More 2019 quilts Daniel's Baby quilt

Daniel's baby quilt July/ August 2019

One of my close friends was about to have her very first grandbaby, a baby boy so is was trying to figure out an easy baby quilt to make him.
I have so many fabric scraps now that I decided it might be a good time to use some of them up.
I collected a lot of them together and started cutting 2 1/2 inch strips. I found a strip set package of mostly blues, greys and light browns at the Red Deer quilt show and I got started.

I started making scrappy 9 patch blocks out of the 2 1/2 inch squares, (creating 6 inch blocks.)

I also had some Winnie the Pooh fabric in my stash which I though would go well. One of the fabrics had small 1 inch squares throughout so I decided to put  a 10" X 15" inch piece in the centre of the quilt like a panel.  I sewed a 1 1/2 inch border of blue print fabric around it. 

6 X 6 inch 9 patch blocks

Next I laid out a lot of the 9 patch squares to see which ones would fit together without having 2 squares the same too near each other.The I sewed 3 squares together and sewed them on both sides.
Next I sewed 4 of the 9 patches across the bottom.

After that I sewed another blue print fabric 1 inch border around it.

The next part was sewing another border of  2 1/2 squares all around.

Then add a third blue 1 1/2 inch border all around.

The last step to this baby quilt top was to add an outer border (4 inches wide) of the same fabric as the centre panel.

The completed quilt top measured 40 X 45 inches.

Sandwiched and pinned together

I sandwiched and pinned together the quilt top with batting and a blue bumpy minkee back fabric.

Then I machine quilted it, sewed on the binding and added a label.

I drove up to Edmonton at the beginning of September to cuddle the baby and give Daniel his new quilt. :)

Star Wars Quilt for a Special Boy May 4/ 2019

Star Wars Quilt for a Special Boy

My 7year old (almost 8) grandson needed a bigger quilt. His toddler sized monster trucks quilt was too small. I asked him what he wanted on it and he said "Star Wars"!  So I set about looking at fabrics and patterns and trying to find one I could make him.
After looking at a variety of patterns I decided on Tribal Vibe pattern from McCall's quick quilts - Oct. Nov. 2014 issue (pages 20-22).
It has a variety of large 12" snowball blocks (which would showcase the Star Wars fabric well) in between 12 " chain blocks.



I also downloaded some paper pieced Star Wars block patterns, a 12 inch Ti fighter pattern, a Darth Vader block pattern and an appliqued R2D2 block pattern :

tie fighter block

R2

I made 15  nine patch chain blocks- solid blue/ red with Star Wars centre. ( 9 blocks have blue star wars centres, 6 blocks have red Star Wars centres.)

I made 12 snowball blocks- 6 blocks with dark blue Star Wars fabric with grey corners and 6 blocks red Star Wars fabric.  (All blocks are 12" square.)

There are 5 blocks in each row, with 6 rows altogether.

I added a red 2 inch wide outer border with 3 red and blue 2" blocks at the corners.

Outer border is 3 inches wide, Starry Night fabric

The completed quilt measures 70" X 80" inches.

Star Wars quilt sandwich 

After washing the kitchen floor, I sandwiched the quilt layers together, then pinned them well using up most of my safety pins.

Next came the decision on how to quilt the blocks.... It took a while to come up with something but I decided starts were definitely called for.

I free motion quilted wavy lines across the centres of the blue and the red snowball blocks, 

The 9 patch blocks had 4 stars , one on each solid blue square. (I drew the stars freehand with an air erase pen. )

The 4 (chain) corner blocks had vertical or horizontal lines quilted on them, (alternating each row).  

I finished the quilt on May the 4th ironically enough. :) 

Quilting has been completed now. 

Here is the back of the quilt showing my machine quilting:

I am really proud of this one! :D  

Last : a Star Wars Pillowcase

Star Wars pillowcase

Paris Match (2018)

Paris Match Quilt Top only

I loved this pattern from the first time I saw it in the Quilt magazine.  I love how the blocks go together to form pinwheels when there are actually no pinwheel blocks made at all! :D




 

Paris Match

Pattern June/July 2012 edition of MCCall's Quick Quilts page 9These are 8 inch blocks made from 2 1/2 X 4 1/2 " inch rectangles. There are 4 different blocks. Each block has 1 or 2 flying geese blocks within it (2 1/2 X 4 1/2").

The fabric I used was: 

Cream print

Orange maple leaves

Rust dots

Small Leaf print 

Solid dark red (flying geese centres)

Block A

Block B 

Block C

Block D

The pattern calls for 6 rows or 6 blocks each to make a square quilt, 48" X 48" and then you add 9 1/2 inch mitered borders.

After sewing all my rows together (Using the complicated assembly diagram on page 11 of that McCall's Quick Quilt issue), I decided it would be a more practical as a rectangular throw size, so I made 12 extra blocks (repeating rows 4 and 5 again). Then I added row 6 back on to the end for a quilt top that measure 48" X 64" without the outer borders.

 

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Finished Paris Match throw quilt top 

I added a 2 inch cream inner border and used up most of the rest of the rust dots fabric (which I love) on the 4 inch wide outer border. 

The quilt top measures 60" X 76 1/2"

Yet to be made into a quilt.