Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Acacia "Raccoon" Quilt

I love this collection of fabric, Tula Pink's Acacia. The colors and the patterns are bright and happy! Can you find the raccoons? Details are pictured below. I had my machine quilter sew a simple pattern so it wouldn't distract from the busy fabric. I will be snuggling into this quilt for the winter.









Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Patriotic Cathedral Quilt

This is my new favorite quilt to use fabric scraps. I used the red, white and blue patriotic colors on a previous quilt (currently at my machine quilters) and had leftover scraps. I read up on how to make these cathedral quilts and it looked simple enough. It is a time consuming process, but when it comes to quilts there's always one part or another that will be time consuming. This ended up as a mini-quilt, about 30" x 30", for a game prize at our family reunion. Congrats to Ingrid in her rock, paper, scissor game skills! Details are in the pictures below.

(The white background all sewn together before the color squares are appliqued.)