Quilty gifts

Bookshelf Mini Quilt

Jul 11, 2016Carmit2 CommentsLongarm, Quilted projects, Quilty giftsbookshelf, bookshelf quilt, finished quilt, Longarm, mini quilt, quilt, quilting, Rainbow, selvage

My friend Cathy, mother of Rachel and Louise, turned fifty recently and I had to commemorate the occasion. Cathy is an incredible writer, so I decided to make her a bookshelf mini, which hopefully she can hang in her writing shed. I loosely followed the tutorial by Don’t Call Me Betsy and was fortunate to…

My Submission For Blogger’s Quilt Festival

Oct 26, 2015Carmit4 CommentsBlogger's Quilt Festival, Quilty giftsBlogger's Quilt Festival

I know there hasn’t been an awful lot happening here on the blog in terms of quilting. This is not to say there isn’t much quilting going on – au contraire, my friends – just that there hasn’t been much photographing going on, which I intend to address in short order. In the meantime, here’s…

The Whine and Cheese Quilt

Aug 3, 2015Carmit1 CommentQuilty gifts, Tula PinkFade to Pink, Tula Pink

“The colour of their bedroom? Uh… sort of yellow? And wine?” said the 16-year-old son of our friends, for whom I was making a surprise silver anniversary quilt. Are you sure? Ugh, really? This quilt was already starting out from the very far corner of the depths of the dog house, because the combination of…

Totem’s blue squares

Feb 22, 2015Carmit6 CommentsQuilty gifts4" square quilt, blue, Family, gift, gradient, quilt

Remember the blue squares baby quilt? I knew as soon as I finished it that I wanted to make a full-sized version at some point, and that point came sooner than later when my brother Totem (not his real name)(but close enough) laid it on THICK that he was due a quilt. He was less…

Sherry’s Colour Block Quilt

Dec 4, 2014Carmit1 CommentQuilty giftspantograph, quilt, quilting, Tula Pink Color Blocks

I’ve known my friend Sherry since about 2002. She and I used to post on the Television Without Pity (RIP) forums and I’m not entirely sure when she and I started communicating directly, but for the past few years we have chatted online almost daily (sadly not the case since I moved to Munich as…

Loulouthi Tiles – Finished!

Sep 11, 2013Carmit3 CommentsPattern review, Quilted projects, Quilty giftsLoulouthi, Loulouthi Tiles

It’s official–I handed over the Loulouthi Tiles quilt. It wasn’t without its hurdles, but I absolutely love how this quilt turned out! This quilt is based on a free pattern from Stitched in Color, and after a bit of thinking, came together very quickly. I was able to piece the top in one day. The…

In which I am a creepy stalker

Sep 10, 2013Carmit5 CommentsBaby Quilts, Quilt shows, Quilty giftsbaby quilt, purple, quilty gifts

So you know how your mother always tells you not to talk to strangers? I’ve met (and not met) some of the nicest people online, all of whom were, at one point or another, complete strangers. There was the time I went to New York with two people I’d only known online, and we stayed…

Work-in-Progress Wednesday

Aug 28, 2013CarmitQuilted projects, Quilty gifts, Work-in-Progress WednesdayAurifil, Loulouthi Tiles, quilt, quilting, Work-in-Progress Wendesday

Huh, is it Wednesday already? I’ve got a few irons in the fire at the moment, but the most pressing one (pressing! harhar!) is getting Rachel’s quilt finished. On Saturday I put together the quilt back (of which I took no photos because… I don’t know). It is, as requested, mostly black, but I added…

Half-Square Triangle Chevron Quilt

Aug 26, 2013Carmit1 CommentQuilted projects, Quilty giftsbatik, chevron, quilt, Rainbow

When you’re new to quilting everything looks daunting. You start out making lots of mistakes and doing a lot more work than you need to because you’re guessing how to do things that others have figured out long before you. I’ve not done a tremendous amount of angled sewing. It’s pretty much been straight lines…

Oscar’s Baby Quilt

Aug 22, 2013Carmit2 CommentsBaby Quilts, Quilted projects, Quilty gifts4" square quilt, baby quilt

This baby is kind of my fault. My friends and former colleagues A and J used to be just A and J until I quit to move to England. Guess who hooked up at my going-away party? And three years later, Oscar arrived, so it was only fitting that I would make him a quilt.…