The first teacher quilts!

Greta was in Mrs Fidge and Mrs. Leenie's class in 2013-2014 for four year old preschool. They are such amazing teachers that I wanted to do something special for them. Unfortunately, I didn't think about it till kind of late in the year. I had some great mothers help me get the cute little hand-prints from all the kids. I put together these cute quilts, they both have the same border material and are the same pattern, but the colors make them look so different. 

Mrs Fidge's Hand-print Quilt 2014

Mrs Leenie's Hand-print Quilt 2014

They are both just square blocks on point. My friend Diane Wells quilted both of them on her long arm machine. 

Teacher Thank You Quilts 2017

This has been a busy spring for quilt making!
Holden's teacher who has taught him in both fifth and sixth grade was retiring. So I decided to make her a thank you signature quilt. I had Holden ask her what her favorite color was and he came back with Blue Green or blue or green. That did not help me at all, this is what I came up with.
Here is Mrs. Davis' 5th and 6th grade signature quilt. 

 It is an apple bar/rail fence pattern. I tried to make it look like the rails were weaving through the quilt.

I really like the back. I had a hard time giving this quilt away, I love the colors and the pattern. But I don't know all the kids on the quilt so I really needed to give it to her. 

I was able to get all of her students this year to sign the quilt and most of the faculty at the school. I learned while doing this that she is a quilter! When we presented it to her, she was so happy and even cried a little. 

Oliver was in Ms Fidge and Ms Leenie's 4 year old Preschool class this year. They are amazing teachers and go way above and beyond in their classroom. Everyone loves them! As a thank you for such a wonderful preschool experience I made them each a quilt. I am sad that this is the last year for us to have them as teachers. We got each child's hand print and had them write their name on the block. 

Miss Leenie's 2017 Preschool class quilt

This is a four patch and bars pattern. It took me a long time to decide on the perfect material. I think this turned out great! 

I love their cute little hand prints and handwriting. 

Mrs. Leenie with her quilt

Miss Fidge's 2017 Preschool Quilt

For their quilts I got the ABC fabric that is on the back of miss Fidge's quilt first. Then I went through my stash and found fabrics to match. It is a scrappy quilt, which I have a hard time with, I almost started over a couple times but kept with it and it turned out so good. (as long as I don't look too closely) I ended up not having enough of the ABC fabric to do both quilts so Ms Leenie's doesn't have it at all. 

This is a rail fence and nine patch pattern. One of my favorite patterns. I can't do completely random so the green is the color that is consistent. 

Mrs. Fidge with her quilt

Diane Wells machine quilted all the quilts for me. She is so great, and I am so jealous of her craft room!

Rylee's Zebra Chevron Quilt

After collecting fabric for years for Rylee's quilt, it is finally done!

I have gone through many design ideas for Rylee and nothing really came together, until this one. I am so glad Chevron's are big now and that my mom has a prefect pattern for it!

 For a few years Rylee's room has been zebra print themed with a pink and green stripe on her wall.

 I found a few zebra prints for the quilt, and used the black and white one for the binding.

 My neighbor has a quilting machine, I had her quilt it because I made this queen size, and that is way too big for me to quilt. It turned out great.

 The purple fabric has lambys on it like the stuffed animal lamby that Rylee had when she was little.

This was also the best quilt reveal ever! Rylee loves the quilt!

Hadley's Flower Garden

I started this quilt about the same time as Hunter's squares using a lot of the same materials, and right after I got my sewing machine. It is a pattern my aunt Celeste had and was making, I don't remember the name. It took a long time to make.

Each flower block is 4 layers of flower petals topstitched onto each other. Since I had just gotten my sewing machine which has a ton of cool stitches I experimented with the stitches around each petal. It was lots of fun. I even was able to put Hadley's name on it!

 This was also the first quilt I quilted with  my machine. I am pretty impressed with myself! I think it turned out really well.

 The layout is from a crazy quilt block book my sister had. I really like things to be straight and equal, so this quilt was a challenge for me. I love how it turned out.  

Reese's Cowboy Quilt

This was the first Fautin kid quilt I made. Reese is a cowboy, he has been a cowboy since the day he was born.

This panel of fabric had the cool running horses border, and it worked out just right in the bars around the pictures. I can't remember when I made this quilt, it was sometime between 2000 and 2005, so it is pretty cool to me that he still has it on his bed!

Oh the basic pattern is a rail fence/apple bar and nine square. Two of my favorite blocks to make!

Naketa's Quilt

I finally finished this quilt for my friend Naketa! I love how it turned out so maybe that's why I had such a hard time giving it away.

I took the quilt to my Mom's friend Myrna to have it quilted. She did an amazing job as always. I think I just told her to do whatever she thought would look good.

