Aunt Joyce’s Cars and Trucks Quilts

Aunt Joyce sent flannel backs for the Dinosaur Quilts, but they were a skoosh too small for me to use. So, I used some sale flannel from JoAnn’s and the flannel backs she sent and turned them into their own quilts. The flannel she sent was printed, one with racing cars and one with trucks and construction vehicles. The combination of flannel back and top with a thin cotton batting makes for a very toasty and cozy quilt. There was enough of the printed flannel left to make a pillowslip for each print.

Racing Cars Quilt

• 61” x 78" single bed size
• Quilted in slightly wavy crisscrossing horizontal lines. Used bright red  thread “Neon Red” Omni brand 100% polyester from Superior Threads. Free form quilting. 6 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Medium to dark blue swirl-printed cotton flannel from a MSQC sale. 
• Batting: 100% cotton. Quilter’s Dream Cotton Request, thinnest loft
• Binding: Bright red printed fabric from my stash.
• Pattern: Traditional, alternating squares and half-square triangles.
• Piecing by Patty
• Pinned into frame August 25, 2023. Quilting on long arm quilter August 28, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Mother

Construction Vehicles Quilt

• 61” x 78" single bed size
• Quilted in slightly wavy, variably-spaced vertical lines, with occasional circles and occasional very wavy lines. Used bright orange  thread “Orange Glow” Omni brand 100% polyester from Superior Threads. Free form quilting. 5 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Medium to dark aqua swirl-printed cotton flannel from a MSQC sale. 
• Batting: 100% cotton. Quilter’s Dream Cotton Request, thinnest loft
• Binding: Aqua solid-colored cotton fabric from my stash.
• Pattern: Traditional, alternating squares and half-square triangles.
• Piecing by Patty
• Pinned into frame August 31, 2023. Quilting on long arm quilter August 31-September 1, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Mother

Aunt Joyce’s Quilt for Sharon

Cousin Sharon married, so Aunt Joyce decided to make her a quilt. This is a quilt  project Tata handed Aunt Joyce when she was first empty nesting. Many years later Aunt Joyce completed it. Because Aunt Joyce’s eyesight is not the best, the quilt had areas to mend and because it was paper pieced, there was a lot of paper to remove. Though, after it was finished, the quilt is a beauty! I hope Sharon enjoys using it.

The quilt is king bed sized so it was a lot to quilt and a bit unwieldy to handle. However, it quilted beautifully. I even rotated it so I could quilt it in both directions. Aunt Joyce sent some fabric she’d purchased for drapes for the back that Mother pronounced too heavy. When I told Aunt Joyce that Mother vetoed her backing fabric, Aunt Joyce gave me permission to change it. Apparently the big sister card still works after all these years! Mother is 93 and Aunt Joyce is 87! And the backing I selected, wide bleached muslin quilted beautifully. Hooray for the big sister card!

Aunt Joyce sent fabric for the borders. The borders squared up the quilt and really made it possible to longarm it. Frances was here and helped with measuring and figuring out how to do the borders. Thank-you Frances!

• 99 1/2” x 99 1/2" King bed sized
• Quilted in vertical and horizontal parallel waves. Remounted the quilt to achieve this feat! Used off-white thread “Pearl White” Omni brand 100% polyester from Superior Threads. Free form quilting. 12 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Wide bleached muslin.
• Batting: 100% polyester “Quilter Dream Puff”. I thought the quilt needed more puff, that’s why I used a polyester batting with more loft (3/4”)
• Binding: Solid royal blue fabric, cut on the bias. Aunt Joyce wanted bias binding to wear better. I hope I did a good enough job with the mending of the top so the quilt will live up to Aunt Joyce’s expectations of wearability. Some of the fabrics in the quilt don’t look that sturdy. One part of a block just disintegrated when I was looking at it, so I had to re-do several pieces with new fabric. Because the binding is bias and the quilt is so big I had to turn the binding by hand. I’m a very slow hand sewer so the binding process took many days (10).
• Pattern: Pattern given by Aunt Ruby to Tata who handed it down to Aunt Joyce.
• Piecing by Aunt Joyce using paper piecing on newsprint type paper.
• Pinned into frame May 16, 2023. Quilting on long arm quilter May 18-20, 2023. Turned and remounted quilt May 22, 2023. Quilted the other direction May 22-24, 2023 (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty
• QC by Mother

Before Quilting

Mother QC’ing the Quilt

The Rabbit Signature

Backing and Binding

Aunt Joyce’s Mini-Me Quilt

This quilt uses the same pattern as the quilt Aunt Joyce made Sharon. It is smaller than Sharon’s, hence the name “Mini-Me”. Aunt Joyce made it from blocks she had left from Sharon’s quilt plus a few new ones. It is another quilt intended for a great grandchild.

