Last Catch-Up...of 2018

I managed to squeak out one last finished quilt before things got really hectic (understatement of the century) and then we moved across the country. Here's the last one I finished in Texas:

More strings!

 I keep waiting to run out of strings. It hasn't happened yet.

I didn't get a clear overall shot of the back of the quilt, but you can see the print better here anyways. The dots are another Thomas Knauer print.

Catch-Up: More Strings!

A third baby with no nursery theme...colors it is! Scrappy strings are really just a fun and easy block to do. Do a bunch as leaders and enders and you can have a free quilt without too much time!

I added black and white to the quilt as a neutral to break up the bright colors and I rather like the effect.

Backing is a polka dot I found at JoAnns.

Binding is from Thomas Knauer's fabrics from Andover, I don't remember which line it was in. It's the Trivial Pursuit fabric.

Stash report (2017):

Fabric Used This Week (in 2017): 5.5 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date: 49.5 yards
Fabric Added This Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards
Net Fabric for 2017: 7 yards used

Catching up, Part 2: Oops, these are out of order!

My next door neighbor in 2017 had a grandson born in the spring of 2017. I made a scrappy string quilt for him. I let a random number generator decide color placement just to see how it would do...hence the blues all being at the bottom.

So hard to get colors right in old pictures from my old phone.

Dinosaurs!

I originally bought this dinosaur fabric in Korea intending for it to back a different baby quilt. But that baby quilt was too wide and instead the dinosaurs got to be used now!

Label

I bound it in cowboy boots and lassos, because it seemed fitting for a Texas baby.

Stash report for 2017...I think I managed to come out ahead for that year! More quilts to follow...


Fabric Used This Week (in 2017): 5.5 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date: 38.5 yards
Fabric Added This Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards
Net Fabric for 2017: 9.5 yards gained

More Catching Up...

Catching up is always a bear, but let's get into it anyways.

I had three friends at church whose babies were due within...a month of each other? I thought it would be fun to see how far I could stretch a single block design and still make the quilts look totally different. I decided on a Courthouse Steps block as the basis for the quilts...jokingly calling it "Church Steps" as all these ladies were friends from church.

The first baby's nursery was vintage school themed, since the mother was a math teacher before having him. I bought school-themed fabrics to be the block centers - letters, numbers, school supplies, blackboards with math equations on them, chemistry equipment, etc. I wanted the quilt to have balls of color across it so I spent a while planning out which color would go where in the quilt.

Graph paper is my friend!

I really loved how the quilt turned out, and so did the recipient. It's bright and colorful and matched the nursery decor perfectly. The backing I chose was a blueprint of a model airplane that I found at JoAnn Fabrics. (Colors aren't totally accurate as they were taken at night, and while I've tried to correct them a bit it isn't quite worth it to chase down the perfection. The quilt has long since been given away, oh well!)

Fun, bright front

More muted but fun back

Label and closeup of backing and binding

And, of course, I had a wonderful binding helper.

Fabric Used This Week (in 2017): 5.5 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date: 33 yards
Fabric Added This Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards
Net Fabric for 2017: 15 yards gained

Getting closer!