garden wall

My Garden Wall quilt is finally finished - I started this in 2012, but it'll count for 2013.

just right

I don't know what it is, but making quilts for my cousin and her family seems to be a very difficult thing to do.

pinwheels

What do you do when your nephew turns one? Give him the quilt you started for the baby shower.

In fairness, I would have had this done on time, but I somehow picked out colors and prints that didn't go together. I had the grey-green, beige and dark and light blue solids put together, and then realized that the browns and oranges I was going to use for the larger pinwheels didn't match at. all. It was pretty disconcerting. Like I had suddenly forgotten how to tie my shoes or something.

So I picked out something else for the shower and did a second search for fabrics.

Cheers to a finished project!

It's been a long time since I finished a project. I've had at least one craft project in progress for over two years now, but between surviving graduate school and planning a wedding, crafting for anything else was just not happening. Post-wedding I purchased fabric like a fiend and had stacks ready to go for a total of six quilts and two home decor projects.

Four months later I had three works-in-progress, fabric sorted for four more quilts and a home decor project mostly done. Oh , and in the meantime I also built wedding albums for our parents and sent out tins and gift bags of Christmas cookies to our friends and family I’d been baking since October...

little log cabin

I'm still learning some basics, so after the triangles I decided to try a log cabin block. 

triangles in squares

During a trip to New York, I bought a couple of fat quarter packs and half yards from Purl Soho that I planned to use for quilts for three little kids - a sister and brother, and their cousin.

 

a roll of the dice

I have made a lot of Amy Butler projects lately for two reasons: there was a period where I was obsessed with her fabrics and am now catching up with the projects I planned; and I bought her book, In Stitches, and keep finding uses for various items. And so in looking through the book for the umpteenth time I saw the quilt pattern and decided to go for it since it would be a good way to incorporate multiple prints within a color scheme. K’s wedding colors were red, black and white. She is a little bit punk, a little bit emo and is into graphic arts and art nouveau, anything with skulls and knives, and loves roses and gerbera daisies (guess which are her favorite colors?). I tried to keep all of that in mind when looking for fabrics.