Baby Logan

I made this baby quilt for a friend of my sister's who is having her first baby (a boy!) in mid May. I used Moda Little Apples and Moda solid steel for the background.

 

 

Duncan "helping" me baste the quilt



Quilts for Boston

These are the blocks I made for the Quilts for Boston projects coordinated by the Boston Modern Quilt Guild. Quilts for Boston is a relief effort by the Boston Modern Quilt guild to make quilts for those who were directly affected by the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent events.

Check out their Flickr page for more awesome blocks photos.

 

 

Wedding gift from Jessica

My talented cousin Jessica at Splendid Calm Textiles made a beautiful king-sized quilt for Pete and me as a wedding gift. It is made from all Kona solids and it is so beautiful. Thank you for much, Jessica, for this sweet, thoughtful gift!

Jessica entered the quilt and was accepted into QuiltCon which was here in Austin February 21-24, 2013. The quilt was on display for the duration of the conference. It was so fun to 'have a quilt in the show'. I worked as a volunteer at the show and I was so happy to point it out to attendees who passed by.

Jessica and me at QuiltCon



And with Jay McCarroll!

Fall baby

Another coworker of mine is having a baby so I decided to make a baby quilt for him. This is his and his wife's first child -- and it's a girl! The baby will be bornNovember 15. I had lots of green, red, pink and teal scraps from quilts I made for grandma, Cerys, and the Christmas quilt I'm making for myself. I bought approx one yard of fabric to finish this 50x50" baby blanket:

Some works in progress

Since I haven't posted on my blog in a while, and I may not have anything completed in October, I want to share some things I'm working on now.

I've had this Moda Origins fabric sitting around for a very long time. I am finally going to make something for my mom as a combined Christmas and birthday gift in December. The Granny Square blocks are strip-pieced using the tutorial on the I'm a Ginger Monkey blog - they are going together quickly and easily. Instead of using 2.5" strips, I am using 3.5" and my finished blocks will be 12.5".

I have taken the Houston Quilt Festival Pet Project Postcard Pledge! I am making 4x6" pet postcards to donate and be sold at the Houston Quilt FEstival. Money raised will benefit Friends for Life, a no-kill shelter in Houston. I'm going to finish a sixth block and quilt these tonight, sew on the binding tonight and hand bind while on a roadtrip this weekend. I'll start a new batch of postcards next week!

I pieced together this baby quilt top this past weekend using scraps of teal, red and green [mostly] Moda fabrics from earlier projects. It was nice to make a baby quilt without having to buy more fabric. I am really try to not hold onto a fabric stash, but rather buy new fabric only when I have a project in mind for it.

Grandpa turns 90!

Jessica and I teamed up again to make a quilt for our grandpa who turned 90 years old on July 7. Jessica's side is made of batik fabrics in tans, greens and browns. I made a rainbow spectrum quilt using 2" finished half square triangles.

Jessica's side of the quilt

My side

 Grandpa and Jessica

Grandpa and me

And because I am particularly proud of this quilt, here are a ton of pictures. And yes, our work landed us in a local newspaper again (disregard the caption, grandpa's a tad over 50).