The sun came out for a while yesterday, so Yuri and I raced out to take some quilt photos.
I had a variety of sports fabric scraps left from some baby quilts I’ve made as gifts and commissions. I planned to make one quilt, but it turned out I had enough for three.
Some of the fabrics were already cut in 6.5″ squares, and I wanted to keep the large prints visible, so I stuck with squares for this one. I found the blue ombre semi-solid that I think adds interest to the alternate squares.
Since this turned into three quilts, I had the opportunity to assembly-line them a little, making all the bindings and labels at once, basting two at the same time, etc.
And, yes, I had it checked for snuggliness. It passed!
Stay tuned for the next two soon.
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This is the Supernova pattern again. When I made 
No, it’s not low-volume, but I like the way this turned out. It started life as a short wide panel. I cut it apart and sewed it back together to make it a vertical rectangle. Then I added the fish panels (the very last of that fabric) and the shell borders.
I quilted on the seam lines, dark blue lines, and around all the motifs. Then I quilted waves around the borders.
I finished it with a blue and white diagonal stripe binding.
This is the last one of these, I promise. I’m all out of the fabric, even the scraps (I have a few flannel giraffe squares, but that’s different.) And this quilt may be my favorite.
This was not on my list to make right now, but when I saw 
I quilted it all with the walking foot. First I stitched in all the ditches using silver Bottom Line. Then I auditioned three green variegated threads for the the decorative quilting. I chose the So Fine (Superior) on the right, just because it was the lightest. I always prefer bold, contrasting colors (hence all the dark threads in my collection), but I wanted to keep this soft and blending. Light thread looks okay over darker fabric, but dark thread on light shows every wobble.
I like minimal, asymmetrical lines of quilting, so I kept thinking I was finished. I did want to do enough to hold down all of the fabrics, including the small pieced triangles. When I put the last rows of stitching in, it all came together and I knew I had it.
My finish this week was this baby quilt for donation. (If you need a Zebra quilt, you can find 
There are surprise flannel text patches mixed in on the front, but the backing is quilting cotton.
I had a pleasant time quilting ribbon candy and matchsticks across this using a pastel variegated Rainbows thread from Superior.
Today I finished a pretty little baby quilt for a new little cousin. It was inspired by the color of her room.
I know you’ve seen this design before (a few times!), but I wanted to keep the pieces large to show the ribbon print fabric, so here it is in living color. I also used a piece of the new Grunge collection, which perfectly bridges the spectrum between lavender and orchid. The light fabrics are hard to see here, but they are dots and chevrons on cream.
The backing is an irridescent damask in a beautiful lavender.
I quilted this with variegated Poly Quilter from Superior. It was the perfect colors, but I have never been able to get it to sew in my machine before (I think it’s 30 wt.). Maybe it was the recent tune-up, but I had little problem this time. The big size 100 needle punched visible holes in the back, but they closed up when I washed it.
Now I have to break it to Krissi that we’re sending “her” quilt away. She’s pretty attached.
Evening in the Garden Quilts 