Four, Four Two, recent finish

This recently completed top is a new design I just learned.  Goes together quick & easy, needs good contrast. 

I don't know the name of the pattern, but the Design is simple:  a 10" square, sliced at 4" mark, again at the 4" mark, which leaves a remaining 2" strip (the center). A lovely design which goes together quickly. The alternating direction of the strip in the Block lends movement to the design.

It's made from 10" 'layer cakes' as we Quilters call them. 

Lattice: in My Original Fabrics

This is an unusual Quilt in that the Fabrics in it are all of my own, Original Design.

I had them custom printed at Spoonflower & these fabrics, which were not designed to go together ended up working out well together after all.  My designs are currently available for sale at Spoonflower,  my Studio Name there is Little_Karen.  

I learned this Quilt pattern shown by Missiouri Star Quilt Co., Jenny Doan shared it. The design was constructed differently than one might imagine.

A nicely bold & highly graphic little quilt it made me. 

 

Simple Simon

A wonderful commercial pattern by Cozy Quilts called 'Simple Simon'.  I made the one on the right first, enjoyed it so much I made a second one, the one on the left using a plaid background.  A fun & easy pattern I saw featured by Donna Jordan of Jordan Fabrics in a YouTube tutorial. 

I consider them Sister Quilts (Floral Sister & Plaid Sister). Also showing their pieced backs.

I pieced the backs for fun and to help use up the scraps from these 2 quilts.  The back on the left uses a Log Cabin adaptation by a fellow quilt guild member Tina B.  

A Recent find: A Batik I made in 1974

 I recently found this in an old Art Portfolio of mine:  I'm kind of amazed at how good this is / was.  Detail / closer up to follow.

I'm pleased to see the nice color combination, how well balanced it was, how beautifully the Batik effects came out around the brown bubble areas.

Tesselating Batiks

I hadn't posted in a while as I didn't have a working camera.  Now I do, so here's a very recent finish.  A friend had given me one of the Batiked fabrics & several shades of the Browns.  I had more Batiks of my own with compatible patterns and several of the Greens which I had.  The outer border Green is a linen cotton blend, I really like its texture.

Some of the print details, shown before I attached the Binding.  Pictures are Clickable for details.

Here's the reverse.  

Baby Quilt for Madeleine & Her Two Fathers

Here's a lovely baby quilt I decided to make an old friend's new daughter.  I got carried away among the Pinks I had in my Fabric Stash.  Don't know a lot of babies or have much novelty fabrics for kids.  During Covid, I haven't been buying fabrics, I'm working with what I already have at home.

    

Hard to imagine I had so many Pinks in my Stash, was kind of surprising to find that.  I have since finished this Quilt, just haven't uploaded its pix yet. 

"Who Knew I Liked Orange?"

Here's a recent finish, to be donated to Charity. I made it for an online auction to be held by my Quilt Guild, Empire Quilters.

I designed this inspired by these strip pieced portions of yellow & orange strips I'd found.  There were two of them, already assembled full Width of Fabric as quilters say (approx 42-44 inches for American fabrics &/or quilting cottons). I needed to figure out what to do with them, as a jumping off point in designing something.

So I chopped them up & I assembled these two types of blocks, deciding to alternate them with solid blocks of the multicolored foliage fabric. 

Added another couple of rows top & bottom in related orange (seemingly bright & happy).

On a Bench in front of my Home.  A very satisfying project, which went together pretty quickly.