Log Cabin Holly Leaves

Last Friday I showed the red batiks I was working with and here they are all finished.  It's always fun to try a new design.  This one was inspired by a tutorial from Connie at Free motion by the river blog.  I have wanted to try this design ever since she came out with it, but never got around to it.  I did change it up a bit.  First I decided to use all red and white for the log cabin where as Connie used a mix of red and green along with the white.  

The other thing I changed was the number of holly leaves in each corner from three to two and only one berry for each set of leaves. That makes for a lot less applique;)  Did you notice all of these fabrics are batik? 

As you can see in the photo above I kept the quilting simple in the white with a meander using white Glide thread.  The fun came in the red using a freehand holly leave and loops to represent the berries. This was done with a dark red Glide thread. 

I found a fun fabric in the stash for the backing. 

I hope you enjoyed seeing something new;)  I sure enjoyed making it.  

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Trees, Trees and more Trees

Heather Mulder Peterson from Anka's Treasures recently had a quilt along for either the Let It Snow quilt from her book Angles with Ease 2 or this runner.  The runner she wrote up and gave those of us who wanted to make it instead of the quilt.  Since I love making runners I chose the runner.

This is my finished runner. My trees are all from green scraps from my green bin. We started by making the trees so I didn't bother to pick out my border fabric. After all I have 2 tubs of Christmas fabric-surely I will have something to go with those green trees. Yep I sure did:-)   I love the pinecone fabric with it, just perfect IMHO!  The pattern goes together very easily. You do need Heather's Angles with Ease ruler to do the designs in the book(and this runner). But since I tend to be a ruler junkie, that wasn't a problem as I already had it ;-)

For the quilting I choose wishbones for the trees, loops for the background. One inch piano keys for the border finishes it up.

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Warm fuzzies!!

I had warm fuzzies all day and night yesterday. I am cleaning up my donation pile of quilts, getting them quilted, bound and out the door. So yesterday since I was running errands I dropped off these 8 quilts for Project Linus. These have all actually been done for a while but I just hadn't taken the time to deliver them.  My wish for them is that they give some boy or girl a warm quilty hug.  I have shown them on the blog before after having bound them so I won't go into individual pictures this time.

 This pile of 12 yes TWELVE quilts I showed and then donated last night at our guild meeting. They will go to Neonatal. They are all about 36" square.  I have showed most of them individually as I finished them, but there are a couple that I didn't...

So here they are.  This little pink and brown one resulted in a friend who gave me a bag of scraps and orphan blocks, the center 4 patches and brown with pink sashing were from her, then I dug in my stash for the rest.

 I wanted to try out my new ruler from Hex and More ruler so I made this baby quilt.

I pieced this one so long ago I forgot where the charm pack came from or the pattern I used to piece it or if I made it up. I am sure no one else ever has this problem right ;-)  But check out the last green border quilting treatment on the top and bottom of the quilt.  A fun new design I learned from a tutorial from Kim Stotsenberg. You can see it here.

 This is from a charm pack I won at our local guild quilt show in October. I won a great door prize with 4 identical charm packs, a GC to Nancy's notions and a table runner book(perfect for me since I love to make table runners). So to show my thanks I thought I would use part of a charm pack to make this and donate it. The tutorial came from Inspiring Creations.  These little quilts are the perfect way to try out a new pattern. You don't always have to make the quilt the same size as the pattern, just make a few and turn them into a little baby quilt!!

So, for me, giving these to people in need give me such warm fuzzies and I hope it gives them just a little comfort to be wrapped in a quilty hug.

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