Urban Birthday

I made Urban Birthday for a wedding quilt for my niece.  The shower was on Sunday.

I had it folded with the label on the top, so it would be seen when she opened the box.

She was so excited to see the label and that I had scanned in their wedding invitation too.

She thought it was the front of the quilt.  

I finally had to yell out "that's the BACK"!

I think she likes the front too --ha :)

There is something so very satisfying about a making a special quilt for someone you love and how appreciatively it was received that makes all the stressing over fabrics, patterns, quilting, deadlines-just fade away.

If only I could remember that for the next time. 

*smile*

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I also finished a cool customer quilt. 

It's a gift for a young lady who works in theater.

Three Rivers Quilters annual show was last weekend.

 This was my entry. 

I didn't take too many pictures the show was quite crowded.  They have a slide show of the winners here.  The Best of Show quilt is amazing.

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I finished this customer quilt yesterday afternoon. It's all flannels top and back.
I did a swirl echo on it (from the Pajama Quilter), it gave it really nice texture, especially with it being flannel fabric!

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I loaded my little Swoon block sample and got that quilted before I load the next customer one.
I'm going to make this into a pillow...so my first Christmas gift is about done!

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Urban Birthday is a flimsy.

On the design wall now is this one from Sunday Morning Quilts.
 I am going to try to just take my time with this
 and piece the rows s-l-o-w-l-y.
(ha-ha --I did say "try")  
I don't need another baby quilt (right this second anyway) nor do I need another flimsy.

This pattern uses the cut off triangles from piecing binding. I use 2 1/4 inch strips for binding rather than the 2 1/2 strips most people use. I didn't have enough of them so I would say a good half of these I just cut from the 2 1/2 inch strip bin. 

After I got it all arranged on the wall, I thought perhaps I should make it bigger.
And then I smacked myself and came back to reality.

Barb's quilt is finished and delivered.  This was the one I made for my co-worker. She's in rehab now and on the road to recovery. 

 She loved the quilt

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A customer quilt. I quilted it with a large paisley in pink thread.

Great texture.

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Modern baby quilt.  I'm still stitching the binding down on this one, perhaps will get it finished tonight while the Pens game is on.

 the back, I got the fabric at Jo Ann's thought the owls were so cute.

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Today I finished putting Urban Pods together.  I added an extra row to the width and length.  The pattern only called for a top and bottom border (2 1/2 inches) but I put a 3 inch border on each side as well. 

It measures 66 x 75

I can't wait to quilt this one.

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As soon as I got Urban Pods off the design wall, I had room to put the blocks for Urban Birthday up.  I do have to lay them out sideways since my wall is not high enough. But I just take a picture and rotate it to "see" how the fabric placement is. 

This looks pretty good, may move a couple.

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I did sew together and quilt the 2 panels for my Scrap Happy purse but they're still waiting patiently on the other wall. It's made with all the little leftovers from Urban Pods. 

I cannot wait to get this one made. 

Perhaps next week....

Weekend sewing madness (seriously)

On Saturday our guild's group met.  I was asked to lead a demo.
So I showed these adorable fabric boxes.
They are addictive and take less than an hour to make one.




 Check out the tutorial, this is why I'm always bouncing from one thing to the other too many great projects out there!

....I saw this post from Kathy a few weeks ago and thought it would be a great block for our modern group to make a donation quilt for the guild.
You can find the pattern here .
 I made a couple sample blocks but changed the block size from 9 to 12 inches.

block on left I used 'made fabric

....Yesterday, I made two Star Fling blocks and
two 'baby' blocks with the leftovers...

The triangle pieces that get cut off are too big to toss.

 When you add the 2nd square,

 because this is a floating star, you get a 2nd HST that looks like the ones in the 2nd row of the picture below.

 I cut 4 background pieces and 1 center piece same size as my  leftover HST's

the big and the 'extra' laid out for sewing together

And 

Ta-da! 

 an extra wonky cute little star block.

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On the design wall. 

On the right is Urban Birthday, using the Little Black Dress fabric line.

 On the left. is Urban Pods. I found the grey fabric that I thought I was out of.

I love the Kaffe fabric I'm using for these blocks so I'm sewing them into strips for my new spring purse.