JeanJean71 | Quiltsby.me

Commissioned by a friend to make a baby quilt for her grand niece, this was one of the choices. I used the falling charms pattern, but used 1-1/2" strips instead of 2-1/2" for a more "petite" look and to focus on the colored fabrics. Found a gorgeous coral flannelette for the backing. Still not quilted! She chose the purple one for the grand niece!

By JeanJean71

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Pretty Purple Baby Quilt

Commissioned by a friend to make a quilt for a baby girl about to be born to her nephew and wife. Several patterns, styles and colors considered, but she liked the purple one best! It's a simple disappearing 9 patch, using the same color center block, various solids for the sides and the printed fabric for the corners, makes a block that looks like a sashed and cornerstones block. It's one of my favorite blocks

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Stonehenge Squares

I was commissioned by a friend to make a quilt for her sister's 60th birthday. We were negotiating color and pattern, and I went down the neutral/sage green road, and it wasn't working for either of us. Then she proposed purple and red, and I dug this gorgeous StoneHenge fabric from my stash. Found a very simple pattern in a quilt magazine, found more Stonehenge coordinates in the stash ( bought for some long forgotten project) and away we went! Used a quilting pattern I developed for another modern quilt. Best news? They all love it!

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Vintage State Flowers

A friend recommended me as someone who could finish a vintage quilt top with 48 state flowers blocks. My client showed me the top that she found among things left behind for her in an estate. She found several quilts and quilt tops. This one by far was the prettiest and in perfect shape. It was hand embroidered and hand pieced, very accurately sashed and bordered. I was a bit intimidated to quilt it, but chose my shabby chic roses and leaves for the sashing and borders and small stippling for surrounding the embroidered flowers. It was so pretty and feminine, I thought it begged for a scalloped border. My LQS sales lady suggested plain white binding, as that was usually used in vintage quilts. It was so pretty, I didn't want to give it back!

By JeanJean71

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Fat Friday

I bought a kit that used fat quarters called Fat Friday. It uses 12, 16, 20, 30 fatquarters, depending on how big you want the quilt to be. Each block ends up 16" square. I found this to be a VERY EASY pattern to use for a quick and colorful quilt. The pattern suggests piling the fat quarters in a stack and cutting many at a time. I stacked 4 of them to make this 12 block quilt. All fabrics pulled from my stash to go with 5 that came together in a fat quarter bundle. Quilted with my favorite swirls. My friend loved it, it has a soft flannel backing, so I gave it to her!

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Charm Square Crosses

This quilt was designed and sewn by my daughter as her first quilt project. She used 4 charm packs I had ordered for her to do a different pattern with, but instead she designed this pattern. She let me quilt it in any style I wished and gave me permission to experiment. I had quilting rulers for my longarm, but hadn't tried to use them. This circle quilting seemed perfect for this style quilt. We are both happy with the results!

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Good Night Irene and Fence Rail Star

I was going through my stash and found some batik strip pieces, a whole bunch of them, sewn together in 2s and 6-1/2" long! I realized that by sewing a third strip onto these, I'd have a perfect Fence rail block! But I didn't just want plain Fence rails, so I sewed a cornerstone on each to make the Good Night Irene pattern. Just as I finished sewing 80 cornerstones on, Jenny came out with the tutorial for the Fence rail star! I love that block but only had 10 Fence rails left, so I was able to make one star. I used it as a part of the backing. Quilted it using feathers, which I am getting better at!

By JeanJean71

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Crown Jewels

My daughter has dabbled in sewing into adulthood, but her creative efforts have been geared to paper crafts and refinishing furniture pieces. She found the need for some sewing skills as she has reupholstered small chairs in her furniture restorations. But last Christmas, she got bitten by the quilting bug, and started creating with fabric. This was a kit, called Crown Jewels that she bought, and for her first bed (king) size quilt, she did an awesome job! I quilted and bound the quilt. So proud of our joint project!

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Baby Grand

Saw this idea on Pinterest, to make a baby grand piano out of log cabin blocks. I realized that the blocks were the curved log cabin blocks in Jenny's tutorial. I work with theatre groups who do musicals. We had one very talented pianist that did the music for 3 plays. I wanted to make this for her! Love how it turned out! In making the keys, I did one of the three using raw edge appliqué. I was afraid this wouldn't hold up to washing, so I pieced the other two. It was more work, not as straight, but I think it will hold up better.

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Bold and Beautiful, plus Two

Here'S another quilt made from the Michele D'Amore fabrics. Love this color Way! I used my mitered piano key border on this one. I love doing piano key borders mitered rather than just butted up against each other. I do the mitered first instead of last, doing all 4 corners first, then filling in the middle of each side with additional piano key strips. If I need to make the strips a bit narrower or wider to fit, you notice it much less in the middle rather than at the corners. My friend quilted this as a practice quilt while learning to use my longarm. She quilted her beautiful 365 day challenge quilt ( in last picture) on my longarm after just a little bit of practice!

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MoonShadow in a Field of Blue

MY daughter wanted a quilt. It had to have a modern flai, and her favorite color is blue! We negotiated many quilt patterns, and I bought several precut packages to try to accomodate the patterns she chose. This went on for a couple of years. Finally, I found the pattern for the quilt, published by the fabric company Benartex. The fabrics were designed by Michele D'Amore, and I ended up using three different collections of hers, all in the same color way. I have so much leftover fabric, I can make at least 4 lap quilts using it! Already made 2, and it hasn't put a dent in the fabric pile! Daughter loves her quilt!

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Triple Irish Chain

I love making Irish Chain Quilts! My challenge after making several single Irish Chain quilts was to make a double or triple Irish chain. Beaurtiful Stonehenge fabric was my inspiration, and Eleanor Burns tutorial helped me build my blocks! I love the soft fuzzy look of the chains formed from the three shades of green. I wanted it quilted beautifully, so I sent it to Missouri Star for quilting and bought the beautiful backing from them! It stayed tucked away, quilted but unbound, for 3 years! I finally bit the bullet to hand bind it last month! Now, it may never leave my bed!

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