Link A Finish Friday #43

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A Zig and a Zag from Happy Cottage Quilter

Another Hand Stitched by Gene Black

Grandma's Quilt from Fabric Engineer

Are 3 of the more visited quilts from last week.

So for the rules.

1) Who likes rules. Toss them out.

2) Add a link to your finish blog or where ever you show off your finishes (Not limited to quilts but I like them the most).
3) Visit a few of the finishes and comment or encourage them on.
4) Monthly random winner picked from all of the months linkups to $15 gift card from Fat Quarter Shop.

Not required but fun to do

1) Follow my blog.
2) Follow the blog of all those that link.
3) Link back to my blog.
4) No finish, go quilt and stop reading the web.

My Solo Cup

This quilt is made from material I got from the Door Gift from the SLMQG mixer for Sewing Summit  It is a line named MAASAI MARA by dear STELLA

Tanya wanted me to make a quilt full of Solo Cups for lack of a better name.   I made the front as you can see above out of that.  Then with the left overs I had fun making the back.

After making this quilt I think I like the back 100 times more then I like the front so if you saw this quilt at my house above would be my front.

Here is a close up of my solo cup on the back you can see that I Echo Quilted this one following the cups from the front side.  This quilt is a gift for Christmas for one of the Step Sister In laws.

Cupcake Rag Quilt

Tanya over the last weekend wanted to use up the last of our sewn Cup Cake fabric and the original plan was to make a doll quilt. But as it turned out she found even more then what she expected and ended up making this baby quilt instead.

The cupcake material was bought last Christmas as a clearance item for a killer deal and has been in many different quilts that Tanya and Rebecca have made.  I am sad to see it now finally all gone.

It will though make a fantastic pink baby quilt for some lucky little girl.

Puppy Dog Rag Quilt

This brown and gray with Puppy's Rag Quilt is our newest boy baby quilt.  We found this fantastic material last weekend when out shopping and knew exactly what we wanted to do with it.

On this quilt Tanya alternated brown, gray, and Puppies.  Our Daughter Rebecca has started helping mom out on her quilting efforts and spent the holiday weekend over Thanksgiving cutting material up for her mom.

As you can tell from many of our quilts we love the Tie Dye gray and it is often used in our quilts.  This quilt it is in 1/3 of the front and the full back.

Stars and Jeans Rag Quilt

Last week one of the kids down the street had a Birthday and Tanya and I decided we wanted to try out a Rag Quilt with Jeans.  What we underestimated was the over all weight of a said Rag Quilt made out of Jeans.  We figured a full quilt out of Jeans would be too heavy and did every other square Jeans.  Well I am here to say that, while its lighter then a full blanket it is WAY, WAY, Too Heavy.  The only saving grace is the kid getting this quilt is Autistic and they tend to like heaver blankets (you often see blankets made with weights in them for autistic kids).

On the alternating material we decided stars would be fun and dug into the stash for random stars.  Here is a closeup of the quilt you can see that I added in as many seams as I could as I love the extra style it adds.

And lastly the back is made of blue flannel.  It also has flannel in the middle.  Again this is a nice and heavy lap quilt and will keep any kid warm.  (Oh and Tanya says it was like wrestling a Alligator to sew haha)

Tanya would also like me to announce the winner to her rag quilt giveaway (well rag quilt scissors giveaway) Jared pulled #19 out of the bowl.  Gene Black is the winner.  He seems to be lucky as he has won from us in the past.

Gene Black said...19

I have a pair of those "not strong enough" scissors....yeah I bought the wrong ones.

My favorite "weird" color combo is purple and green with some yellow accents. - actually if you think of a purple iris, it is not so weird.