Monday, April 23, 2018

Spring Splash!

These are the fabrics for the quilt project that I'm working on now.


A coworker asked me if I could make her a quilt that looks similar to this one. She only took a screen shot of the quilt, but didn't link me the website.


I tried googling and searching Pinterest for this image, but I couldn't find it. So, I made up my own paper piecing patterns.


I started with the flower pots since I already had a pattern for flower pots from a previous small quilt. I just enlarged that pattern to make a 10" square.


All squares are done. Now comes the assembling of squares to from columns. I plan to make a border around the large block of flowers by using the blue background fabric and the pink batik fabric that will be used for the back of the quilt.

Monday, April 2, 2018

Ready for Spring!

I didn't plan on finishing this quilt a couple of days before Easter, but I just did. I started this baby quilt in January. The top was completed and quilt basted in the beginning of February; and then, I hit a quilting wall. I didn't know how I wanted to quilt it. So, the project sat beside the sewing machine the rest of February and most of March while I planned and went on camping trips.


Well, a light-bulb moment came to me. Actually, it was an inspiration. My sister informed me of the wonderful news that my niece is expecting her first! That bit of news jolted me back to finishing the quilt. I was so excited for my niece and her husband that I had the quilt finished in a week.


Which happened to be just in time for bunnies, Spring, and Easter. I'm saying good-bye to winter, and hello Spring!