The Quilted Block: Bouncing Bananas

As always I am amazed at how quickly time slips through our fingers. I have been dabbling a bit more into my paper-crafts lately and  not found as much time to sit at my sewing machine. I have also taken to Instagram I love the idea of simple photo sharing without the pressure of so many words. I also enjoy seeing what others create and find it to be very inspirational.

With that said I have not completely abandoned my sewing projects. Here is another quilted block with the overall design of bouncing bananas.

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The Quilted Block: Ribbon Swirl 3

This one ended up pretty much the same as the last, but I still like it as an overall design

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The Quilted Block: Ribbon Swirl 2

This time I decided to take the design all over the block. I do like how this turned out.

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The Quilted Block: Ribbon Swirl 1

I really wasn't sure what to call this free motion design, I feel it's the beginnings of McTavishing but definitely not there yet. On this block I decided to try and just fill in the white space.

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The Quilted Block - Headbands variation

The Quilted Block - headbands variation

This type of quilting I have practiced a little bit more so I had more confidence when I quilted this.

I always love how the back of the quilt looks.

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Pink Umbrellas

This is a quilt I finished, ages ago it seems. I used up all I could of this light green fabric with pink paper umbrellas on it. The finished size ended up being 63" X 76" so a very generous lap size quilt.

On this project I had decided to skip the corners, although it may have been in part to not enough of the pink fabric to make the setting corners. I like this type of finished edge anyway, it ended up being super easy to bind (nice gentle curves).

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whirligig quilt

This Whirligig quilt was from an Eleanor Burns Pattern I loved making this I actually used scraps instead of full strips and this is only a small/baby quilt size but it was so much fun, someday I'll make one bigger. This has been sitting in my to be quilted pile for quite some time and after trying a few practice sandwiches I decided to quilt this free motion. This is my first completed free motion project. I was so excited by how this turned out that I had to share. I followed this guideline for how I was going to free motion quilt from Pinterest. There are some great tutorials and very encouraging words out there to beginners who want to give this a try. I can't believe it took me this long to take the plunge into free motion quilting.



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