Fireman Come What May Quilt

Come What May by Jaybird Quilts is one of favourite quilt patterns of all time. I seriously love it.  This one is my third using this pattern and I love it more each and every time.  It comes together so quickly and is great to show off some larger prints you can't bare to cut up, the smallest pieces of this quilt are cut at 4.5" square.

This quilt is for my nephews third birthday, which was actually about two weeks ago but I'm seeing him next weekend so I actually have to get it finished.  Nothing like a deadline to get sew-jo back!

I made this quilt cot sized, which will fit his bed nicely, plus his bed is the shape of a fire engine so it will be prefect.  Cot size isn't actually listed on the pattern but I just cut the layout down to 3x4 blocks.  I actually picked up these fabric a few years ago to make a quit for my other nephew but that never happened.  I'm just glad it got used!  I have plans to make a matching pillowcase for him as well.  It should be adorable.

My Spoonflower order also arrived this week.  Some new labels, a wedding present, a birthday present (to be revealed later) and a Cotton Spandex Jersey FQ for a bra/undies set.  Hopefully if the deadline doesn't work with bringing back the sew jo, this will, it is just lovely!

Some of my Quilts #14 - Ombre quilt

This is the fourteenth post in a series of posts about my pre blog quilts.  Check out the rest of them here.

I bought a Simply Color Ombre Junior Jelly Roll by V and Co because I fell in love with it.  Of course I couldn't bring myself to open it until I found the prefect pattern.  Thankfully that happened rather quickly when I stumbled upon this Ombre Rainbow Quilt by The Girl Who Quilts.  

I quilted over the ombre sections in figure of eights using threads I pulled from my thread stash.  Thankfully due to the ombre effect of the fabrics it was easy to find a thread that blended at some point.

I used a purple chevron poplin from Spotlight for the backing and a Michael Miller fabric from East Coast Fabrics for the binding.

The only thing I wish was different about this quilt was the size!  Wouldn't wide back ombre prints be amazing!

Some of my Quilts #12 - Flea Market Stairs

This is the twelfth post in a series of posts about my pre blog quilts.  Check out the rest of them here.

This quilt was inspired Don't Call Me Betsy's Dresden Stairs quilt.  I found it when searching for a quilt to make using the EZ Dresden Ruler and fell in love.  It was simple to make but also provided an effective pattern and a different than normal use for the dresden shapes.

The fabric in this quilt is the reprint of Flea Market Fancy by Denyse Schmidt.  I separated the colour ways as I felt it gave it a more striking pattern.  I only quilted the background fabric in an attempt to feature the other fabric more. It was quilted in a overlapping square pattern.

I pieced my label into the back of the quilt and also featured some of the fabric from the front of the quilt in the back.  The main backing fabric was from Spotlight by Prints Charming.  The binding was by DS Quilts.

I do really like this quilt and I found that pattern it created was quite effective.

What quilters inspire you?

Scrappy Trip Along Quilt

I actually finished a quilt this week. I have a stack of eleven (it was twelve) quilt tops that just need quilting and binding to be complete. Since moving I haven't done much quilting, at first it was that my batting hadn't made it into the house, then it was my curved safety pins. Thankfully now I have everything on hand and should start getting some quilts finished this year!

According to Instagram I made my first Scrappy Trip block 131 weeks ago and had the twelve I made for the quilt finished 129 weeks ago, during January 2013. That means this quilt has been waiting 2.5 years to be quilted!

This was the first (and only to date) scrappy quilt I've made. I'm not sure they're really my thing. Maybe it's just that my scraps are more eclectic than I would like.  Saying that I have fallen a little more in love with this quilt since I've had it out again. I'm very glad that happened!  Fabric lines include Frolic and Hometown as well as prints from Riley Blake, Michael Miller and others from Spotlight.

The layout is 3x4 12 inch squares finishing it at approx 36x42 which is a nice baby size quilt.

I've backed it in this cheater print by Saffron Craig I found on the clearance table at my local spotlight a while back.

I quilted it in all over loops. using white Rasant thread.  I contemplated matchstick quilting but in the end loops won out on Monday night as I wanted to be able to bind it at a meeting I had on Wednesday night.

I bound it in some fabric I dyed myself. It was originally Bella White 98, but I rinsed it in some navy dye I was using the other week and attempted to crate a bit of an ombré effect. It didn't really work but I do dig the colour. I used Rit Liquid dye in Navy and probably only had this in the dye for 5-10 minutes.

I'm glad to do a bit of quilting again and very happy to have fallen for this quilt all over again! Be sure to check out other Scrappy Trip quilts using #scrappytripalong on Instagram.

I'm also linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Up Friday.

Did you make a scrappy trip quilt?

What's the longest it's taken you to get a completed quilt top quilted?

Some of my Quilts #10 - Frolic Quilt

This is the tenth post in a series of posts about my pre blog quilts.  Check out the rest of them here.

