Oops!!

I noticed this after I put this as my blog header.  Two circles in from the right (my right as I'm looking at it) there is a place that is UNQUILTED.  Lime green with white polka dots next to pink with white squarish polka dots.  How did I miss this?  Not just the quilting, but then afterwards as I was photographing it!

Do you see it?  Crazy.

 All fixed.

 Do you see it now?  Nope?  Good.  

Soothing Whirligig

YEARS ago I made this top when Amanda Jean made hers.  (Tutorial here.)  I know.  I know.  I reference her a lot.  I made A LOT of her quilts in the past, and I am now getting around to finishing them.  It's just how it's going to go.

You can see that I made some cutting mistakes -- trying to be fast and cutting two at once.  I originally started as a garment seamstress (amateur only, of course), so cutting things out with right sides together is my default.  This method, of course, does NOT work when making whirligig blocks.  That's just a little tip from me to you.

You get them going in opposite directions.  So I made more than I had originally planned, ran a white border around three sides and put the opposite blocks around the outside.

I suppose if I never point these things out, they might go unnoticed, but this isn't the first time.  THIS is the first time I messed these up.  (Success stories here and here.)

 Jumbled up, can't see the mistakes.

 Santorini print on the back.

Momo's It's a Hoot green dot for the binding again.  Perfect.  This quilt is one that my oldest daughter will be taking to college with her in a month.  Finished EARLY!  What?!  Motivation, I guess.

Linking up with Amanda Jean's Finish It Up Friday.  Thanks for stopping by.  Maybe next week I'll show you some UNfinished projects.  We know have a ton of those . . .  In the meantime, happy quilting!

Summer Song Pinwheel Redux

I made one of these before with leftovers from an as yet unfinished quilt.  There were enough leftovers to make two sweet baby quilts.  The fabric is Summer Song by My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake (with a few random things from my stash thrown in).

A Pezzy back (and a boy's silhouette).

Binding is from Momo's It's a Hoot.  I love this dot in all colors.  I recently found some at my LQS.  I bought it in the green and the blue.  Oh, and the gray.  I have already bound another quilt in the green, and I used the blue and green for the back of another quilt.  It is just perfect as a binding.  I think I have enough to bind one more big quilt with it.  And then maybe I'll have to go buy more.

I just quilted it with an all-over stipple in the interest of gittin' 'er done.  Finished quilt is 36" x 45" -- perfect baby-snuggling size.

I will be linking up with Amanda Jean's Finish it up Friday when Friday rolls around.  Happy Quilting!

Modified Bento Box a la Ashley

A few years ago, Ashley made a quilt like this with Flea Market Fancy.  I loved her colors, so I tried to mimic hers here.  Mine quilt is a little brighter than her soft color palette, but I still like the effect.  Again, I have a crazy wash of color.

 (One boy is shorter than the other.)

 I used scrap strips for the front, so I didn't have much of anything left to go on the back.

 I love the optical illusion that this pattern creates.

Linking up to Finish It Up Friday with Amanda Jean.  Again.  Feast or famine around here.

Running in Circles

This quilt is from Amanda Jean's Running in Circles quilt.  I've decided I need some white or some kind of rest for your eye.  Sometimes I can't tell how it's going to turn out until I actually see it.  I do like quilts where there's just a wash of colors, but this one might be too busy.  I can't tell.

 Busy or not, I still like it.

 Pieced back.

Spiral quilting in the circles, tiny stippling around it.

The colors look more pastel (and really, truer) here in these pictures -- more sunlight, guess.  

I made the binding for this weeks ago, and it has just been sitting around waiting for me to have a spare moment.  And there it was this morning.  I'm not sure if I'm keeping this or sending it to my niece.  When she was a baby, I did not send her a quilt (long-ish story, bad time in my life), so now that she's three or so, maybe she needs a big-girl quilt.  But first, I have to finish the one for her new baby sister that's coming this fall.  The list goes on and on.  And on.  Happy Quilting!

I'm linking up to Amanda Jean's Finish it up Friday.  Hooray!!!