• 63” x 84" Single bed sized
• Quilted in slightly wavy horizontal parallel lines. Used off-white thread “Pearl White” Omni brand 100% polyester from Superior Threads. Free form quilting. 5 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Wide multicolored, splatter printed cotton from a Connecting Threads sale.
• Batting: 100% polyester “Quilter Dream Puff”. I thought the quilt needed more puff, that’s why I used a polyester batting with more loft (3/4”)
• Binding: Blue tonal fabric, cut on the bias.
• Pattern: Pattern given by Aunt Ruby to Tata who handed it down to Aunt Joyce.
• Piecing by Aunt Joyce using paper piecing on newsprint type paper.
• Pinned into frame July 12, 2023. Quilting on long arm quilter July 13, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty
• QC by Mother

Two Dinosaur Quilts for Aunt Joyce

 

Aunt Joyce is making quilts for her great grandchildren. She has 26 going on 27 of them! I agreed to quilt and bind some of them. 

These 2 quilts were made with a digitally printed panel and wide borders. The panel really pops and the borders coordinate beautifully. The backs she sent were a bit too small, so I’ll use those backs for 2 more quilts. 

Dinosaur Quilt 1

• 64” x 74" single bed size
• Quilted in a wavy vertical lines with occasional loop-de-loops in the borders. Used light tan thread “Cream” Omni brand 100% polyester from Superior Threads. Free form quilting. 5 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Light blue cotton flannel from a JoAnn’s sale.
• Batting: 100% polyester. Quilter’s Dream low loft.
• Binding: Medium brown fabric from Aunt Joyce, cut on the bias, French fold.
• Pattern: Panel with coordinating borders.
• Piecing by Aunt Joyce
• Pinned into frame June 27, 2023. Quilting on long arm quilter June 28-30, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Sally

Dinosaur Quilt 2

• 64” x 74" single bed size
• Quilted in slightly wavy vertical lines with occasional diagonal lines. Used light tan thread “Cream” Omni brand 100% polyester from Superior Threads. Free form quilting. 5 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Dark green cotton flannel from a JoAnn’s sale.
• Batting: 100% polyester. Quilter’s Dream low loft.
• Binding: Medium brown fabric from Aunt Joyce, cut on the bias, French fold.
• Pattern: Panel with coordinating borders.
• Piecing by Aunt Joyce
• Pinned into frame July 5, 2023. Quilting on long arm quilter July 5-6, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Sally

Two Baby Quilts (PIGS and Donation)

I used one PIGS to make 2 neonatal quilts for donation to the quilt guild. The name of the charm packs I used is Monkey Wrench. The fabric has printed monkeys holding wrenches in their tails. The fabric designer is Tula Pink. 

The pattern is simply sewing the charm squares together. I used a stripe print for the binding. I heard at a guild meeting that if you don’t have the perfect fabric for a binding use a striped print. “You can never go wrong with a stripe.” I think the advice was wrong.

Monkey Wrench Quilt A

• 37“ x 46” Neonatal size
• Quilting: Quilted stitch in a ditch on the Viking Machine and in an diagonal lines. Used off-white 100% cotton thread (Aurifil). Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Light yellow dot print from my stash.
• Batting: 80% Cotton/20% Polyester Comfort Blend from WinLine
• Binding: Multi-colored stripe print from Patty’s inventory.
• Pattern: 5” charm squares sewn together
• Piecing by Patty.
• Quilting on domestic machine February, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Patty to keep the dog away from a neonatal quilt.

