Dabbling in Quilting

So I made a promise that as soon as my computer was home and I could download some pictures off of the digital camera I would post a backlog of my quilting projects since I have been in Massachusetts. I do not classify myself as a quilter. A “Quilter” I think would have more creativity and inspiration than I possess, but I do enjoy seeing projects take shape. I think I spend more time dreaming about projects then actually working on them, because of this I have only 2 quilts to show for my time here. Both of these quilts were actually started in Manitoba with Quiltpixie and Geekchic.

This quilt started as a mystery quilt organizied by Quiltpixie. We were given instructions about what kind of fabrics and quantities to buy, then we showed up for the weekend and quilted. I made significant headway on the top of this quilt, but did not finish it. I ended up making it larger then the instructions originally called for and added some borders, making this a nice queen size quilt.

From October until June of 2004/05 I drove up to Stonewall with Quiltpixie and Geekchic and we did this Block of the Month (the blue and yellow squares). When I discovered that I was expecting I made them into a baby blanket. I used iron on transfer for the bambi squares (it works well but do not use it on something that you intend to wash).

After my initial experience with machine quilting a large project, I chose to hand quilt both of these pieces. I am not a purist I machine pieced the tops, just quilted the sandwiches together.