Happy Hexagons

I love this quilt,  This is one of the first hexagon ones I have made.  The fabric is from the designed amy butler,  I just love that they don't match but they go together.  

  These are the first couple of rows.

I pieced the back because I thought it would be fun and all the colors seemed to go with the front of the quilt.  

 I added a white border to kind of unify the front with the little triangles.  I like the effect of the white border.

 This was my first experiment with quilting swirls.  I have to say it was challenging I don't know if it was the thread that I was using but I kept breaking needles much more often than usual.  It is a great overall look.

This one was sent to Heather (bankhead) Sudweeks and her husband.  I didn't get them a wedding gift so I thought a blanket would be our late gift.

funny side note.  I had a friend visit a few weeks ago and our kids were making a fort with some of the blankets in our living room.  She told me, "you have the most blankets of anyone I know"  I have always loved to cuddle up in a blanket and making quilts you have some that you want to hold on to or that were really an experiment so you don't really want to give them away to anyone.  Which is why even though I loved this one it needed to be sent to another home.

Drunkard's Path

most of the quilts that I have made revolve around the new die I have purchased for the go baby.  This one is no different.  I bought a couple of packs of solid charm packs for this quilt.  I thought that it would be fun to let the colors stand out and not worry about patterns.  

 Here are a couple of the early stages pictures.

 here it is all ready to be basted.  I put the plaid shirting fabric on the back so that it was nice and soft.

 Here is a close up of the quilting.  I quilted on the white so hopefully the colors jumped out more.

I made this one for Soren's brother Nat.  I really liked how it turned out and with the turquoise binding on the edge.  It was twin sized.  At the time I had never made bigger than a baby blanket.  a twin sized quilt is bigger than you would think.   I felt like this one was my first "artistic" quilt.

Triangles

Random

I knew that I wanted to do a quilt with half square triangles.   I had all the fabric cut and was playing around with design one night.  Soren was working on something at his desk and I asked him which design he liked best.  He suggested that I do a random design.  Random sounds like it would be an easy but it really isn't.   So he designed a computer program that would make a top that was truly random.  We counted all of the triangles that we had of each color, and input the data.  out popped a design that look like w/w s\f for each block.   (what is funny about this design is that the first three blocks on the pattern were exactly the same)  but it was technically random.  

 I wanted it to be queen sized for our quilt so I added borders later.   I put this one off for a long time.  I think it was overwhelming to work on such a large quilt.  I started it when we lived in telford in late 2013/early 2014 and it didn't get finished until the end of 2015.  I am really happy with the way that it turned out.  I machine quilted it but I only did straight lines over the top and stippling around the border.   The quilt doesn't go with anything else in our bedroom as far as color or design but it makes me happy.  And it is nice and warm at night.

rainbow quilt

This is the first quilt that I made with the accuquilt go baby.  most of the fabric for this quilt was things that I already owned.  I did buy some of the black fabric for the ends though.  

The go baby is so fast.  I cut out all of the shapes for the top of the quilt in one night.  I just had to put them together.  

 I made this one for Emily for Christmas 2013.  She loves things bright and colorful and rainbows so I figured she would love this.

 This is the back of the quilt.  I used fabric that I had found at Ikea a while ago.  it was perfect for a bright loud quilt.

 I wasn't sure what to quilt on the top because there was so much going on, but I just free hand quilted flowers on the top.   they are not perfect but they do the job.

this is a fun one it stands out.  one of the memories that I have of working on this quilt is being upstairs in Soren's office in the telford house and working on it in the evenings.    I was listening to the 2nd and 3rd divergent books while I finished quilting the top of this one.