2010 lookback, quilt porn

In crafty ways, 2010 was the Year of the Quilt.  I got super inspired by Alicia and all her wonderful quilty ways.  I had never made one before (just learned to sew last year) but saw her pattern (which explains everything you need to know [and with pictures!] so beautifully).  That started it all...

This was the first, a baby quilt with lots of sock monkeys, alphabets, stripes and stars...



Don't they look so great when they get all pucker-y from the dryer when they're finished?  That is the addicting part.



Then, I made this behemoth.  I found a bunch of vintage sheets that looked super 70s and supplemented them with some other funky fabrics.



Pinning this thing together and somehow (pure miracle) quilting it on my humble machine?  I don't actually know how it happened.  This picture is horrible (pre-blog, people) but it sorta gives an idea of the scope of it all.  Note the sad, stray, lone slipper in the upper right corner, discarded in a fit of hot stress...

Here it is in action last summer.  We had the most fun night seeing Saturday Night Fever in The Cemetery complete with a fried-chicken-and-sauvignon-blanc picnic beforehand!  BTW, this is an LA summertime MUST!

My sweet niece Olivia arrived in May, as did another baby quilt.  I love the pastel polka-dot border on this one...

When autumn rolled around I got super ambitious and decided to take on a more complex pattern.  It came from this book of jelly roll quilts.  (Jelly rolls are bundles of pre-cut strips of fabric that all compliment each other and save you a ton of time cutting.)  Here it is pre-quilting:

Sweet Lena fell asleep under my feet as I was piecing it together...



I mean, C'mon...

Since I wanted a super-pro finished quilted look, I took the completed top to Cranberry Quiltworks and had it quilted by computerized machine.  I love the windy pattern and green thread they helped me choose:

I think it turned out so great!  

Happy Thursday!

xoxo

jolie