Quilts Completed This Spring

Although this blog is titled "Fairfaxknitter" I also do a fair amount of quilting. So in between all the baby sweaters I've completed a few quilts this spring.

This first quilt was started in a Springfield Quilters Unlimited workshop with Pepper Cory in October 2007. The workshop was "Two Blocks are Better than One." The small quilt, titled "Tribute to Vincent," is the result of two different quilt blocks united by the unique placement of the fabrics to create a secondary design. Then I took the 9-block top and placed it on point by adding strips of fabric to each side. The resultant quilt will be given to a baby in the Fairfax Hospital NICU.

This "Trip Around My Garden" large lap quilt was made of floral fabric squares and four-patches received in the Springfield QU swap in May 2007. Thank you to Elli Molstad for managing the fabric swap. I machine pieced and hand quilted this quilt. The hand quilting is in straight diagonal lines in a trellis-like design.

A year ago one of my quilting friends bought color-coordinated jelly rolls of 16 color-coordinated strips of fabric. We each drew one of the rolls at random from a bag and were challenged to make a quilted object from those fabrics plus one other fabric. I drew the red fabric roll and designed the quilt below, "Red Pinwheels," using elements of Annette Ornelas' "Peeled Back Patchwork" techniques. I machine quilted the quilt in an overall meander design, and the quilt now resides in the pile for a future grandchild.

Lastly, this quilt was made for Mikayla Mann, the new daughter of our friends Sara and Nate. The design is "Yellow Brick Road" by Atkinson Designs and is a wonderful quick quilt to make using just six fat quarters of fabric with little to no waste. Again, this is machine pieced and machine quilted.