Kansas Troubles

A new favorite

I have a new love by the name of the Moda Love quilt pattern.

Charm, candy & layer cake friendly, this pattern is simple and stunning.

It all began for me at HollyHill's Breakfast Club with a mini quilt kit of Moda's new Autumn Lily line. So I made the quilt.


And then I fell in love with Sandy Gervais' Rambling Rose, so I made one of those too.


And then I thought to myself... Let's make a bigger one!

I peddled my way over to Fiddlesticks and dove into Sweetwater's Elementary

Half squares and squares all lines up and ready to go... So much fun!!!


Now it's up on the wall where I'll tweak it now and again before I finally sew it all together.


I'll finish it off with a blue dot border, and be oh so proud to put it in the shop.


Happy Quilting!!
Dawn

Batting has a right side too

Check out this info from the APQS blog. Nothing worse than your batting punching through the quilt back.

Fleurologie

Every little girl needs something made from Fleurologie by Stephanie Ryan.

Big love.

Lately

Here's a new crib quilt hurrying its way toward the shop. Chirp Chirp by MoMo is the cutest!

Then there's this slow moving beast. I'm dragging it along kickin & screaming. Pretty sure the blocks have been rearranged 20 times since this photo. 

One thing is clear though. I need a bigger design wall :)

And some fresh photos of the Reunion quilt because it was a beautiful day 

Kid tested... :) 

Sweetwater Jelly Roll Quilt

There's a new quilt in the shop!!







This is a lovely experiment with a jelly roll that turned out better than I imagined.

You can watch a tutorial over at Missouri Star Quilt Co if you want to make your own. This quilt was made using one complete jelly roll including the binding with about a yard and a half for backing.

If you aren't up to the task or are just too busy, there's always my shop!

Happy Quilting!!

HST Celebration!

The Curio half-square triangle quilt top is done! In celebration of this beautiful fact, I've quilted and am now binding a Sweetwater Reunion jelly roll quilt, soon to be up in the shop.

It all started with a giant pile of left over HST blocks.


I paired them up and chain pieced away.


For this quilt, I made a bold move and pressed the seams open. I may never do it again, but I will say, my blocks are absolutely, most incredibly FLAT.






The other unusual for me process with this quilt was to match my seams and needle down in the intersection, starting with the last block and working my way backward one intersection at a time.

It was a lot of stopping and starting, but I found it delightful that my points never had a chance to shift out of place.

Look at this aqua chevron stripe near the top!! It totally makes the quilt for me!




The idea came to me in a stroke of after-dark over-caffeinated genius, and I'm super happy with the results!




Moving immediately on to something completely different, I pulled a finished quilt top out of the pending pile and quilted it up.



And a sneak peek of the back... Binding is still going on.


Absolutely cannot wait to pull the last stitch on this guy, and then whip out a baby girl gift for a work colleague.

Add to that one birthday party and breakfast delivery for 12-15 on Sunday and it looks to all add up to a mighty busy two day weekend.

Better get busy!

Happy Quilting,
Dawn