Christmas quilts

Last year I made quilts for Garrett's sisters for Christmas.  I love making quilts.  In fact, sometimes it's very hard to give them away - especially this year.  I loved them so much!  This year, I made quilts for my own side of the family.

I made this quilt for my brother's wife Shauna.  I decided to have lavender be my main color, because I remembered that she used to have a lavender bedspread so I knew she liked the color.  I accented it with mint green and gray.  I used the "Turning Twenty" pattern and added white sashing to make it bigger.  I love using white/cream fabric now because it really helps the patterned fabrics pop, plus you can make bigger quilts for less money.

I quilted all the quilts with just a simple vertical stripe.  My sewing machine isn't really equipped to allow me to do much else with quilts this size.

I love the back as much as I love the front!  It's a gray fabric with quarter-sized polka dots, with a strip of blocks down the middle.

I made this quilt for my sister Emma.  I just cut up a bunch of 2" strips and made log cabin blocks.  She wanted pinks, and I love the finished look!

I used the remainder of my polka dot fabric on the back, along with a pink fade-to-white fabric.  In the center are some leftover 2" strips from the front.

This is Molly's quilt. She wanted blue and white.  I wish I could have made all the pinwheels the same size, but I didn't have enough fabric!  I think it worked out okay, though.  Just don't look too closely... I am NOT a perfectionist, and I am horrible at matching up all those corners!!  I am just too eager to see the finished product that I don't always take the time to pin like I should.

She has a "solid" back (no stripe like Emma's and Shauna's), and I used a blue and teal binding to coordinate with both sides.

Mom wanted an Amish quilt.  Basically, this just means that I used black fabric instead of white, and that the colors are all solid, jewel tones.  This one was a monster to quilt on my little machine because I followed the zig zags.  My shoulders and arms were very sore by the end!

I used coordinating thread when I quilted it.  The black zig zags had black thread, and purple had purple, etc. On the back, each color showed up in the thread.

I don't have a picture of all four quilts because I had to get these three in the mail and my mom's wasn't quite done yet!  I am glad I started these in May.... two kids has been such an adjustment that I don't think I would have gotten them done if I'd started any later!

I wish I could make quilts for everyone I love, and if money was no object I would definitely try.  Merry Christmas, girls - I hope you find good use for these quilts!  I love you!