David Butler Parson Gray Curious Nature Man Quilt

I made a David Butler quilt for my nephew Dylan last month.  He is currently serving in the Navy so I picked out the print that had seaweed in it to give a little nautical theme to the quilt.

Binding was made using the scraps............

Green print for the backing..........

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David Butler Parson Gray Curious Nature Man Quilt

I gave Aaron his birthday quilt yesterday.  He really liked the Parson Gray, Curious Nature quilt I had made for Canon last year so I searched Etsy trying to find as many of the prints as I could.....

These cotton fabrics are very soft and make a great quilt.....

David Butler makes some great prints for man quilts............

The pattern is called Big and Tall and I purchased it off Etsy a couple of years ago.  I think it is still available.

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Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival FALL 2013

If you visit my blog regularly, this will be a repeat; but I wanted to enter my Oink A Doodle Moo quilt in Amy's Quilt Festival and that required a new post.

A special little girl I know is going to be a big sister soon. This is the baby/toddler size quilt I made her. She lives next door to her grandma who has horses, pigs and goats (not sure if she has cows). I purchased Moda's, Oink A Doodle Moo panel in red and then used my own fabric scraps for the rest of the quilt top.

After I received the panel in the mail, I decided I did not like the red chicken wire print around the panels. It looked too boyish, so I cut off the red and added thin pink borders and wider white borders.....

I cut my scrap pieces at 5" in length and varying widths. The white strips are 3 inches wide. The finished quilt is 45" squared.

I used straight line quilting for this project. For the 45" width, that came to 150 straight lines. I used the edge of the walking foot as my guide.

For the backing I used Riley Blake's, Hello Sunshine Birds in red. I thought it was the perfect choice for the backing to go along with the animals on the front and match all the colors of the scraps. It also looks like a paisley print from a distance.

I love the straight line quilting...........look at all those rows!

For the binding, I used Riley Blake's, Hello Sunshine stripe in multi color.

 

Toddler Quilt Moda Oink A Doodle Moo! Straight Line Quilting

A special little girl I know is going to be a big sister soon.  This is the toddler size quilt I made her.  She lives next door to her grandma who has horses, pigs and goats (not sure if she has cows).  I purchased Moda's, Oink A Doodle Moo panel in red and then used my own fabric scraps for the rest of the quilt top.

After I received the panel in the mail, I decided I did not like the red chicken wire print around the panels.  It looked too boyish, so I cut off the red and added thin pink borders and wider white borders.....

I cut my scrap pieces at 5" in length and varying widths.  The white strips are 3 inches wide.  The finished quilt is 45" squared.

I used straight line quilting for this project.  For the 45" width, that came to 150 straight lines.  I used the edge of the walking foot as my guide.

For the binding, I used Riley Blake's, Hello Sunshine stripe in multi color.

For the backing I used Riley Blake's, Hello Sunshine Birds in red.  I thought it was the perfect choice for the backing to go along with the animals on the front and match all the colors of the scraps.  It also looks like a paisley print from a distance.

I love the straight line quilting...........look at all those rows!

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Deer Crib Quilt Made With Paper Pattern

Today I finished this amazing deer themed crib sized quilt for one of Katie's friends.  I'm totally in love with this quilt and it was so hard to let go of it today.  It turned out perfect....the color choices....the fabric choices.....the applique......the stippling....the binding!  All of it....perfect!

I purchased my fabrics online from www.hawthornethreads.com and www.etsy.com.  They always have such great selection and never let me down.

Here's the front of the quilt.......

I used my wide format printer to make a large paper pattern for the deer head..

I cut it out of paper, traced it on to a light weight Wonder Under adhesive, then transferred it to orange fabric...

I then used a zig zag stitch to secure it to the back piece of the quilt....

After I had the back finished, I sandwiched the back, the batting and the quilt top together with many, many safety pins.....

 

I then did free motion quilting (stippling) using a large swirl.

I made my own binding with the left over orange scraps.....

I stitched the binding to the front, flipped the quilt over and stitched again.

Some more pictures of the quilt.....

 

After the quilt is completed, I always run it through a wash/dry cycle twice.  (I never pre-wash my fabrics.) This shrinks the quilt and brings out all the fabulous puckering from the free motion quilting.....

I am selling these large paper patterns in three sizes.  You can click here to get to my Etsy store and order a pattern so you can make your own deer quilt.  Or go to Etsy and search for RileyRaniDesigns.

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