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Firecrackers Quilt for the Fat Quarter Shop

 

Good morning! I am so excited to share this quilt with you - it is one of my favorite recent finishes! 

I made this Firecrackers Quilt as part of the Fat Quarter Shop's blog hop to celebrate the release of their new pattern! This is a great pattern for a confident beginner/intermediate quilter! It uses 2 jelly rolls and background fabric, and is completed by strip piecing, and then using the Creative Grids 30 degree triangle ruler to create your blocks! 

I had fun playing with the combinations in my strips, and then the layout of my final blocks. I used April Rosenthal's Meadow Bloom collection with Moda Bella White as my background.

 I quilted my quilt with diagonal straight lines, about 1/2" apart. 

The Fat Quarter Shop has created a video to show you how to piece your blocks and square them up - so helpful! 

 

You can buy your own quilt kit featuring Prarie by Corey Yoder from the Fat Quarter Shop! And don't forget your backing!

 

Stop by the other bloggers who are sharing their Firecracker Quilts today! 

Daisy at Ants to Sugar

Brooke of Silly Mama Quilts

Adrianne of On the Windy Side

Melissa of Happy Quilting

Julie of 627 Handworks

Corrine of Must Love Quilts

Anson of Little Bunny Quilts

Lauren of Fly Away Quilts

 

Follow the Leader Quilt

 

I'm SO excited to share this quilt with you today! I designed this quilt back in February, and submitted it as a sketch to Modern Patchwork. It was accepted, and the only catch was that I had three weeks to make the quilt, and one of those weeks I'd be gone to Quilt Con! Needless to say, it was a crazy adventure to get it done, and it didn't help that everywhere I ordered more Kona Silver from (for the background) cancelled my order!!! Thankfully, I was able to get it done, in part because of a crazy ice/snow storm we had that shut down Fort Worth for about a week, and allowed daddy to keep the kids occupied while I sewed sewed sewed!

I love this quilt - it is one of my favorites! I love the simple color palette, and the maze like design. It is available to purchase in the new Fall 2015 issue of Modern Patchwork magazine (along with another one of my designs that I'll post about soon!) 

I'm entering this quilt into the Blogger's Quilt Festival: Original Design category. I hope you'll stop by to vote for it, and to see the amazing quilts! 

Chain Link Quilt: Blogger's Quilt Festival Original Design

 

 

I am so excited to be entering this quilt into Blogger's Quilt Festival! I designed and made this quilt last summer, and it is now in the newest issue of Quilty, so I can finally share it! 

 

I was inspired by a doodle my husband had done, and I loved the way his little block looked repeated and then offset. I had a 2.5" roll of Kona Cottons burning a hole on my shelf, so using that, some additional Kona colors from my stash to help round out the rainbow, and my favorite light grey background fabric, this quilt was born! 

 

Sadly, I didn't get any shots of it quilted and bound before I sent it off to Quilty since I was on a tight turnaround, but you can see it here. I love the quilting that my friend Lazara did for me in a hurry! 

 

I can't wait to have this one back to snuggle under! Thanks for letting me share it!

Modern Half Square Triangle Quilt: Blogger's Quilt Festival Large Quilt

I am so glad to have this one finished! I started it almost two years ago, as part of my Modern Half Square Triangle QAL, and i finished it over a year ago. I tried spray basting for the first time, and ended up ripping out all of the quilting on this, and starting over. Ugh! But, it was worth it in the end, so that's all that matters! I'm so happy with how this came out, and I learned so much along the way. It is a bit outside of my usual color palette, but that's not a bad thing! Check out more quilts for Blogger's Quilt Festival here!

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Original Design

I am so excited that it is Blogger's Quilt Festival time again! I look forward to this every year and love looking at all the wonderful entries! I am very excited this fall that there are new categories for modern quilts and original design.

This is my entry for original design. I made this for my quild's "put a goose on it" challenge and I really love the way it came out! This is one of my favorite quilts I've made this year. I echoed the flying geese V formation with my quilting, and I think it came out so well!

