White facets: an inverse - finished

Another finish!  They're slow as I'm not quilting as much lately, but they're still coming.  

This was gifted to my friend.  She had originally chosen a similar one as a gift for her husband, but this one was a surprise.

It isn't an inverse, per se, because there are three colors.  But it is a rotation.  This is based off Christa Watson's Facets...you know it's a good one when you're willing to do it twice.

Really, it turns out that I like making large blocks from fabric crumbs.  I've done it in a lot of my quilts lately.  I think I enjoy it because it doesn't require too much thinking.

I backed it with minky, which is way to warm for this summer but will be nice in the winter.  The quilting also matches the other quilt, with triangles in the diamonds and back and forths in the crumb blocks.

Irish Chain - finished

Let's talk about this Irish Chain quilt.  I finished the top about five years ago and got it quilted about four years ago.  I used it for two years without the binding.  I finally got the binding put on last year and then finally, finally, got pictures of it this week.  It has been used well during that time though as it is my basement blanket and I spend a lot of time in the basement.

It's been a while, but I think I used the scrappy Irish Chain pattern from Happy Quilting.  As I was taking pictures I really enjoyed how different the images looked as I got farther and farther away, so I thought you'd enjoy them too...

For the quilting, I did a motif called Fancy Floral (180 Doodle Quilting Designs) in the white areas.  The blue squares got up and down back and forths, the green squares got side to side back and forths, and the teal squares have a double loop.

The base fabric I got for Christmas many years ago and have since forgotten what it was called.  I didn't quite have enough though, so I added in several solids and a few prints that matched well.  The solids include navy, windsor, splash, enchanted, artichoke, olive, bonsai, and, of course, white.  I worked on this during the 2020 lock down and ran out of white in the middle.  It was a sad day as I had actually been making good progress and was brought to a halt because white Kona was on back order for all the on-line stores.

Black and Pink stars

I just finished another quilt that was made by my friend's grandma.  

I'm pretty sure that it isn't square.  I'm not sure anyone will ever notice because people don't lay quilts out flat very often, but ...oh well.  It is what it is.  I had some trouble quilting the bottom and I don't know if it was my fault (probably) or if there were enough things off in the quilt top that would make it skew so much at the end.

I quilted pink loops in the pink border and the main flower area and back and forths in the black borders.