Quilting Odds and Ends

 Okay, so there are three quilts I want to talk about here. This is the first. It is the second one of the quilt tops I am working on quilting right now.

This quilt pattern is called Pivot, by Modern Handcraft. I fell in love with the pattern and I had this bundle of fat quarters so I decided to jump in and make it. I pieced it about a year ago and then it languished on a hanger in the closet. I am happy to say it is pin basted and is the next quilt I am going to quilt. Hope to start it this weekend.

This is the quilt I made from Sunday Morning Quilts. It is the High Five quilt. I quilted it very simply on the horizontal and the vertical lines. I needed a quick finish and I love it!

Some yardage was used and some scraps from my bins as well. I do love the colors in this quilt.

And we call this the Jon Snow quilt, since the backing is all white cats. N loves to use this quilt when she is here.

This quilt doesn't have a name yet. It is a 16 patch. I was sitting here looking at my pink and white checkerboard quilt one day, thinking I'd like to make another, but not quite the identical quilt.

My husband's baseball cap matches this quilt perfectly, don't you think?

I had the floral light green print, but not enough to make the whole quilt I wanted to make. I ordered some Kona ice frappe after checking my color card against the green print. When it arrived it was way too blue.

So I tried again and ordered Kona mint. It's a little hard to see here, but it's perfect actually. The ice frappe did not go to waste. I am using it for the back and for the binding.

The back is made, and when this quilt's turn comes up, I will quilt it up. I already know how I want to quilt it. Kind of. But this is number 4 and I am just getting ready to start number 2 so it will be awhile. I know I will love it when it's done.

Have a great 4th of July holiday.

Finishing Up Long term Projects

 I know that we all have UFOs in our closets. I have decided I need to stop making new tops and quilt up what I have here. So that's what I am doing. I decided to start with the smallest and work up to the largest.

I pieced this top last summer. I had been wanting to do some beach umbrellas for some time. I figured out the angles and rummaged through my stash. I had to buy some background fabric.

My daughter had given me a twin size flat sheet to use for a someday quilt back, and what's better with beach umbrellas than mermaids?

This was N's sheet and the bottom fitted sheet was old and very worn. I quilted wavy lines to mimic the ocean waves.

And of course I used one of my newest batch of woven labels. I got these from Dutch Label Shop.

These next few are close ups of some of the umbrellas in the quilt. You can also see the batik fabric I used for the background to mimic the sand.

N was here this week and saw this and she really loved it, so guess where it's going to live? She even remembered the sheet with the mermaids.

The other thing going on here is gardens full of flowers. So much is blooming right now. You can get local farm grown flowers at the farmer's market or I get some from my daughter's garden.

She grows tons of sunflowers. This is just a small representation . She has, I think, at least 6 or 7 different kinds of sunflowers.

And echinacea and zinnias too. Her garden is a profusion of color right now and it's beauty is so awesome.

That's it for now.