Baby Quilts and a Fun Photo Shoot

In May, I committed to a craft fair with my sisters so I made a few baby quilts. My girls had fun helping me take photos Sunday afternoon. (My son was too busy playing legos.)

The Middle did a great job holding these quilts for me. This one is a whole cloth baby quilt featuring Liz Frenette's Kona Modern Quilts.

Then the baby wanted in on the action.

"I can hold the quilt too, Mom."

"See?!"

"Oh, wait! There's a camera over there!"

This baby quilt is made of coordinating solid charms in the Pacific colorway from Liz Frenette's Kona Modern Quilts line.

I used the dot print on the back and one of the wonky stripe prints for the binding.

This patchwork quilt uses charms from Kate Spain's Central Park line. I straight-line quilted on either side of each seam.

I used this animal print for the back, as well as two other prints from the line for the binding. I added a touch of pink and blue for a little pop as well in the top right corner.

Here's the last quilt. I had a bunch of random solid charms so I just put them all together into this little boy baby quilt.

The backing is Dear Stella's Yard Sale in Cantaloupe. I made another scrappy binding out of blue, aqua, and lime, with a touch of orange for good measure.

What I'm Working On: A Quilt Featuring Personality by Emilie Daly for Modern Yardage

I've recently had the opportunity to work with some fabric from the new manufacturing company based here in Utah called Modern Yardage. I met April Cobb, the owner, at Sewing Summit last year. When she told me about her idea for this new way of digitally printing fabric on demand, I was really intrigued by the idea. (I secretly wished I could have a machine like that of my own.)

If you want to learn more about this company, Craft Buds wrote a great article during the company's launch in March. You can read it here.

One of the great things about Modern Yardage is that your order is printed in a resourceful way. This shows two yards printed in fat quarters on the least amount of space possible.



The width of fabric is 58" so you can fit a full yard, and there's extra space for instructions, designer highlights, advertisements, etc. This feature is about Emilie Daly, designer of the Personality line, which I received in the Carefree colorway.



After receiving the fabric, I cut up the fat quarters and set to work on a quilt based on the Quick Curve Ruler star block from Sew Kind of Wonderful. Another cool thing about the way Modern Yardage prints is that since they use environmentally-friendly inks, the process is eco-conscious and the colors are really vibrant. You can also choose the scale of each print. So if you're working on a project where a lot of the fabric is visible, then you can use the large scale prints. In my case, I wanted small to medium scale prints since I knew I'd be cutting the pieces up a fair amount.



Here are the twelve blocks I made.

























The background is Kona white and the Modern Yardage fabrics actually feel a lot like Kona cotton to me.

I've pieced the blocks together, but still plan on adding an outer border. I'll post about the full quilt as soon as I finish it (which will hopefully be soon since I've loved working on this project).

Finished Lucky Square Quilt

I managed to finish this quilt five months after I committed to starting it (sorry, Jess!), but the mister said it was worth the wait.

He chose orange for the backing and I love how it pops! (He looks a little grumpy in this photo, but he didn't know I was getting his face in the shot.)

This is the largest quilt that I've stippled. I'm sure many of you have moved beyond stippling, but I've found this way of free motion quilting difficult to master, so I've been trying to practice it on several quilts lately.

I really love how this quilt turned out. My only regret is that I didn't finish it in the winter so we could have gotten more use out of it before the weather got too warm.

Quilt Stats

Fabric: Castle Peeps by Lizzy House and Kona white

Pattern: Lucky Square by Jessica Kelly of Sew Crafty Jess

Pieced and Quilted by: Me

Quilting: Meandering stipple

Backing: Orange flat sheet

Binding: Scrappy using colors pulled from quilt

Size: Twin (~68" x 88")

Previously blogged about here, here, and here.

What I've been doing over the last month

Like I mentioned in my last post from a month ago (!), I've been really busy lately. Here’s a quick snapshot of what I've been up to.

I cut bangs. The last time I had bangs was seven years ago so it’s taken a bit of getting used to.

I did a bit of traveling. I visited Kansas City for work a couple times. The mister and I also had the amazing opportunity to go to Paris and Rome.

I fell in love with art history in high school and studied it for a couple years in college. It was one of the highlights of my life (so far) being able to see so many works of art that became dear to my heart in my teenage years and early twenties.

We took a zillion pictures and I hope to blog about our trip in more detail soon.

In between all my visits to the airport, I also did my fair amount of sewing. I made four baby quilts, finished the mister’s quilt (which I’ll post about soon – I promise), pieced some quilt tops...,

and started a new project that I’m kind of obsessed about.

I need to take some photos with my real camera so I can start showing all the projects I've been working on. Hopefully, I'll be able to do some of that this weekend.