Back to finished quilts - #8 & #9

I need to get back to documenting my finished quilt list. Here is #8

This was for my neighbor who had twins. I got the pattern from the Moda Bake Shop. This was the first time I did prairie points. Of course, I do not have a picture of it quilted.

Here is #9

I wanted to make a quilt similar to the other one, but different also. So, I carried over the pinwheel theme and did a double pinwheel (or is this a bow-tie or broken dishes??). I love the fabric in this one!

#7 - Hotrod

Here is my quilt #7 made for my son-in-law (yes - he got his before I made one for my daughter and my husband - how did that happen!?)

Just the flimsy..

Quilted - sorry for the sideways view. I did a "pebbles" quilting based on Pat Sloan's tutorial here. 

Here is the back..

This was a fun and easy quilt to put together. I am thinking about making another one for a couple in my church who is getting married this month.

Quilt #6 - Holiday runner

I guess a table runner qualifies as a quilt. I am counting it as one for my purposes.

I made this as an incentive give-away for my company's food bank food drive.  Participants would get entries based on the # of cans/boxes of food they donated. It ended up going to my superviser - but no one complained of it being rigged. :D

I didn't take a close up of the quilting. I believe I quilted loopy-loops.  I was a little disappointed in it because it wouldn't lay flat. My supervisor said that it was nice on her table at Thanksgiving.

I have another one started (it's on my UFO challenge list for 2012). The one for me will be two-sided so I can use it for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

#5 - Baby Faces

Next on my list is the first quilt I made for my grandson.  This was a kit from my friend Linda. My grandson calls it his "Night-night" and keeps close tabs on it.  It is definitely loved.

Some close-ups....

I quilted it with a special stitch on my machine in the background of each face block, outlined the faces, and did a meandering star with loops.

Quilt #4

My fourth quilt was a commissioned project for a coworker's mom for Christmas 2009.  I barely finished it in time for her to send it on time.

 This came from a magazine (I think Quilt). It is a close match to the fabrics used in the magazine. 

A somewhat closeup of the quilting. I alternated rows of loopy-loops and loopy hearts. 

Quilt #3

Back to my list... This one is #3 from the Off-center Log Cabin by Ursula Reikes in the book More Quilts for Baby. 

It was a baby quilt for a friend. This was the first time I tried quilting feathers.

It was good practice. I have since learned how to do the hook better at the tip of the feather. Not bad for a first try, I think.

Love is.. #2

I finished my second "Love Is" quilt. Of course this means that I have lost my backdrop for taking pictures of my little projects that I finish. I had better get busy and get another one loaded so I can have a new backdrop... :-D

 I love the colors! In case you can't tell, it is yellow, pink, and green.

Here are a couple of close-ups of the quilting.

More of the swirly flower..

 

This is from the "Love Is" pattern by Paula Stoddard of Pacific Patchwork.  You can find the pattern here.

I like having an embroidery project to work on at a leisurely pace.  I have actually started another one for my sister. There's no telling when I will finish that one. I started this one over a year ago. 

Oh! I wanted to mention that I used Mountain Mist Cream Rose batting. Bad idea!  I will never use that batting again.  It is very thin. It's a good thing I got the king size so I could double the batting for this to make up for the thinness. And it kept clogging up my bobbin holder and the whole needle mechanism.  I had to stop and clean everything twice for each bobbin-full.  It took forever to quilt at that rate.  Very frustrating!

First finish for 2012

Here is my first finish for 2012 and the 45th quilt I have made. I call it "Prism". Not a very original name. It is based on the "Depression Era Quilt" pattern by Paula Stoddard of Pacific Patchwork.

I love the effect of this pattern because it is pretty scrappiness!  Here is a close-up of the quilting.

It is a free motion flower that I copied from a tutorial by Judi of Green Fairy Quilts at flower-swirl-quilting-tutorial.  Of course, her flowers are much prettier and consistent than mine.

I said in my first post on this blog that I have gained much inspiration and information from the blogs I have followed the last year or so.  This is a prime example of such inspiration and knowledge.  I desire to take my quilting skills to the next level by improving upon free motion quilting techniques.  Bloggers like Judi who share their knowledge are wonderful to learners like myself.  I am sure many who take on the task of quilting a just-pieced quilt stare at it for a while wondering where to begin, as I do.  Merely looking at some of the designs that other quilters have used (and shared online) is oftentimes inspiration enough for me to plunge into my next quilting project. So, thank you to all who share online. It is most appreciated!

#2 - Broken bricks

Here is the second quilt I made for my nephew when he got married in 2009.  It is the "Broken Bricks" pattern from M'Liss Rae Hawley's book Fat Quarter Quilts.  I really like the colors.

This was my first experience with strip piecing and I enjoyed it very much.  I started this quilt late on a Wednesday evening and finished the binding on the way to the reception on the following Saturday afternoon.  I believe this still stands as my fastest finish.

This is the back.  I stabilized the quilt with SID between the rows and then did a loopy line. This was my first and last attempt at SID.  I do not like the way the back looks with the combination of both stitches. And, of course, SID is tedious to stitch.

Turning 20 turned stars

Here is my first attempt at making a quilt (finished 2009). It was originally a "Turning 20" pattern, but after I got it put together I decided I didn't like it. So, I took it apart and re-made it from a pattern from Quilt magazine.

 This is the front..

 

..and the back. 

 I had enough scraps to make just 4 more blocks, so I decided to make it reversable.

Here is a close-up of the quilting. 

This was my first attempt to free-motion quilt on a Singer Confidence Quilter. I used tan thread so the quilting would show so I could compare future attempts at FMQing.  I guess it isn't so bad for a first-timer.