Perry Moffitt

July 19, 2010

More Rainbows!

I am trying to make a baby quilt in a hurry for an old friend and her darling baby who we are seeing on vacation next week. It is fun revisiting some of these fabrics, I have had some of these scrap triangles for ten years, just waiting for the right project. It felt like I had pulled out millions of triangles, but when I laid out this pieced top  I was  disappointed in the smallness. In my mind’s eye this was going to be big enough for a toddler bed but it is currently too small to be a baby quilt. Even though the triangles were mostly half of a 5.5″ square the finished squares ended up being 4″ . I think I have to add at least 2 rows to the long side. And a ginormous border. Of red? of white? of a rainbow polka-dot?

I loved doing this pattern with Lauren’s quilt, but those triangles were bigger and maybe more forgiving? I am having a hard time making clean points with such small triangles. Such is the nature of slightly wonky scraps.

And a picture of the darling baby.  She learned how to roll from her back to her front this weekend. And then when she gets there- cries in frustration that she is stuck on her belly. It must be tough to be a baby :)

October 2, 2008

Super fast Scrap Quilt

When I say super fast, I mean that if you spent more than 20 minutes at a time working on it you could get in done very fast. It took me a couple weeks, but only because there was so much other stuff lurking near my sewing machine.

The fat border is also the backing and from an old Ikea duvet cover that I never used.

It is a present for Lauren. If only she would get me her mailing address so I could send it to her! Hint! Hint!

August 12, 2008

Inspired by the quilt show

This is the piecing for a quilt I am hoping to get done soon. The weather has been way too beautiful to stay inside and sew.  I have been moving wood piles and pulling ivy instead. August and 70 degrees, heaven!

How easy is this pattern? I can’t believe I haven’t done it before. And it is quite the stash buster too! I tend to horde blues, because I love them so much. But this helped me get rid of some weird ones that were always a shade off. The center lighter diamond has fabric from the great “vintage sheet swap” which I loved participating in!I have many plans for this pattern. I have already started a green & blue stack…

Better pictures after I get the top sewn!

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