Ronda's baby quilts

I mentioned in the previous post that my friend had come to visit and sew for a few days this summer.   She managed to get these two baby quilts together, and she was focused.  We had planned some hammock/reading time in the backyard, but we only did that once.

These are only the second and third quilts she has made.  She is still early in her quilting journey.

 This one is a Yellow Brick Road, pattern by Atkinson designs.    Greys and whites and blacks, little foxes and bears and paw prints.    6 fat quarters, no borders makes a lovely baby sized quilt, 36x45.

 The colour is all on the back, with this lovely cuddle fabric that spells out baby.  I put a box meander on this quilt.

 This quilt has horses and skates and snowflakes.   The piecing pattern is Quarter Sections by Highway 10 designs.  I also do this one with 6 FQ, no borders, and it is a very similar size, approx 37x45.

 I quilted a ribbon meander on this one which adds a lovely flowing texture. 

 and this quilt also got a cuddle backing.

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Quarter Sections for BJB

It's summer, and I get to quilt my own!!  This is a quilt I made for a dear friend.  It is the Quarter Sections pattern by Highway 10 designs.

  

It's a great Fat Quarter pattern, very little waste, adaptable to the size of quilt/number of fat quarters you want.  I used 12 FQ for this generous lap/throw/napping quilt.  I needed a long quilt for a long lady.

 I love the variety of fabrics in this one, and the lovely brown tones. And, as a prairie dweller, I love how the design looks like the land from the air.  Farm land in the Canadian prairies is divided into sections (square mile) and quarter sections (1/2 mile x 1/2 mile) and then further divided into homesteads, smaller fields and pastures.  Now, of course, the fields are getting larger - fewer divisions, but the imagery still holds.   

 My friend came to visit, and asked if I ever sold quilts.  I said no, and we looked at my longarm and talked about the quilts I had hanging in my house and so many other things, a great, too short visit.   But before she left that day, I handed her this quilt, in a gift bag, and said "I don't sell my quilts but I do give them away".   There may have been tears--from both of us :) 

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Dinosaurs

H made this quilt for her grandson, using Highway 10 Design's Quarter Section pattern.  It's a great FQ friendly pattern.

I quilted this quilt with flames and pools of lava with a orange Magnifico thread that was a lot of fun with the black light

 a nice minkee backing.  If the grandson wasn't the flames/lava type kid, I thought the quilting could be grass and water for the dinosaurs.

Movember-Quarter Sections

 This pattern is Quarter Sections from Highway 10 Designs.  I really like their patterns, and like supporting Canadian designers.

Movember is a fundraising initiative to raise money for men's health issues...the idea is to let your moustache grow in all it's glory for the month of November, while raising funds.


My cousin was having a baby this summer, and I wanted to make a quilt.  I was roaming the quilt store aisles, looking for inspiration and trying to decide which pattern to make and which fabric to use, since I didn't want to make another Yellow Brick Road or a Disappearing 9Patch, when Lori and Kathy released their Quarter Sections pattern.  They named it because it looks like farmland when you're flying overhead.  Also it's a Fat Quarter friendly pattern.  The Quarter Sections was perfect for me, because this cousin and I used to work together on the family farm.    Then, I just needed fabric, and low and behold, this moustache fabric caught my eye.  Also perfect for this family, as their wedding was in November, a few years ago, ---and the groom and his groomsmen were all participating in Movember--and wore their moustaches to the wedding.   Some of guests even completed their outfits by going to the thrift stores and buying polyester leisure suits to accessorize their moustaches.

And I knew there were pictures on their fridge of their older child and their niece wearing paper moustaches, so a continuing theme for this family. 

I quilted in a few freehand moustaches as well.

 But most of the quilting went 'round and 'round and back and forth, which is pretty much what happens on a grain farm....lots of it.

 And for backing I found this doggy flannel, which again, is perfectly suited for this family, as they have the nicest dog.

 And a stuffy puppy with his own little quilt for the older brother.  I've been told he is now named 'Slush' and he likes to watch the Cars movie with his owner, and watch him jump and play, and they read stories together.