Monday, August 22, 2011

Log cabin.

 A Log Cabin Quilt
My mother started collecting browns when she was married 27 years ago. Her dream was to one day make a log cabin quilt with them.
She even hung two amish made quilt hangers
for the quilts she wanted to make.
In preparation for a party, she asked me if I would make the quilts for her(in only a week) I jumped at the opportunity and made two quilts in the designs she wanted.
The first quilt I made is the above Log Cabin quilt. This is a good quilt enlarge, a bigger block size would make it a lot easier!




                                                















The second quilt I made is this Chinese Coins.
There are so many ways to arrange the blocks, I chose to rotate every other one.




Here is the close up of the chinese coins.
There are twelve different fabics in each row.
Each little "Coin" is only 1-1/2 x 3-1/2
All I did was add a border to the blocks, and put them together with every other block turned.







I sell a kit with 12 of these blocks, in either Browns, Blues, or Greens.
If you want one contact me and I will list a kit on ebay or etsy, whichever you prefer.



Here is the finished product.


Is mom happy? you bet!


Happy quilting!



Anna

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Yellow Brick Road Pattern


I love the YELLOW BRICK ROAD pattern. It is a simple pattern, and is very easy to make.

Last summer two friends asked me to make quilts for them. The sisters had taken a quilting class together, and had braught all the material to make two queen size quilts in the YELLOW BRICK ROAD pattern. After the class both sisters decided they did not like to quilt, and asked me to finish the quilts for them.

The first quilt. I think both of them did a good job picking colors.
The second quilt. Both these quilts are fat quarter friendly!

This spring, I made this quilt as a wedding gift for a friend. I didn't know what color scheme to go with, so I made a completele neutral quilt. I used over twenty different white on cream fabrics.

I quilted all these quilts on my long arm machine.
If you are looking for an easy project this is one of my favorite patterns to use. It is so much fun to make!

Happy Quilting,
Anna