Frolic by Sandy Gervais was the very first designer fabric line I ever had yardage from.  I had purchased the panel long before I had the yardage. I used the yardage to add borders onto the panel to enlarge the size, as well as for the binding and the backing.  

In a similar fashion to the Owl Quilt, I used the panel as a chance to really focus on the quilting. You can see the detail from the back in the photo above.  For the backing I used the remaining yardage I had and pieced together a back, my mum was never a fan of it but I still like it!

I didn't realise how long ago I had made this quilt until I looked at the label.  There really are so many benefits to labeling quilts, many you don't realise until years later.

Some of my Quilts #9 - Owl Quilt

This is the ninth post in a series of posts about my pre blog quilts.  Check out the rest of them here.

I made this quilt as a display for Spotlight when I worked there.  It uses a panel that we had in stock at the time.  I do like the occasional panel as it allows me to work on my quilting skills without worrying about ruining a pieced quilt top.

You can see more of the quilting in the photo above.  I really put a lot of detail into it so I could do something different.

As you can see from the label I finished this quilt in two days.  It was actually the second quilt I finished over the Easter weekend in 2012.  In order to finish it within the two days (and not to drive myself crazy) I bound this quilt by machine.  It's not the best job ever but it got the job done.

Have you ever quilted any panels?

Some of my Quilts #4 - Giant Granny Square

This is the fourth post in a series about my pre-blog quilts. See the other posts here.

This quilt came together really quickly, from memory I had the whole thing finished within 24 hours. Plus it only used one charm pack and some background fabric.

The charm pack was Odds and Ends by Julie Comstock for Moda and the background fabric was once again a homespun from Spotlight.

I constructed this quilt without a pattern simply by laying out the charm pack in granny square shape and filling in with the background all cut to 5" squares and adding a border.

It's quilted in loops running through the granny square lines.  I find that it had given it an amazing texture!

It's bound in a navy and white spot, by Leicen from memory.  What I really loved about this fabric was the amazing sheen it had for a quilt fabric.  I wish I had bought more at the time!

The backing fabric was purchased from Spotlight and I had forgotten how much I loved it until I pulled it out to photograph.  I also noticed I had never labeled it.  I've got to get onto that!

Again, it's a nice baby size and pretty good for being finished in a day. Do you have any favourite quick quilt patterns?

Some of my Quilts #2 - Sparkle Lone Star

This is the second post in a series of pre-blog quilts, check out the first one here.

This quilt is made with fake mirror ball dot fabric from spotlight. It gives it the most amazing sheen but also makes it not really practical when combined with its size.

It's a baby sized quilt made using the scrappy lone star tutorial from Better Off Thread and this tutorial here. Between the two of them I got all the information I needed :) 

I added the border along the top and bottom to add some interest to the quilt, (and to try something I had never tried before too!). I actually think it makes it.

I quilted this one with swirls in the background and on the borders and around the star in a dot to dot pattern.

The border (and backing) fabric is from my stash (I may have purchased the entire bolt!) and works perfectly with this quilt.  It's one of my favourites and I'm very happy that I haven't given this one away :)

 

Some of my Quilts #1 - Baby Briar Rose

I thought I would share some of the quilts I made pre-blog. In the days when I was too scared to see clothes! Please excuse the photos, it was pre blog days and I don't even have pictures of some of the finished quilts!

 This baby quilt is one of my favourites! It was gifted to a very special baby at the baby shower. I'm pleased to note it even featured in a facebook cover photo :)

It's made from a Briar Rose layer cake and homespun from spotlight. The pattern is loosley based on Giggles by Jaybird Quilts but as I didn't buy the pattern or ruler before diving in I used a creative grids ruler. 

I had a bit of fabric left over from each layer cake square and used that for a border.

The backing is on of the prints from the line. I'm very glad I went with the blue toned one as more pink may have been too much!
 

Ice Cream Baby Quilt

When I found out my brother in laws cousins were expecting a baby I was incredibly excited for them!  I may have been slightly more excited when I found out they were expecting a girl.  As I have four nephews I don't get to sew girly things very often.

When planning this quilt I was inspired by this mini quilt by Heather from Quilt Story.  I fell head over heels in love with it when I saw it on Instagram. 

Even though I had never tried paper piecing before following this tutorial from Sew We Quilt I found it rather straight forward.  Even with the mess it left on the floor of my sewing room.

 

I enlarged the blocks to a percentage I can't quite remember.  The quilt ended up quite a nice baby size.  The fabrics are mostly scrappy some Bonnie and Camille, Sweetwater, Michael Miller and Spotlight.  The main fabric is of course Ombre by V and Co for Moda.

 

I purchased the backing from East Coast Fabrics (My favourite fabric store, very thankful I live an hour from the nearest one!).

 



 

All rolled up and ready to gift next week!

 

 

 

The binding fabric was from Spotlight, bought on a whim because it was perfect for binding.

 

Can't wait to see their reaction.

 

Emma :)