Showing posts with label Quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quilt. Show all posts

Monday, October 24, 2022

Expansion of the Warrior Quilt by Suzy Quilts

 Two of our nieces graduated from college this year. I just gifted one this quilt that is based on the Warrior Quilt by Suzy Quilts . Usually I don't ask for direction on quilts that I make as gifts, but my niece is creative in her own right and I thought she might have an opinion. She asked for Villanova colors. So I purchased come Villanova Wildcats fabric and incorporated that into the quilt pattern. You'll see that my arrangement is different than Suzy Quilts because I was trying to expand to a larger size than the original pattern. I also incorporated some extra half-square triangles into the back that were left over.

I also did a little variations on the edges as if the pattern is starting to deconstruct. Something about this pattern was yearning for variation, so I started picking it apart at the edges.





Monday, August 24, 2015

Quilts for Twins

A few years ago we went out to California for a friends wedding. While we were there I took pictures of the center pieces thinking I would make a quilt for the couple using the colors of those centerpieces. I found a free pattern that I thought would be good and saved it to my computer. I bought the fabric shortly after and never got around to making the quilt.(as of 2018 Free Spirit has closed their doors and this pattern is no longer available on the internet - that I can find)

Last August I started grad school and was completely unable to sew for the 8 months of school. So for the summer I vowed I would try to complete the projects I owed myself. So I started sewing.

After sewing all the blocks for the intended wedding quilt, I realized that this was not a color scheme that I would want in my living room and repurposed the blocks into two smaller quilts for some other friends who are having twins.

We don't know what sex the babies will be and the color scheme felt perfect for a unisex blanket set.



Both Twin Quilts after washing. I prefer to wash after completion because then they wrinkly up nicely.

Twin Quilt 1 top






Twin Quilt 2 top


Quilt 2 Details