T-Shirt Quilt

I’m going to make a t-shirt quilt for a friend’s sister.  We picked out the fabrics and selected the shirts.  Here’s a pic of the shirts we’ll be using in the quilt.

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Baby Quilts for Friends

Here are some pictures of baby quilts I’ve recently made for friends.
(Spoiler Alert:  If you’re my friend that’s expecting a girl, don’t view this post!!)

I like to think of this pink quilt as a “Strawberry Shortcake” quilt. =)

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More Fabric Scraps

I sorted, folded, and organized another basket of fabric scraps.  I still have a giant bag with more, but I’m making progress.  After checking various resale and dollar stores, I found the perfect containers for organizing the scrap fabrics.  Here’s a picture of what I have organized so far.  I tried to put similar colors [...]

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A King-Sized Quilt

A few years ago, I went to a quilt shop and purchased a few yards each of 112 inch wide fabric.  Normally, you find 45 in and 60 in fabric.  I bought a piece in a white floral print and a beige one with little blue flowers.  I sandwiched them together with some nice batting [...]

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The Most Beautiful Scrap Quilt, Part 3

Okay, we’ve been spending a few days detailing how one single block in a quilt was made.  The quilt block was beautiful.  It used fabrics that I already had on hand (That’s frugal!), and the fabrics that made up the quilt block were filled with memories and history.  I think that’s what makes the most [...]

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The Most Beautiful Scrap Quilt, Part 2

Yesterday, I began a new scrap quilt.  I’ve made a lot of clothes and a few quilts in the past year, so I’ve got a few big baskets of scraps lying around.
This quilt started when I wanted to use up some fabric from a dress that turned out badly.  Half of the dress turned into [...]

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The Most Beautiful Scrap Quilt, Part 1

For the last week, I’ve been teaching you how to alter a dress pattern.  I also detailed how such alterations can sometimes lead to what some might call failure.  Still, it was a grand learning experience.  I’d never taken the sleeves from one dress pattern and incorporated them into another before.  I guess I’d been [...]

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A quilt in progress

Here are some pictures of a quilt I’m working on.  I was inspired by a coaster I picked up in Scotland.  The art work on the coaster was similar to the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.  I’ve had this quilt in production for a while.  It was nice to get some progress made on it [...]

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Another Baby Quilt

When I made the turquoise baby quilt for my friend, I still had enough fabric left over to make a second quilt.  When making the blocks for the first quilt, I had to trim two triangles off of opposite corners of each block.  I decided to sew the triangles together and arrange them in different [...]

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Baby Quilt, Part 2

When making the baby quilt for my friend, I used my serger.  It was the first time I used a serger to piece a quilt.  It was great, because the speed was quick, and if there were uneven edges, the serger trimmed them to be even.  Also, there was no fraying on the underside of [...]

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Baby Quilt, Part 1

A friend is expecting a baby this fall, so I started on a baby quilt.  The top is finished, so I need to layer, quilt, and bind it in the next few months.  I don’t know the baby’s gender, so I picked turquoise and brown.  There are some great prints out there these days, so [...]

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