Flower Garden quilt finished

If have finally finished my Flower Garden quilt. The quilt may look familiar as I use the unfinished quilt top to as my blog header, but here it is all completed….

There is an element of crazy to this quilt. I really wanted to just use all my bright floral fabrics in one simple quilt. The end result is loud, crazy, fun and bright. I LOVE IT.

I kept the quilting simple and straight and made the back from left over fabric, scraps and fat quarters. The back is almost as fun as the front!

This quilt is also bound for Project Linus and I know without a doubt that some kid is going to love it as much as I do.

14Dec2012

Flower quilt finished

Posted in Finished Quilts, Quilts by wombatquilts

I have just finished binding my flower quilt. I previously blogged about my struggle to quilt this sucker, but now that it is all done I am sure it was worth the grief. What do you think?

Here is some of the details:

I also love the back of this quilt. For the back I made one big block, reflecting all the blocks that I had made for the front. It is the first time I have done this but it will not be the last. It is a great back.

This is also the first quilt that I have used my new quilt labels on. I found a great etsy store (here jennifersjewels.etsy.com) that made them for me and now I just have to get into the habit of adding them to my quilts.

6Dec2012

Gold and Grey

Posted in Finished Quilts, Quilts, Scrap quilts by wombatquilts

I have just finished my gold and grey quilt which I started a couple of weeks ago. My arm is still playing up so my quilting has slowed to a snails pace. I was inspired to do this quilt mainly because I had a stack of yellow and orange scraps left over from another project…. and I love this colour combination.

The block I decided to use is a wonky square. I have done this quilt layout before with a normal block and love how it feels almost woven. I do think the next time I will reverse the colours – a darker colour/fabric needs to be used as the predominant fabric. I f I had replaced the grey with a white fabric the woven pattern would be clearer. I now know for next time!

I originally started making this quilt with scrappy gold fabric and a solid grey fabric. As i played with the blocks on my design floor I realized that the solid grey was too dominant. My husband took one look at it and suggested using scrappy grey instead. In a quilting first for us, he was right! I did keep three of the original solid blocks in the quilt, but they are tempered by the lighter grey fabrics.

To finish the quilt I made a back using some of the scraps of gold and yellow fabric I had in my stash and then quilted it using straight lines. After last weeks stippling misadventure it is straight line quilting for me for the next couple of quilts I think.

Detail of the back of the quilt

6Nov2012

Low Volume Part 2

Posted in Finished Quilts, Quilts, Scrap quilts by wombatquilts

My first low volume quilt is now finished. I started this quilt a couple of weeks ago and blogged about my struggle working without bright colours here.

I opted for a simple straight line quilting, it was all that seemed to be needed for this quiet quilt.

I backed the quilt with a wonderful Alexander Henry fabric I had in my stash. I must admit I back a lot of my quilts with either Alexander Henry or Michael Miller or IKEA fabrics.

I love how the quilt ended up. I was not sure at first but it grew on me as it came together. I was so pleased I have started a new low volume quilt – this time using a log cabin pattern. There was something fun about using such a structured pattern in an unstructured way. Here are some of the blocks I have done so far….

31Oct2012

Scrappy four patch

Posted in Finished Quilts, Quilt patterns, Quilts, Scrap quilts by wombatquilts

I have just finished this quilt…..

It did not turn out quite like I wanted, but it was a fun using a new pattern to make the blocks. The center piece of the quilt was made using a quick four block pattern that was demonstrated to us at Project Linus. I have attached a version of the pattern here.

As I was finishing the quilt it was fun to see how the colour border size and shape affected the look of hte quilt. I ended up trimming the quilt a couple of times to get a balance I was happy with.