Monkey Wrench Quilt B

• 37 1/4” x 46 1/4” Neonatal size
• Quilting: Quilted stitch in a ditch on the Viking Machine and in square lines around groups of squares. Used off-white 100% cotton thread (Aurifil). Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Light yellow dot print from my stash.
• Batting: 80% Cotton/20% Polyester Comfort Blend from WinLine
• Binding: Multi-colored stripe print from Patty’s inventory.
• Pattern: 5” charm squares sewn together
• Piecing by Patty.
• Quilting on domestic machine February, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Patty to keep the dog away from a neonatal quilt.

Star Baby Quilts for Donation

I made 2 baby quilts based on a pattern I saw on the internet “When You Wish….” from Bon Jour Quilts. The quilts were made from half square triangles using fat quarters from my stash. I would have preferred to use all batiks or all regular fabrics, but I didn’t have enough bright fabrics of either kind, so I used a mixture. The quilts were quilted on the domestic machine using the walking foot in close parallel lines as the designer suggested in the pattern. For the second one I used slightly wider spacing because the first quilt seemed too stiff. Both quilts have flannel backs.

First One

• 36 3/4" x 36 3/4" Baby size
• Quilting: Quilted on the domestic, following the pieced design to emphasize the star. Used golden colored 100% cotton thread (Aurifil).  Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Flannel. Yellow Ombré flannel from a Quilt in a Day sale
• Batting: 80% cotton/20% polyester. “Comfort Blend” from WinLine.
• Binding: Golden yellow tonal cotton print from my stash.
• Pattern: "When You Wish …..” by Bon Jour Quilts from the internet.  
• Piecing by Patty
• Quilting on domestic February, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Spencer

Second One

• 36 3/4" x 36 3/4" Baby size
• Quilting: Quilted on the domestic, following the pieced design to emphasize the star. Used yellow colored 100% cotton thread (Aurifil).  Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Flannel. Green Ombré flannel from a Quilt in a Day sale
• Batting: 80% cotton/20% polyester. “Comfort Blend” from WinLine.
• Binding: Purple batik cotton print from my stash.
• Pattern: "When You Wish …..” by Bon Jour Quilts from the internet.  
• Piecing by Patty
• Quilting on domestic February, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Patty

Two Baby Quilts (One for Charlotte and the Other for Chloe)

Using a Layer Cake from my stash, I made 2 baby quilts. One was to be for the Red Egg and Ginger party for Landy’s new granddaughter, Charlotte, and the other was to be for donation. However, I soon learned that Cousin Kristi has a new granddaughter, Chloe Sofia, so the second one will go to the new cousin. I used an internet pattern I used before in January 2021 “Always Sunshine and Silver Linings”, to make a quilt for Kristi’s granddaughter Grace. The internet patterns are by Amy Smart and are called “Easy DIY Star Baby Quilt Tutorials”. I made the same one I used for Grace “Morning Star” for Charlotte and the second one “Lone Star” for Chloe so she wouldn’t be too matchy with her sister Grace. Both quilts were quilted on the domestic.

“Our New Star” for Charlotte

• 40 1/2" x 40 1/2" Baby size
• Quilting: Quilted on the domestic, following the piecing seams to emphasize the star. Used bright pink 100% cotton thread (Aurifil).  Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Flannel. White rabbit print on a bright pink background, from my stash
• Batting: 80% cotton/20% polyester. “Comfort Blend” from WinLine. Piece was left from a previous project.
• Binding: Bright pink cotton print from my stash.
• Pattern: "Morning Star Baby Quilt” by Amy Smart from the internet.  
• Piecing by Patty
• Quilting on domestic January, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Patty

“Year of the Rabbit” for Chloe

Chloe and I share a Chinese Zodiac year. This is “our” year. And the back is a rabbit print, so the name seems obvious.

• 40 1/4" x 40 1/4" Baby size
• Quilting: Quilted on the domestic, stitching in the ditch and in the arms of the star. Used bright pink 100% cotton thread (Aurifil).  Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Flannel. White rabbit print on a bright pink background, from my stash
• Batting: 80% cotton/20% polyester. “Comfort Blend” from WinLine. Piece was left from a previous project.
• Binding: Bright pink cotton print from my stash.
• Pattern: "Lone Star Baby Quilt” by Amy Smart from the internet.  
• Piecing by Patty
• Quilting on domestic January, 2023. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Patty