In my top five, for sure

 I have made a lot of quilts and some I like, some I am kinda meh about, some I love, and some I really, really love and make me so happy.

This quilt was one of them. I made it freestyle. Lol. I know that is probably not the right word, but by freestyle, I mean I just start making blocks with a very vague idea in a color palette and see how it goes. And then build and build until it is done.

Here it is.

I do not have as many pictures of this one because it never went to my shop, it went to live with my Aunt Sandy.

This will stay in my top five quilts forevermore. 

Playing catch up

 It's been a bit since I have blogged. If a year is the equivalent of a bit. Since this time last year, we have moved again - back to Alabama. If you are keeping count, this was our 4th move since 2018. Hoping this is the last.

Tyler graduated from high school and accepted a scholarship from LSU, but ended up taking a year off as we hit some issues. Everything happens for a reason, as Tyler started having some heart complications this past fall, and I am so glad he was home. So we are still working on that and figuring out the source of the problem.

Kaiti is in her senior year, working and planning for her future. Jack is in 8th grade, knocking his grades out of the park, playing football and being the crazy kid he has always been. Evie is doing so awesome, she is in 7th grade and working so hard academically, and is playing club volleyball and made the JV High School Softball team! She is a busy little one! And Declan is in 4th grade, happy to be back with his "girlfriend" that he has had since Kindergarten. He played soccer and did so great, flag football, and we have baseball coming up soon.

I left the mortgage industry and went back to Marketing with LDR and also took on another role as an Event Coordinator at an event planning company. My stress level has reduced so much, and I have had both the time and the mental space to get back to quilting! 

So that is the family catch up, here is the latest quilt I finished. I am going to share some other quilts I have made over the last year in the next few days, because I like the idea of having a "final record" (haha) of the things I have made. So pardon the posts that are coming if you are not into quilts.

I started this quilt in June of 2018!! I loved the color palette because it was so different. 

I worked on a little bit at a time, and here it is today, all done!

It's moody and different and I love it!

I cut uneven strips and just pieced them together, throwing them up on my design wall to see where I wanted things to go. This is my favorite way to create, to just have a concept, but not a detailed plan and let the quilt figure itself out.

This quilt has Liberty of London, Essex Linen, Woven fabrics, Art Gallery, Cotton and Steel, Carolyn Friedlander, and so many more. It's a little bit of everything and so full of contrast.

A peek at my new label! This is available in my shop HERE.

back to soft and light

After all the rich color I have been working with lately,  I felt it was inevitable I would shift back to a lighter, softer color palette.

I had been wanting to make a quilt in these tones for a while and had been adding the fabrics to a class jar on the shelf above my sewing machine. I finally grabbed the jar and laid all the fabrics out and realized I had enough to make a throw sized quilt. So I went with the design that I make often, but this time I added a frame.

I really do love pulling linens into quilts. They add a texture, the soften up with use, and provide such a great contrast to feeling of cotton.

The black and white gingham binding is my favorite. 

Another rainy day picture, but this quilt feels like a good rainy day quilt.

here she is in full. I liked this one!

more rich color

It's a funny thing how what I enjoy making swings like a pendulum, shifting from one side and then dramatically sliding to the opposite. 

When I picked up quilting again in the fall, I was making quilts in soft color palettes that were easy and light what I was needing. And I did that, and then felt the need to add color into my life. Rich, bold, vibrant color. So I picked up fabrics and did just that. From the bananas quilt, to my peanut butter and jelly, to this, what I think of as my sparkling riviera quilt. Bright and lively blues, against warm corals and browns. 

I saved my scraps from this one and want to make something else from them because I loved the way the colors played off each other.

I need to take better pictures of this, because it was rainy and the colors aren't reading right. But I basically cut 10.5 inch squares and where the met the inside, I added a little wonky HST, to make little wonky white stars in between the blocks.

Again with the quilt swirl. Sorry. Can't stop, won't stop.

You can see more pictures in my shop!