S'mores Quilt

I bought the kit for this quilt on a whim.  I actually finished it not too long after it was started--maybe even the same year!  It was finished in 2010.

The fabric is S'mores by Me and My Sister for Moda.  The pattern is "Snowman Party" by Mad Kat Kits, and it was very easy to follow.

I recently came across a technique (on Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville Facebook page) on folding quilts to avoid those creases.  It looks like something I need to try--the creases really stand out in my photo.

I liked this fabric so much that I sort of began 'collecting' more of it. My youngest son really wants me to make a quilt.  I probably have enough fabric to make two or three quilts!

The Denim Quilts

My mother kept the jeans my brothers outgrew in their teen years. She had planned to do something with them but never did.  I brought home a huge plastic bin of them, washed them and cut them apart. 

There they sat for a year or so.  

One day I came across a pattern for a denim quilt and decided I would make one for both of my brothers for Christmas 2007. 

Quilt #1

Quilt #2

I didn't have enough light denim, so I added some I found at the local fabric store.  There is a purchased piece of dark denim on the back (that I got for $1/yard!  I wish I had bought more).  I placed the top and back right sides together with batting on top, sewed around the edges and turned it right-side out.  I used yarn to tie these quilts.

The pattern is "Down-Home Denim Comforter" appearing in the Winter 1994 issue of Country Handcrafts magazine.  The quilt in the magazine was five blocks wide by seven blocks down;  I made mine smaller at four blocks across and five blocks down.

My First Quilt!

Trip Around the World

I am starting a blog to keep track of my quilting adventures.  I am new to blogging, so this is an adventure in itself.  

Since this is my first blog post, I will share a photo of my first quilt.  It is a Trip Around the World that I started in 1992.  I didn't have a rotary cutter or mat--I used a ruler to mark the fabric and scissors to cut out the squares.  I had gotten part of it hand-quilted when my first son was born in 1995.  It sat in my closet for a long time.  I finally finished it about 17 years later!  

I have made quite a few quilts since then, and have fabric to make about 1,352,085 more (according to my youngest son).

This was made on my first sewing machine, a Brother something-or-other that I bought in 1992.  I had big-time tension issues with that thing which made sewing not much fun.  I bought a new machine in 2008, which I thought was the answer to my tension problems.  Nope!  I struggled with that thing for two years before I traded it in for a Janome MC6600p, which was one of the best decisions I ever made!  I haven't had one problem since I got that machine and really love it.