Girl on Swing

When I made that giant quilt for Kate, I had a ton of scraps left over. Recently I found this tutorial and decided it was perfect for all those scraps! I quickly cut them all down to blocks and ironed them onto my base fabric, and then it sat there forever waiting for me to quilt it. =) I finally finished it this weekend and love it! Aneela Hoey rocks for sharing that tutorial, especially for free!





Such an awesome mini-quilt, and I didn't have to buy a single thing for it. The fabrics are Kona Cotton in white, a random array of Amy Butler fabrics and scraps from here and there for the tree and dress.

I should have done something like this first. The size of it was so easy to manage while I was quilting. This one is going to go over Kate's bed as soon as I can part with it over my sewing machine. =)

My Very First Quilt

After my little girl was born in 2009, I wanted to make something girly for her. I always admired quilting but thought it was WAY too hard for me, I didn't even know where to get started. I came across Oh Fransson and she had a great step by step tutorial on getting started. I found a quilt I liked over at Retromummy and decided to give it a shot. I had NO idea the quilt I was making was a twin size quilt. :) I just saw it and liked it and started cutting. After I pieced the first row I realized I had bitten off quite a big hunk for my first quilt!! It all turned out ok though and by the end of it, I had free-hand quilting down pretty well. :)

See? It doesn't look that big does it?





And RIGHT behind that was my second quilt:



Maybe I had a bit of a thing for Amy Butler fabrics. :) I really need to post a picture of that finished quilt. It's backed with a minky rip off and straight line quilted, my daughter sleeps under it every night. I LOVE that quilt. Probably my favorite so far.

the second one was CONSIDERABLY better, especially the corners. Again, the Oh Fransson tutorials are awesome. That pattern is here.