Fall Small Block of the Month

Small BOM quilt

 

     I thought it would be fun to share this fall themed BOM (block of the month) quilt with you.  I took a class at Quilt Play in Grayslake using the book Collaborative Quilting and making different liberated or wonky blocks.  

House block

     I opted to make two quilts, one a regular sized quilt and then this smaller wall hanging.  I chose my border first and then used scraps and stash fabrics for the blocks based on the fun colors in the border fabric.  I even added some embellishments to add some interest.

Corner with binding and borders

     I had fun mixing and matching different fabrics and the color scheme of orange and purple is a bit unusual.  I did the quilting myself as it was just a wall hanging.  I did stitch in the ditch quilting.

Back

     Even the back was a mix of fabrics, a fun way to use up leftover fabric.  I made to to make a label also. You should always label your quilts so generations to come will know who made it.

Halloween Wall Hanging

 

Halloween wall hanging

       Even though I made this many years ago I thought I would share it today as Halloween is fast approaching.  I found a pattern in the Fons & Porter magazine for a Wonky Jacks quilt.  I thought it looked like a lot of fun but also a lot of work.  I also had gotten an appliqué kit with Halloween designs.  

     The kit was from Dalco Home Sew and included all the appliqué pieces pre-cut.  It also included the machine embroidery designs on a floppy disc.  I did the appliqué designs on a fun Jack-o-Lantern print.  The Wonky Jacks were paper pieced.  Instead of paper piecing the candy corn blocks, I used my Kalido-Ruler to cut them.

     To quilt the layers, I used invisible thread and did zigzags in the sashing strips and free motion in the blocks.  I then embellished it with some fun Halloween buttons that I removed the shank from and glued in place.

     I love pulling it out every Halloween and hanging it up, it makes me smile.     

First Quilt for Gabriel

 

Finished quilt

     This is the latest baby quilt I did.  This one is for my newest grandson.  I had bought a fat quarter bale consisting of 10 fat quarters from Millhouse Quilts back in March 2009.  I had bundled up the fabric with a couple of other pieces and labeled it as to what quilt I was planning on doing.  However when it came time to make the quilt, I couldn't find the book.  I figure I must have gotten rid of it one time when I was trying to purge my sewing room thinking I didn't like any of the patterns.

Blocks

     I found another pattern I liked in a book called 12-Pack Quilts.  I chose the Picnic Quilt.  That meant though that I needed a couple more fat quarters and some other fabrics.  I did find some pieces in my stash that worked well plus had to buy some other fabric. 

Border and binding

      The first border was originally going to be the binding on the other quilt.  The plaid was from my stash that I had bought on sale, end of bolt deal.  The yellow binding is from JoAnn Fabrics as well as the flannel for the back of the quilt.

Flannel back with quilting

     Joni did the quilting using a fun baby blocks pattern.  From some of the leftover fabric. I bordered the quilt labels that I embroidered and then sewed them to the back of the quilt.  This one is bigger than most of my other baby quilts finishing at 78 x 78.  

Label one

Label two

     This quilt was fun to make though I do see now that I finished it, one of the rows isn't in the right spot.  Oh well, I'm sure Gabriel won't notice.

Baseball Jersey T-shirt Quilt

 

Finished quilt

     Recently I had a client want a t-shirt quilt made from her son's baseball jerseys.  She wanted the squares to be cut larger than my usual 13 inches to be sure as much of the jersey as possible was shown.  Her other request was for it to have sashing in between the squares.  I prepped the jerseys with fusible interfacing and then cut the squares 15 x 15 for a finished size of 14 x 14. I also had to stitch down the plackets so they would stay nice and flat.   I found a dark green fabric that closely matched most of the jerseys.  After I finished piecing the top, we discussed whether or not to quilt it.  I could have added fleece to the back and just do some tacking stitching.  She chose to have the quilting done.

Grey flannel backing

     I chose a medium gray flannel for the back and took it all to the quilter.  Chris from Second Street Stitch in Antioch did a great job as usual.  She takes her time to avoid the buttons and plackets and it all looks so great afterwards.

Avoiding the buttons and placket

Meandering quilting pattern

     After I got it back from the quilter, I added the binding.  I opted to use the same color as the sashing for a nice monochromatic look.  I stitched the binding to the back of the quilt and then brought it around to the front and topstitched it in place.  When I do fancier quilts, I stitch the binding to the front and then bring it around to the back and hand stitch it in place.

Binding topstitched in place

     The client did do some of the prep work by cutting the jerseys to have a front and a back and then she laid them out in the desired pattern and sent a picture with the layout.  Made it quite easy to put it together then, no thinking on my part ;-)