Ombre Mountains Baby Quilt - The Sweet Blues One!

I have the cutest Ombre Mountains baby quilt to share with you today!  This quilt top was finished last fall, but I didn't get around to posting it here on the blog until today!

The Ombre Mountains quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts pattern shop.

Simple Design

Ombre Mountains is an easy quilt pattern - if you can make an HST, you can make this design.  The block sizes and rectangles vary by quilt size, and it took quite a bit of figuring to make actual quilt sizes because those rectangles in there throw a spanner in the wrench (or is it works)? {that's not an American saying, so I don't know if that's how it goes, but that's what came to mind}. 😄

Fabrics make the quilt!

This baby quilt is made with a fat quarter bundle of Wilmington Prints.  I can't remember the exact name, but Wilmington puts out a lot of fabric bundles in a single colorway, so maybe you can find something similar.  I added in the lightest blue, as well as the darkest blue.

The backing is a Moda Grunge in light blue.

This quilt would look spectacular in a rainbow of colors!

This quilt top was made by Kare, one of my professional sewists.

Quilting Design

Ombre Mountains is quilted in Wandering Spirals, a digital design done on my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher.  This is another one of my go-to designs that always looks smashing on a quilt.  Thread color is light gray.

All the Sizes

The Ombre Mountains quilt pattern includes all of the sizes - 6 in all!  You're covered with Baby, Lap (for smaller peeps), Throw, Twin, Queen, and King.

Ombre Mountains is made from 14 fabrics which can be an ombre of a single colorway like this quilt, or a variety of colorways such as this pink/purple/teal one I made in this blog post.  It would also look smashing in a rainbow of color!

The Ombre Mountains quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts pattern shop.

This Quilt is For Sale!

As of the writing of this blog post, this quilt is for sale in the Busy Hands Quilts shop right here.

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Ombre Gems Throw Quilt in Ombre Confetti Fabric!

This week's custom order finish is an Ombre Gems throw quilt in Ombre Confetti fabrics.

The quilt pattern is available in the Quilty Love shop right here.

The quilt kit is available on Etsy right here.

The quilt top was made by my sewist, Kare, and quilted and bound by me.  The only way I can take custom quilt orders is to have one of my sewists make the quilt top; I'm too busy with the pattern design side of my business to make the entire quilt myself.  I have found sewists that sew even better than I do, and I have a very high standard for matching points and accurate piecing.  You have no idea how happy it makes me to be able to give them a way to earn money doing what they love to do - sew quilts!  It absolutely thrills me to do this for them!! :)  The quilts are then quilted by me with a stunning design and then bound.

Quilting Design

This delish quilting design is Wandering Spirals.  The quilting is done on my computerized longarm, a Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher.  Thread is natural white from Superior Omni.

Custom Orders

Custom orders are made to the customer's specifications, including the design, fabric selection (all layers, including backing and binding), the batting inside, and the quilting design.  Don't wait until the last minute to place an order; my schedule fills up quickly, and turnaround time can be months out.  A 50% deposit places your quilt on my schedule.

Quilt Pattern and Quilt Kit

This quilt is made with the Ombre Gems quilt pattern by Emily of Quilty Love.  You'll find the quilt pattern right here in her shop.  I love to support pattern designers to the fullest and purchase directly from them if possible.

The quilt kit is available on Etsy right here.  This kit includes the pattern, so you won't need to purchase it separately.

I just love the rainbow goodness in V&Co's Ombre Confetti fabrics! 

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Grandpa's Barn in Ombre Bloom Throw Quilt!

Grandpa's Barn meets modern Ombre Bloom for a truly sparkly quilt!  This quilt is made from 19 different fabrics, but it looks like a lot more because they are ombres in varying hues.  Ombre for the win!

Grandpa's Barn is entirely strip pieced and is jelly roll friendly, so grab your favorite strips and get ready to roll!

The quilt pattern includes 5 sizes - Baby, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King - and centers around the traditional barn raising layout.  You could, of course, lay out the blocks in many different layouts for a totally different quilt.

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  Grandpa's Barn, available right here and below.

Size:  48" x 68", throw size

Fabric: Ombre Bloom by V and Co for Moda, available right here.

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton poly

Quilting:  Echoed hearts on Gratitude my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher

Backing:  Gray with white dots

Binding:  Mottled gray

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Custom Sunrise Over the Horizon Queen Quilt Set | Finished or Not Friday Linky Party!

Welcome to Finished {or Not!} Friday where you can share what you're working on and see what others have been making!

I finally have a finish to show that is from this year!  This is a queen size Sunrise Over the Horizon quilt set, made as a custom order.  

I have made this quilt design twice in the past - a twin and a lap - but with gray in the background.  My customer envisioned a pinky purple and selected Kona Cerise from the color chart.  I had no idea it would be so beautiful; it's truly breathtaking!  The backing and binding are also Kona Cerise.

