Courtyard Batik Quilt

Hello and good morning sunshine! 

Have I got a new quilt to share.

Picture me sitting here lightly clapping my hands together really fast with a big cheese on my face. 

There is something about color order that appeals to people (not just me, whew).

And a good strong graphic design. 

And a perfectly sunny day without a cloud in the sky to snap some quilt-y goodness.

See?

Ahh, happy.

  

Pattern available here and here.

You're a grand old flag

My daughter has been singing and humming that song for hours on end these last few weeks... 

It's driving me a little nuts.

On to important things...  

I have a new project to show you in time for you to make one for your 4th of July "table-scape" if you so chose. :) 

Easy peasy and festive stars and stripes from charms or scraps.

Available here and here.

In Full Bloom Quilt Pattern

Now available for semi-instantaneous quilt happiness... 

find it here:

Craftsy, Etsy, Big Cartel 

Dresden Flowers

Remember this project ??

Ya know, the one I started and then entered the "mmm, what should I do now?" phase of my quilting process and then let it sit... 

My husband called it "bench curing" in dental school. 

You just leave your lab work alone on the bench and then "resubmit" it for a better grade a few days later.

Let's just say this one is fully "bench cured" and now 2 finished 42" x 42" quilts.

The biggest problem was deciding if and how to split them. 

They could easily have ended up as runners, a lap quilt, pillow...

Well, just about anything you can do with a dresden plate... 

Someone wanted to help this morning... :)

I actually didn't fully appreciate how pretty the backing fabrics were until I saw the bolts.

Jelly roll strips that have been chopped up into little pieces always lose something on the larger scale prints.

Which version do you like better? 

Tangerine or violet? 

For a girl obsessed with orange, it's amazing that I'm having a hard time deciding!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!!! 

I hope you have lots of quilting friends, friends you've made quilts for, and happy quilts (or at least fabric!) to make them feel extra loved today! 

xoxoxo

Crystal

***this image was actually taken from here (my photo of my quilt with a little text and photo filter).***

Hexagram Quilt Pattern

Another pattern here and here.

Happy Stitching!

Googly Eyes

Rifling through the old pictures on my hard drive I realized I never even posted this HUGE finish. 

It was right before Christmas last year so I suppose it was just forgotten in the chaos?

A very nice and wonderful person, I mean REALLY nice, contacted me to make this as a custom order right after I saw this amazing circle piecing method.

It eliminated the raw edge applique problem with heavily used quilts. 

She provided all of the print fabrics and pattern and it looked sooo cute that I really wanted to make this for her.

400+ hours later (these are EXTREMELY time intensive and I'm not entirely sure that I'm exaggerating here, HAHA!) there was a twin sized quilt to show for it!

Lots of Moda, Timeless Treasures, and Michael Miller cuteness in there.

This is probably my favorite boy quilt that I've ever made. 

Seriously, she picked AWESOME fabrics.

Striped binding. :)

63 blocks later... I do love this quilt and I still think it was worth it to have made it.

She also requested pillowcases. 

I can't imagine how cute her little man's bed must be with all of these adorable fabrics.

Looking at these makes me want to make another one for my ball-obsessed little guy. 

It'll be a while before he gets out of the crib.

Maybe I should rephrase that... I'm sure he'll be able to climb out very soon, but I plan on putting a "lid" on the crib when he does and waiting to get him a real bed.

hehehe!

Derailed

In the shop. 

Point in Time Quilt Pattern

This pattern is now available for purchase here.

Surf's Up Quilt Pattern

Pattern is now available here.

That's all I had the energy for today. 

I'm exhausted. 

So I'm going to bed. 

Here's to hoping two kids sleep in tomorrow.

zzzzzzzzz

Salt Air

Hello, 

It's been a while. 

I know most of you are enjoying spring but for us, summer is practically here. 

Houston only has Summer and Fall/Spring - no winter.

I spent half the day outside playing in the water. 

It's amazing how much fun they can have with a plastic box half full of water and a few boats. 

I should have just gotten out the blowup pool though. 

Pretty soon both kids were squished together in the box completely unable to move.

Then, they both were upset with me when I called it done.

Summer is so fun with kids and I can't wait for our first beach day.

Believe it or not, I used to surf. 

The Hawaii Northshore even (got my undergraduate degree out there). 

Lest you think I was good, let me clarify that it was not Pipeline or Waimea.

But it was still a lot of fun. 

I actually wore board shorts for almost 3 straight years.

So I have a serious soft spot for surfer and ocean anything - so naturally I needed some Salt Air!! 

So you can probably see how this next quilt happened.

Because these things do just happen.

All on their own.

I can't be held responsible.

The whole quilt. I only used the blues and greens from the line for this quilt though I love the reds and yellows too. 

I choose the large print paisley-ish water spout-ish print for the back.

I'd love to know what they called it.

They being Cosmo Cricket of course.

The fabrics close up.

I love my little painted quilt rack I found at the antique/consignment store by my house.

And now to dream of beach days with a little surfing in my near future :)

In the shop. 

My Valentine

I had a very good weekend sewing up this little table runner in Cosmo Cricket's Chemistry for Moda. 

Oh love.

I'm actually excited about Valentine's Day coming now!

Driving around today I found some fun places to photograph it. 

Like this one with the little scallop chain in the background.

And this one on the barb wire fence in a bright green (in January) field.

It's 26" x 26" and in the shop with the pattern for your personal sewing pleasure :o) 

Happy Valentine's in advance!

Much Requested

It's finally available after many, many, many, many requests. :)

You can find it in the shop. 

P.S. I went to Quilt Festival this weekend, drug two (actually well-behaved) children in a double stroller through it, spent more than I should have, and definitely want to quilt my brains out now. Prepare yourselves for coming posts... hehe.

This is the story

of how I died... jk.

But it seems like it in the sewing part of my life!

Couple problems.

We moved - in and of itself not such a huge problem.

This little man learned to crawl and pull up to stand/cruise about a month ago - HUGE problem.

I now play slave to hovering over him to prevent unnecessary bruising (note right forehead damage in photo) and brain damage.

This exacerbates the first problem - STILL have not fully moved in. YIKES!

So sewing has been limited to the evenings and an occassional nap.

I'm sure he'll get some stability soon and all will be well again (with gates all over the place).

I should stop complaining, I really do feel like the luckiest mom the world to have him!

But... enough of those evenings have finally added up and I've completed a little project with the most delicious looking slice of fabric cake ever.

Ruby.

Couldn't you just eat it?

Or at least let the sewing machine and rotary cutter "eat" it...

I also made another in the fresh and popular grey and yellow color scheme.

I like them both for different reasons.

Both are also in the shop.

Pattern to come tomorrow.

Fat Quarter Shop

Long a favorite of mine, Fat Quarter Shop now offers my patterns in their Downloadable PDF Patterns section HERE.

Seriously, how convenient.

So many to pick from - I may never see the light from under the pile of fabric again!

Good thing though, I'm a huge fan of SPF infinity for a reason.

New Quilt Patterns

I have a LONG list of promised or intended quilt patterns to create.

But at least I've got two new ones now available in the shop.

Happy quilting!!