Well, it’s about time I got back to blogging.
I’ve been sewing a lot of baby quilts this year. So far it’s Boys – 4 and Girls – 0, but there
are still 3 more to go, and at least one of them is going to be a girl.
So I thought it was time to post some pictures. I was very surprised to discover I didn’t
even take any pictures of two of them once they were completed, and had to go
back to the Mom’s who received them to ask for a picture.
Nowadays I tend to design my own quilts, and play with
fabric placement. It’s amazing what
fabric placement can do to change a quilt.
I made this 1st quilt for my sister’s third grandchild. I started with the focus fabric and designed
around it.
Then, when I
needed to create a quilt for a coworker, I found another great focus fabric and
started playing with the same pattern, and ended up with a completely different
look.
Interestingly enough, we bought the fabric (yes, Kate helps
pick out fabric) without knowing the colors my co-worker had picked for the
baby’s room, and it turns out yellow green and brown were exactly what she had
selected.
I have also been creating my own pantographs for about two
years now. A pantograph is a pattern I
follow when I put a quilt top, batting, and backing together on the quilting frame
and sew a design into the quilt. Here’s
a picture of the back of this quilt showing one of my quilting patterns. I call this one “puzzle pieces”.
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