baby b's baby quilt

holy crap, how did nearly 2 months go by?  sorry 'bout that.  BUT, i've been plenty busy making.  if only where was a way to just download everything that's in my brain that i want to share and somehow compose posts without actually being anywhere near a computer or any sort of device!  alas...

seen here is a 41" x 48" baby quilt i recently completed.  it was a gift for a pair of dear friends who are expecting a little boy in the next few weeks.  the idea behind this one was to make it really modern...and make it feel "boy" and somewhat timeless (meaning, no novelty fabrics that are too kiddy or dating, if that makes sense).  i used mostly scraps i had in my scrap boxes for the front and the pieced bit on the back, and the swathe of green that makes up the better part of the back is a piece of shot cotton i scored at the bernina sewing center in lake mary, florida, when i was in the orlando area this past summer.  i quilted half of it at my friend/neighbor jacquie gering's place, and half at mine.  she showed me how to make a cool, sort of wavy/organic yet straight quilting pattern using one of the presets on the bernina (it's the #4 stitch, somewhat elongated, on my 430) and a walking foot.  pretty cool, eh?  i want to use it on everything.  it puckers up in a super pretty way after a laundering.

they got the quilt yesterday (yay!), so i am now able to share it.

fish baby log cabin

...and here's the other little quilt i managed to get a photo of...my own version of malka dubrawsky's fish baby log cabin quilt.​

​i also pieced this one back in our connecticut days (sometime in 2011), but didn't get around to quilting it until this summer.  i wanted the color scheme to be really jarring, with a lot of clashes, and value changes.  i tried to use colors i don't always use (like purple and brown, which are some of my less favorite hues).  

someday, when i am so inclined, i want to make four of these puppies and merge them all into one big mama sized quilt, but maybe mix up the order of the colors on each one, or make one completely different for visual interest.  hmmm, idears!​

hot hued HST baby quilt

a couple weekends ago pete helped me put up one of those tension wire curtain rods in my studio so i could take photos of my quilts and in progress quilting works (tops, blocks, etc.).  unfortunately, it didn't really work out as planned; he over tensioned the wire and the whole apparatus is pulling out of the wall. and when a quilt of any size is on it, it sags.  the bigger the quilt, the more it sags.  looks pretty cruddy.  AND, since the room is little bigger than your average size walk in closet and packed to the gills with furniture, i can't get back far enough to take a decent photograph. especially, again, of those big ones.  alas, i'll have to find a better/more permanent solution to the quilt hanging/photographing problem.​  or, i guess, keep with the status quo and basically not photograph them at all!  :P  methinks the latter is more likely to happen, unforch.  i just don't have the room to make anything better happen at the mo and moving is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

​anyway​, i managed to photograph a few quilts i finished this year, some smaller ones.  what's above is a baby quilt i started piecing in 2011 when we still lived in connecticut, and finished piecing this year (2012).  i quilted it sometime in the late spring, i think.  hazy memory!  fabrics are a hardy mix of old and new (seems to be my MO when quilting), some vintage, some new.  some of the vintage pieces are from thrifted clothes (like that orange, purple and green plaid, and the orange with the rope print).

​i made a bigger one which is pretty much the same thing (but with a differently designed back, but, as detailed above...i just couldn't get a good snap of it.  *sigh*