Sunnyside Lap Quilt in Yellows and Grays!

There is nothing like the recipient of a gift heading out of town to college to get the rockets firing and a quilt finished!  This is a graduation quilt for a special friend moving to attend college in California.  Sunnyside in yellows and grays reflects the sunny skies of California where she is headed and the gray skies of a winter in Bellingham, Washington.

This quilt pattern is named Sunnyside because it's a town near where I grew up, and the quilt is reminiscent of sunshine.  It's most always sunny there and a pleasant enough place if one overlooks the incessant smell of the animal feed lots.  Just sayin'!  As I've often said, naming quilts designs is still a mystery to me, but this one came fairly easily.

The fabric is made from two curated FQ bundles from Fat Quarter Shop - Sunflower Spectrum and an Art Gallery gray bundle.  I can't find the bundle on FQS right now.  These bundles made it so easy to get a wide variety of fabrics, and I love that Art Gallery fabrics do not fray!!  They have a lovely hand and are my favorite fabrics to work with.

The graduate is pursuing a degree in Engineering, so a math equation backing was the obvious choice for her.  This fabric is Science Fair which comes in several colorways.  Click here to check it out.  And then perhaps the spiral quilting indicates waves at the beaches in both California and Washington.  This patterns is FQ friendly and there is a strip left from each FQ that is perfect for binding, so the binding is pieced with every other strip gray and yellow in 21" lengths.

Quilt Stats:
Pattern:  Sunnyside, available right here.
Size:  56" x 72" Large Lap
Fabric:  Art Gallery Sunflower Spectrum and an Art Gallery FQ bundle in gray.  The whites are from a FQ bundle of Modern Background by Moda.
Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton/poly
Backing:  Science Fair in gray.
Quilting:  Spirals in white thread on Gratitude, my Handiquilter Fusion with Prostitcher.

Printed Pattern Sale With FREE Shipping Available!

A number of my printed patterns are on sale!  I'm clearing out the old covers to make room for the updated covers.  Sunnyside is one of them!  The inside of the quilt patterns are full of the same deliciousness, just with an older cover.  The quantities are very limited - most of the patterns have ten or less left, and several have just a handful.  So get them while you can because PRINTED patterns very rarely go on sale.  :)  Oh, and orders $35 and up receive FREE shipping!  Shop right here!

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Yellow and Gray Brick Baby Quilt

I'm looking through my fabric closet looking for projects that won't take long to finish up, so I can have more fun playing with my quilting machine.  These yellow and gray bricks were already cut, so they were next.  

Quilting is super fun swirls.  This will be another go-to pattern that I will offer to customers.  I am getting much better at remembering to drag and drop so the computer remembers where the design is when the quilt is advanced.  This keeps the quilting design rows correctly spaced over the entire quilt top so the design doesn't overlap the previous row or have a big gap between rows.  I am ready to start quilting for customers and have quilted the first quilt of 2017 for Andrea, my very loyal quilting customer.  You'll see that project after the quilting labels I've ordered arrive.

The backing is a fun bird print, and the binding is a gray crosshatch.

Quilt Stats:

• Pattern:  Bricks, cut 3.5" x 6.5"
• Fabric:  Various modern geometric, dots, and circles in yellows and grays.
• Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton/poly
• Backing:  Medium gray bird print
• Binding:  Gray crosshatch
• Quilting:  Digital e2e swirls on Gratitude.

This quilt is for sale in my quilt shop!

One of my next projects is Mountain Reflections.  It's right up my alley with bright colors and fun piecing.  My design wall is downstairs in my quilting room and my sewing room is upstairs, so I will get lots of exercise with this one.  Color placement is too important to not lay it out as I go. It would work out well to have Gratitude quilting away while I work on this quilt!

Mountain Reflections is on clearance this weekend for $45, not bad for a twin size quilt!  I bought the kit with backing since it's 55% off.  This is just one of the many items on clearance!

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Custom Yellow and Gray Brick Baby Quilt + Pillow

I recently finished a yellow and gray brick baby quilt and pillow, an order through my Facebook page.  

A fantastic Etsy shop, Stitch Stash Diva, curated a fat quarter bundle for me that was perfect for the project.  I sent them a picture of a previous quilt I made in 2013 which my customer was wanting to duplicate, and they worked with me to get the bundle just right.  They do this for no extra charge.

Quilting is straight line stitching.

My customer sent pictures of the quilt and pillow in her grandbaby's nursery!!  Isn't it just sweet!?!

You have one more day to save 50% on all of my patterns!  Hurry - the sale ends tonight!

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Gray Matters Full Size Quilt - A Graduation Gift for My Niece

I've finally completed the graduation quilt for my niece.  It started out with only the Gray Matters fabric collection, but I ended up adding other yellows and grays from my LQS for more variety.  I found the inspiration for this quilt HERE. I'm fairly certain I got the colors just right for my niece.  We were at a baby shower together recently, and she gave the mom-to-be a baby blanket in these exact colors, polka dots and all!! I couldn't get a good picture of the loopy quilting.

Polka dot backing from Gray Matters Collection with strips of solid gray at the top and bottom.

... Yummy scrappy binding ...
Quilt Stats:

• Pattern:  None, just random width strips sewn together in a brick fashion ... sort of.
• Size:  Full size, 76" x 88" after washing
• Fabric:  Gray Matters by Jacqueline Savage McFee for Camelot Cottons and other fabrics from my local quilt shop.  
• Batting:  100% cotton
• Backing:  A yellow and gray polka dot on white background from the Gray Matters collection with a strip of solid gray at the top and bottom.
• Quilting:  All over loopy loops in white polyester thread on Mrs.Singer, my antique 31-15 mounted on a quilting frame.
• Binding:  Scrappy, double fold, attached by machine with 45-degree mitered corners.
• Value:  Bright and sunny for a special niece!

If you like these fabrics and would like a similar baby quilt or table cloth, I have a small quilt in these same fabrics for sale in my Etsy shop for under 100 bucks!

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Sunny Bricks - A Gray and Yellow Baby Quilt

I had fun making this sunny gray and yellow modern baby quilt.  The fabrics are the Gray Matters collection along with various other grays and yellows from my local quilt shop. I call leftovers "lay-EF'-toe-furs" to give them a sophisticated French flair.  This sunny quilt is made from lay-EF'-toe-furs from a graduation quilt for my niece.  No, you didn't miss that post, because I haven't finished that quilt yet!  It is on Mrs.Singer's rails being quilted. More lay-EF'-toe-furs in the backing. I can see this quilt with a delicious baby playing on it, eyes crossed while trying to focus on the busy patterns. Straight-line quilting is not my favorite to do, but this modern quilt seemed to ask for it. ... Yummy scrappy binding ... Quilt Stats:

• Pattern:  Simple sunny bricks
• Size:  39" x 42"
• Fabric:  Gray Matters by Jacqueline Savage McFee for Camelot Cottons and other fabrics from my local quilt shop.  Backing includes a solid gray.
• Batting:  100% cotton, thin
• Quilting:  Straight-line in light gray thread.
• Binding:  Scrappy, double fold, attached by machine for durability, 45-degree mitered corners
• Value:  Super sunny for a boy or a girl!

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