On Point - If You're a Baby

I busted open a couple of Early Bird charm packs over the break and put together a quick baby quilt. 

It was pretty quick overall since you don't have to measure the setting triangles. 

I quilted on my little machine since it was just straight lines along the seams and also because my longarm has a quilt loaded that I don't feel like quilting.   But I'm not taking it off until it's done! 

The backing and binding were already in my stash and happened to also be by the same fabric designer, Kate Spain.   The backing is of course flannel.   Because flannel.     Binding is hand sewn to the back.

I used this tutorial  and it was very easy.  If I do it again, I'll make the original squares bigger and pay more attention to placement because I did end up with same fabrics touching.   And yes, I did take those bits off, reshuffle and sew back together. 

It's currently listed for sell in my Etsy Shop and as always, all proceeds go to charity.

I also finished putting the labels on a bunch of charity quilts -

Resist in Peace

This seems like an appropriate weekend to post a quilt that I made last year.

  

Today marks the anniversary of the Woman's March.    A peaceful yet determined movement to demand and create positive change.   

This quilt is called Resist in Peace.   

A friend drew the design and I made it happen.

Grafitti quilting in all of the background.

There are messages quilted in all over.   Choose Joy.

In each of the stripes, at my sister's suggestion, I quilted a line from this shirt.   

Here it is hanging at the San Diego Quilt show.

The other quilt is also one I made.

We can.

We must.

We will.

Boxy Pouches Galore

I made quite a few of these pouches at the end of 2017.   The first was for a friend going through some medical stuff.   She likes orange and blue.   I like giving myself an unreasonable deadline and then making the project more difficult (aka random* piecing in this case).

I use this tutorial - http://pinkxstitches.blogspot.com/2014/01/boxy-pouch-tutorial.html  and generally make the smaller one. 

Then after that, I thought I'd make 6 more, again on an unreasonable deadline before a train trip with 5 friends to Santa Barbara.  These were made a little more in production style.

and the pink llamas were not planned to come together that way near the zipper but I love it (and kept that one).

Here they are all together.   One of the other girls brought a bunch of little gifts for everyone which fit perfectly in these pouches.   It's like we planned it instead of schemed separately.

I made another for a Spiderman fan.  Although larger and with no interfacing since I was out.

And then two for a staff retirement gift, since I couldn't decide on the fabric and had someone else pick which to gift.   They chose the blue floral.    We paired it with sunscreen, macademia nuts and a Hawaiian Airlines gift card.    I think she liked it.

* I don't do random well.   That opens the possibility that two pieces of the same fabric touch or even worse, the bicycles are going in the wrong direction.

Happy and Hopeful New Year

First day of the new year and first finish.  

It's a bit scrappy and quite colorful, the pattern is from Cluck Cluck Sew.

I only quilted in the white center and did it very densely so the colored parts of the split chevron would stand up/out.

Borders were a bit swirly.  I used one of the new Angela Walters rulers in the yellow but I don't get quite how it works so I'll keep trying.

I went with a crazy pieced flannel back because I have lots of flannel bits. 

Aqua blue solid to bind, hand stitched to the back, of course.

Size is 50 x 63 (not yet washed)