Little Bunny Quilts

Monday, January 6, 2014

Churning It Out.

In a matter of less than 24 hours, I managed to get all of the blocks done for the quilt top for my churn dash baby quilt! And that includes trimming all of my HSTs. While that part took a lot more time, I think it was totally worth it because none of my HSTs ended up wonky (which was a huge problem in my Lazy Sunday Mystery quilt.)

Here's the top all put together:

I'm so happy with how this turned out!

For the back, I thought that I had enough of one fabric to complete the entire back, but I sadly did not. Instead, I took a walk on the wild side and made this for the backing:

Yes. That is a 42 inch churn dash, people. I used up the majority of what was left of all of these fabrics and the biggest churn dash that I could make and still have some of the tan dot print for outer borders was 42 inches finished. The outer strips are 5 inches wide -- so the backing is about 2 inches bigger than the top all the way around.

Here it is all layered and pinned -- ready to be quilted!

It's so liberating to not have to buy fabric to finish a project and to pull every bit of fabric used from my shelves! I did have to buy white thread to be able to free motion quilt this one on my own. Yes. I am going to FMQ this thing myself.

That's one of my quilting resolutions this year -- to learn to FMQ and to finish more of my own projects myself and to have 100% completed by me. I still have no problem having a long arm quilter doing my big projects or special projects, but things like baby quilts I can totally learn to handle on my own. Anyone with me on this??

Sharing at Linky Tuesday at Free Motion by the River!

Saturday, January 4, 2014

ALYoF January Goal

I'm finally back participating in 2014's edition of A Lovely Year of Finishes!

This month I am working on a baby quilt for college friends of myself and my husband. Since we don't know if they are having a boy or a girl, I picked this group of fabrics to make a churn dash quilt.

I didn't have much of the brown chandelier print left, so I went a head and used up that fabric first. I plan to make this one 4 blocks by 4 blocks without a border. Here are the ones that I have finished thus far!

If you haven't linked up your January goal yet, there's still time to do so! Also, Honey, Bunny, and Doll Patterns is now a sponsor of A Lovely Year Of Finishes -- so every month one winner will be receiving two of our patterns!

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Diamond Fire kits available now!!

Since HBD Designs premiered our Diamond Fire pattern, we've gotten a number of requests for quilt kits to go along with the pattern. We are happy to announce that we now have kits available on Etsy!

There are two options available for purchase:

The quilt kit contains all of the charms squares needed as well as enough background fabric to complete the quilt top and for the binding.
The charm square kit contains only the charm squares if you'd like to use your own background fabric.

Both kits include a PDF version of the pattern that will be emailed to you once payment is confirmed.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

New Year, New Fabric!

One of my favorite part about getting back home is going shopping at a real quilt store or two. And my mom's stash, too!

My mom and sister bought two boxes of surprise fat quarter assortments from Craftsy a while back for us all to share. This is my loot:

That's more than 20 fat quarters from Allison Harris' Wallflower line! I saw it and was so excited! I haven't decided what exactly I'll be using this for, but I am thinking some sort of a sampler quilt. Let me know if you have other ideas. :)

While I didn't buy this, I am very excited about this! My sister made this as a test block for a pattern she is currently working on and gave me it to use on the back of my stash bee quilt! The colors are perfect!

We were able to go to the best sale ever at my favorite quilt store ever (The Quilt Patch in Tecumseh, MI) and I got the backing for my Starburst Quilt (that I showed off here) and also got some half-yard and yard cuts for future projects as well as an AWESOME scrap bag for $5!! How cool is the fussy cut scrap on the top of the bag?

My husband also indulged my quilt obsession and we stopped by the quilt store near his mother's house (Quilts and Sew Forth, Mentor, OH) and I got a discounted strip pack and the end of three different bolts for stashing! All three of those fabrics are just so lovely together, I might not be able to separate them.

Hopefully Santa and sales brought new fabric to all of you this holiday season! I'm still planning on hoarding Bungalow so if you see any that's on sale, let me know!

2013 A Lovely Year Of Finishes Round Up!

Because my fall was absolutely nutty, I didn't enter any ALOYF monthlies from September-December, but I did complete six months worth of finishes to be able to enter for the grand finale!