I am very proud of the borders, especially since I did them without the help of my mom!

Jackie's Stars Cont.

Jackie's star quilts started with this one and with a lot of help from my mother-in-law I completed my first quilt EVER! I made it for my friend Jessica's baby Claire who was the first baby of all of my friends. I even hand quilted this one. A little too ambitious for my first quilt, I think. I loved the results, and it was hard to give away.



This next one I made completely on my own. I made it for my mom who loves Halloween.




I surprised myself that I could actually make this on my own that I went a little crazy. For Christmas I made one for my nephew Holden..





(Joel helped with the back. He went a little crazy too).
I made one for my niece Greta..



And for our friend's son Ethan..(the rock "Star" quilt)



And just when I thought I was done I got a last minute request to do a Pirate quilt to match my nephew Trenten's new room.




Now if I could only get one done for my own daughter...

Jackie's Stars

This is a quilt my mom designed. My sister-in-law Jackie has made quite a few of them, so the name Jackie's Stars has just stuck with it.

This is one I made for Christmas 2009. That year Jackie also made star quilts for Christmas gifts. I will have to take pictures of the ones she gave to my kids. Greta sleeps with hers almost every night.

I am not sure if this is right but I will call it a stack and whack. you stack blocks of four colors together and cut them apart then put them back together to look like this with interlocking star blocks. It is pretty fun to do.
Jackie and Shauna, if you are reading this please add your star quilts to this post!!!

Christmas Wallhanging 2010

One night as I was trying to get Greta to sleep I was watching a sewing show and the guest was talking about 'raggedy reverse applique'. It looked like such a fun easy technique that I started brainstorming patterns I could do. It was a few weeks before Halloween, and I thought it would be really cute to make some Halloween blocks, but then I realized realistically I was not going to get anything done till Christmas.

 At work we have a lady's gift exchange, last year I gave away a stars wall hanging(I will post that one too) and it was a hit, so I thought I would do this for this years exchange. It was a success as well.

 It was so easy and quick to make, which is good since I didn't have time to start sewing till two days before the party. I had drawn up the patterns over the past few weeks, as usual reinventing the wheel every time I do a quilt.

 My favorite is the Christmas tree.

 I like the holly too, but I shouldn't have used black as the top color, it isn't enough contrast.

The method is really fun and easy. You stack 3 color blocks on top of each other then sew around the design you have chosen then cut out the layers to reveal the color you want to see.

I think it will be fun to do a whole lap quilt, I have a whole bunch of ideas!!!

Thanks Naketa and Jessica!

This is a quilt that was given to me for my wedding by two of my best friends and former roommates. Neither of them have quilted before and I think they did an incredible job on their first quilt. They even hand quilted every block. It is great to have wonderful friends who will spend a whole semester making you a quilt. I love the quilt and I love Naketa and Jessica for making it!

Andrew's quilt

Here is the beautiful flying geese quilt I made Andrew for Christmas this year. My mom kept telling me that I must really love this guy because it only took me three or four days to put it together. That is a new record for me. Usually it takes me months to finish a quilt top. It was still not completely finished by christmas, but that is ok. I'm so excited for it to be all quilted. I hope that Andrew loves this quilt as much as I do. I think it turned out so great!

close-up view
The whole thing

Harrison's I-Spy

This is Harrison's I-Spy quilt. I gave it to him Christmas 2007.

This quilt started from an idea I got from my mom. She had been collecting I-Spy materials, (Fabric with a picture of something in it. This quilt has Bees, Fish, Flowers, Shoes, Aliens...) for quite a while. In her ward she taught a quilting class and had a block exchange. Each person makes X many blocks that all look the same then you get together and exchange all of them and each person has enough different blocks to make a quilt. It is a very easy block so I decided to do it in my ward as well. I didn't have as good a turnout as my mom so there are two of most of the blocks in the quilt, and I think I had to use some from my mom's stash but it turned out really cute.

Once I got all the blocks I had to make the sashing so it was big enough for a twin size quilt. Once again starting from scratch and inventing a pattern. I used a four patch in the corners with two bars around each block.

The fabric I used for my blocks was Bees because Noah's sister's name is Brooke, but they call her "Aunt Bee" and I wanted to make her son a quilt. She is also a school teacher and I found a really cute fabric with bees and apples! So really this quilt is more for her then for her son Harrison.

The things I learned making this quilt are, that not everyone sews as well as I do. A twin size mattress is twice as long as it is wide. And once again I am not very good at random!

Like I said my mom has made a few of these quilts, so here is one she made for her nephew Eli. and I will have to take a picture of the one she made for Holden.