Chevron Quilt Finishes!

Here's the two chevron quilts that I recently finished! The blue, grey and white one is off to it's new home in Texas. 

blue and grey chevron quilt

full-size chevron quilt

 When I had the pieces from the above quilt on the design wall, I wondered what it would look like with the addition of some coral stripes. I found a great salmon colour that looks fabulous with the blue and grey and made a baby quilt.

chevron baby quilt

 I've been backing more of my baby quilts with the Minky fabric that's so popular with baby blankets, and no wonder, as it's soft character lasts and lasts! This one is backed with a Tiffany blue and it just begs to be cuddled with!

chevron baby quilt

And the chevron continues to be a popular choice at Magpie Quilts and I have an order for a pink one that I need to get done this week!

--Ann

And Another Chevron Quilt

One of the challenges of selling quilts online is that colors are not always shown true on every monitor or screen. When I get a request for a custom quilt, I will often ask for a paint chip number so I can find the right fabric for that quilt.

Matching fabrics to paint chips

These fabrics are for a twin sized chevron quilt and I think I found a pretty close match with these Robert Kaufmann Kona solid cottons.

Ready to cut!

Quilt blocks on the design wall

Half square triangles made and starting to lay them out on my design wall. Next time you see this one it will be quilted and bound!

--Ann

New Year, New Quilts!

While doing my year end inventory of fabric and sorting and cleaning up the projects that like to spread out all over my sewing room, I found a few left over half square triangles from a baby quilt I did a few months back. I had set these aside with the idea that I would make another baby quilt with a different layout of the same half square triangle blocks. 

Blue & Grey Baby Quilt with Minky back

 In this quilt, I used four of the half square triangles to make a modified version of the Broken Dishes quilt block (found here).

Looking good in a wintery photo!

A few of the blocks are a little different - some have a colored fabric instead of the white and a couple have a colored triangle filling out one corner of the block (one up from bottom right).

Just hanging out!

 I took this one in to my local quilt shop My Sewing Room and used their long arm machine to quilt it and I have to say I loved using the long-arm. I loved how easy it was to "draw" my quilting on the quilt surface rather than maneuvering the fabric under the needle of my home machine and I loved how the stitch regulator kept my stitching even, regardless of how fast or slow I was operating the machine.

Baby Blue & Grey Quilt - FOR SALE HERE!

I think this might be one of my fav baby quilts I've made for a long time!

--Ann