crazy town 70s one-patch!

here's another quilt finish from the spring.

the "front" is just big ole square patches, in some of my favorite fabrics.  this is the side i made first...i love the look of simple, homey, one-patch quilts, and i really loved the one i made in 2011 for poppy's bed, so i decided i'd make another one, but bigger, thinking it would or could go on pete and i's bed.

the back is where i had a bit of fun...i totally went to town with the crazy piecing (a la victoria findlay wolfe).  i like making the backs of my quilts be as interesting as the fronts.  i also have a tendency to pair a modern back with a more traditional top, and vice versa, so i can play with both aesthetics in one quilt, and maybe even make the quilt reversible.

i like it either way...with the one-patch side showing, OR the crazy pieced side!  earlier in the spring i had the crazy pieced side showing, but at the moment the one patch is showing.  i can change it when the mood strikes me!  ha!

the fun loopty loop quilting is by frank and teri karls.

scrap vomit quilt!

the scrap vomit quilt i started last summer is FINALLY FINISHED.  i wrote about it here, when work on the quilt was in the early, block-making stage.  i finished the top in the early fall, and the quilt top sat on the shelf in my studio until late january 2014, when i finally got my crap together and passed the top (along with two other tops) off to terri and frank karls, who skillfully longarmed it with these fun, kind of organic but modern spiral motifs, in black thread.  i'm still not comfortable doing much free-motion quilting...so i thought it'd leave it to the experts.  :) 

a quilt for baby danielle

my friend shelley and i have been friends for 28 years...since we were 10.  i was new at woodlands elementary school in longwood, florida, and she reached out to me and befriended me.  our lives have diverged in different directions over the decades, but i still love her as a sister and when i go down to florida a couple of times a year i try to get together with her if time and circumstances allow.

back in july of 2013, she told me she was pregnant.  i was overcome with joy for her (and her partner danny). just after christmas 2013, one day after, to be specific, she had her second child, a tiny little girl named danielle.  

this quilt is for that special baby girl, little danielle, the new baby of my oldest, dearest friend.  :)

i started it in september, at the CMQG fall retreat.  i brought the biggest suitcase i had to the retreat, stuffed to the hilt with pink, orange and green fabrics (what shelley said she liked) from my stash and scrap bins.  i pieced the whole top that weekend, and quilted it the week after the retreat.  as with pretty much every quilt i make, it's a big jumble of new and old fabrics.  the fluoro pink chevron fabric is from an old, VERY cherished and heavily loved dress of poppy's.  :)  i wanted to include it as a little "gift" from my baby to hers.  the whole color scheme was really fun to work with; it felt really feminine and "florida" and maybe a tad "lily pulitzer", even.  i swear that every other baby quilt I've made in the past few years has been for a boy (lovely though they are!) so it was nice to make something for a girl for once.  :)