Orange and Yellow Quilts

 I love to visit blogs for inspiration, but for me it is also relaxing to read quilting blogs. I have made so many wonderful quilting friends. A few weeks ago I saw an Orange Square quilt on Madame Samm's blog and it was also on Jodi's blog. I absolutely fell in love with the quilt and had to make my own Orange Square quilt.

 This is how my Orange Square Quilt turned out. For the quilting I went with a meandering or stipple.

 Our trees finally started to loose their leaves and it is looking like fall. I think we can get so many great quilting ideas from nature. The yellow leaves inspired me to show a few of my orange and yellow quilts.

 This was a fast and quick little quilt to make. I took a few 2 1/2" batik strips and sewed them together.

 Another batik quilt with orange and yellow, I had to add a few purple strips just for the fun of it.

 I am always working on a String quilt from my leftovers.  It is so relaxing to me to sew these strips...I do not have to match seams or sew a perfect quarter inch seam.

 To go with my yellow post...a string quilt with a yellow border and back.

 This is my orange Go cutter table runner. I use a lot of 2 1/2" strips for my quilts and it would be nice to have a 2 1/2" Go die to make the cutting faster.  AccuQuilt is going to have a huge Black Friday Sale which starts on Wednesday. They are going to have the lowest prizes on some of their Go cutter products.  I hope the strip set will be one of them.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving week! I know I will take time off to work on my own quilts...can't wait!

Happy Quilting!

Lissa's Quilt

Lissa is home and she got her quilt. Jane organized Lissa's quilt and she did such a good job getting all the 4 patches in.  Mel volunteered to piece the top and I volunteered to quilt her quilt. Mel did an excellent job with the piecing. I had so much fun quilting Lissa's quilt and I am so glad I could be part of this beautiful quilt. I took a few pictures of the quilt.

This is the scrappy backing made from the leftover squares.

 A few of the signatures and messages on the back of the quilt. Please visit Mel and Jane's blog to see Lissa and her quilt. She look so happy to be home!

I want to show two quilts I quilted.  The first one is for Kim. It is a black and white quilt with appliqued flowers and rick rack.

 I love the words she put around the quilt: achieve, laugh, imagine, believe, live and dream (things we should do everyday).

 White polka dot backing.

This is my dear friend Jan's quilt. She asked me to quilt her quilt in black thread.

 These are all civil war reproduction fabrics.

 I really like the black paisley border.

 She also surprised me with an early Chrismas gift.  As a quilter, I love to get fabric. Who doesn't?

 The fabric is so pretty folded with the black ribbon, it is almost too pretty to open.  I have it on the shelf above my sewing machine...now I can look at it all the time. Thanks Jan!

Happy Quilting!



SewCalGal's Christmas Quilt Show 2010

Darlene over at SewCalGal is having a virtual Christmas Quilt Show. Some of you may have seen my Christmas Quilts. I made the Top Hat Quilt in darker colors to match my Santa collection.

This is my Star and Tree wall hanging I made 4 years ago.

 This is a picture from last year's Christmas with a Star and Tree table runner.

Thanks Darlene for hosting the Christmas Quilt show. You can enter your quilt (or in my case multiple quilts because I couldn't decide) over here.  If you are looking for Christmas quilts for inspiration or just want to sit back and relax, please visit her blog.

Happy Quilting!

My Blue and Green Quilts

Blue is my  favorite color.  I would like to share a few of my blue and green quilts. The first quilt  is  blue and brown.  I love geometric shapes and enjoy making quilts with squares. Almost every quilt  I  made has had some kind of polka dot fabric in it.

This quilt has these cute blue and brown dot fabrics.

 I like the brown backing.

 This is another favorite quilt of mine...blue and green pinwheels. I added some yellow to the cool colors.

I have washed this quilt so many times and  it is getting softer with every wash.

Blue backing to match the blue pinwheels.

This is the very first quilt I made after I got my AccuQuilt Go cutter.  Once again I added some warm colors to the cool green Stretched Star Quilt.

Green and yellow flowery border and binding.

Another blue quilt with yellow.

This one got a touch of brown chenille next to the first border.

I love to use my scraps to make String Quilts.  This String Quilt has green sashings  and the same light green in the border.

I  ran out of the light green fabric and used a darker green for the binding.

Marjie pieced this blue table runner and I did the quilting for her.  We used my Go cutter to cut the Rob to Pay Perer Paul blocks. I hope you enjoy all the blue and green quilts.

Happy Quilting!