Another Plus Quilt

Hi everyone!

I have a new quilt to share with you.  Yes, it's another Plus quilt. What can I say? I love Plus quilts.

My oldest son has a few best friends that he has known since high school. One of these is Isaiah. Isaiah and Katelynne started dating in high school and are finally getting married. I say finally because there was a time we didn't think it would happen. But it is, and we're all really excited.

So I decided to make them a quilt.

I knew I wanted to make a Plus quilt. But this time I wanted to do something a little different. After browsing Plus quilts on Pinterest, I found the Pow quilt tutorial and knew it was the one I wanted to make.

I used a fat quarter bundle that I had in my stash called Ludlow by Denise Schmidt for FreeSpirit Fabrics.

The backing fabric is a thrift store sheet and, the binding is from JoAnns.

For the quilting, I went with straight lines on the diagonal going from left to right with the lines about 3" apart.

The quilt is 67½" x 72". A nice snuggling size.

Well, that's all for that. But before I go...

Here's the Skittles quilt with its new owner. ❤😍

Thanks for stopping by...

Camille

The Fourth of July 2020 Quilt

Hi everyone!

I finished my 4th of July quilt. WooHoo!!

And its another Plus quilt. I know...another plus quilt. What can I say that I haven't already said? I love this quilt pattern and even after 8 plus quilts I still fill the same. 

This time I did it in red, white and blue for the 4th of July and I LOVE IT.

I started this quilt on 06/21/2020 and finished it on 07/01/2020.

Most of the fabric used in the quilt top is from stash and leftover fabric from the other 4th of July quilts I've made in the past. The binding fabric is new. While I was picking out the fabric for this quilt, I wasn't sure what I was going to use for the binding so I took a trip to a local quilt shop and found this fabric white stars on a black background. The fabric is from Patrick Lose Fabrics and is called "Starry." I love how the black looks next to the other colors in the quilt.

I tried to buy quilting fabric for the backing and even found something I liked at Joann's but the thought of buying 4 yards of fabric at $8.99 a yard (not including the 50% coupon I had) just wasn't happening when I had a king-size sheet from the thrift store that I got for $2.50. Need I say more.

For my quilting, I choose to do straight line quilting on both sides of the seams going vertically and horizontally. And the binding was all done by machine.
The quilt finished at 63" x 75".

Anyway... photos...

So now I'm ready for the 4th of July!!

Thanks for stopping by.
 

Camille

It's Another Plus Quilt

Hey everyone! 
I have another quilt to show off today and yes it's another Plus quilt. This one is called "Autumn Calling" and I made it to replace the fall plus quilt I made last year that my son asked for. So now I have my own.

So here you go...

Quilt pieces on the design wall...too big to fit so I had to use the floor.

The quilt finished at 68.5" x 76". Each block finishes at 4" and there are 360 squares cut from 23 fat quarters and some stash yardage. Fabrics are from Walmart and JoAnn's. The backing is a green sheet I purchased at a thrift store.  The layout is 17 across and 19 down. And the quilting is my go-to straight lines 1/4" on both sides of the seams going both vertically and horizontally. I started this quilt on September 23rd and finished it on October 22nd.

Today I started a new quilt using 4 thrift store sheets. I wanted to do something easy so I picked a simple 4 patch based on this quilt from Diary of a Quilter.

If all goes well I should have that finished within the next 2 weeks (🤞) so that I can start on my Christmas presents that I'm making this year for a few of my girlfriends.

Well, that's about it for now. I'm going to try to do a post later this week about a couple of things that are going on but I won't make any promises.

Oh and a shout out to my new followers. 🙋

Thanks for stopping by...

Camille 💖

Another Finish - Pretty In Pink

Hey everyone...

I spend a lot of time thinking about the quilts that I want to make. There are so many patterns, tutorials and pictures of quilts on the web that sometimes I just get overwhelmed. And when that happens but I still want to create something I make a Plus quilt. It's one pattern that allows me to just enjoy the process of quilting.  Do you have a pattern like that?

Well anyway...here it is...my "Pretty In Pink" quilt.

I love pink. Every shade of pink. When I was about 10 my parents wanted to redo my bedroom and asked me what color I wanted it to be. I said pink. So on two walls, I had pink and white stripe wallpaper and one wall was pink flower wallpaper and the other walls were just painted pink I think. And of course, I had a white canopy bed with pink bedding. 

When I was thinking of making this plus quilt I hadn't decided on what fabrics I was going to use. But when my husband and I went to the Denver Zoo a few weeks ago and I saw the pink flowers I shared in this post, I knew what color I wanted it to be. PINK. So I went hunting in my stash and pulled out all the pink fat quarters that I had (which was a lot), plus a trip to Joann's and Wal-mart to pick up a couple more. (You can never have enough pink or enough fat quarters.) 

All in all, I used 22 fat quarters. From each FQ I cut 5 (7") squares for a total of 
110. And cut them all out in one day.

The back of the quilt (don't you love polka dots?) is a brushed cotton sheet that I found at a thrift store. (I think it cost $2.00)

The binding is from a FQ I got at Wal-Mart. It's Waverly Dabbles Coral. (Did you know that Wal-mart is slowly getting rid of their bolts of cotton fabrics and going to pre-cuts?) 

The quilting was my usual plus quilt design of straight lines 1/4" on both sides of the seams going vertically and horizontally. And the overall size (after washing and drying) is 64" x 70". 

So that's it for Pretty In Pink. And the best thing about it...it's all mine.

Until next time... Thanks for stopping by.

Camille

Hi everyone!

In my last post, I mentioned that I had chosen my next quilt pattern and that I would talk about it later. Well, today I'm going to give you a peek at what I'm working on.

This is a pattern that I've done before and that I love. The construction is easy and the pattern has the ability to take on completely different personalities depending on the fabrics and size of the blocks that you choose.

Have you guessed it yet?

It's the Plus quilt pattern of course. And this time I went BIG. And pink.

Here is a picture of the fabrics that I choose and the squares cut out. I cut 7" squares from 18 fat quarters and binding strips from a 1/2 yard of fabric that I picked up. (the binding strips are on the far right side of the picture.)

I was happy with my choices until I put the blocks up on the design board and after looking at it for a day I decided I didn't like the blue/pink fabric. So I found more pink fat quarters (yes I had to go to the store to buy a few more.) And here is what I picked.

 

Plus one other fabric that I also took a picture of but for some reason my phone lost.

Here is a picture of all the blocks on the design wall in the final pattern.

And here are a couple of pictures of some of the sewed together blocks.

Hopefully, I'll have the quilt top all sewn together soon and will start on the quilting next week. I don't think I'm going to be using the binding strips that I already cut out. Now that there aren't any blues in the quilt I might use a pink fabric. But I'm not sure yet. I guess you'll have to wait and see.

Before I go I wanted to show you what I did last weekend that had nothing to do with quilting. My husband and I went to the Denver Zoo on Saturday and I took some photos of our visit.

 

  

This flower is the reason I picked pinks for my quilt.

I was taking pictures of just the flowers and my husband was laughing at me because everyone else was taking pictures of the animals. Oh well. What can I say...the flowers were more colorful, until the birds. And of course, who could pass up pictures of the lions. (Lions and tigers and bears...oh my!)

Well, that's it for now. Thank you for stopping by. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I'll see you next time.

Camille