Shocking Pink and Skully

Detail of sashing and taste of pink.

Not much else to say about this one other than it's so shocking pink and gurlie it's really quite cute.  This quilt came together about the same time that I did my ex's quilt.  For some reason I keep coming back to this "stacked coin" pattern with sashing.  I dunno.  It seems to fulfill my need to be scrappy but have some semblence of organisation.  (And it's sinfully easy to assemble and sew.)

The whole quilt in all its garish glory.

"Shocking Pink and Skully" as I am calling it, was made from the scraps of my friend's pink braided quilt from previous entries.  I have a LOT of pink fabric left over and since I used most of the black on a previous baby quilt I thought I'd see what would happen when a pile of pinks get together and make a quilt. 

The sashing  - an odd ribbon print - was another serendipitous find in the many boxes and bags of fabrics I had received from my dear friend, Mary Johnson, when they moved to Lander, WY.  I remember briefly looking at this fabric and thinking, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"  But as with fine wine and diamonds, some things take time.  I knew immediately this was going to be the perfect material for the sashing, and as it turned out, it was.

Detail of backing fabric.

The backing fabric is a darling flannel I picked up at Joann's Fabrics (as I recall).  I am a complete sucker for pirate fabric of all kinds and this was no exception.  Purple skulls with pink bows and roses...yup, I'll take a yard of that, please. 

Binding is always such a hard choice, fortunately the person who bought the quilt decided on pink and I have to say it brought the whole scheme (or is that scream) together nicely.  What's another tone of pink when we have so many!  My other choice was going to be black binding with pink stitching.  Adorable either way!

Peach Out Apricots.
Morg

The Cute the Cat and the Ugly

The FIRST scrap quilt I ever made...

The adorable little baby is my nephew "F." The cat is Bijou and the quilt is the teratogenic nightmare I made for my best friend and her darling son some years ago.  The whole quilt is one big scrappy experiment gone delightly awry. 

The back is a piece of brownish, yellowish floral fabric from the Pamida store in Vermillion, SD which is no longer in business and the fabrics for the quilt top came from my dear friends, The Johnsons.  They are soap makers and these fabrics were all left over pieces from their soap bag packaging. 

I used fleece for batting because I was in the mood to sew and had no idea what else to use and it was there and it was a big enough piece to fit my needs so it was pressed into duty.

The quilt itself is hand stitched using the stitch in the ditch method and was machine pieced. 

For a first shot at quilting and establishing myself as an Ugly Quilter, I have to say it is a personal favourite and "F" still enjoys sleeping with it.   

Peach Out Apricots,

Morg

Recycle It!

I started this quilt top some months before I actually assembled it and started the first quilting stitches on 4 July 2009.  The material for this quilt was gathered from my dad's worn out button down shirts.  I had him save them up for me for probably close a year, maybe more before I finally was able to find just the right pattern for them.  I found this pattern at one of the bestest Quilt Pattern Site on the intertoobs:  http://www.quilterscache.com  

 The pattern I purchased was: "Scrap Squares" which is still available for sale in the Tiny Store.  Support the site - buy a pattern or make a donation, please.

The batting is a old woven wool blanket that had come to my possession from who knows where...as I have the great fortune of being "the obtainer."  That is I have a tendency to see usefulness in the mundane and often am able to provide others with stuff they never knew they were looking for.  LOL.

Moose on the loose!

The backing material was harder to find as I wanted something with a moose flavour as my dad is into moose.  Who would have ever guessed?  It was by chance and happenstance that I was at Hancock Fabrics in Lincoln and there it was...the fabric I had been looking for for the back!  I bought a couple yards and then I was set.

I recall it was an early summer day before I started working at my current job I cleared a space in my living room, turned on an episode of NCIS and started putting this quilt together.

It was that 4th of July, the first holiday I volunteered to work at my then new job and I have not looked back.  It took about a month or so total to quilt.  It's about three and a half feet wide by nearly six feet long.  It's a LONG lap quilt.

The colours are a little washed out here, it's actually quite vibrant.

 Peach Out, Apricots!

Morg