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.

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.

Bag redo

I have this little bag that I made for my trip to Walt Disney World. 

The old bag

It served it's purpose but I think it's kinda ugly.  I'm starting from scratch.

Yeah, it's kinda ugly

I ripped out the zipper and that is all that will be left from the original bag.

A re purposed zipper

I plan on ripping the pieces apart an putting them into another project in the future.

I looked through my scrap box.  I really need to organize that box.  What a mess!

Mess-o-rama

 I really love greens, blues and teals.  I chose those colors and went from there.

What I had in scraps

My two side pieces, looks much better.  I added some interfacing to make it less flimsy.

Looking much better

The finished product

The green side

And it's even lined!

The blue side

Another little project done.  I love the outcome on this one.  This one might be my new coupon bag for the car or really anything else.  I love little bags and I love the ones I make even more!

A complete quilt

Another day, another quilt finished.  This quilt has been in the works for about 6 years.  Probably about 4 years of that being dormant, waiting for me to come back to it. 

I love the colors and the pattern.  It is a visually strong.  Once again this is a queen size pictured full size bed.

I'm thrilled it is finally done.  It will have a happy home with my boyfriend in Kansas City.  Now to work on my brother's quilt.  Only a little over a month until the wedding.  I really want to finish it before!

Diamond pillow

I made another pillow for my bed.  They don't match but they are tons of fun.  I really enjoy the summer colors.

I made this pillow out of a 16 by 16 inches pillow form.  The white diamond in the center is 8 1/2 inches square.  In retrospect I should have make it 8 by 8 inches.  That would leave more space around the edges to sew the two pieces together

The color blocks are 2 by 2 inches.  The pieces did not line up perfectly at the end of each row but practice makes perfect.  I almost like the scrappy look anyways.

The finishing touch on this pillow is a 1/4 inch teal border.  I'd never done one before but I think it ended up working very nicely.  But I gotta work on the corners!

I'm thinking about making some more and selling them on Etsy.  So far I have not sold any items on Etsy but I will keep trying!