My Small World Halloween quilt

I bought this pattern booklet by Jen Kingwell about a year ago.  It is called "My Small World".
I made my version with Halloween Fabrics from my stash that I have collected over the past 20 years. Three bins full.

I started this quilt on April 15th. I bound it on May 20th. I added a Castle and an Undertaker. I added a Martini Lounge and a Hot Air Balloon. You can go on and on with this.

Here it is with the sky in progress.

The hearse for the Undertaker and the Martini glass.

Skeleton Party on the second floor.

Had the alien fabric so I had to use it somewhere.

I'm about half way done here.

I just had to add a Castle. I eliminated the hexagon hill. This is a good close up of all the random sky fabrics.

My neighbor gave me the Hot Air Balloon. I cut it out and used baker's twine for the ropes. 

I just zig-zagged over them. I didn't quilt over the balloon part and it pops out a little.

These are the first blocks I made for this quilt.

I love this skeleton guy with the rattles.

Hey leave me a comment and tell me which part is your favorite. Tell me what you would do differently. I just might make another one.

RAINCLOUDS AND PUDDLES

I decided to cut up green, blue, aqua and purple scraps into 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 inch squares. I wanted to make a scrap quilt out of these with a low volume background. I didn't know what it was going to be when it grew up. I put random color 1.5 squares together into 4 patches. I didn't like the mixed colors. I then just kept the colors the same in the 4 patches.

I made a lot of double 4 patches. I love them on point and thought it looked like rain.

It evolved as I sewed. The ideas just kept coming.

I got tired of making all of those tiny 4 patches so I made some larger ones using one color. They were going faster and I was running out of the larger low volumes anyway.

I clustered the larger 4 patches at the bottom and thought it looked like puddles. So then it evolved into gray clouds at the top. I decided to use the larger 4 patches on the sides too. 

I had an ombre fabric that went from light aqua to navy and used it for my setting triangles.

I would change it up next time and make it wider. I used the ombre as my binding also.

I think the quilting design is Pearls of Desire by Anne Bright

Here's this back.

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At the Seashore Quilt along

My first twin pops block for the Moda Bake Shop Quilt along. I got started late on this project because I was out of town when it began.  It's a free project. You pick your setting first then you make your blocks.  I chose a setting but I'm changing it a bit. 

I have decided to make mine a row quilt using multiples of just a few block designs.

Here are my blocks for 2 rows. They are supposed to get sashing.

I decided that I was going to make wave blocks at the start of the quilt along. I paper pieced these.

Then they came out with the Buoy block. I had much fun making these. The fish was hanging on my design wall for a year. It insisted on being added to this quilt.

I still have to add water onto the bottom of all the buoys then sew them together. It's been a challenge adhering to this color combination but I'm really liking it now that I've done the buoys.

February Finishes so far

My sister sent me this quilt to quilt on my long-arm. The pattern is called "Wonky Stars" and it's from Missouri Star Quilt co. She used a Jelly Roll with tiny stars on it. It's very vibrant. I chose a Dragonfly Meander stitching pattern by Anne Bright and I used a bright aqua thread. 

The quilting.

I used dragonflies because her back was a batik with dragonflies. 

Then I even bound it for her using the backing fabric.

Yes, I'm a good sister like that! ha

Now to find a box...

This was a panel/kit that a friend gave me. I then passed it on to another friend and she sewed it together. I quilted it with a water meander from Anne Bright. 

This design quilts out super fast and doesn't use much thread. 

Here's the back that she pieced. I even managed to center it. ha

This is my #6 finish for the APQ UFO challenge group on Facebook.  We had to list 12 UFOs-one for each month. They choose a number for you to work on each month. February's was #6 on the list. This was an easy finish as it only needed me to make a backing, quilt it and bind it.

Done.

Done.

And Done!

GOOD FORTUNE FINAL

Here is my final photo of Bonnie Hunter's Good Fortune Mystery Quilt.

If you want to see more versions of this quilt click the link below.

https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-last-good-fortune-mystery-monday.html.

I used a yellow thread to quilt it. I used a solid gray for the binding.

I used a quilt design by Anne Bright on this called Clamshell Sun.

Here's the back. I'm calling this quilt 

"Tequila Sunrise".

Here's a mini Valentine quilt that I made. The pattern is free on Temecula Quilt Company's Blog on the side bar. It's called "Hugs and Kisses".

Busy month and busier week

As I was cleaning my room up this month I came across this baby size quilt that was layered and basted with thread. Talk about old! The background fabric is from my first ever quilt. ha

It is so not my style anymore. I quilted it in about 2 hours on the longarm.

It was really poofy in spots. But it came out pretty good. Just in time for Valentine's day.

The Good Fortune quilt is quilted! Did it this week. 

I used a design by Anne Bright called Clamshell Sun. This quilted out really fast.

Here's the back. You can see the quilting design here. So I decided to name my quilt 

"Tequila Sunrise."

I finished this one last week. The quilting was forever and a day! Custom placement of every single block!! Including the chain part. 

It turned out good. Lots of dimension in the chain squares.

The back is a flannel with little snowflakes. The border is a single pass of snowflake swirl.

I used a wider than usual for me binding. Machine stitched of course. The binding is the same fabric as in the chain blocks. This quilt top was sewn together many years ago. I'm guessing at least 6.

Oh look! I made this binding yesterday. It is now sewn on and I just have to sew it to the front and it will be done today!!

I had these blocks made last summer. I just didn't like it that much because of the bias triangles I had to add to the corners. This is actually a really cool design but not my colors. It was a kit.

My friend likes burgundy so I got it back out and sewed the top together over the weekend. I just need to add the burgundy border and call it good. I will get this quilted next.

This is currently being quilted as I type this. It's the Cactus Wreath from the previous post.

This is for my other friend. She doesn't like flowers so I used this quilting design by Anne Bright called Mystic Feathers. It's turning out really nice. I love this design. It has a feather that looks like a fern leaf. Swirls and a few small circles. This will be off the longarm later today.