Briar Rose Quilt Design Contest

I have been enjoying playing around with the Quilt Design Tool over at Threadbias as I watch the snow come down this May 3rd morning.  There is a quilt design contest hosted by Pink Castle Fabrics, Threadbias, and Windham fabrics.

I love this new collection by Heather Ross.  I think the strawberry prints are probably my favorite.  Here is the design I came up with.  It's a simple log cabin quilt, with 3" width finished logs.  Because of the larger scale of these prints, I wanted to use fairly large pieces.

 

I'm calling this 45"x60"quilt "Spring Ponds".  The blue center of each block is the pond, surrounded by the frogs, bees, strawberries, and flowers.  I can at least dream of spring, despite it still snowing here in Minnesota during May.

Hexy Flower and Sunflower

I'm enjoying some hand stitching today.



And the view from my window, despite the snow.



 Did I get every last bite?



Aww man, looks like I'm too late!

Finished Peppermint Snowballs Quilt

We're now on our third day of snow here in Minnesota, and it is getting pretty old.  It's the middle of April, where's spring?!  I'm working with lots of bright colors, so I can at least pretend it is spring.  I'm not normally a huge fan of quilt pictures with feet in them, but I just realized that my shoes match my project. 



I managed to finish the Peppermint Snowballs quilt in time for my daughter's birthday in February, but hadn't had the chance until now to get any decent pictures of it.



This is the only quilt I have made where I actually followed a pattern without making changes.  Maybe that is why it took me so long to complete.  I tend to get bored following patterns.  I just added the top and bottom borders to make it more useable as my daughter grows.



For the backing I used a large piece of my favorite Sherbet Pips print, along with a pieced strip of the scraps from the layer cake.



Previous posts about this quilt can be found here and here.  Linking up to Finish it up Fridays at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Combining WIPS - Scrappy Trippy Medallion

I started sewing a medallion quilt after being inspired by this one at Lily's Quilts.  The pattern is from Sarah Fielke's book, Hand Quilted with Love.



I added a green border this morning.  While pressing it, I was suddenly reminded of my Scrappy Trip blocks that were sitting neglected in the drawer.  So naturally, I had to go dig them out.



I think once again I am going to go ahead and combine a couple projects into one.  Now I'm having fun playing around to figure out what border to do next.  I think I'll add a border of Chicopee fabric and then scrappy flying geese.



Despite the fresh snow cover outside this morning, I am pretending it is spring, with an explosion of color in my living room.  We are supposed to get a bunch more snow tonight.  I know this is Minnesota, but still snow in April is pretty ridiculous.

Linking to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.

Baby Quilt

A good friend of mine had her second baby in February.  I managed to pull a decent sized stack of fabrics from my stash for a baby boy quilt.  I have tons of fabrics that work for girls, but not near as many for boys.



I quickly turned this stack into a simple patchwork quilt.



I wasn't going to use any green in this quilt, but in the end I couldn't resist the green binding.



I also made a tote for the baby's big sister, and threw in some tea for my friend.

 

Linking this post up to Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Finished Hexy Mini Quilt

It's finally finished!  I finished hand stitching the binding while watching the Super Bowl last weekend.



You might notice that the label says 2012.  I really thought I'd get this done before the end of December, but that just didn't happen.



There are 59 one inch hexagons in this min-quilt, and it finishes at 12" x 26".



Linking up to Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Quilting pebbles and loops

This week I'm working on quilting the Sherbet Pips Peppermint Snowballs quilt, which I posted about back in August.  This quilt has been a work in progress for a really long time, so I'm happy to finally be finishing it up.



Having a deadline is helping with the motivation to get it done.  My daughter's birthday is in February, and this will be her birthday present.



It took me awhile to decide how I wanted to free motion quilt this.  I am doing loops and then pebbles in the the white areas around the pinwheels.  I'm already finding out how much thread gets used quilting pebbles.