More Christmas crafting, anyone? Given how much the four of us like the quilts I made us this fall, I thought maybe some other people on our list would like lap quilts, too. I made three of them, all roughly 40×40, and all using fabrics I had left from other projects. This one was given to my parents, and used prints from one of my favorite collections (just love these colors!), Bleeker Street by Michele D’Amore.
I came up with the different designs for all of these quilts based on the fabrics I already had in my stash, and the shapes of the remnants. This one uses prints from 3 Sister’s Roman Holiday collection. The yellow and red patterns go very nicely with my in-laws’ living room & dining room, so I’ve used it a lot in gifts for them. This is the last of it from my stash – I’ll have to come up with a new idea for them next year, LOL!
I didn’t bind these quilts and I also didn’t machine-quilt them. Instead I tied them at 6-inch intervals. (The ties are on the back, so you can’t see them in the photos.) The tying was the most time-consuming part of the whole process. Generally, I was able to finish all of the other steps in less than 2 hours (for each quilt). This one is for my grandmother, and features prints from Heather Bailey’s Freshcut collection, also from my stash. The brown/gold in this collection makes me think of my grandmother’s living room, so it seemed a perfect choice.
Now I think I’m done with the quilt thing for some time!
love the quilts. very nice. tyeing does take some time and tough fingers too.
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They are great! How do you do the napkins? We love to use napkins in this house and ours are starting to look a little less then nice.
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I take an 18×13 piece of fabric (not a standard size, just my own standard size) press a double-fold on each side, and then stitch around the hem in one continuous line.
It’s a little tedious to do a whole pile of them at once, but it couldn’t be much easier, at least 🙂
I love the brown toned quilt. I was once a lazy quilter, which my grandmother (an expert quilter, all the right moves) thought was fine, she just wanted someone in the family to love sewing like she did. I looooooooooooooved sewing until I started working full time (a trillion years ago). After seeing your work, I should drag out my machine. O great….now I’m going to obsess. LOL.
Love your stuff!