Enchanted Forest Quilt

At the last day of summer, according to the calendar, I am showing off the Enchanted Forest quilt with a picture taken in the glorious late afternoon sun. Tutorial from Stacey Day from @staceyinstitches .

The first block I made is shown below. This quilt is a real scrap buster, using lots of 2.5" strips. I also had a piece of the most perfect fabric for the diamonds in between the stripe blocks.

Big blocks of 16.5" square made a quick assembly of the quilt. There was not enough of the white star fabric to make the "advanced quilt"  with diamonds on the side, corners and in between the 16.5" blocks as Stacey describes in the tutorial, but I think it looks great anyway in the "beginner quilt" layout.

 

I used a lovely duvet cover for backing. The finished quilt measures 48" x 64", and is completely made from stash and scraps. The binding is also scrappy.

This is my eighth charity quilt for the year 2021, and number 72 all time for the children's ward at the hospital.

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Nurses to Comfort

 I found this panel containing "cartoons" of  hospital nurses in my stash, and I knew I had to make a charity quilt for the children's ward at my local hospital.

 

The panel contained six nurses, and I cut them up in equal sizes and added blocks of matching Jen Kingwell fabric in yellow, green and red in addition to a neutral letter fabric.

 

To get the right width of the quilt I added solid red strips in between the patchwork. The backing is a green print that matches the front, and the binding is a red and white print.

The quilt is 43" x 63", and it will be perfect for a child to always have nurses close by to wrap her/him-self in when comfort is needed.

This is my seventh charity quilt for the year 2021, and number 71 all time for the children's ward at the hospital.

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Owls Among the Lilacs

A fat quarter of a cute owl fabric together with matching solids and prints made up this sweet charity quilt. Photographed in front of the blooming lilacs.

 Finished size of the quilt is 36" x 54". The binding is a cute blue fabric with yellow and black scotties.

 

Here's a detailed picture of the owl fabric and the surrounding prints and solids. Crosshatch quilting is perfect for this patchwork quilt.

This is my sixth charity quilt for the year 2021, and number 70 all time for the children's ward at the hospital.

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Blue Patchwork

 My latest charity quilt is this simple patchwork in blue plus nativity fabric scraps.

 I took it out in the forest for a photo shoot in the beautiful summer day to my trusted quilt holder, the uprooted tree.

 Simple crosshatch quilting compliments the fun scrappy prints. This will be a great quilt for a small child. Finished size is 40" x 48".

This is my fifth charity quilt for the year 2021, and number 69 all time for the children's ward at the hospital.

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Summer Runner

 

 

My latest table runner is this one in nice summer colors. The Quatrefoil block is a quick one to make, and the runner looks great.

I quilted it with a crosshatch design, and the finished size is 18" x 44". After having made several table runners lately, all to be given away, the next project will be a bit bigger.

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Which Direction in the City?

It shouldn't come as a surprise that I love the color blue. When I was an Island Batik ambassador in 2018 and 2019 I was fortunate enough to get to play with several blue collections. One of them was "London Calling". I have already made a big quilt with these batiks, but there was still more than enough to make a table runner from the beautiful fabric.

This is the pattern I chose; "Which Direction In the City?" by Michelle Marvig of Pieceville.

The design let me play with the whole range of 20+ fabrics in making the modern-looking table runner. I tweaked the design a little bit by making the runner wider and shorter than in the original pattern.

Finished size of the runner is 18" x 44 ". I took it out in the forest on a beautiful spring day for the photo shoot. We still have temperatures below freezing at night, so even in the middle of the day when the wind was blowing we had "sun with teeth" as my husband would say.

 

It was a fairly simple table runner to quilt, mostly echoing the design 1/4" from the piecing seams, but also on the diagonal and horizontal in some stripes.

What gives extra life to the quilting is that I raided my stash of blue Aurifil and used 6 different quilting threads in the stripes.

The runner was finished off with striped binding in navy and white.

Keep on quilting!