Bella's Block Party!

The first class I taught at Sew Special Quilts was Bella's Block Party. I love this Quilt!  I used a Moda Jelly Roll, Block Party by Sandy Gervais for the blocks.  It amazed me I made all 24 blocks from one Jelly Roll. I think this quilt looks harder to make than it was, you sew your strips together then cut out triangles from your strips.  Why a Jelly Roll works so good for this pattern is, most Jelly Rolls have two different color directions making it hard to use all of one Jelly Roll in a quilt.  This pattern works because you separate the two colors, I used the oranges for half of the block and the greens and blues for the other half.  I believe what really makes this quilt pop is having high contrast between the two halfs of the block.

I like the way the borders are done, it looks like the quilt is framed, I could not be happier with how this quilt turned out!

The pattern was out of the book Smash Your Precut Stash, This is really a great book, the directions are well written and easy to follow.

I have been able to see a couple of the quilts made in the class, I love seeing finished projects!  Bring on the show and tell!

My favorite thing is seeing my beautiful niece, who the quilt was made for, sitting under it!

January UFO Challenge

All people quilt, picked #2 as the January UFO project to finish.  This is a quilt for my great, great niece! No I am not old enough to be a great, great auntie, but the truth is my niece's daughter has two babies!  So it is what it is :) I do have to admit this quilt only needed the binding and label, it was a easy one to get done.

A little background on this quilt, My great niece Tori is a barrel racer and this quilt was started for her.  Do you ever have those quilts that just don't work?  This was one of those quilts.  I found this cute cowgirl rodeo fabric maybe 10 years ago and thought it would be perfect for a quilt for Tori.  I kept trying to do different things with it and finally gave up and stuck it in a bag to "age".  When I was unpacking my fabric in my new little quilt house (more to come on that) I found it.  Happy days, because by this point Tori had a baby girl, and wa la, in one evening the quilt top was finished.  I had so much fun machine quilting it.  I did a big sun design over the pieced blocks.  I quilted around each of the pictures and then added in some double loops, trying to make them look like rope.  Overall, I love how Khloe's Rodeo quilt turned out.