May Quilt

Last week and this week was/will be crazy, with sewing for Trenna last week and a family reunion at our house this week.  So I will post a quilt I forgot to post last May - The May wall hanging quilt.  I made this (as I did most of the wall hanging quilts) about 16 years ago as one I was just getting into quilt piecing and though I was excited about it, I was still learning.  There are aspects in most of the quilts I made at that time that I would change, but this is a great sample of a simple May Basket quilt.

I think I would like to eventually add some appliqued flowers in the baskets to hopefully improve the overall look without having to take the whole thing apart and change fabrics I don't care for.

Bam! Dress - Trenna

Dress made by my sister Emerald for Trenna from the Bam! Michael Miller Fabric soon to be released.  We used McCall's pattern #M6948, view A without a pocket.

Trenna wanted a tank top, so we simply shortened it and re-hemmed it, (though I didn't think to take a picture of it shortened before I gave it to her.)

Mini Lion Dress - Trenna

Well, it's time to get ready for the July releases and we have lots to make.  Monday (2 days ago), Trenna gave me fabric to throw together this little dress.  It is made from the Mini Lions fabric from Michael Miller. 

I used this Butterick B5876 pattern, view C, but changed the bottom strip.  No pockets and made a ruffle instead.  I cut 2 strips for the ruffle at 7" x 44" (a 7" strip from selvage to selvage).  I cut off the selvages, sewed the strips together, hemmed it with a medium sized handkerchief hem, sewed 2 parallel basting seams at the top, marked bottom of the dress as well as the ruffle with pins where they should match up (I divided each into eighths - seams, center front and back then halfway in between), gathered and sewed.

Machine Quilting Jackie's Quilt - Geometric

 

Here is the quilt (binding has not been put on yet) that Jackie made for her second child and asked me to quilt for her.  She wanted geometric quilting, but changing from one fabric pattern to another.  Below are some closer shots that will hopefully show the variation in quilting.  Each fabric has it's own quilting pattern that repeats where ever that fabric repeats in the quilt.  In other words, the orange fabric always has the same design, the light blue always has the same design, etc, and none of the fabric's quilting designs are the same.

Below you can see the quilting on the back.