Unassigned denim quilt - for Evie!!

This denim quilt is one that we made without any one assigned to it, and still it sits. I think we'd considered giving it to friends of ours if they had a boy, but they had a girl instead. A few interesting parts of this one - we had started it back when we still serged the quilts and had the serging facing out. I *think* this was actually the project where the serger quit working the way we wanted it to, so the project went on hold.

Years later (and even that is a guess!), hating to see a half-finished project, we decided to abandon the full serging and just find a way to use the pieces that were already serged without any others. The fleece for the back of the quilt was an impulse purchase - it is still one of the most beautiful patterns I've ever seen. Amazing colors - classic, yet with the punch of green and orange to make it interesting, and beautifully shapes and patterns. It's perfect.

So who knows who this quilt will belong to. (I have an inkling, because as I'm posting this realtime 5/30/16 I just found out about friends of ours who are expecting their first!!!) We'll see how that all works out. ;) ~*~ Sure enough - this one ended up going to Nathan and Anne's darling baby girl!! ~*~

Machine sewn, hand tied, poly batting.

Krassimir's quilt

Krassi's quilt was originally meant to coordinate very closely with Owen's, because they were going to share a bedroom, but finding the same colors nearly 10 years later was a challenge, so I decided to go with the same pattern in totally different colors. I also was nearly out of the purple paw-print fabric that I'd used in each of the kids' quilts so far, so when I found the green version, I was delighted, and set the rest of the quilt off the color established in that one.

This was machine pieced and quilted, and made with low-loft cotton batting.

Rinnah's quilt

Each of the quilts I've made for my children have this paw print fabric in them somewhere. On Rinnah's quilt, it's just this one pinwheel.

Rinnah's quilt was a departure from the somewhat limited pallettes of the first three that I made. Leah's was, perhaps, starting me in this direction, with the addition of one extra color and allowing for some of the yellow, green, and pink to be prints, but Rinnah's is, as is appropriate for her personality, an explosion of color. I had seen this concept for a quilt one year at the State Fair and was intrigued by the pinwheels forming from the simple squares made from four identical trapezoids.

Something else I tried for the first time on Rinnah's quilt was piecing scraps for one of the borders. I was very pleased with how this not only used up little pieces that aren't good for much else, but also made a really fun frame to the quilt. Just a solid would have been too mundane for this quilt.

The backing was also a departure for me from the solids that I've usually used. Leah's used the kitty print on the back, but this was a little more adventurous.

This quilt was machine pieced and quilted, following 1/8" in from the perimeter of the pinwheels. I used my favorite cotton batting.