A Sweet Heart Quilt

Hi everyone!

I can't believe it's been more than a month since I last posted. Wow, how time flies. But I'm back today to share a quilt with you.

This quilt is a Valentine's Day quilt that I finished in March. For the pattern, I used Big Love Quilt by Modern Handcraft, which you can find here. It's a super easy quilt to make. It's made up of large half-square triangles and, I love how it came out.

All the fabrics that I used.

You can't tell but, the backing is a very light pink.

Our dog Rocko wanted to be in the picture.

I had a lot of fun picking out the fabrics. They are all from JoAnn's and Walmart. The backing, as usual, is a thrift store sheet. The quilting is my usual stitch in the ditch of all the seams. Super easy. And I sewed the binding on by machine. 

The finished quilt is 54″ x 62″.

Since it wasn't finished for Valentine's Day, I guess I have to wait until next year to display it in my house. Oh well.

That's it for now. Until next time...

Thanks for stopping by!

Camille

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

Candied

Hi everyone!

Six months into 2020 and I'm on quilt #9. 

This quilt was super easy to make from start to finish. I think the hardest part was deciding on the quilting design.

The pattern is called Candy Store and is in the Love of Quilting (May/June 2012) magazine. 

The pattern uses 2½-inch strips which I cut from my stash of fat quarters.  I used 18 fat quarters plus a yard of fabric for the center of the blocks so it's super scrappy.

This quilt is featured on the cover of the magazine and what caught my eye was the grey sashing, borders, and binding. I don't know if I've mentioned this but grey is my favorite color. I used fabric from my thrift store sheet for all of that.

The quilting design that I decided on was just a simple straight line diamond grid pattern. It was super easy which I needed since the design I first planned would have taken twice as long and by the time I had gotten to the quilting phase (June 17th), I had decided I wanted to make a Fourth of July quilt.  So I needed something super easy and super fast. Thankfully I got it quilted in just 1 day and I sewed all of the binding on by machine instead of my usual way, which is to machine sew it to the front of the quilt and then hand sew the binding to the quilt back. The quilt was completed on June 19th. Whew.

The quilt finished at 50" x 66.5".

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 💖