A Fish Tale - A Completed Quilt

 Hi everyone!

I have a new quilt to share with you today. It's called A Fish Tale and is a gift for a new baby boy coming soon. His parents are friends of my son and, this is actually the second quilt I made for them. The first quilt was done in 2016 for their first child, a little girl. I used the same pattern, Fast Four Patch Quilt by Diary of a Quilter, for both. She has a great tutorial which you can find here.

Now on to pictures…

I started this quilt on 02/05/2021 and was finished on 02/15/2021, so it is truly a fast quilt to make. The quilt finished at 47" x 55". The pattern has you layout the quilt blocks into seven rows of five blocks each, but I used six blocks to make it a little wider.

I had no idea what fabrics I was going to use for this quilt but, I found this fish fabric at JoAnn's and fell in love with it. I knew that it would be my focus print.

The backing and binding are from a thrift store sheet, and the quilting is my usual (and favorite) diagonal grid.

And here are pictures of the first one that I made.

Well, that's if for now. I hope you enjoyed A Fish Tale as much as I do. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Camille

1st Finish of 2021 - It's A String Thing

Hi everyone!

I finally finished my string quilt and, I love it. Do I say that about all my quilts? Yeah, I think I do, but that's a good thing. Right?

It turned out better than I had hoped, and I plan on keeping this one for myself. I have lots more strings left in the stash, so I'm sure I will be making another one soon.

A have a bunch of photos to share with you. So let's get started.

All my scrap bins ready to start.

This is how my workspace looked at the end.

  

This is the quilt top on the design wall. I wanted this quilt to be on point because I liked how the blocks looked. But I didn't want to make corner setting triangles or side-setting triangles, so instead, I whacked off the hanging triangles. I must admit, I started to second guess myself after the first triangle was trimmed. But at that point, there was no going back. 

I really like how the border, binding, and flange came out. The border is 2 inches and is not quilted.  For the flange, I cut 1-inch strips and sewed them together just like binding. Then I sewed them to the quilt before adding the binding.

The quilt finished at 71" x 71".

As usual, the backing is a thrift store sheet. For the quilting, I stitched in the ditch vertically and horizontally each block. Super simple but I love how it looks on the back.

The string blocks are made with a fabric foundation. I read a lot of blog posts where people said using a foundation made the quilt heavy, so instead of using batting, they just used flannel or fleece.  I didn't have enough of either and didn't want to buy any, so I used batting anyway. I weighed mine after it was finished, and it only weighed 4 pounds. I personally didn't see any difference between it and my other quilts of the same size. But to each his own.

Anyway, that's it for now. 

Thanks for stopping by...and I'll see you soon with another quilt.

Camille