Ohhh The Quilting

I finally finished the quilting last night on the Salt Air Quilt.  I'm so pleased with it!!  My walking foot sure got a work out.  I was a little worried about over quilting it but after I finished I felt it was just right.





I'm anxiously awaiting the mail to arrive because  my binding fabric will be delivered today and then i can get this quilt all finished up.

Progress

Even with company this weekend I did manage to make progress on the Salt Air Quilt.  When I started this quilt I hadn't yet figured out what fabric I would use for binding.  I really didn't have anything on hand that would look good and the local shops around me don't carry this line of fabric {at least not yet} so i took to the internet.  I chose getting it quickly over the least expensive online shop.  Luckily the Fat Quarter Shop is in my backyard and this is what I chose for binding.



Too bad they are an online only shop,  I would probably camp out there if they were a brick and mortar.  Here are a few pics of my progress on the quilt







While I'm waiting on the fabric I am contemplating adding some quilting lines so that each seam is outlined.  What do you think?  Quilt more or leave it alone?

Since I'm undecided I decided to fill my time by layout a new baby quilt with blocks I've had done for awhile.  It's very similar to the baby quilt I made for my sister.



Hopefully both of these will be finished and up for sell in my shop by weeks end!

Salt Air HST Quilt

Yesterday I finished the Salt Air HST quilt top.  It was still raining when I finished so I had to wait till this morning to take some pics.  I love how it looks with the light coming through it.  I originally was going to layout all the hst in the same direction but then sewed a row the wrong way.  Instead of taking the seams out I just changed my layout. {Is that lazy or what} Ultimately I'm happy with the mistake and think the quilting will turn out really nice for this design.







I hope to get started on the quilting today and plan to sell this one in my etsy shop.  I'll post when it gets listed!

Gathered Baby Quilt

I recently finished up a cute baby quilt for the newest member of the family.  I had a ton of fun making this one and the fabric was just so pretty.  It was difficult for me to send it away.  I used Promenade from Riley Blake and I'm so glad I have some left over to use in another project.







I used a tutorial by Little Birdie Secret called Gather Love and you can find the tutorial here.  I must say I'm already having separation anxiety from this quilt.  But, I know that it will be loved and cherished!

Sewing with Sweet Sophie

{No animals were harmed in the making of this blog post}

My sweet cat Sophie has  been uncharacteristically awake and more characteristically

in the way!

Yesterday sweet Sophie decided the perfect place to look out the window was on my sewing table

{while I was attempting to sew}

even though she had an entire window ledge she could stretch out on.

She was quit content as her tail was swishing back and forth

Good thing I wasn't stippling!

despite the tail swishing distraction I managed to make some progress with my Salt Air charms

I was also able to cut them into fours and get them all pressed.

I'm still contemplating the layout but with any luck I'll have a quilt top done today.

Fingers crossed!

Having Fun With HST

I month ago I received my Charming Solids Club packet of Good Fortune fabrics.  I knew I was going to use this collection for my nieces 5 year-old quilt but I wasn't quit sure how I was going to use it.  It took me forever to decide and I'm really loving the challenge of coming up with different ways to use charm packs.  I finally decided on doing HST and I had plenty of white fabric on hand to do it.  So I set to work needing to finish this quilt quickly so I could take it to the party.











I think she really liked it!  I love how the colors are so vivid in this collection.  I will definitely make another one of these quilts.  It was fun, fast, and easy.  It was also the first time that I quilted using a wavy pattern which was also super fast and easy.

I would love to hear your comments or see you HST quilt projects.

Completely Biased Quilt

Introducing my first quilt tutorial!!!

It's called completely biased and I'm so thrilled it's finally done.  Well the quilt has been done for a while it was the tutorial that took the longest. 

I really enjoyed making these blocks with the Aunt Edna fabrics.  I'm so glad I snatched some of this fabric up when I did and at such a good price

The link for the tutorial is at the bottom of the post.

This is a super easy quilt to make and I do hope you like it.  For the quilt tutorial just clink on the link below

Completley Biased Quilt Pattern

It will open up a PDF for easy printing!!

And please leave a comment on what you think about my quilt.

ENJOY!