Month: October 2014

Scrappy Fat Quarter Quilts

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Who doesn’t have a stack of fat quarters or at least a few of them laying around, if used for nothing else other than decorations?  If you don’t have fat quarters, this would be a good book for using up some of your scraps.

Scrappy Fat Quarter Quilts is a compilation of “Favorite Projects from Fons & Porter” with quilts designed by Lynn Roddy Brown, Elizabeth Hartman, Nancy Mahoney, Ashley Newcomb, Jean Nolte, Liz Porter, Edyta Sitar, Jean Wells, and Evelyn Young.  You may have seen some of them in the Fons & Porter’s “Love of Quilting” magazine. In this book, you will find quilts of all sizes and projects for every skill level.

Martingale - Scrappy Fat Quarter Quilts (Print version + eBook bundle)

Cute pinwheels in fun colors on the cover of the book; could be used for a child’s quilt or an adult’s.  The quilt below would be good for the quilter with a taste for modern or neutral fabrics.

Martingale - Scrappy Fat Quarter Quilts (Print version + eBook bundle)

I’ve seen the following quilt in several places.  It reminds me of an afghan thrown on the back of a couch.  I like the scrappy half-square triangles set in an interesting pattern.

Martingale - Scrappy Fat Quarter Quilts (Print version + eBook bundle)

I love the blues in the following quilt, but you could use any fabric.  This one just reminds me of indigo and Japanese fabric, very soothing.

Martingale - Scrappy Fat Quarter Quilts (Print version + eBook bundle)

You can find more information at Martingale’s website here.

Dresden Doodles

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I’ve been waiting to get this quilt back to Charlotte before posting anything about it, but I decided to go ahead and share this now.  I’ve been gone this last week to Machine Quilting Exposition, where I took classes from some amazing quilt teachers, so I am slow to get back in gear and into my regular routine.

Charlotte has this beautiful quilt with Dresden Plates and wanted traditional quilting all over.

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Here’s a close-up so you can get a better look at the fabric.  I think it’s very pretty.

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I took plenty of shots of the quilting, but, truly, the best shots are of the quilt laying across my machine’s frame, with the natural sunlight coming in.  So, here are 2 of those.

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Charlotte wanted feathers in the outside border and as filler around the Dresden Plates (in the white areas in the background and border), so those were fun to do.  I filled the petals of the Dresden Plate with swirls and the inside circles with feathers and a swirl.  I think the formal cable and square design in the sashing borders works perfectly with the checkerboard corners and striped sashing.  I found it funny how the feathers and swirls were quick to finish, but the sashing took as long to finish as the rest of the quilt – I used rulers for the cable and square quilting, but did the feathers and swirls freehand.  I was trying to get it perfect, but, really, there’s no such thing as perfect.

What do you think?  Does the quilting design compliment the quilt itself?