Bloggers Quilt Festival Fall 2014 – Large Quilt

I know this quilt is a little older, but I was rearranging rooms this fall and came across it (in a sadly underused room) and fell in love all over again. The colours are so bright and happy, especially with the weather turning gloomy outside.

The fabrics are from V and Co’s Simply Color, one of the best fabric lines ever! I am hording all my scraps from this line as I don’t come across it often now.

This quilt was made as part of the In Color Order HST BOM. I think the colors work so well with this pattern and it came together wonderfully. My daughter loves all the colours and it is a great quilt to snuggle in this fall as I am in denial that winter is coming!

The quilting follows the chevrons from the backing fabric. I like the simplicity of it and how the angles in the quilting goes well with the angles in the blocks on the front of the quilt.

 

I am entering this quilt in the large quilt category of the Bloggers Quilt Festival hosted by Amy’s Creative Side.

 

Quilt Stats:
Fabric: Simply Color by V and Co for Moda
Backing: Chevrons by Riley Blake
Pattern: HST BOM or HST Sampler by In Color Order
Size: 54 x 67″
Quilting: Done by me on my Juki

Simply HST

Wow, August is turning into a month of finishes for me, which is great.  I love seeing all these quilts come together, yay.

This week I managed to get all the binding and labelling finished for my Half Square Triangle Block of the Month (HST BOM) quilt from In Color Order’s BOM.  She did the BOM in 2012, but I was not able to start my quilt until January of this year.  I was trying to be good and keep it as a BOM, but in June I got excited and started going ahead.  I am happy I did as I love how it all turned out and that I will have this bright happy quilt for the fall and winter.

I did the quilt using Simply Color fabric line from V and Co.  I love this fabric and all the happy colors in it.

The backing is rainbow chevrons from Riley Blake in large.  This took a little planning as I needed to piece it and I didn’t want the seam to be noticeable.  I managed to get it pretty close but not perfect – no one has noticed so far, lol.

For the quilting i wanted to stick with something with angels to go with all the triangles on the front.  I decided to quilt it with straight lines in a chevron pattern.  To make things easy, I simply followed the chevrons on the back (and quilted it upside down which was interesting to make sure I didn’t hit any pins!).

Quilt Stats:

Pattern: HST BOM from In Color order

Fabric: Simply Color layer cake, + Kona Snow

Backing: Large Rainbow Chevrons, Riley Blake

Linking up to Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts. and Needle and Thread Thursday.

 
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Work in Progress Wednesday

I have been keeping busy over the last few weeks, and sadly not with as much sewing as I would like.   I have been able to make some progress on a project or two though!

The project I have been focusing on lately is my HST BOM from In Color Order.  I found this BOM late, as started it in January (after it was already concluded from the year before, oops).  I liked the blocks so much that I couldn’t stop myself and now have finished all the remaining blocks.  I am currently working on getting all the sashing together into a quilt top.

I have also finished a quilt top for a friend.  She was inspired by a quilt she saw while planning her wedding, and knew what colours she liked.  Otherwise she left it up to me.  I decided to do a little bit of a redesign, and I like the way it is turning out.  Now I just have to figure out how I am going to quilt it.

I am linking up to Work in Progress Wednesday on Freshly Pieced.  If you have come from the link up, welcome and I thank you for checking my post out.  If you haven’t checked out the linkup I highly recommend checking it out – there are lots of great projects that people are working on!

WIP Wednesday

I haven’t had many finishes lately, as my quilting time is dwindling with semester getting into full swing.  Without many finishes I thought I would share some of the projects that I have on the go right now.  I try to have a few small projects so that I have something to work on for 10 minutes here and there between marking papers.

 

I finally broke down and decided to do the half square triangle BOM from In Color Order.  I am only a year late getting on this one, but I do love the way this block looks with the Simply Color fabric!

This is a block from the Kitchen Window quilt that I am making.  I picked up these fabrics on my vacation to Maui last year and have finally started getting the quilt top together.  I am loving all the bright colors and can’t wait to see it finished.  I am keeping an eye out for the perfect backing (there wasn’t enough room in the suitcase to bring back that much fabric last year).

I stated this project one night after watching some of my Inspired Modern Quilts Craftsy class.  I made this using the improv pods lesson and a the last of my Dr. Seuss scraps.  Now to get a couple more and get a top together.

And last, the blocks that I have made for the Ima Bee Quilting Bee.  I decided to join my first quilting bee this year, and have loved making this first block.  I can’t wait to see all the blocks come together in the final top!  You can see more of the blocks and a start of the top here.  Up next is the Schoenrock Cross block (more paper piecing to try out, hopefully it goes smoothly).

That is all I am working on right now, hopefully I will have something finished soon!