A Charmed Life

 The first of three quilts ordered is finished.  The pattern is "Falling Charm" by Missouri Star Quilt Co.  It is in their BLOCK Winter Vol 1 Issue 1 book on page 59.

For the charms (5" squares) I used Date Night by Basic Grey for  Moda Fabrics; the background was Confetti from the Remembering Red line by Studio 37 for Marcus Fabrics; the backing is 108" wide Patchwork Rings by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics; and the binding is Onyx Grunge by Basic Grey for  Moda Fabrics.

I machine quilted an edge to edge stipple pattern with a cream thread.  The binding is handstitched.  I named this one "A Charmed Life" as it is a charm pattern.

84" x 96"

The backing has been one of my favorites.

Label "A Charmed Life"

Wild Iris

 When you see a fabric line advertised in a quilt magazine and you fall in love with the fabric but you talk yourself out of ordering it online what do you do?  You dream about that fabric and how you would use it.  Well, last October I went to the opening of The Sunflower Quilt shop in Axtell Utah and there the line was!!  What's a girl to do.....buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!  I knew I was going to use it for the Four Patch Lattice quilt which is a pattern from Missouri Star Quilt Co.  I have made this pattern twice before and really enjoyed the outcome.  I had purchased some minky fabric from The Stitching Room in Richfield Utah knowing that it would be the backing I would use on the quilt.  The minky was 90" wide but when I laid it out found that it was only about 84".  I cut down my outer border on the quilt to make it fit the backing.

I machine quilted this one with a pantograph called "Paisley Flower Leafs" from Quilting Pantographs.  I have been able to download some patterns from their website and through the miracle of photocopiers at my local office supply store Sevier Office Supply we have been able to size the pantograph patterns to a size that works well with my Brother 1500 which sits on a Start Right frame from Grace Frame Co.  I make enough copies to tape together into a roll that fits on the back board of the set up.  Works for me and was well within my price range at the time.  I used a cotton thread from Connecting Threads in the color Iris #20960.

I named the quilt "Wild Iris" after the fabric line.  I do have just a bit of the fabric yardage left over.  I used a Layer Cake (10" squares) for the charms.  As you know from one layer cake you can get an equivalent of 4 charm packs (5" squares).  That is what I prefer to do as it is sometimes more economical.

I have iris plants in my yard and they remind me of my Mom.  She had a huge iris flower garden in the front of our home in Simcoe Ontario Canada.  She loved flowers.

Enjoy your springtime and stop and smell the flowers once in a while.

Finished size approximately 75" x 83"

"Wild Iris"

I do like how the quilting pattern pops

on the minky backing.

Poppie Trails

 Sometimes I think I should not watch quilting YouTube videos as I just end up adding more to my "to do" list.  The quilt I just finished was the Trailing Squares from Missouri Star Quilt Co.  I knew I must make this one as it looked fairly quick to make.  After my last quilt I needed an easy project!  I found just the right fabric line at The Stitching Room. I purchased the layer cake package and some yardage from the Betsy's Sewing Kit line from Poppie Cotton.

The quilt finished at approximately 80" x 90".  I also made a coordinating pillow case as I like to gift or sell the quilt in a special package whenever I have enough fabric left over from the actual quilt project.

I machine quilted this one with an edge to edge free motion design I call Organic Clam Flowers.  I watched some videos from Angela Walters , Leah Day, & others and combined several things from each one to come up with the design.  I had alot of fun with it as the size of the design varies, the number of echo lines change with each "flower", and once in a while a line will cross over another one.  Thank you to all those great quilters for encouraging me to be unafraid to just jump in and start a design.

There was one flying geese unit left over so it

became the label.  I called this quilt Poppie Trails.

Poppie for the fabric from Poppie Cotton &

Trails for the name of the quilt pattern 

Trailing Squares from Missouri Star Quilt Co.

Finished at approximately 80" x 90"

Coordinating pillow case.