Quilt Story

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Delicous Hand Dyed Fabrics, want some??

The giveaway this week is a great opportunity to add some unique fabrics to your stash. The fabric is

from Vicki Welsh, Hand Dyed Fabrics

If you’ve never used hand dyed fabrics this is your chance. Vicki encourages you to mix hand dyed

fabrics with commercial fabrics, she does it all the time in her quilts. She also processes her fabrics so

that they are colorfast. You can read about her process here. Vicki also has a very active blog with lots

of free projects. You can see some of the projects that her customers have made in her Flickr group and

If you’ve never used hand dyed fabric maybe these yummy photos will interest you.

Vicki has over 40 different gradient patterns in every imaginable color combination. Art quilters

use these for backgrounds, appliquérs love these for variety of color and shading in each piece and

traditional quilters love these for borders. This one is Under the Sea.

Glamor Girl is an example of one-of-a-kind one yard cuts. These are great for handbags and totes.

A favorite for art and scrap quilters are Stash Packs. These contain 10 fat eighths of beautifully textured

fabrics.

Giveaway!!

Vicki is sharing one of her Stash Packs with TWO of our readers.

Two readers will win their choice of

a Stash Pack of hand dyed fabric!!

To enter just visit Vicki’s shop and tell us your favorite Stash Pack or

Gradient.

Winner announced Tuesday!

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Heather's Block of the Month Sampler quilt finish...

Yesterday you saw Megan's finish. Today is my Block of the Month finish. Megan and I fought over that lovely stack of Backyard Baby for our Block of the Month. She won in the end because of her two boys, and wanting to make them quilts for their beds. I was bummed out until I saw my stack of lovely fabric. Ooh La La by pillow and Maxfield. How could these bright colors not make anyone happy???

Here is my finished quilt...

Do you love it so??? I do!

You can see a bit of the quilting, our Aunt Wendy quilts a lot of our quilts. This was just a large swirl design. Sweet.

The weather was behaving quilt nicely. Since it was overcast, I was able to get the beautiful Utah mountains and my quilt exposed properly! I loved how the photos turned out.

This awesome fence was just off the side of the road. Ended up being a perfect rustic setting. You may see more photos here!

Sorry for the quilt interruption .., one of my helpers. I tend to be a little ADD with my hobbies. That goes with photography, and photography of the kids! I know! I am a horrible mother. I LOVE candid sweet children's photographs. I am going to try to do better this year. These babies of mine are growing up too fast!! Isn't she sweet? (At least she still has yummy cheeks to kiss!)

Hope you liked! I am going to try to talk Megan into another one. We both learned some new techniques, and mostly I learned the value of just working a little at a time really adds up!

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Sampler Chain Quilt Finish and Fab Tues!

I did it!! My Block of the Month quilt is entirely finished. And it makes me really really happy :) It all started with this lovely stack of Backyard Baby fabrics:

And here it is, quilted, bound and ready to be snuggled with.

Our series was for a year, a block each month with a theme right? Ie star, hst, pinwheel, etc.. I decided that I wanted to make my quilt a twin, so in the end I doubled the amount of squares and did 12 nine patches to make it a Chain Sampler quilt. Each square is 15" finished. It is 68" x 90".

My aunt did the quilting, this was too big for me and not even the time to consider it on my limited machine! She did wavy lines to show the chains better, stippling throughout the blocks and then each sampler block she did some great custom quilting. On all of the blocks with trees she'd follow the shape of the tree. I love how she did it!

I backed it with gray minky and the orange print seemed perfect for the binding. I actually almost wish I'd used orange in each block, or used it more.

There you have it! Soon one of my boys will have this on their new extra big boy beds. Now I'm going to lay under it and watch New Girl. I'm done for the night :)

Heather will be sharing her Block of the Month quilt finish tomorrow so check back!!