I bought these animal prints (zebras and giraffes, and a fun text print) on sale over Christmas and I think I intended to use them together in one or two quilts. When it came down to it, they wanted to be two very different baby quilts (and a third still to come, since I made double the blocks for one, but that’s another story 😉 ) They’re an interesting mix of quilting cotton, batik, and flannel, very fun and tactile.
These both have more quilting than it looks, because I did some structural quilting in the ditch before I did the fun decorative parts.
Thanks for looking! These are in my Etsy shop now.
This week I sewed and didn’t buy, so that’s good news for stash reduction. The 
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Yuri and I finished up this rail fence quilt yesterday. Here he is admiring some of our wavy quilting lines.
And this is what the whole thing looks like. It’s 63″ x 81″, and the rail blocks are nine inches square.
It’s all from stash, and the colors were completely inspired by this backing fabric I had on hand.
I sort of quilted this backwards. Visually, I wanted minimal quilting, so I started out using the walking foot for a serpentine stitch in variegated thread down each bar of fabric. Then I decided that it needed more quilting to withstand use on a bed, so I went back and quilted in all the ditches with invisible thread. It made it a little wonky, but the result is fine. A myriad of troubles disappear when a quilt is washed!
This quilt will stay with me. I was checking out bedding in case some of DS’s friends came home with him, and discovered that I didn’t have a spare twin quilt. Now I do.
This week I put this together this little string quilt. Nope, still can’t tell any difference in my string baskets, but it did use a big pile of them.
I quilted it with five rows of feathers in white Bottom Line.
The back is the last of this alphabet print.
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