quilt Archives

Birdy Quilt Design

By Andrea | February 21, 2014 |

After reviewing everyone’s comments from my post about coming up with a quilt design for the collage fabric I recently acquired, I came up with a design that I really like. It will allow me to run the bird print across the bottom of the quilt, which I love. I think it grounds the design.…

Works in Progress

By Andrea | February 12, 2014 |

My weekly update on project progress. Finishes I finished my Romance themed (read Valentine’s Day) crazy quilt. I made a matching Valentine’s Day pillow cover. And I made up a pillow cover to match the His and Her’s Quilt. You’ll see a blog post about the pillow top next week. I also finished one more…

Romance as a Quilt

By Andrea | February 3, 2014 |

Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been piecing yet another crazy quilt. That in itself isn’t surprising. What’s surprising is that it’s a Valentine’s Day quilt. That means lots of pink. Pink isn’t normally my color, but I ran across a great vintage-inspired Valentine’s Day print fabric at JoAnn’s, and when I did, I knew…

Designing a Quilt

By Andrea | January 29, 2014 |

I picked up some amazing fabrics last weekend, knowing that I wanted to make a quilt with them, but having no idea what I wanted that quilt to look like. Why do I do this to myself? Because I had a gift card for the store and everything was 15% off, that’s why. The fabric…

His and Hers Quilt

By Andrea | January 27, 2014 |

I’ve had this idea for a while now about taking fabric from Amy Butler’s fabric lines and pairing it with fabric from Parson Gray’s lines. Why? Because they are married and I thought it would be interesting to see how this couple’s very different lines played together. I started with a trip to my local…

A Second Fanfare Quilt

By Andrea | January 22, 2014 |

As you know, I just made a quilt for my cousin Susan’s baby out of some lovely Fanfare flannels from Cloud 9. Because of the pieces required for the pattern, I needed to size up a lot of the yardage I bought. This gave me a fair amount of leftover flannel with no home. My…

A Baby Quilt for Susan

By Andrea | January 20, 2014 |

My cousin Susan is having a baby! And today I’m super thrilled to share with you the baby quilt I made for her baby girl (coming this spring). I also had enough leftover fabric to make a fun little Dresden plate pillow for decoration. This quilt really started with the fabric. I fell in love…

I Finished That Halloween Quilt

By Andrea | January 13, 2014 |

I finally finished that Halloween quilt that I started in October. I got the top done before Halloween, but I didn’t take the time to get it it quilted and bound. So, thanks to this #sew365 resolution, I got caught up on enough other projects, and had no excuse not to finish the quilt. The…

Christmas Crazy Patch

By Andrea | January 6, 2014 |

Yes, it IS January, and yes, I AM writing a post about my Christmas Crazy Quilt project. Not surprisingly, I got busy and didn’t get the quilt finished before Christmas. So I took a short break to work on another project (it’s a gift, so you have to wait to see it). But then I…