And that lap quilt with gray??  You'll find it for sale right over here!

The coordinating pillow shams are two mini quilts with envelope openings on the back.  I used my most used quilting book to get the correct sizes for the quilt shams.  When the shams are placed side by side, they echo the color movement of reds down to green/blues.

My longarm has been out for maintenance, and I was unable to quilt this quilt myself before its due date, so I had to find a local quilter to quilt it for me in quick quilty time {I thought that sentence needed another Q or two}.  There has been a great benefit to the timing of this snafu.

Two years ago when I bought my HQ Fusion with Prostitcher, I taught myself how to use it from the ground up with YouTube videos, and right over there, less than 10 miles away, is a real, honest to goodness HQ Instructor!!  Oh, if I had known about her sooner!  Megan Best is a gem of a lady with an amazing knowledge of quilting and the most incredible quilting room I have ever seen in person.  I'm delighted to have her so close.  If you attend HQ training or quilting retreats, you have probably met her as she travels quite a bit.

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  Sunrise Over the Horizon

Fabric:  Gelato Ombre by Maywood Studio, go here to view it, with Kona Cerise.

Size:  91" x 92"

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton poly

Quilting:  A maze design in Cerise thread by Megan Best of Best Quilter.

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Twelve Hundred and More by The Academic Quilter!

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Sunrise Over the Horizon Lap Quilt | Finished or Not Friday Linky Party!

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Another Finish from 2018 is a Sunrise Over the Horizon lap quilt!

This is the second Sunrise Over the Horizon quilt I've made, and I will be making a queen size as a custom order in the next few weeks.  It will have Kona Cerise {a beautiful purply/pinky solid!} instead of the gray, along with two matching pillow shams.  I typically do not make custom quilts anymore, but every once in awhile, my NO button malfunctions and I can't resist a request to make a fantastic quilt such as this!

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  Sunrise Over the Horizon

Fabric:  Gelato

Size:  49" x 69"

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton poly

Quilting:  Maze on Gratitude in gray thread

This quilt is for sale in my quilt shop!

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Ombre Strip Square Lap Quilt | Finished or Not Friday Linky Party!

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My Finish is an Ombre Strip Square Lap Quilt!  There's nothing like selling a made-to-order quilt to bump a quilt to the top of the list!

The beauty of the quilt is simply that ombre fabric is spectacular!

This quilt is made from the kit available on Craftsy.  The quilt kit actually made many more blocks than are called for in the pattern by adding in a binding fabric.   The quilt increased by 11" both directions with an additional six blocks leftover.  The fabric from those six blocks could have been used for binding, but I didn't know that ahead of time.

Quilt Stats:
Pattern:  Split Square, pattern available here, quilt kit available here.
Size:  66" x 77"
Fabric:  Boundless Ombre from the quilt kit
Backing:  Also Boundless ombre
Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton/poly
Quilting:  Zing on Gratitude in white thread.

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Ombre Rainbow Wall Hanging + My Path to More Energy

Another project off my cutting table!  This wall hanging is made from leftover tube sets from the custom Trip Around the World lap quilt I recently made.  Another addition to my growing rainbow quilt collection hanging in the hallway!

The quilting is in the ditch with Superior Monopoly invisible thread.

This is the third project I have finished over the last week from the numerous unfinished projects on my cutting table.  Two others are in progress.  Oh, yes, and I also started a Flight Kite quilt, my last custom quilt order for 2016.

What's my secret to so much sewing?  I'll tell you.  I'm applying the principles outlined in The Elimination Diet by Tom Malterre (he's local to Bellingham, BTW!) and have eliminated gluten, dairy, sugar, nightshades, beans (legumes), eggs, beef, pork, corn, yeast, nuts, and citrus.  I've also eliminated all grains such as rice, although this is not part of the plan, because I have a history of intestinal candida and SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth).  Quinoa is my friend!  It's the tastiest little seed when boiled in Better Than Bouillon Vegetable Base.

I roll my eyes when my kids walk into the kitchen, open the fridge and all of the food cupboards and say, "THERE'S NOTHING TO EAT!"  I look at the options they have and don't feel even a bit sorry for them.

After two weeks of eating this way, I have more energy, my aches and pains have mostly gone away, all sugar cravings are completely gone, and I have lost 8 pounds.  In a few days I will begin adding foods back in to see which foods are causing problems.  I am really, really hoping eggs aren't one of them because I sure miss an egg for breakfast, and oh my, a beef taco salad sounds rather heavenly right now!

I should note that I began taking a supplement to help with sugar cravings a few days before I went off sugar.  It is Energetix Mycocan-Chord, one dropperful first thing in the morning and again last thing before bed.  It works by killing off bad bugs that need sugar to survive which is what causes us to crave sugar.  It has been no problem going off of sugar because of this supplement.

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