A Musical Quilt

 

 

This quilt contains a whole symphony orchestra! 

A bundle of musical fabrics was sewn together to a charity quilt. 

This is my first charity quilt for the year 2026, and number 116 all time for the children's ward at the hospital.

Keep on quilting!

 

Meadowland Quilt

My latest quilt is this colorful Meadowland Quilt that was finished late November, but not blogged before now. The pattern is great to show off wonderful fabrics, I used twelve different ones plus a white background fabric with a subtle yellow design.

 

 I free-motion quilted it with a meander design using Aurifil Dove thread. Finished size is 48" x 64".

 

I found two fabric pieces in my stash which were pieced into an interesting backing. Maybe this would be more popular than the front? A striped binding in red and white was added as the icing on the cake.

This is my fourth charity quilt for the year 2025, and number 115 all time for the children's ward at the hospital.

Keep on quilting!

 

 

Plus and X Quilt

 My latest stash buster is this Twin Size 'Plus and X' quilt. I used a tutorial from StashBandit for the 10.5" unfinished blocks. All fabrics used are from my stash and scraps.

 

I wanted to get pictures in natural light, but the on the day in question it was drizzling all day. In order to get the pictures I just had to jump in and do it. Fortunately I was planning to put the quilt to wash following the photo session, anyway, because it got really wet afterwards. 

Before the wash and dry cycle the quilt size was 70" x 90". Following the cycle the quilt had shrunk a little and had that nice crinckled look. Now it is ready to be gifted to the student who is going to use it in his dorm room.

This is probably the fastest quilt I have made of this size with only one month from start to finish. I quilted it with the walking foot. 

 

Keep on quilting! 

OhScrap   

Summer Scrap Bash Quilt

 My scrap bins are constantly overflowing, and this year I joined the Summer Scrap Bash 2025 to see if i could reduce them. I decided to cut scraps into 1.5" to make a scrappy log cabin quilt.

I dug through my scrap bins to find suitable scraps for kids since this quilt was going to be donated to the children's ward at my local hospital. There are novelty fabrics, different animals, cars and tractors, and lots of other interesting fabrics in the log cabins.

The placement of the 8.5" blocks (unfinished) are totally random, I only aimed for a very colorful quilt that will be suiltable for both boys and girls. 48 blocks ended up with the finished size of 48" x 64". 
 

A donated duvet cover made a perfect quilt back. The quilting ws done with the walking foot in a simple crosshatch design, using variegated Aurifil thread #3817 .

Photo session was done on a windy day with my apple tree in the background. 

This is my third charity quilt for the year 2025, and number 114 all time for the children's ward at the hospital.

Keep on quilting!

 

Falling for a Puff Quilt

 
Fall is soon over us, with low sunrays and falling leaves, but nature gave us a few summery days with temperatures crawling over 20 degrees C. Perfect for taking the Puff Quilt outside for a photo session.

This is the first puff quilt I have made, and it was an interesting and fun process. It is made for a newborn baby girl, with lots of colorful and interesting puffs. The quilt is now gifted, so I can show you the finished project.

The quilt consists of 10 x 10 puffs, all made from fabrics from my stash. The intention was to make lots of focal points in the quilt, and at the same time get a very soft playmat. I raided my scrap bins for colorful, fun prints. 

 

Here you can see the gorgeous soft puffs in and angle. In addition to the puffs filled with PolyFil I added two layers of cotton batting in the quilt sandwich.

The backing is perfect for this quilt with a cute couple of teddy bears having picnic.

I was contemplating to hand-tie this quilt, but since it would probably be washed often, I settled on machine quilting in the ditch between puffs. I also added a fun striped binging in pink and grey.

The finished quilt measures  approximately 32" square.

 

Keep on  quilting!

 

 

 

 

Baby Quilt For A Very Special Girl

Finally I can show this quilt here after the baby girl is born and the quilt has been gifted!

The design is called 'Crossing Canoes', and I was fortunate enough to be able to cut out the block pieces with my Accuquilt cutter. 

25 'Crossed Canoes' blocks  makes up a quilt of 44" square, before wash and dry cycle. It is quilted by myself in a heart and loops FMQ design.  

The quilt back is very interesting, it is pieced by 11 different pieces of  'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' fabric. This quilt back may be even more popular than the front for the little baby girl!