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!!!