tsuru mini

our guild had a swap this last month. we {secretly} chose a name card that had a room on it and perhaps a favorite color or theme. we were to make an item for that room; the room-by-room swap.
my partner wanted a wall hanging for her wine cellar. i was drawn to circles for inspiration. i had just gotten these templates for quarter circles. what a better time to try them out.

since there was no specific color inspiration mentioned, i picked some fabric i had on hand and that were out of my normal range of comfort level. i really love how it turned out! i wish i had a few more solid color choices, but now i know to stock up.

this was my first time making a small quilt for hanging. i put little triangle sleeves on all corners so she could pick the way it hung.

i went back and forth about quilting options, pretty dead set on doing some sort of radiating circle from the middle. in the end, i went with straight 1/2" lines. i do love me some line quilting.

quilt stats

size: 24"x24"

pattern: 1/4 circle template

fabric: tsuru, stamped, kona amber, curry, aloe & teal

pieced & quilted by me

to boston with {love}

i have finished a couple of small projects recently. here are a few drawstring bags using Jeni's tutorial. the boys have been asking for some bags for their cars and little men.

the {stlmqg} is doing our part to partake in {to boston with love} festivities. you can find out more info here.

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{fwqal} end in sight

YES!!! i am DONE piecing these bad boys. with half of the blocks already sashed, we should have a quilt top so soon!!! i'm so glad to have this project {almost} behind me.

 101 {single wedding ring}

                                         

 38 {four winds}

there were a few {3} blocks that just didn't quite gel with the other blocks, so redo blocks were in order. i love the blocks on the right so much more.

redo 11 {broken dishes}

redo 71 {puss in the corner}

redo 81 {snowball}

when i first began these quilt blocks, there were some of the blocks that did not appeal to me. i'm not a bouquet/vase/basket kind of girl. i also lost the templates to a few. melinda's blocks have been sheer inspiration for me throughout this project. she, too, made some substitutions for her quilt. i decided to follow, using her as quite the inspiration source for most of these blocks. i really am glad i did. these are some of my favorite!

 {card trick} i've been meaning to make this block

 {double T}

 {friendship}

 {greek cross} 

without the HST's in the corners. i was really ready to be done piecing

 {ms. fay's friendship block} love this one

 {night vision}

 i have been DYING to do this block after seeing this mini quilt. it was a little tricky, and it's not perfect {notice bottom), but i'm so glad to have this block included

 {prairie flower} 

 {tallahassee}

this one too has been on my list of to-do's since seeing this mini quilt and this pillow. i love this block.

{twisting star}

if you're reading this, thanks for sticking with me all of the way to the bottom! i'm ready to move on to the next phase for this quilt.

easter

there was quite a bit of craftiness happening around easter this year. i decided to make the boys some softie bunnies. after checking around for a free pattern, i decided to purchase the hop.skip.jump. pattern here.

they turned out adorable and weren't too time consuming. the two lighter ones are linen and the dark one is corduroy. picking out the fabric for each was a lot of fun. i only just finished embroidering the faces on. when asked if he loved his bunny, my 4-year old told me they looked a little creepy without faces. love honest toddlers. i love how they turned out and think these would make cute gifts.

i had also pinned this tutorial for toddler ties. OH.MY.GOODNESS. the three of these ties took me 30 minutes total to complete. such a satisfying quick project. again, the fabric for these was fun to pick out. as far as sizing, i needed to make the part that went around their necks a little bigger for a more comfortable fit, but they worked for the 15 minutes they were on. 

and since the boys only humored me in wearing them for pictures {kind of}, i thought the bunnies could show them off instead.

i-spy

quilt number 3 out of 4 was an i-spy quilt for my middle son. the realization i had was if i continued humming and hawing over a pattern as i did with my first son's quilt, #2son might never get one. i decided to embrace "simple is better", the focus being the awesome fabrics.

i was extremely inspired by melinda and her onslaught of i-spy quilts and originally was going to do charms alternating with solids pattern. after getting all of the spying charms cut, though, i was in no mood for more charm cutting. i wanted to be done. i decided to cram 'em, frame 'em, off set 'em {the good old modern way}, and embrace some fun quilting. i'm so glad i did. i love it!

my boy loves blue and whales. done and done. this fabric could not have been more perfect.

as far as the charms go, when i first started collecting {modern} novelty fabric for boys, i WAY overestimated the amount i would need. this has ended up in quite a varied collection of fabrics.

he loves his quilt and loves all of the special things he knows i put in there just for him {like his initials and birthday year, tons of whales and a woolly mammoth}. it's just perfect.

quilt stats:

size: 67"x90"

pattern: 5"charm squares off set, framed with borders

fabrics: kona water, white; alexander henry, lizz house, lots of heather ross, david walker, echino, urban circus, dr. seuss, ed emberly, and some various others

colorbrick

you may remember this quilt from this post. i'm glad to say it's quilted and bound. i love that i get to see some of my favorite fabric all of the time.

quilt stats:

size: 60"x66"

pattern: stitched in color's colorbrick 

fabric: amy butler midwest modern, II, kona ash {sashing}