Baby Boy Teal Chevron Quilt

I started and finished a project, a quilt, in less than a week!  Who knew I could do it!  I would even doubt myself if I didn't know that I myself had made it.

There were scraps from my dad's quilt that were underutilized.  After finishing his quilt I found out that I could have used them but his was already done so they were moved onto another project.  I hate having extra strips of fabric from a big quilting project.  This was the perfect solution to not have to add them to my overflowing scrap box!

 I couldn't well move the cat off of one project let alone two!  I hand quilted every other chevron stripe in the ditch.  For those readers who are not quilters, in the ditch means quilting right next to the pattern seem.  About 1/4 of an inch in my case.  Keeps the front, batting and back all together.

 Obviously it looks a lot like my dad's quilt.  It was made from the same fabric so it should.  Unless I made a huge mistake, which sometimes I do!

I love it in the big version and the little.  Some little boy will love playing/sleeping/making a mess on it as any youngin' would do.

Girl Ombre Chevron Zig Zag Baby Quilt

Another day another baby girl quilt.  This one is the first of three quilts that I'm making for twins.  Why three you ask?  Well my aunt and uncle are gifting them to another family member, who I'm not related to, and they don't know the sex of the babies.  As I was already in a quilting mood all three came along very quickly.  And they came out beautifully.

As I was quilting it the cat decided to help.  And by help I mean sleep on it all day.

Plus they are absolutely on trend to!  I loved ombre, or color progression, before it was cool and I jumped on the chevron wagon when looking at other craft sites.

I had to make up for being a bit short on one fabric.  To make up for being short on the width I made a border all around.  I made sure to connect the light pink on both sides of the chevron pattern.

Obviously this quilt is for a girl.  It doesn't get more girly than pink and purple.  I'll admit that I have never been much of a fan of pink over the years but I find as I grow older it is growing on me.  But I've always liked purple.

Teal chevron quilt

This quilt has been in the works for a long time.  It was originally going to be a throw quilt for me.  I had tons of blue/green/teal fabric that was going to be used for something else.  About four yards of each color.  

As I started constructing the throw quilt my mom asked if she could have it for the quilt for the master bedroom quilt.  She had made the one on the bed over 20 years ago and it had seen better days.

I started it in May or so, got distracted by other projects and it sat.  

I picked it back up for to construct most of the top, and it sat again for me to finish another quilt. 

 At least I got another one finished.  Then came Christmas, it came and went and I finally finished the chevron quilt at the start of a new year.  That's always a good feeling, starting something new and starting a new year at the same time!

 I hand sewed and turned the quilt.  I quilted along every other color.

The back I tried to make it fancy.  I had an extra row that I used to divide the back into three different section.  

 One side is solid and the other side is divided with another row of chevrons.  It's a bit hard to see in these photos since the colors were so similar.

I like and my parents like it too.

It's so teal, so Bryn.

One thing turns into another

My chevron quilt has become the master bedroom quilt.  This chevron quilt was going to be a throw for me but it became a whole other project in the process.  I had 8 colors to use and I had to figure out how to arrange them.  I just laid them out in two different ways using my scraps as a guide.  I decided on the top one.  

The color progression.  No surpise that I ended up doing a color order instead of random.  It's my style.

As I was laying out my quilt I had a little helper.  My mom's cat Bela boy was a big helper.  By helping he was really good at moving all my pieces around.  Good job kitty.

Overall I like the look of the quilt.  It's now time tow cut out many more triangles of quilt since the size has increased.  

Chevron quilt in all blues and greens with a little help from the cat.  It's a good thing!

Let the assembly begin!

I love starting another project.  And this time I've got a brand new cutting mat too!  My poor last cutting mat had been used so much that the self healing top was flicking away.  It's nice to start anew in a new place with a new mat!

I liked the chevron quilts that I have seen around the web.  I decided to go with all solids in the same color family, teals, blues and greens fabric from a defunct project.  About a yard and a half each.  Time to cut the triangles and put them together in the chevron pattern.  Triangles are frequent in many of my more recent projects.

To get an idea what it was going to look like I laid it out on the counter.  Looks good.  

Four rows down with many more to go.  Gotta start somewhere!

A Time to Quilt

Today is the day.  The day to get working on my unfinished projects again, and start a couple more too!  I started by bringing out all my bins of fabric.  I thought I had 5, but no, I have 6.  Thank goodness that I buy in small quantities or else I would have a dozen!

We also brought out my mom's collection.  Her's is nothing compared to mine, about 1/6th!  Using her collection, with a little bit of mine, we are  going to make a new master bedroom quilt.  As many of you can tell from my previous posts it is very difficult for me to finish a large project.  Keeping that in mind it is time to start another.

Searching around the internet wasting time I found this quilt.

More than anything I like the pattern.  The chevron/zig zag pattern spoke to me.  I usually love the white contrast but this time I'm going for all color.

I drew up some plans.  I find it helpful to plan it out so I don't have as much excess fabric.  Hopefully it actually works out that way.  Only time will tell.

I'm going to use fabric that I originally purchased for a different project that is defiantly not going to happen.  All teals, blues and green.  I found one more large piece of fabric to add to what I had already purchased so now I have eight different colors.  I hope it turns out as well as I think it could be.

An almost year in crafts

Kaleidoscopic Quilt

Citrus Coasters

I want to rework the blog again.  At the moment most people who look at my blog are family and friends.  I feel it might not be necessary to do the tutorial style posts, yet.  I'm working on getting notice in the craft community by using Pinterest and visiting other blogs.  As always, simplicity is key.

Easter Basket

Here is a look at some of my past projects.

Diamond Pillow

Button Bouquet

Princess Clock

Just one princess

Chevron Pillow

I've done quite a few different projects over time.  Working on a variety of things keeps it interesting.

Americana Quilt top

Irish Plaid quilt - my first real quilt

Halloween Cross Stitch

All 3 Thumbtack Pumpkin

Look for another redesign of my blog.  I can't quite decide what works the best for me and this blog.

My Modern Log Cabin Quilt

Lattice Hawaiian quilt top

4th of July Purse

Hawaiian Wristlet

 My next project will use the majority of the scraps from my Christmas stockings.  As always, thanks for looking and inspiring me to keep making more.  Please leave me a comment on your favorite project.

- Bryn