Mom's Chevron Quilt Finish

Well here it is, my last finish of the summer. I always love watching quilts evolve through

 fabric selection and design wall stages, to cuddling with them on your lap as you bind them to this final finish stage. It was also fun to read your previous comments left and to discover I'm in good company when it comes to enjoying hand binding. 

I used the Fabric line: Hot For Chocolate II by Betsy Chutchian with Blue Hill Fabrics to create this quilt and a dog pantograph upon my mom's request. (I think she wanted to match my dad's quilt.) I used a cream Kig Tut thread from Superior. (I almost went with a brown thread, but like how the cream showed the quilting a little bit more.)

This quilt measures a cozy 53" x 73".

My parents arrive this weekend for their final visit of the summer. I can't wait to gift it to her!

With Smiles,

Val:)

Design Wall Monday: My WIP

So over the weekend, I got these:

...turned into this...with the one mistake that the above cream was "suppose" to be where,  for some reason unknown to me, I put a pink, as pointed out below??? 

Seriously, have you ever done that!?

I texted the above picture back and forth to my mom, as this quilt is for her and we had put the row of fabrics together as shown here. Problem with a Chevron pattern I've learned, is once you get to this stage, it's pretty much impossible to "move rows around." But now that it's morning and I have a large cup of coffee at hand, I think it's going to be "okay" without that additional cream.  I mean, as my daughter said:

 "Mom, she's not hanging it on a wall. It's going to be used like mine":

Good Point!

Linking up with everyone else at Judy's Design Wall Monday.

With smiles!

Val:)

Tuesday Archives #12: Chevron & Christmas Quilts

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This week is all about CHEVRON (ZIG-ZAG) & CHRISTMAS Quilts!

CHEVRON (Zig-Zag)QUILTS: 

I made my very first chevron quilt this past March. I'll be sure to link up my post. I Can't wait to see wait to see what you all have to share for finishes and/or tutorials. (As I 'm realizing there is more than one way to make a chevron quilt!)

CHRISTMAS:

Hey! We can all use a little Christmas inspiration right before summer!! LOL!! I found Kathi's Christmas quilt and thought WOW!!! You can check out her entire Christmas project right here. 

Kathi grab yourself a highlighted button:

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ALYof F March Chevron Quilt Finish

As described here, I wanted to transform this fat quarter bundle from this...

...into this Chevron Quilt. I used Kelly's (from My Quilt Infatuation) Chevron Tutorial and found this pattern  to be just as quick and easy as she proclaimed it would be, so this was not a WIP very long. I had to make do with an inside photo shoot due to the rain we are having...but Jackson didn't seem to mind.

The backing is the same blue butterfly fabric I used in the border and the binding is a Sketch fabric and the color is called Lipstick.(I love that name!) I couldn't resist quilting this with whimsical butterfly pantograph that includes the words: colorful, beautiful, and butterfly scripted between the fluttering butterflies! I used a bright variegated pink thread and this measures into a cozy 48" x 66" lap size quilt that I plan to keep and use. 

I'd like to thank:

Shanna of Fiber of All Sorts

and

Melissa of Sew BitterSweet Designs

As, without the motivation of ALYofF, I don't think I would have got this one done. Stop by & check out everyone's March finishes & thanks a bunch for stopping by to see mine.

 With smiles!
Val:)

This week's WIP

Feels good to be sewing again. My March ALYofF  will be coming off the design wall today as I sew the rows together and move on to the quilting. I'm thinking a quick butterfly pantograph. I also have a lipstick sketch fabric for the binding to really pop it.

Well, if I'm going for a Friday Finish...I better get going huh!

Happy Sewing!

With smiles,

Val:)