If you're so inclined, you can vote for my quilt here!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nevitt/14096369660/player/be41ba6edb

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Modern Quilt

I am so excited that it is Blogger's Quilt Festival time again! I look forward to this every year and love looking at all the wonderful entries! I am very excited this fall that there are new categories for modern quilts and original design.

This is my entry for modern quilting. I love this quilt, I love the quilting and I love the colors. It is one of my favorites!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nevitt/13922809764/player/7faae5a460

It doesn't hurt that I also love that I got to take pictures of it in the snow! :)

If you're so inclined, you can vote for my quilt here!

Greek Plus Puss Quilt

I am so pleased to share this quilt with you today! A few weeks ago, Rossie at Fresh Modern Quilts asked for pattern testers for her new quilt design. I was lucky to be accepted, and I got started right away.

I ended up switching the low volume fabrics into the plus shape instead of using them for the background - I love the different look it gives! I used an assortment of solids from my stash for the puss in the corner blocks. All of the background fabrics are black and grey, and I love the pop of color from those solids! The pattern is well written, and very straightforward. The quilt came together very quickly once I had everything cut out!

I backed the quilt with Kona Raisin, and used the same great silver and white stripe for the binding that I used on my woven quilt. I quilted it using diagonal lines through each section of the block. 

Samantha (my oldest) keeps telling me how beautiful this quilt is, and how she wants a quilt like this for her bed. :)

Best part? Rossie gave me a copy of the pattern to give away! All you have to do is leave a comment, and if you feel like it, let me know what quilt you're working on right now - I love new inspiration and ideas! Comments close Thursday at midnight CDT and I'll choose a winner then! Please make sure you leave your email address if you are a no-reply blogger commenter, otherwise I can't reach you! I will also update this post on Friday with the winner, so check back!

**Edited to add** Trish - you are the winner of the pattern! Thanks for the comments everyone!

Sewvivor - knitnlit

Hi and welcome if you are visiting via Sewvivor! I have decided to throw my hat into the ring, and 'audition' for the Sewvivor: quilted edition! :) 

I had a very difficult time trying to decide what quilt to enter for this competition, and I finally chose this one I just finished up this week! 

I am so very very pleased with the way this one came out - it was many many hours of piecing, cutting and pressing! 

The pattern is Simply Woven from the Moda Bake Shop, and I had a good time picking some of my favorite fabrics to use in it.  

I did some simple straight line quilting (my favorite!) and I backed it with some of my favorite DS prints, and used this great grey and white striped binding. This one finished at twin size, and I think I will put it away to save for one of my girls when they are a little older. I can't bear to part with it! 

Crossing my fingers and toes I'm one of the 16 selected! How fun would that be?? 

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Large Quilts - Swoon!

Hi! Welcome if you are visiting from Blogger's Quilt Festival! I am so excited to share this recent finish - it is one of my favorites!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nevitt/13999338460/player/b754639bba

I have long wanted to make this pattern, and I purchased a FQ bundle of Denyse Schmidt's Florence line with some birthday money last summer.  Finally, after the holidays were over, I had time to cut into this loveliness!

I used Kona Coal for the background, and I really like it - I think it compliments the colors of the DS fabric very well.

I am so happy to have this on my bed!

Blogger's Quilt Festival: ROYGBIV Quilts - Less is More

Hi! Welcome if you are visiting from Blogger's Quilt Festival! I am so excited to share this quilt with you today - it is one of my new favorites!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nevitt/13922809764/player/7faae5a460

I finished this quilt earlier this spring for my quilt guild's solids challenge. The pattern is Less is More by Elizabeth Dackson, available in her book, Becoming a Confident Quilter.

I changed it up a tiny bit, but having the center of each block be one color, instead of a shade of the other colors in the blocks. The light grey is Kona Ash, and the dark grey is Kona Steel. I used a FQ bundle of Kona solids for the blocks - I really love the way it looks!

I finished up the binding on this on our drive to Indiana this March, and it snowed while we were there, so I was able to take my first 'quilt in the snow' pictures! :)