Jzhuskies | Quiltsby.me

My daughter decided she wanted to giver her good friend a quilt for their wedding ... in 3 weeks! So we went shopping in my stash. She selected on of my favorite layer cakes, "Sunset Blooms 10 Karat Crystals" by Wilmington. I had picked it up as a Daily Deal from MSQ back in June 2018. We were lucky enough to find fabric for the border and backing from the line (which surprised me). Since the wedding was 3 weeks off I decided to go with Jenny's Building Block tutorial. It came together quickly and my favorite local quilter squeezed me in with a darling sunflower quilting pattern. People who say it at the quilt shop asked it if was for sale - I've never sold a quilt so was very flattered. Long story short, I finished sewing on the custom label and binding two days before she had to leave for the wedding. Phew! I love how it turned out. The beautiful, colorful fabric really made this quilt pop.

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Market Day

Our next door neighbors are in their 80s. We have lived next door for twenty years. Each year they have a garden and share the extra veggies with us. They are so sweet. Katie has been having trouble with her back and shoulder and has been having to sleep in a chair for some time now. I had been wanting to make her a quilt and found this adorable fabric with veggies and market stands. I decided to make a lattice quilt. At first I used honey strips but couldn't get the corners to match. I tore the whole thing apart and redid it using jelly strips. It turned out much better. I still don't know what I was doing wrong with the skinnier strips, but I guess they were much less forgiving. It was backed in a English garden-type print and quilted by a local quilter. The quilt was gifted Christmas 2018.

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Fore!

I made my father-in-law a quilt with a golf theme. He loves to quilt and I thought it would be fun to make him a quilt. I wanted to keep the golf fabrics big so settled on a disappearing 9-patch pattern using layer cake squares. I also set the cut up 9-patches in a non-random way creating a different design. I gifted it for his September birthday in 2017.

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Into the Woods

My oldest grandson loves the outdoors. I found these great outdoor prints and cut them into 10"squares. I threw in random solid squares and backed in a woodsy pattern. I made it a little bigger because he is tall I quilted it with curvy lines (it was a selected stitch on my sewing machine). I have to say that it took forever to quilt - about 16 hours! It was gifted to him Christmas 2016

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Hearts for Magane

A dear friend of mine was battling breast cancer. We now live far away and I wanted to make her something she could hold and know I was there with her. She and I share a love for classical music. I was delighted to find an All That Jazz by Robert Kaufman layer cake. I decided to make a heart quilt and use Jenny's falling charm idea to stagger the hearths.

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