Gift Giving Ideas- More Little Quilts

This first group of little quilts above, are constructed by satin stitch seaming fused quilt sandwiches together.  Fused crazy patch areas are used around the sunprints.  Most of these have a white or ivory yarn couched to the edges. Crazy Flowers has an interesting yarn as it's binding- a black yarn with fuzzy fibers in a rainbow of colors. The photo cuts off some of the longer "fuzzies".  The lower left piece has an example of a fabric dying "failure" that ended up finding a place to be used. The brown fabric was meant to be a dusty rose, but ended up a mottled rusty brown- definitely not a color I use very often. I have now used up most of that fabric with sunprints in the colors of the above Nicotiana flowers, and some of my fall oranges with rusty purple undertones.

Maples, Maples, and more Maples- I love Maple trees and leaves. Here above, are four different pieces using sunprints of Maple leaves. This group shows that the bottom edges were cut off in the process of scanning them- the bottom edges are finished like the other edges. The quilting detail shows the best for me, when I use the scanner instead of the camera. Each of these pieces feature center sections with the Maple sunprints with sections of commercial or my fabrics on top and bottom. The two left ones have prints done on pastel colored fabrics. The two right ones use prints from the same panel that combines blue and green, resulting in seafoam looking colors. The two bottom pieces are listed in my Etsy Store .

These two pieces showcase flower sunprints. Left has a print of more Nicotiana flowers, and the right is from one of the panels I printed while making my Echinacea quilts. The long Nicotiana print was set off by two side strips of a tone on tone white fabric, free motion quilted with variegated thread, using my "usual" vine design. The Echinacea sunprint is done on a fabric painted with rose, yellow, and purple blended to give the rusty, rosy mottled look. it has been overpainted with Super Sparkle for added sheen. The upper and lower panels are from another fabric painted with the same colors, a bit lighter, and scrunched before drying to give the patterning. this piece is also listed at my Etsy Store.

The last two in this group  have sunprints of grape leaves with confetti arranged for the grapes over rosy purple colors, and one with a single fern on green and blue. The grape sunprint is highlighted with a medium laender commercial fabric, while the fern has panels of a mottled navy blue commercial fabric. Both pieces have the same vine quilting in the colored panels.

This photo shows 3 of the pieces grouped on my design wall, showing the ribbons for hanging. They are light enough that only a thumbtack is needed to hang them. The ribbons also easily fold to the back for framing them.

If interested in purchasing any of these, or other little quilts shown in my blog, please email me.

For all of those celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, Have a wonderful day.

Now I need to begin making evergreen wreaths for our second order of the season, along with baking a few pies. The last batch of 90+ wreaths and swags were done in 4 looong days, I don't want to do that again!! Talk about throbbing hands.... I have just over a week to do the next order of 100+ pieces. It still seems like Christmas is coming way too soon this year!