Bloggers Quilt Festival - Home Machine Quilted

Welcome, if your stopping by for the first time from the Bloggers Quilt Festival. 

This quilt is making its first debut on my blog. 

The fabric is a variety of 30s prints from a few years ago. 

Here is the timeline breakdown;

I purchased, and cut the fabric into 6" squares back in 2009.

I sewed the squares into hourglass blocks the Spring of 2012.

I sewed the rows and columns, basted, quilted and binded this Spring 2013. 

What a WIP! 

The block is your basic hourglass block.
Im entering this quilt under the "Home Machine Quilted Quilts" category.
I quilted this on my Juki TL98 Q

I think the quilting brings the quilt to life, and matches the fabric.

 (does that make sense?) 

I love how the curves make the hourlgass block pop. 

I love how simple and easy this quilting pattern is. 

I also love the overall delicate flower pattern that appears on the back. 

Here's a upclose picture of the quilting

I continued the pattern onto the white sashing and border. 

Here's a picture of the overall flower pattern that is easier to see on the back of the quilt. 

Simple beautiful. 

                             

Quilt measures 76 X 90

I was inspired by 'RedPepperQuilt; hourglass quilt'

(soo wish I had hers. Its perfect in everyway!)

and my quilting inspiration came from 'thegirlwhoquilts' ; tutorial here.

I feel in love with her "orange peel" quilting look, and had to try it. (so glad I did!) http://amyscreativeside.com/2013/05/17/bloggers-quilt-festival-spring-2013/

Baby Stars

A few years back, I taught a friend of mine to quilt. 

That friend of mine, just had her first baby. 

A beautiful baby girl. 

This quilt is for her. 

For my Inspiration...

I used this picture for the colors (plus some orange) from here

and this quilt pattern (which I loooove), from here

And here is the quilt. 

I attempted orange peel quilting. 

It took a few rows to get use to, but I love the look. So fun. 

I backed it with a snuggly flower print minky. 

I used 5 X 6 1/2" squares for each star. 

The total quilt size is 49X55

I love this quilt. I would love a twin size version for my little miss's bed. 

Baby Pow Wow

I love this pattern. 

It is one of Cluck Cluck Sews; found here. 

I made this baby boy quilt for some very special friends first baby. 

I quilted an all over stipple pattern. 

And put soft minky on the back. 

At the same time I also pieced enough blocks to make a twin size version of this quilt. I was over my head in pow wow blocks. 

Final size 47 X 52 

Perfect Boy quilt. (in my opinion)

Christmas Wonky Stars

I fell in love with Shawn's wonky star table runner that you can see here. 

and thought it would make adorable Christmas table runners. 

So I made some... (for those lucky people on my Christmas list)

This pattern is made with just about 1 charm pack! unbelievable.

I used Basic Grey's Blitzen charm packs. 

I quilted circles in the stars, 

outlines the stars, 

loopty loos in the white around the star, 

and big circle loops around the border. 

I love all the different quilting all in one quilt. 

and the cute label on the back. 

Christmas Pinwheels

This lovely quilt was a Christmas present to my Mom. 

...and she loved it! 

I made it out of a Mary Engelbreit's Layer Cake. 

I quilted a circle around the points of the pinwheels. 

After I had quilted all the main pinwheels, 

I went back and quilted circles around the non main pinwheels. 

They remind me of a peppermint swirl; perfect for Christmas.

There's a nice comfy black minky on the back. 

And here is the label I put on the back of the quilt. 

Baby Hourglass Cousin

Girly Hourglass, purple and teal, cousin version. 

 The first cousin one I made was with pinks and yellows. 

This one is for another sister who just had a baby girl. 

These are such fun quilts. And I wish I had one for me too. 

I quilted a circle loopty loop design. 

and the cute label on the back. 

Girly Chevron

 I just love these quilts. 

I made the smaller one for some VERY special friends of my husbands. 

They are expecting their little girl any week now. 

Here is the cute custom label I made. 

'read me a story, 

tuck me in tight, 

say a sweet prayer, 

and kiss me goodnight. ' 

I've really enjoyed making these cute labels for my quilts. 

I fell in love with this quilt sooo much, 

that I was contemplating keeping it for myself.

But instead, I made one for my little girl to match. 

I made hers a little bigger (to fit atop a twin size bed). 

and the same adorable fabrics. 

Same cute quote for the back of the quilt. 

And the same fun bright minky for the back. 

Here they are,

baby and big girl chevron quilts. 

I followed crazy mom quilts zig zag quilt tutorial. 

for the baby quilt I used 2.5" strips, and for the big girl one I used 3"strips. 

If I were to do this quilt again, I think I wouldve added some extra white strips so the points would have an ending, and not be cut off. Still cute though. 

Girl Hexagons

My sister made this darling hexagon quilt.

The fabric is 'Good Fortune' by Kate Spain for Moda

I quilted an all over tight stipple pattern. 

I love the middle fabric on the backing. Such cute purple flowers. 

Pink and Green Coin Quilt

One lucky little baby girl is getting this quilt. 

A friend of mine went in on this quilt together. 

We both cut out the squares, 

She sewed the top together, 

and I basted, quilted and binded the quilt. 

All the fabrics were scraps.

I put a fun minky print for the backing. 

My friend always puts a label on her quilts using fabric paper. 

I loved doing this, so simple, so easy, and I love that it personalizes the quilt. 

I want to try this method using freezer paper.