This darling little quilt was made by Gayle as a gift for a grandbaby. Aren’t those animals just super cute? My favourite is the zebra, I have to laugh every time I look at it. The quilt didn’t need an elaborate quilting pattern, just something abstract to put it all together, and Gayle chose “Diagonal Plaid Bias Cut” to finish her project.
This quilt was also made by Christine, and she used the pattern “The Great Outdoors” by local designer Barb Cherniwchan of Coach House Designs. This pattern makes clever use of a fabric panel to create the cabins. Christine went all the way with the outdoors theme and chose the design “Deer in the Woods” for quilting.
Here is another of Christine’s quilts. This is a great pattern for those gorgeous large scale prints that are so difficult to cut because you don’t want to destroy the pattern. The quilt makes enough of a statement on its own and didn’t need intricate quilting. The pattern Christine chose is called “Lapis”.
This cute little quilt was made by Christine. She used a quilt panel by Benartex called “Sunday Ride” and added a couple of borders. The quilting pattern is called “Wandering Daisies”. A charming project in pretty colours that was a lot of fun to work on.
Mary made this Rail Fence quilt using modern, mostly black and white fabrics. The only splash of colour is the outer red border. All these straight lines needed some curvy quilting, and Mary chose the pattern “Wild Wind” for her project.
Here is another great idea for a scrap quilt. If you have lots of strips, stitch them together, cut squares on the diagonal and put them together to form a secondary pattern. Sandra made this quilt and chose the pantograph “Champagne Bubbles” which is a nice contrast to all those straight lines and finishes her project nicely.
Do you remember the Canadian Mystery Quilt? It was designed by Shania Sunga and started in 2015 with the goal to have it finished in 2017 for Canada’s 150th birthday. I signed up for the program, and my finished quilt can be found here. It is still hanging in my hallway, and I love looking at it every day, it is such a wonderful quilt, celebrating Canada’s diversity. Lynnette was inspired by the quilt as well and bought the kits back then without being a quilter. She had always wanted to make a quilt, and her mother-in-law is an excellent quilter, so she had someone available to ask for advice but I still think it is a huge feat to even attempt this quilt as a beginner, let alone finish it. The pandemic gave her the time to work on the blocks, and she did a great job putting it all together. For quilting, we chose the pantograph “Maple Sugar”, an allover maple leaf design.
“Jelly Snowflake” is the name of a mystery quilt sew along that was run on the Fat Quarter Shop blog a couple of years ago. As the name suggests, it is a great pattern for a Jelly Roll but any assortment of fabric strips will do. This is Diane’s version, a lovely blue and white ice crystal in cool winter colours. We auditioned snowflake patterns first but then Diane decided to go with stars instead and picked the pattern “Ginger Star” for her project.
Who still remembers my Rainbow Butterflies quilt? Or actually, even both of them? I made them a long time ago, before I started my first BOM here, so many of you probably weren’t stopping by at the time. The first Rainbow Butterflies quilt was made as a donation at the request of a local care home. You can read all about it here. I really liked what I came up with and decided to adjust the quilt size a bit and make a second one as a pattern sample. This is the final version of the Rainbow Butterflies quilt:
While I usually plan my quilt designs meticulously, I took a different approach for the Rainbow Butterflies and just made blocks in all colours, using whatever I could find in my scraps. When I had enough blocks, I started laying them out and shuffling them around until I was satisfied with the way it looked. This was still the original quilt that was donated later on. I had one pink block that I couldn’t fit in, it just didn’t work with the rest of the colours. I finally ended up stitching it to the back of the quilt with the label, and when I made my pattern sample I did not make another pink block.
But I still love pink and wanted to have a pink butterfly, so in December I finally made another pink block and turned it into a pillow. What a simple solution, and I should have come up with it a long time ago. Of course you don’t have to limit yourself to just one pillow or to a pink one, this is an excellent pattern to use up leftovers in any colour. Just sort them into light and dark values, and off you go.
I have also created a bundle with special pricing for those who would like both patterns for the quilt and matching pillow.
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Penny made this quilt as a gift for her niece. She used a panel, added foundation-pieced letters to spell the girl’s name and several borders. There was a lot of negative space to fill for the wide inner borders, so a more intricated pantograph was called for, and we chose “New Delhi” which has a lot going on with paisley shapes, curls, pearls and a bit of echo quilting.
