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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Five and Dime

In my last post, I shared two of my recent quilts that utilize the super easy Turning Twenty pattern. Another easy pattern is called "Five and Dime" by All Washed Up Quilts. In the last six months, I've made two of them with different color ways.

I wish I could tell you what the fabric is for these two quilts, but I bought them at a time when I wasn't paying attention to fabrics and their designers.

Quilt #1

I love the yellow fabric that are the two main vertical columns, but not sure how well the other fabrics work with it.

The two columns seem obnoxious and oversized, at least they do to me. I have a feeling that I won't really like this one until I quilt this one. (I'm taking these two quilts to long-arm on the 19th at o2bquilting)

They're not big quilts - 45" x 64"

Any suggestions for quilting designs?



Quilt #2 -

I'm a bit happier with this quilt and the color combination.  The fabrics were in a kit that I purchased at Quilt Cove in Eagan.

I picked out the fabrics for Quilt #1, so I continued to question my ability to pick out fabrics.

My journey to being a great fabric mixer is going to be a long road.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

How I spent my summer

Between moving into a new place and three weeks spent recovering from surgery, I made time to get some quilts [nearly] finished.  Here are some of the new quilts: some already quilted waiting for binding and some that are just pieced.

Take me out to the ball game...

 
The baseball quilt (48"x64") is raffle quilt (as soon as I get it finished and handed off to the team). The pattern is the basic Turning Twenty quilt.

This is actually version two of the baseball quilt. The first version was also a Turning Twenty pattern, but not the original with its three-piece block, but the Turning Twenty pattern that has a seven-piece block. As I put it together, I realized it was WAY too busy. Luckily, I had purchased lots of baseball-themed fabric, so I could make a second quilt.

I'm thinking of sashing the blocks from the first quilt with a solid color and possibly setting them on point to see if that takes the "busy" away.

It's quilted already with a baseball pattern. (not sure you can see it in the photo)


Another Turning Twenty

The bold prints in today's fabrics make the Turning Twenty pattern such a great way to do a quick quilt that still has impact. This quilt is made up of jewel tone fabrics that work so well together.

This is bigger than baseball Turning Twenty quilt at 70" wide and 84" long. I put on the scrappy-looking border.

 I love the bright yellow in the quilt and I think that's the color I'll use for the binding.




Black & White BOM
It only took me eight additional months to finish this 2010 BOM quilt (64" x 80"). If you look at my finished quilts, this quilt is the black & white version of the large batik BOM quilt.

This quilt has an added feature that I'm not sure you can see on this photo. If you look closely, you'll see a thin red line in the border. It's a flange! My first one. It was so easy to add in, but I made some mistakes putting it in. I should have built the inner border, flange, and outer border as a unit and then mitered the border. 

I have a two more quilts that I will feature in another post because I'm not sure how I feel about them. They're actually from the same pattern, but the color combinations aren't rocking my world.