Baby Shower Gift

This is a quilt made for a baby shower gift for church.  The front is made of charms in lavender and black prints.  I used leftover prints from the custom charm square quilt last month. The back is lavender minky.

It is the gift from the church.  It the first one I have made, the other new moms have wanted freezer meals.  I am really hoping she likes it.  She is not real traditional.

I made the top and Richard was nice enough to quilt it for me.  They wanted to have the top so that we could tie it, but I am not really into tying quilts so much anymore especially with a pieced top.. I like the machine quilted look.  Am I the only one that has ever not wanted a quilt tied after piecing the top?

Link A Finish Friday #84

Today I would like to start by sharing Rag Quilt #10 from Tanya's stash she has a huge pile of old flannel (ok old being a year, I know not so old) any way we are stash busting by cranking out quilts.

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Here are some of those linked up last week.

Modern Table Topper - Mona's Creativity

Finally - Cat's Crossing

Arkansas Traveler - Simply Pieced

These are only a few of the fantastic quilts from last week.
Please link up and share what you have been up too.

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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.

Rag Quilt # 10 and winner.

This quilt is technically not from the flannel stash that Richard cut up, but wasn't purchased for this specific quilt.   The flannel is leftover from the twin sized custom owl rag quilt and the minky from the rainbow quilt completed earlier this week.

I had the quilt on the chair, but Julia decided I should take a picture of her instead, as she threw the quilt off.

I ended up taking her back in the house, so I could finish taking pictures.  Julia really likes this quilt, she seems to like pink.  She tries to claim any pink quilt.

I guess she didn't see me take the pictures on her crib or she would have been mad.

Now the exciting part. The winner of LAFF for August is Tanya of Tanya Quilts  in Co http://tanyaquiltsinco.blogspot.com/2013/08/end-of-summer-finish.html.  She has been emailed.

Batik Table Runner Light Blue

Today I am showing off one of my Batik Table Runners.  I plan to make a table runner pattern out of this and list it on crafts for free.  This is a nice and simple pattern using a Dresden ruler to make the center with a 1 inch and then 2 inc border.  The binding was done with all scraps if you look closely at it it changes from one print to the next.

The back was made with just left over scraps and it has a simple strait line quilt.

Bright and Cheery Color Blast Quilt

One of my favorite patterns I have made is my color blast quilt.  The first quilt I made out of this pattern was orange and Tanya hated it.  I then made a blue batik quilt which I love and then a few tops that have not yet been finished.  Well a few months ago, when I came home from work Tanya was making this version of it.  She hated my version and I have to admit she has topped it, but she can't seem to get my name correct.  She always refers to the pattern as color burst rather then color blast.  Its kinda funny.  I guess if she wants to burst rather then blast I will let her.

I loved her choice of binding and really love the corner stones she used (the wavy lines) it gave it a neat twist.

She of course made me quilt it and as normal she wanted to torture me and had pink minky on the back.  About 2/3 quilted, I realized we had a pucker in the back and sadly she had to pull out almost 2 full rows of quilting and re-pin it to fix our pucker.  I love the finished look of minky, I hate quilting it.

This quilt was completely made of scraps from our stash and will end up on our the etsy store.

Richard and Tanya Quilts Patterns on Craftsy