April Showers {Finished C2C Quilt}

After getting this back two years ago, it sitting on a shelf (and then getting moved!) for 18 months, finally getting the final border added, and sending it off for quilting, my first Coast to Coast Traveling quilt is finally, finally finished!

This was the first quilt that I sent out and received back in our Coast to Coast Traveling Bee group (C2C). I originally made the lone star center and scrappy first border, and then my group members made all of the subsequent borders of this medallion-style quilt, and I finally added the last border this winter after our move.

While in my dreams I would have loved to custom quilt this baby from the center out with fancy flourishes and creative curls, I knew that with as many quilts as I have waiting to be quilted and with the size of this quilt, it would be a better choice to be sent off to the long arm quilter.

The quilting motif is a rose motif that I've had done on a number of different quilts. The backing is an extra wide teal dot print. For the binding, I was set on using red originally, but I found this super cute pear print from the Vintage Picnic line on sale at the quilt shop this weekend and thought it was just darling.

It is so wonderful to have this quilt finished -- it's been laid upon the guest room bed (seen below) and is a great accent for the very red room!

Quilt stats:
Name: April Showers Medallion
Pattern: None, blocks chosen by members of my bee and added in the medallion style
Fabrics: A layer cake of Bonnie and Camille's April Showers line; grey and white solids; additional fabrics added in by my bee mates in coordinating fabrics
Quilting: Pantograph roses
Size: approximately 85" square
Started: January 2017
Finished: July 2019
Future: Bed quilt to keep for myself

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Drift Away {Finished Quilt}

Hip hip hooray -- an actual finish -- and one that I can cross off my embarrassingly long WIP list!

I started this quilt in June of last year and used Melissa Corry's Drift Away pattern. The intention was to cull some of my green, aqua, and blue scrap fabrics, many of which were leftover backing fabrics and medium-sized chunks of fabrics leftover from other quilts. This quilt did make a dent in my scraps and small cuts and as such, is full of favorite fabrics!

I had this quilt pantograph quilted in a simple loop-de-loop pattern, so that it stays a snuggly bed quilt. The quilting is done with black thread, which is extremely contrasting from the aqua dot backing, but black ultimately was the best choice for the front of the quilt.

I used the leftover backing fabric to bind this quilt by machine -- I only needed four binding strips since it was extra wide backing! I also had the perfect color of Aurifil to use for the top stitching too.

This quilt is earmarked as a gift for one of the many weddings that are tentatively on our calendar for later this year. That is, unless my husband decides we need to keep it. It *does* match our bedroom.

Quilt Stats:
Name: Scrappy Drift Away
Pattern: Drift Away by Melissa Corry, with borders added
Fabrics: Scraps for piecing, black Kona solid, and an older Cotton + Steel print for the border
Size: 90" square
Quilting: pantographed loops
Future: to be determined
Started: June 2018
Finished: April 2019

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Getaway Blog Hop {Dashing to the Chapel in Bazaar}

I am so excited to share my quilt for the Getaway Blog Hop, hosted by Island Batik!

As I previewed two weeks ago, I am working with the Bazaar collection this time around:

This collection has a tropical feel! I love that many of the prints have orange featured!

I decided that I wanted to turn my half yards of this fabric into a queen sized quilt using our Dashing to the Chapel pattern (available on Etsy and PayHip!)

I used ten slightly larger scale prints (and the rainbow batiks) for the larger church dash blocks, and used six smaller scale prints for the medium and small churn dash blocks. I used an oatmeal blender for my background fabric. Once the quilt center was assembled. I used a turquoise blender batik for the small border. Instead of using wide strips for the outermost border, I used squares of the various pink, orange, and rainbow prints to finish the quilt.

The quilt was long arm quilted by Fran of Twin Stitches using a pantograph called "Dazzle." I used three different yellow fabrics from the collection for the binding.

I love how this quilt sparkles with these Island Batiks!

The cold and snow impeded some of my plans for pictures, but I was able to snap a few once the sun came out today!

Two of my fellow IB Ambassadors also have shared projects featuring Bazaar today:

Karen @ The Quilt Rambler

Turid @ Den syende himmel

Now for a little giveaway! Don't forget to enter Island Batik's fat quarter bundle giveaway too!

I am giving away a bundle of Bazaar fabrics, cut into 2.5" strips and 4.5" squares, to one lucky winner. This giveaway will stay open until Sunday, February 3rd. (The giveaway is now closed and the winner is noted below!)

To enter, leave comments for entries, up to three entries per person:
1. Tell me which of the Bazaar prints is your favorite. My favorite is the teal scroll.
2. If you follow me in some form or fashion (blog, FB, IG, bloglovin, etc.) tell me how you follow in a second comment.
3. Leave a final comment if you've visited any of the other blog posts from the Getaway blog hop and tell me whose blog you visited. You can see the full schedule here.

Update 2/4/19: Joyce is our winner!

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Sunset Gathering Quilt {Finish}

Hip hip hooray, this quilt is finally done! But alas, it's been nasty weather here and I'm not willing to take it outside in the mud, so indoor pictures it is.

This quilt was part of the Gathering QAL hosted by Cora's Quilts last year. I pulled all of the fabrics from my stash other than the Kona Oyster background fabric -- which is pretty impressive considering this is a queen-sized quilt!

I finished the top in the summer and picked it up from my mom's at Christmas. It sat in a bag for a full month before I was able to trim the quilt and start working on the binding. Speaking of binding:

That's the binding for a queen sized quilt (10 WOF strips, for reference) wrapped around a slightly used spool of Aurifil thread. I have no binding baby and, to be perfectly honest, most of the time I don't press my binding before I sew it to the quilt. Yes, I hear some of you gasping! It was 100% necessary for this quilt and I'm glad I took the time to do it this time around.

For this quilt, I decided to hand stitch it to the back instead of machine binding it. The peachy orange fabric that I used was also used in the quilt top and is an old Kathy Davis print.

This will be my spring bed quilt -- once it warms up and I don't need a flannel quilt on the bed anymore!

Quilt Stats:
Name: Sunset Gathering
Pattern: Gathering by Cora's Quilts
Size: 95" square
Fabrics: various long time stash residents, Kona Oyster for background
Quilting: pantograph clouds
Started: April 2017
Finished: February 2018
Future: bed quilt for myself

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