baseball | Evening in the Garden Quilts

November 11, 2015
by Valerie 2 Comments

Lots of progress Wednesday

I have lots of projects stacked up, but I’m working away at them and making some good progress. In a little open spot, I made these six maple leaf blocks for Kat’s November block drive. They’re a little repetitive, but I found I had a ton of triangles in the right size, so in they went.

The next project I’m working on is a quilt for a sick friend. Unlike most of my projects, I had to order all the fabric for it. The backing and border fabric came first, so I pieced the backing and cut the borders. Yesterday the rest of the fabric arrived. I had to wash the darks four times before the Color Catchers came out clean. Today I sewed 54 blocks drunkards path blocks. Yes, it’s a baseball quilt.

Hope you’re doing well in all your projects.

I’m linking up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.

December 14, 2012
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Baby Quilt Finished

I finished up the baby quilt yesterday, and it’s all washed and dried and crinkly. This looks different from other baby quilts I’ve made, but I like it.

It’s bright and bold and energetic, and I think it will be perfect for a little boy. I bound it with rayon blanket binding for the touchable edges. This finish doesn’t seem to sell well for me, but I almost always use it on gifts, because I know the babies like it. This is made completely from stash.

The backing is one piece of pale blue and white cloud fabric.

I like this stained glass look where the sun brings the other colors through it.

The piecing and cutting were very quick, perhaps three hours. The quilting, however, took around six hours. There’s lots of it, in the ditches and through the block centers. I used Superior Bottom Line in a pale blue on top and bottom.

The finished size is 36″ x 48″. I always consider that the binding will take about 2″ off of each side of the design, so I usually add borders. I didn’t this time, because I thought it was okay to cut off the edges of these Disappearing Four Patch blocks, and I think it works.

I’m linking up with Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.

December 12, 2012
by Valerie 2 Comments

WIP Wednesday: Baby Quilt

The Disapearing Four Patch blocks I made to donate to Sandy relief kind of intrigued me, and I wanted to try them with a variety of prints for a scrappy look. I decided to use them in this baby quilt for the new son of my “nephew”, the son of my friend and college roommate.

I used three baseball prints and some fabrics I thought coordinated, for a total of six fabrics. (I won’t say I hang onto fabric, but one of these baseball prints was used in the nephew’s high school graduation quilt…)