Wedding Quilt

My friend's son who I've known since before he was born got married on May 31st and I finally completed a wedding quilt for the couple and mailed it off the other day.

It's the Alaska pattern by Laundry Basket Quilts.

Before quilting

Beginning to sew the rows

  I used the Alaska ruler and it was fun and exciting to see it come together.

 

Fall is Coming!

This is the topper I made last year but had to bind so now it's bound and washed and dried and crinkly!

The quilting is dense around the pumpkins and border and not dense in the center so a little lumpy in the not dense areas, but I still am enjoying it.

For the border I tea dyed this fabric.  I laid the dyed piece on top of the original but it's too subtle in the photo unless you look closely.  But it needed to be dyed because the white in the flowers was too white for the topper.

I saw a kit something like this on Shabby Quiltings site and did my own version with 2" squares.

Fall log cabin quilt in process.  Using a jelly roll and some coordinating yardage.

This is really cute and a free pattern on We all sew.

Real sunflowers!

Grapes will be ready anytime!!  This will be our best crop and we've had this grape vine for over a decade.

 

Log cabin quilts

I've had some jelly rolls around for years and decided one of the best uses for them is log cabin quilts.

Fall version

I started this one in pastels last Spring and I think it is all sewn together with the sashing and cornerstones but I put it away to work on a wedding quilt and some patriotic quilts, so it's ready to quilt next spring.

 

So the blocks when sewn with the three light rows and the three dark rows come out to be 14 1/2" for each unfinished block.  Log cabin quilt blocks are a classic!