Hand quilting again

I started hand quilting the Make Life baby quilt

the other day and it is going pretty well. I'm quilting in the ditch 

around the squares. I love the feel of this fabric, I wish all my fabric felt

so smooth and soft!

This is not my normal style but I'm loving the modern feel, I hope the

mama I'm giving this quilt to enjoys the modern design as much as I do!

One top finished and one pinned together

I pinned a quilt top for quilting today and now I will have it ready to go when I get the urge to hand quilt. I taped it to the table top and pinned it half at a time, much easier than crawling on the floor!

Also today I was able to finish a top I started a few weeks ago.

 I fell in love with the Pure Baby Boy quilt that the

Moda Bake Shop blog 

posted about in July. 

I used the Make Life fabric line to make mine.

 I didn't follow their directions too well. :)

 I used 8- 21/2 inch squares for my top (they used 6)  with that being bordered by another 2 1/2 inch strip(they used 1 1/2 inch).

 I had fun trying to get the fabrics all in a "random" order! :) 

Then I added about 15" of off white fabric for the sides.

 I might cut that down as I'm not too happy with it as it is now.

 But I marked it today for the quilting I will be doing.

Moda Bake Shop just used straight line quilting, 

I will be using a curvy line with flowers inserted about every 12 inches. 

The flowers will mimic the backing fabric I will be using.

I can't wait to get this quilt pinned up so I can start to quilt it. 

The baby this is for is due in October, so I better get cracking!

:)

Paper piecing a scrap quilt

I have a huge tub of scrap pieces of fabric that I've been saving for awhile. I even save some
pieces as big as 1 inch square! I decided that since I was tired of
 pink (from making all the pink baby quilt tops) that I needed to work with all different colors. So I pulled out the tub, put it by the sewing table and cut some paper into strips. I used varying widths but cut them 8 inches long. Then I used the sew and flip method of stitching the fabric to the paper.
I paper pieced three strips of scraps, then stitched them together and cut to 8 1/2 inch square.

I used some fabric from my mom, my daughter and both my grandmothers.

The red and blue flower print in the center strip above is from my mom.

I'm pretty sure the green and gray flower print in the bottom of this

 block is from my Grandma Cox.

The pink flower print in this photo is my daughters

graduation dress that I made for her.

The orange blue green check in this block is from one of my Grandma Becker's
house dresses she always wore, 

I stitched them  in rows with 2 1/2 inch strips of black with white pin dots.

Tomorrow I will stitch the rest of the sashing to the blocks. I like the

 way the black pin dot makes the blocks appear to "float". Right now I'm planning to add 5 inch borders to make this a quilt long enough to snuggle with in my chair.