Holy Cow Batman

If you read the post about the Superman quilt, you know I was making some quilts for little boys. I found the Batman fabric relatively easily but this time instead of not liking the block, I didn't like how the fabrics played together.  It was too busy, too much color ( I know weird for me to say) and just unappealing.

On a shopping trip to a local quilt store I found a lovely Batman fabric who's colors were much nicer and decided to use it as the base for the quilt. I added some blue and yellow fabrics, cut out strips and then re sewed them to make a 8"block.  I added in solid blue to make the blocks go further and them laid out the quilt in a pleasing manner.  The quilting is the energetic pantograph in a blue thread that blends it all together.

Pink, Yellow and Zig Zag

I made these blocks back before we moved to our new home, that would be in 2009 or 2010.  Then they sat or hung on the design board waiting for  something to happen to it and make it a quilt. It wasn't until I saw some fabrics like the zig zag did I want to finish this.

The extra fabric acts as a frame around the blocks and moves your eye around the quilt. Uncommon and pretty I think. Perfect for a baby girl. During Christmas I got this back from the long armer and was able to put a solid pink binding on it and call it done. Quilting is done in a pale yellow thread in a double loop pattern all over the quilt.

Hugs and Kisses

I was going thru the scraps and decided that I have to get to work in using up the oodles of scraps that are piling up.  Good thing I have been looking for some scrappy quilts patterns so I can use things up.  Its amazing how fast they pile up.

For this week I will be working on the a block called Hugs and Kisses from Little Miss Shabby.  I have seen this block used before in a scrappy boy quilt when it was chosen as one of the bee blocks earlier in the year. Its quite effective.

So I decided to use it to use up scraps of pink, orange and yellow with a bit of white thrown in.  I can believe how old some of these pink fabric scraps are... Amazing... And more than enough time to see them gone out of the scrap pile. I'm not sure how big this will be, most likely a large baby size.