One more demin quilt

 Our dear friends, for whom the "Glewwe Quilt" is a rite of passage when each of their children moves from their crib to a big boy/girl bed, announced to us that they were expecting their 8th by having number 7 record a video saying they needed another Glewwe Quilt!

So, we delightedly began sewing, with the fun addition of two pairs of the new baby's dad's jeans to incorporate into the mix. As a summer baby, we picked a bright, cheery, strawberry print for the fleece backing. And a funny detail: while we always make these quilts 10 squares wide by 14 squares long, we accidentally laid this one out 10x15, so hers is a little bigger than her siblings! I didn't notice until I was tying the quilt and realized that the corners on one side weren't coming out the way they always do (with a tie in each corner when I do every other. Ha! Jokes on me!)

Gloria, Rinnah, and Evania all helped me a bit on this one, both laying out and sewing, and Evania trimmed all the yarn ties for me at the end.

Evania's "Tripper" quilt

 This one has become almost a rite of passage, as Leah, Owen, and Bobbi have all made one. It's neat to see how very different the choice of fabrics makes the final result!

Evania's has a nice range of browns and pinks, with a fun horse fabric (left over from Bobbi's!) complemented by the red barn print and brown saddle print. The strawberries were a fun way to bridge the pink and red, and the pink leopard print was an obvious choice. :) She worked with a good balance of fabrics we already had and a few that she purchased just for the project.

Alex's quilt

 So, a week before Christmas, Matt says to me, "We should make a bed size quilt for Alex*!" 

*Alex is Owen's friend who's been living with us since August.

So, why not - many hands makes light work, right? So Matt and I laid it out that night with help from Rinnah and Leah (the benefit of putting in hours over the years here and there getting squares precut!) and the next day, Evania, Gloria, Rinnah and I started sewing. A few minutes here and there all week long, and we got the top done, laid it all out with Leah and Rinnah helping again one evening, and got half of it tied. Matt got the rest tied the next morning (Christmas Eve), while I worked on preparing our fancy dinner for the evening. Alex came up at one point that morning and asked if we had a big blanket that he could use because although he has three, they're all throw size so none of them cover his whole body. I said, "Sure!" and went upstairs and grabbed the first quilt I made for him to use. We were all laughing as he went back down to his room...even Owen who was also in on the secret, and made it up later that afternoon to help with sewing on the binding so it would be ready to give to Alex that evening!!

We think he liked it. :)

One interesting tidbit is that we used up a stack of 34 larger size squares that I think were left over from the quilt that I made for Matt back when we were dating! They're a larger size than our current 4.5" square cut size, so they have languished unused for years. Now they're gone. :) Yay!!

Evania's denim and khaki quilt

Evania made this one all by herself, with a fun strip of two different reds to give it almost a flag-like look. She chose a fleece with stars for the back, and we creatively pieced in where it was not quite big enough at one corner - you can hardly see it!

 

J's quilt

 This is the most recent baby quilt we've made with squares cut from old jeans.

We were a little playful with the label and decided to have the frog hold onto it for us!!

We alternated red and green ties for this quilt, and included just a few red corduroy squares from a favorite pair of Eben's pants that disintegrated.

Avi's quilt

Almost forgot to post this one, because we finished it a long time before delivering it, and I didn't want my friend to randomly come across it before her daughter received it!

Here is another in the series of denim quilts for babies that we know and love. :) Nothing particularly out of the ordinary in Avi's quilt, besides some fun colors thrown into the mix! Gloria picked out the sweet deer patterned fleece for the backing and that set the tone for the accent colors in the denim.

Pieced fleece blanket - snowman

 We had so much fun making the pink one that we dug through, found another good piece from Tammy to use as backing, and put together another one! Rinnah helped even more on this one, doing some cutting to bolster our supply, and also doing some of the sewing to keep it moving. We got it done over three days!

Pieced fleece blanket - pink

 Not sure if this really counts as a quilt or not, because it's missing the inner layer, but it shares enough qualities with these (Leah's, Bobbi's, Owen's) that I think it works. The front layer is pieced, and it's plenty warm because of the double layers, but it's not quilted at all. (Also see Isaiah's "quilt" - exactly the same concept.)

The kids' 4H group was making tie blankets for a women's shelter with donated fleece. We dug through my old fleece scraps (many of which were already cut and ready to go) and paired them with a piece of fleece we'd been given by Krassi and Reuben's school para when she was cleaning out her basement, and voila!

The pattern is totally random on purpose (saves time), and was unified simply by limiting the color palette to whatever reds, pinks, and purples I had ready to go. Funny - you can see where I started piecing the rows before I decided to also include the 4-square squares. The decision to include the smaller ones was largely so I would have enough material, but I think it really makes the blanket! Happy accident.

Rinnah helped me a bit with the piecing of this one, and Evania also contributed a tiny bit to the work.

Castellan's quilt

Happy first birthday! Since it happened during the COVID-19 quarantine, we didn't get to go to his birthday party, but a whole van full of the kids drove out with Matt to deliver the denim quilt that was a joint effort.

Made all with stuff we had already on hand (nice to have a stash in the basement!) we put this one together with a fun fleece with cars on it and the girls helped me pick the color of yarn to tie it with - actually three colors! Something we haven't done before on one of these!

Leah and Rinnah helped sew the quilt top (actually one we had done up ahead of time about a year ago, maybe?), then Rinnah, Evania and I machine stitched the binding. Gloria, who I don't yet let use the machine, was the cutter while I strung the yarn through, and Evania helped trim the yarn after I tied it. Ebenezer just tested it out. ;)

Evania's

This one maybe doesn't *quite* count as a quilt, but it is pieced, and makes a little blanket! Evania's been learning a variety of skills, including cross stitching, which is the focal point here. As she and I decided how to finish it, we went with a blanket approach for her dolls, and she chose some really soft red stuff left over from Owen's Christmas quilt, and a bit of owl fleece left over from Ruthie's quilt for the back.