Project: Baby Boy Twin Quilts

What do you do when you have 8 days before a baby shower for twin boys? Find something relatively simple, cute, and classic. Here's the picture I based my quilts off of:

And my sketching out the pattern on my graph paper:

And all the involved math (for those interested) :)

Here are the colors for the two quilts:

And the backing and binding I used:

First quilt pinned up:

Finished quilt top:

Now, deciding how to quilt it wasn't easy but I looked closely at the original for inspiration:

And came up with a version of this:

I basted all three layers together (this one getting the robot backing):

I spaced the lines every 2.5-3" apart and just drew straight lines down the quilt top. Then, when quilting, I serpentined and then did circles offsetting each other and I tried to vary the sizes of them:

Quilting went faster than if I had done a stipple or all over quilting pattern.

All quilted before trimming:

And a close up:

And the back:

I washed it and here it is out of the wash:

Back view:

So, to keep things simple, I did the same pattern but with a different set of fabrics.

Pinned up:

Quilt top made:

Basted all layers together:

Finished quilting:

Close up of the quilting finished:

Binding it up:

Washed and dried:

Back:

Together!

I think these turned out amazing, but I am a bit bias :)

Project: Christmas inspired quilt

After making quilts for my husband's sisters and mother, I received my first complaint from my mother in-law: My father in-law was "stealing" her quilt all the time. SO, the obvious solution became to make him a quilt. I had bought fabric for a quilt a LONG time ago (like, one of the first quilts I was going to do for Christmas 2014). The design is quite simple: a star in a nine patch pattern with white as the stars and Christmas themed fabric for the blocks around it. Here is my inspiration:

And this is how it looks sketched out with an approx. finished dims of 60"x72".

These are the fabrics I had chosen were reds, blues, greens, and whites.

I went ahead and put the blocks onto the design wall before adding the points for the stars to be sure I liked where they all ended up:

Then, I added the squares to make the points for the star by chain piecing:

Next, I put the blocks together as a nine patch and then put the blocks together:

All basted and ready to quilt:

Up close of the front quilting:

Up close of the back:

Adding the binding:

Prewash:

After the wash:

It was well received and will be well loved :) 

Project: B's baby boy quilt

So many of my friends were having baby boys, while I was pregnant with a girl.
So here goes another boy quilt. 

The approx. finished dims were given as 38.5" x 42.5".

Here are the fabrics we decided on:

And off I went (after using graph paper to figure out the size of each of the blocks).

If you look closely, it basically turns into 4 rows with sashing strips between each row:

So, then I sewed the top row with the color blocks and the white strips in between. 

After that, I did made the wider row into two steps: add the sashing strips between the color blocks and then sew the vertical sashing strips in, completing the row.

Then I sewed a row together with the sashing strip to 3 of the 4 rows. Next, I put rows 1 and 2 together and then 3 and 4 together.

Once that was done, I needed to add the border by doing the vertical ones on the ends and then the top and bottom border.

The finished quilt top:

After that process was done (to make the quilt top),
the real fun began to figure out how I was going to quilt this.
I decided to take a look at the original posted quilt and took inspiration from that:
boats, stars, and waves.

So I started by drawing stars on the yellow and green areas:

And then boats on the whale fabric:

Basted it pretty quickly:

And traced on an infinity stencil on the white borders and sashings:

I quilted the stars by adding a ripple effect:

I did a swirly wave for the blues:

A better view of it on the backing:

All the quilting done (back view):

A close up:

Quilted front view:

Close up:

All trimmed up:

I did a lot of auditioning for which fabric would be the binding 

and I finally decided on this solid blue:

I did a zig-zag stitch for the binding:

And then it went into the washer and drier to get the marking off:

I'm so happy with how this turned out. 

There are no limits when you use some math in your life :)