The Sky, The Moon, and The Stars

Today we would like to share a simple baby quilt that was created by Tanya and quilted by Richard.  It was created specifically for putting it on sell in our Etsy Store.  

We have found that some of the simpler quilts we have made sell faster then the more complex quilts especially for babies.  This quilt like most of my more simple quilts has been straight line quilted using echo quilting.

A Pile of Quilts

Here is a a picture of the quilts that I basted, most of them over the weekend.  If you aren't a regular, this post is brought to you by Tanya, Richard hates basting quilts (pin or spray).  I did give in and went and bought some more pins.  I don't think Richard will run out of quilts to quilt anytime soon.  In Richard's defense, he did get one quilted and bound.  It is in the wash and pictures will be coming soon.

I also finished two quilt tops this weekend.  The owl will most likely go on Etsy and and the butterfly one is for girls camp auction.

The owl is a star quilt as Richard pointed out.  I was going for alternating blocks from 8 1/2 inch squares forming half square triangles . This was using the same pattern that I did the pieced rag quilt in.  I don't know if I will ever do that large of blocks again in a pieced quilt.  I think 5 or 6 inch squares are easier to work with.

 The Butterfly quilt top is in the pile of stuff to be quilted. I plan on doing another Butterfly one in different colors, it was fun and simple quilt. 

The other boring stuff I did over the weekend involved hand sewing the sleeve on a quilt Richard is displaying at HMQS for part of Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild Display. We watched a movie while setting on the couch and hand stitching.  Richard should be proud, I didn't even fall asleep.  Normally I fall asleep while watching  any movie at home. 

Last night I was trying to get Julia to go get one of her toys.  She said toy and went and grabbed a strip of fabric.  I thought it was cute.   

Owls and Butterflies

I finished the green owl quilt top last weekend and Tanya was kind enough to baste it for me.   It is sitting in a pile, that is growing every day, of quilts that need to be quilted.  Tanya pointed out to me this morning that she is out of pins and I must start quilting some of these.  The current pile has in it the above Green Owl Quilt, it has the Brown Owl Quilt, A baby Pieces of hope quilt.  Tanya has 2 other baby quilts one is one of the Jelly Roll quilts (the back to the second one we ordered did not match as well as we hoped and its now back in the needs back pile).  She also has the baby quilt that was made from the left over pieces of Rebecca's Quilt half basted and waiting for pins!

Now personally I think we need to buy more pins and not rush me, but Tanya says I am slacking and need to get those quilts done.

Tanya has been playing with her most recent quilt.  You can tell she has a style different from me, which is great as who wants to be like some one else.  She made 9 of these butterfly's using her embroidery machine this is the first "Big" project using it so far.  These 9 will be put as blocks in a quilt she is making.  Last I saw there were 4 rows of this quilt sewn together, but I will not share it and wait for her to show it off when done. 

It does amaze me how fast and neat that the machine cranked these out.  And to think only 1 butterfly was damaged in the making of this quilt.  You ask how can you hurt a butterfly?  The thread got stuck on the bobbin and with the machine going full blast, before we could get to it and stop, a needle broke and the butterfly died.  It was a sad loss it sat on my desk for a few days, before I had the heart to put it down.

Link a Finish Friday #62

It is now time for Link A Finish Friday.  Today I would like to start with a big thank you to Fat Quarter Shop who has offered to Sponsor our Link A Finish Friday with Prizes.  This month's winner (April) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend at Fat Quarter Shop. 

Please remember to thank our sponsor by visiting their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Jacaranda Tree Art Quiilt - Quilts by Jen

The Five Year Quilt - The Traveling Leotard

A Finish for Friday - Quilting & Other Craft Therapy

Are some of the great quilts linked up last week. Thanks for all of the great linkups.

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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.

2 20 inch blocks

I have finished the first 2 of my 10 x 10 (2 1/2 inch) blocks for the queen size quilt for our bed.  I have never yet finished a quilt for my bed, so it will be interesting how things go on this project turns out.  At the time of this post I have actually made 7 of these now.  Each block is 100 2 1/2 inch blocks they are going to be a lot of fun.  There are some fun left over fabrics (from quilts Tanya has made in the past) in these blocks and there are even more colors that Tanya picked FQ's that I chopped completely into 2 1/2 inch blocks.

You can see some of the variety of the squares in the piles around my machine that I was sewing together.  My process of random is grabbing 2 blocks sewing them together and doing huge long chains of those.  Once those are all done I cut them apart and toss them into a basket and mix them around.  And then I start sewing the pairs to each other.  Until I end up with rows of 10.

I then iron my rows and stack them in 2 piles and then start sewing them together.  Next thing you know I have blocks of 100 squares done.  I think I will need some where around 14 blocks of this color group and I think it was 12 of the brown.  We are still tossing around ideas on the exact size of the quilt so I have not yet finalized my design in EQ7.  What do you consider a perfect size queen?

These 2 blocks are the same as the 2 above just a little more close up so you can see them better.

Along with the 2 blocks I did finish the last top we will have from the pieces of hope line.  This baby quilt when finished will end up on our Etsy store or given as a gift.