Neutral Scrappy Pillow Work in Progress

This is a pillow cover I quilted recently. I was inspired by Amanda's (Crazy Mom Quilts) scrappy pillow she posted about here. I chose neutral scraps because I need a neutral pillow case but, ugh... It just looks so bland to me. I was thinking I may add some bright piping or binding on the edges to spruce it up. I also thought I could maybe appliqué a big "B" in the middle for Bynum. I'm not sure yet. I'm still brainstorming. I just know it's too plain for me right now. If any of you have any ideas, please let me know!

Tricia's Mother's Day Potholder

I recently finished a potholder for my mother-in-law. I decided to give the special women in my life little potholders for Mother's Day! When figuring out what kind I wanted to make, I remembered seeing this tutorial from Nana Company. Amy has a great step by step tutorial on how to make this pretty little potholder. You should go check it out and make your very own!

This is the first of three I made for Mother's Day. I didn't want to have to cut my binding fabric on the bias since it leaves the unused fabric in such a weird shape. After finishing this with angled corners, I wished I had just cut my fabric on the bias. Amy's rounded corners make it so much cuter! It's still cute, but I decided to make the other two with rounded corners. The patterned fabric I used in this was from a Serenade layer cake by Kate Spain that I had on hand. So many cute fabrics in that line! Amy suggests using this classic diamond straight line quilting. This was the hardest part for me! Ha. I don't know what it is, but I don't enjoy straight line quilting. It takes so much longer than free motion quilting for me. Needless to say, this was the only potholder I quilted with straight line quilting. :)

Amy uses cute little fabric patches on the front of hers. I didn't have anything like that so I decided to sew her name on a piece of white canvas. I just wrote out her name with a disappearing ink pen and dropped my feed dogs on my machine to sew over the lines smoothly. I started with a big piece of what canvas so that I could square it up after I had sewn her name. I think it turned out well! I hope she enjoys using it as much as I enjoyed making it! :)

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Chicopee Potholder

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PB&J Disappearing 9-Patch Baby Boy Quilt

Here's another precious quilt that my mom made not too long ago.

She also made a sweet little pillow to match.

The fabric she used for this little 9-patch quilt is from the PB&J line by Basic Grey for Moda Fabrics.

For the backing she used Grunge Jelly yardage from the same line.

My mom used a disappearing 9-patch pattern to achieve this look. 

It looks so much harder to put together than it actually is!

There's little Presley coming in the back door!

My mom used the seams as her guide for straight line quilting.

This turned out to be such a sweet baby boy quilt! Way to go mom!

Roller Rink Mini Quilt

Here is another mini quilt I made for our Modern Patchwork Mini Quilt Club that I am a part of at City Craft. This one is called the Roller Rink Mini Quilt.

Each month we create a mini quilt from Elizabeth Hartman's newest book "Modern Patchwork." Elizabeth provides instructions to make mini versions of each of the quilts in her book. You can find them here.

I love how clean and simple this one is. I thought I would continue that feel with straight line quilting. 

This was fun! I'd love to make a full quilt out of this pattern.