Fall quilts

I have missed a lot of posts over the past few months, in part because I was traveling and then playing catch up when I returned home. It is also a little tricky uploading a lot of photos from my phone into Google--something I have to relearn how to do each time. Over the next few days I will do my best to catch up, and I'll start with the quilts.

In August I finished one larger throw sized quilt and then two baby quilts for a family having twins. First up, the throw quilt:

The fabric in this quilt was mainly a set of 10 fat quarters called Feed Sacks Good Works that I bought while we were at Silver Dollar City in May. I added some coordinating solids (and white) to have the number of fabrics I needed for Penelope Handmade's Maggie Pearl pattern. I had enough strips left from the fat quarters to make the binding--which I loved!

This backing is mostly a vintage sheet with a patch of some of the leftover strips of the lighter fabrics.

At some point I will take a few more pictures and add this to my Etsy site.

Baby quilt one was for the girl twin:

This was made from a charm pack set of Dwell fabric by Camille Roskelley. I alternated those strips with some gray linen blend that I had left from a previous quilt, and had enough for the binding too..

The backing is this green with white pin dot fabric, which you can see a little better in the second picture below.

For the boy twin, I decided to dig back into the dress shirt fabrics. I still have a bucketful left but I made a dent.

This backing is a flannel.

In September I made another baby quilt using the rest of the leftover strips from the Maggie Pearl quilt. It took me a bit to figure out a good way to layout the pattern, and finally saw the Dorothy quilt pattern in Penelope Handmade's shop. Mine looks a little different since I used white on the strips and the alternating squares. If I remember right, I had to add a few more strips to end up enough for this size. 

This month I've been working on two quilts and have finished one--a twin sized quilt.

The pattern for this one was something I sketched back in August when I was trying to sketch one quilt design a day. I started with a few fabrics from the Evermore fabric by Sweetfire Road that I also bought at Silver Dollar City, along with a bunch from my stash that coordinated. The other blocks were a Basic Grey brand dot that I bought from another quilter and an off-white solid. It ended up being a great fall quilt. 

I really did not want to piece the backing so I bought a wideback cream colored fabric (lighting on the picture is not that great). I think this is the first time I have used such a neutral backing!

I will probably keep this one for now. I get a bit attached to some of them.