Oh My Cacti baby quilt

 I made the Oh My Cacti quilt in baby size!  The pattern is by Lindsey at Pen and Paper Designs. Lindsey always writes her patterns beautifully! The blossoms are quite time consuming though, there are a lot of pieces!

I made the quilt for our 16th grandchild, and the first baby to carry on our family name :) Baby boy is due September 21, we can't wait!

The aqua color background color is true in the photo above. I wanted you to see the fabric I chose for the cacti :)

The rattlesnake was fun to make, he is foundation paper pieced, with triangle shapes that don't show up too much with the print that I used. I used the same print for the binding as well.

 Fun fact, I strongly dislike snakes but this one isn't realistic since it's made of fabric and I thought he went so well with the cacti!

I put soft minky on the back of the quilt and used the wavy stitch on my Bernina 750 QE to machine quilt it together.

I added a label, I don't have a great selection right now, so thought that this one would work.  The color of the minky in the photo below is true.

Here's a photo of our youngest son and his growing family ❤️

I'll see you next week :)      

The Pineberry quilt along

 

I just love all of Lindsey's quilt patterns from Pen and Paper Patterns.

Her designs are modern and simplistic.

I'm joining the Pineberry quilt along.  I'm using the same background as is shown in the photo below.  I think it's called Kona Desert Sand.

I went shopping at a couple of local quilt shops to find these fat quarters.  I'm so excited to make this quilt, I just hope that I can keep up with the schedule.  That's part of the fun of a quilt along, is being at the same speed as everyone else.

All of the pieces are cut out and labeled. I use the alpha bitties (I have about 7 sets) from Fat Quarter Shop, and Clover clips.

I'm so excited and will show you my progress.  I have about 5 quilts going right now.  It's much more exciting than working on just one quilt at a time :)  

Have a great week!

Sewology

 I finished this quilt top over 3 years ago, and it's been hanging in my closet waiting to be quilted ever since!  I loved making this quilt....I had just joined the Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild and this quilt was their block of the month.  I had to play catch up for a few months  but that wasn't difficult for me.  I had just moved to Arizona and didn't know anyone so I had lots of time to sew!  Lindsey Neill of Pen and Paper patterns designed this pattern and she was a member of our guild.

I loved choosing the fabric from my stash to make this quilt!  As I previously said, we had just moved to Arizona from the Sacramento area.  I was aghast at how many boxes it took to pack my fabric stash, so I decided to go on a fabric fast...for two years! I depleted a lot, but I've started buying again.  I usually don't have background fabric but can still pull a lot of the colors from my stash for the rest of my quilts. Besides, some fabric is just too cute not to buy ❤️❤️❤️

The slate background fabric was from my stash, bonus!

I love the photos I took this time, not like last week....blech!  I read about a beautiful sunflower field not too far from our house and my husband took me there for a quick photo shoot.  The temp was 106 🔥and the sun was blaring into my eyes.  It was still worth it :)

Here are some close ups of the quilt.  I made my rotary a plain yellow, even though I've got a pair of pink and a pair of aqua.  I thought there was enough color in the rest of the quilt and yellow seems to be the most common color of rotary cutters.  The yellows are like sunshine and they're very happy.

I want to show you a close up of the machine quilting.  Do you see the "needle pulling thread"?  Then the thread is in loops, that repeat all over the quilt.  I thought it was a perfect design for this quilt.

I wanted the pencil to be  the traditional color.  I think the pencil, rotary cutter and ruler in yellow, weight the quilt down with all the other bright colors that I used.

I especially love the floral seam ripper :)

My scissors aren't a plain metal color if you look closely.

I used traditional colors for my tomato pincushion too.

I hope you enjoyed this post, I certainly had fun creating it.  

Have a great week!

Sewology

Hi Everyone!

We moved to the Phoenix area last June, almost a year ago!

I joined the Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild and have really been enjoying it, everyone's very friendly :)

I jumped right into the BOM 2018, Sewology.

Lindsey from Pen and Paper patterns designed it, she's in our guild.

I'm happy to announce that I finished the top!!!

One of my favorite processes of making a quilt, is choosing the fabric.

First I bought the background fabric at Quilter's Oasis in Mesa.

I studied the different background options 

and liked the rich look of dark gray.

I had a lot of catching up to do, but had seen this quilt on Instagram so many times and was really excited to make it myself!

I delved into my fabric stash and chose every one of these bold, vibrant colors.

The last step that I had to do to finish my top, was cut out, press and stitch the "button" letters onto the orange fabric.

I wish I had sewn my rotary cutter in another color besides yellow, but I'm still thrilled with the outcome.

My stash is a little lighter, but I still have a lot to work with!

(eye roll...)

Until next week friends, happy quilting!!!