. This one is a good example of a quilt becoming what it is meant to be. 

It is also both machine and hand quilted and has a two piece backing. Both quilts used the same border fabric.

Finished size - 46" x 60"

Wedding Quilt - June 2017

Finished size - 87" x 108"

I made such a beautiful quilt for our daughter and her new husband last summer and I did a really lousy job taking pictures. It's a challenge for me - I don't like to ask other people to hold them up and I've never devoted the time or supplies to fashioning a rack or some device to do it instead. Neither of our bedrooms are well lit enough for indoor shots so rain and wind and winter often interfere with the conditions needed for a good outside image.

Enough whining about the pictures. The quilt is gone and it was appreciated by the new owners so that is what really matters. The pattern is called Emily's Wedding Quilt from The Quilting Company. Katherine picked it out and showed me some fabrics that she liked. I liked the design a lot - it was simple enough but still challenging in many respects. I used contrast to emphasize the repeating shapes and I was really happy with how it turned out. I also simplified the borders, using a single fabric instead of three stripes. The cornerstones are four different turquoise prints and the binding is a black and white stripe. An extra-wide robin egg blue backing was an easy way out for that step and actually looked quite good once the quilt was complete. I had a local quilter, Peggy Wilbur, do the long arm quilting with a pattern of interlocking circles of various sizes. I also added some hand stitched details before it went off to its new home. It was a way for me to put in some more layers of love and good wishes. Happy Wedding!