County Fair (cheater fabric) Quilt!

The cheater print is back from Melear Fabrics, quilted beautifully!


I used Denyse Schmidt's County Fair cheater blocks, county fair sashings, and flannel on the backside to make this especially warm.

Emmalina's First Quilt

Here's Emmalina's first quilt!
I followed the tutorial at Tall Grass Studio for the wonky log cabin pattern.
It makes a great baby quilt!


Fun and wonky everywhere -

Here, I hand-stitched an "E."

Warm flannel on the backside.

Sleep well, little Emmalina!

Scraptakular #1, quilted!

I'm loving how this turned out!

Scraptakular #1 just came back from Melear's Fabrics.

They did a super job on this! I love their quilting.

I rolled the backing forward to bind the edge.

My scrap pile's gettin' smaller!

Dark Waterfalls: Finished!

"Dark Waterfalls" or "Purple Majesty" also was quilted by Melear Fabrics with my favorite wishbone pattern, too.

This quilt has small and large 1/4 courthouse step blocks and 4-patch blocks.

It was a lot of fun to make ... and I even snuck in some bonus reds! The binding is a black-on-black.

Solid purple flannel on the backside makes this perfectly naptakular.

After the quilting and binding, it measures about 70 inches square.

This was made for my soul-sister, Elaine.

I think she's going to love it!

Orange Crush: FINISHED!

My glorious orange crush quilt is finally finished!

This one's going on my bed ;)

The gals at Melear's Fabrics did another fine

job quilting this on their longarm.

Here's a close-up of the quilting.

She used one of my favorite designs - the "wishbone."

Here's what I chose for the backing.

It's yellow with a pink design -

but it reads as orange.

This was the first time I'd pieced the binding with different fabrics.

I had some left over from the blocks and supplemented

with some bonus orange & white polka-dots.

The photo above shows the polka-dots.

I think I like it more than a one-pattern binding.

Check it out:

Orange Crush

Orange Crush piecing is complete!

Now, to decide how it will be quilted....

Here's a close up of 4 of the 49 blocks.

All of the pieces are modern prints except one vintage print from my mom's pal.

(the vintage piece is with the red/orange flower found in the top left and bottom right in this photo)

Here's the finished top:

Sneak Peek: Orange Crush

After two years of hording luxurious orange fabrics, I have started my orange quilt!


I will call it, "orange crush."



Here's a shot of the fabrics lined up before ironing.
After this photo, I bought three more orange prints from the local quilting shop.

Here are some of the patches lined up on the ironing board:

Oh, orange! How I love you!

Scraptakular #1, full photo

Here's a full-length shot of the Scraptakular #1.

It's a monster at 114 inches square.

Stash first: Project #1

Here's a sneak peek at the first scraptakular quilt top.
I'm hoping to use my "stash first" for my next few projects.
This top is almost all from my stash.


7 columns and 7 rows
There was a moment tonight that I wasn't liking the randomness.

After seeing it sewn together, I'm loving it!
(Stella prefers hiking days to sewing days. This is the "let's go outside and play" look that she's perfected.)

Bullseye/Log Cabin Quilt in the Frame!

What a great day!

The gals came over to put my quilt in the frame.

It was too big to put in the house, so we set it up in the driveway.

Here's the quilt in the frame, in the driveway:

Here's Pat and Evie laying the top on the frame.

After we had it on the frame, we rolled both sides so it would be a manageable size to go into the house.

Before it went into the house, we did some quilting outside.

It was a perfect day for outside quilting!