Finally Finished

I finally finished K's quilt: the pinwheel sampler! I am so very excited! It is a perfect side for her! The backing is flannel, and it is so soft!

This is the detail of the quilting

I love how crinkly it is!

Here is baby K enjoying her new quilt

January Work in Progress

A bunch of the quilt blogs I am following do Work in Progress wednesday. Well, every wednesday is a bit too frequent for me, I would have the same post week to week. So my plan is to do one the first weekend of every month, so here is where I am at the moment:

Postage Stamp Quilt
I made all the strips, cut them up, and I am working on putting the blocks together. There are 48 block to make and it takes a while. I can only do about 6 per day. Here are a couple of pictures:

Sophie Lemonade Lollipop

I started cutting up the fabrics for this. Aren't they pretty?

Katya's Pinwheel Quilt

I finished the quilting! Yay! I am working on attaching the binding, which is always the longest part for me, because I do it by hand. I hope to finish it soon and post pictures!

No progress on anything else :(

Pinwheel Sampler: Top Done!

The top is done!!! Yay! I have decided to do a thin sashing on it (1"). I am quite happy with the way it turned out. There are a couple of blocks that I wasn't 100% happy with, but I think all together they look quite nice.

This is probably a better picture of it:

For sashing I decided to do mitered borders. Since there were essentially 2 borders, the cream and the pink, the method that I was taught, was to attach the borders together first, then attach them to the quilt, then miter them. Here is a picture of the final result of the mitering:

I have to say that mitering is hard to do! I am not sure when I will be brave enough to try it again. I learned a couple of things from this quilt: firstly, the cream fabric was much thinner then the rest of the fabric. That Made it much harder to work with, because it would arch and gather until I would iron, and that would not be permanent either. Secondly, my 1/2 square triangle units are 2" finished. The sashing was 1". I was going to quilt it in diagonal lines going through the middle of each 1/2 square triange units, but then the problem is that now my lines can extend only as far as the single square, because if I were to make a continuous line through the sashing, it would hit the next square in a weird place...

Pinwheel Sampler: All Blocks are Done!!

I finally finished making all 9 blocks! I have made more 1/2 square triangle units then I care to count. Scaling down the size of the blocks also made this process somewhat tedious. Next step is sashing! Here are the last 3 squares. I love how all 3 of them turned out!

"Star Pinwheel" from this tutorial. This one is really pretty. I like how it turned out!

"Spinning Pinwheel" from this tutorial. I love this one, because I was able to use 3 different prints, and I love how the pink is on the outside, it kind of looks like the dragonflies are flying away :)

"Flying Pinwheel" from this tutorial.

Here are all the blocks together. I haven't decided how I want to arrange them, but I like the way they look all together! 

Pinwheel Sampler update

I have been working on my pinwheel sampler quilt and I have 2 more squares to show you:

I have made this block before for the quilting bee, it is not actually from the pattern. I wanted to make it again though using the half-square triangles technique that I learned (and using a machine!) I like how it turned out.

This square's pattern is on the pattern, but not in the blog, so I don't have a link. This is called "Floating Pinwheel". I like it, but it is a bit too white for my liking. Not sure if it will make it into the quilt.

So there we go. 6 done, 3 to go.

Pinwheel Sampler: Baby's Quilt #2

My little girl is going to get another quilt, this one very girly :) I am going to make it out of the Meadow Friends by Deb Stain for Moda line. The tutorials are all from the PS I Quilt blog. I am making this quilt as a part of a quilting class I am taking. I thought it was about time to learn to do triangles... So without any further ado, here are the first 4 squares I made:

"Enormous Pinwheel" from this tutorial

This is "Framed Pinwheel" from this tutorial. I modified it slightly, since I am making 8" finished instead of 12" finished blocks.

"Windmill Pinwheel" from this tutorial.

"Simple Pinwheel" from this tutorial. I loved making this one, although I have to say, nothing simple about it!

Here is all four of them together:

I like the way it is turning out. I am making it small, so that it actually is usable for the baby. I am going to make it 3x3 or 3x4 blocks, depends on how many pinwheels i feel like making :) The scraps I have left are all so pretty, I need to come up with another project to use them all up.