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  • Hailey's Split Rail for Christmas
    Hailey's Split Rail for Christmas

    My Mom is simply amazing! She really is. She is learning to quilt alongside me (well with a 2.5 hour distance between us)! When I learned to sew and quilt this year, I decided it would be so much fun to make a quilt for one family member each year to open on Christmas. My wonderful Mom somehow convinced me to make them all one this year! That is just seven quilts, I can do that right? Oh, and then my incredible husband asked about his mother and brother too! Ok, that is just nine quilts.... hmm, can I pull this off? Well, challenge accepted! So, I started looking at fabrics and patterns. I wanted to use jelly rolls because again, this was May of this year, and I only learned to sew a quilt block at the end of March of this year. What patterns to choose though? I started looking through magazines and online and selecting different patterns for each person. Then I decided if I make different patterns but all in "throw" size, they are still going to be different sizes. So, how about each member of the now four households get the same pattern as the other members of their household. Or how about I just make every person the same pattern in very individualized fabrics! So that is what I did. I made everyone a split rail/rail fence quilt in different fabrics that made me think of each of them. This project is my niece Hailey holding her quilt partially folded done in Pearl Reflections by Kanvas Studio for Benartex. Finished Quilt Size: Throw 64" x 72"


    By CRobertK
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  • Kenny's Split Rail for Christmas
    Kenny's Split Rail for Christmas

    My Mom is simply amazing! She really is. She is learning to quilt alongside me (well with a 2.5 hour distance between us)! When I learned to sew and quilt this year, I decided it would be so much fun to make a quilt for one family member each year to open on Christmas. My wonderful Mom somehow convinced me to make them all one this year! That is just seven quilts, I can do that right? Oh, and then my incredible husband asked about his mother and brother too! Ok, that is just nine quilts.... hmm, can I pull this off? Well, challenge accepted! So, I started looking at fabrics and patterns. I wanted to use jelly rolls because again, this was May of this year, and I only learned to sew a quilt block at the end of March of this year. What patterns to choose though? I started looking through magazines and online and selecting different patterns for each person. Then I decided if I make different patterns but all in "throw" size, they are still going to be different sizes. So, how about each member of the now four households get the same pattern as the other members of their household. Or how about I just make every person the same pattern in very individualized fabrics! So that is what I did. I made everyone a split rail/rail fence quilt in different fabrics that made me think of each of them. This project is my sister-in-law holding my brother Kenny's quilt partially folded done in Wild and Free by Robin Davis Studio for Clothworks. Finished Quilt Size: Throw 64" x 72"


    By CRobertK
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  • Dad's Split Rail for Christmas
    Dad's Split Rail for Christmas

    My Mom is simply amazing! She really is. She is learning to quilt alongside me (well with a 2.5 hour distance between us)! When I learned to sew and quilt this year, I decided it would be so much fun to make a quilt for one family member each year to open on Christmas. My wonderful Mom somehow convinced me to make them all one this year! That is just seven quilts, I can do that right? Oh, and then my incredible husband asked about his mother and brother too! Ok, that is just nine quilts.... hmm, can I pull this off? Well, challenge accepted! So, I started looking at fabrics and patterns. I wanted to use jelly rolls because again, this was May of this year, and I only learned to sew a quilt block at the end of March of this year. What patterns to choose though? I started looking through magazines and online and selecting different patterns for each person. Then I decided if I make different patterns but all in "throw" size, they are still going to be different sizes. So, how about each member of the now four households get the same pattern as the other members of their household. Or how about I just make every person the same pattern in very individualized fabrics! So that is what I did. I made everyone a split rail/rail fence quilt in different fabrics that made me think of each of them. This project is my Dad holding his quilt partially folded done in Pinewood Acres by Penny Rose Fabrics for Riley Blake. Finished Quilt Size: Throw 64" x 72"


    By CRobertK
    CRobertK 7 LIKES  |  509 VIEWS
  • Mom's Split Rail for Christmas
    Mom's Split Rail for Christmas

    My Mom is simply amazing! She really is. She is learning to quilt alongside me (well with a 2.5 hour distance between us)! When I learned to sew and quilt this year, I decided it would be so much fun to make a quilt for one family member each year to open on Christmas. My wonderful Mom somehow convinced me to make them all one this year! That is just seven quilts, I can do that right? Oh, and then my incredible husband asked about his mother and brother too! Ok, that is just nine quilts.... hmm, can I pull this off? Well, challenge accepted! So, I started looking at fabrics and patterns. I wanted to use jelly rolls because again, this was May of this year, and I only learned to sew a quilt block at the end of March of this year. What patterns to choose though? I started looking through magazines and online and selecting different patterns for each person. Then I decided if I make different patterns but all in "throw" size, they are still going to be different sizes. So, how about each member of the now four households get the same pattern as the other members of their household. Or how about I just make every person the same pattern in very individualized fabrics! So that is what I did. I made everyone a split rail/rail fence quilt in different fabrics that made me think of each of them. This project is my amazing Mom holding her quilt partially folded done in Rue 1800 by 3 Sisters for Moda Fabrics. Finished Quilt Size: Throw 64" x 72"


    By CRobertK
    CRobertK 6 LIKES  |  555 VIEWS
  • Charming Stars
    Charming Stars

    I have this amazing friend that has a birthday between Christmas and New Year's Eve. I knew this year with my new love of sewing and quilting that I wanted to make a quilt for her as a birthday gift. I only learned to sew and quilt this year, and I decided to make everyone in my family a quilt for Christmas, so for this project I thought I would go simple. I practiced one day sewing four charm packs together and I was pretty happy with the results. This friend came over during the summer for a quick cookout and wanted to see my new longarm (yeah, I had to get one of those and two new sewing machines this year). I have such a hard time with keeping gifts a secret. Well this friend really liked the quilt top I'd finished with her in mind, but she also kept gravitating back to another of my quilts in progress, my Nigh Sky quilt which is listed here as another of my projects. She just kept touching the fabrics, especially the oranges. So, what do you think I did? I decided to finish the original quilt for someone else (that's still in progress) and make a whole new charm pack quilt for my great friend. s I call this Charming Stars because I didn't want to do a plain charm quilt. I still used four charm packs to make a great throw size quilt, and I also snowballed some corners to throw in a few stars. Keep in mind I have that new longarm right? Well I was struggling with using it and wasn't enjoying it as I'd hoped. I thought it was just the major learning curve. My husband offered to buy me the robotics and software for Christmas! Can you believe it? Of course I said yes! So after six hours of troubleshooting my original setup, adjusting all my tensions, installing the robotics and computer system, and training; my longarm is running! This is the first quilt that I made from beginning to end and used both my domestic machine and my longarm to finish!


    By CRobertK
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