Rebecca Danger

My Mayhem Quilt {A Finished Quilt}

Helloooo friends! So this post started with the title, "Quilting Mayhem Quilt {A Finished Quilt}" and I took one look at it, and even in my cold pills fog, realized that it was most likely the worst blog post title of all time. Good choice, hmm?

Ok, I've got a finished quilt to share! I have mentioned it several times, but I made this one as a shop sample for my local quilt shop Quilting Mayhem. 

Yeah! I got something finished this week! I mentioned while discussing teaching classes in the shop that I had the Hexi Ruler at home and had made a couple Hexi quilts already, which lead to an immediate "Would you like to make one for the shop?" So there you go. They picked out and sent home 11 fat quarters for me, I pieced the top, went back in, and they sent me home with the binding and backing. The quilt came out 42" w x 56" l, and since the quilting cotton is 42/44" wide, I added in a strip of 3" (finished) wide scraps to give me a little extra room to play with.

I used a rayon blend batting from Pellon, but didn't wash it, so no crinkles. I used basic white cotton quilting threads and did my quilting lines about 5/8" apart. I bought a walking foot with a quilting guide a few weeks ago and tried it out on this guy. My quilting did not come out as straight as I would of liked as I got used to the guide. I think I might just stick with marking the quilting lines on my quilts for the time being since I am much more comfortable with that at this point.

This was a fun little project! I don't normally like purple that much so I don't really work with it very often, so it was fun to do something outside of my norm. These hexi's are sure a sure quick, super satisfying sew for me. I was only happy to have an excuse to make another one!

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Fancy Fox {A Finished Quilt}

Yeah! My Fancy Fox quilt is all done, wahoo! See my fox theme with the pattern I put out yesterday, and my knit version that came out earlier this year? After working on those two, I knew it was time to give this fox project a go as well.

This was a big project for me with a lot of mishaps. But I love it. And more importantly P, the recipient of the Fancy Fox quilt, really, really loves it. Ready for lots of photos? Let's go!

 

The pattern is Fancy Fox  from Elizabeth Hartman. I did the twin size, which consisted on 80 foxes and came out right about 60" w x80" l. I used cotton batting, and quilted using orange cotton quilting thread. The only change I made is I like a thicker binding than the standard 1/4" binding, so I cute mine 4" wide and sewed it at 5/8".

There are even little foxes on the binding!

I did diagonal lines for quilting 3/4" apart, and I love how they perfectly lined up on some of the fox faces, like this one. Originally I was going to do 1" windowpanes, but am happy in the end that didn't work out because I think the diagonals are just the right amount of simple quilting that add to the overall texture, but don't distract from the showcase foxes.

 

And one happy, silly, Fancy Fox quilt owner.

Fun, fun, fun you guys. Make this quilt, it was really a pleasure. Even with all my mishaps.

Let me know if you have any questions about my quilt in the comments below.

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Maverick's Lovie {A Finished Mini Quilt}

So Wee LOVES to grab soft things and walk around the house with them. One of his favorites is the kitchen towel. So I decided he needed a little lovie sized quilt to be able to snuggle in his crib, hug in his car seat, and drag around the house. Remember I posted the fabric for it earlier? Well, it got made up, and finished, and photographed! It came out super cute and Wee really seems to love it.

It is also good for sitting on.

And dragging around, of course.

Front.

And pieced back.I had better pictures before it was washed like 15 times, but my originals came out blurry, so it is looking a little lumpy and squishy now.

It came out 18"w x 23"l. I used all Cotton + Steel fat quarters, did a little pieced center, and then just made it up as I went along, adding each square/rectangle to fit next to the one before (As explained in Sunday Morning Quilts ). The batting is left over bamboo blend. Binding is another Cotton + Steel fat quarter. Did a zig-zag stitch to finish my binding like on my hippo quilt. 

And away he goes! (Notice the toy basket from Baby Says Sew )

It is definitely a hit.

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Maverick's Birthday Quilt {A Finished Quilt}

This has been done for a little while now and I have just have not gotten around to sharing it. Just like for my nephew's first birthday, I made Wee a birthday quilt, too. Although his wasn't done on his birthday like Trey's was...

Today I am just going to share pictures because...I am going to be putting the tutorial up to make your own hippo quilt this week. Yeah! 

This last picture is of the hippo that inspired the quilt. It is one of Wee's most favoritest favorite toys ever, so I decided he needed a quilt to match.

I am pleased with how it came out, especially since it is the first quilt that I made up a pattern for and didn't use some one else's pattern, or just  do squares or hexi's and sew together to my desired dimensions. 

If you want to make your own hippo quilt, be sure to check in thursday when I will put the pattern pieces and instructions up! For free, too, by the way.

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Baby Trey's Birthday Quilt {A Finished Quilt}

I have been on a quilting kick recently (although I don't consider myself a quilter, but that is another story....) and decided to make Wee a quilt for his birthday. I mentioned it earlier, but that was the project the universe was conspiring against me on with the delayed supplies. So, in my waiting for supplies, I decided since my nephew's birthday is coming up in May, that he also needed a quilt for his first birthday. (If you are related to said nephew and reading this and want to be surprised on said nephew's birthday, it is best if you divert your eyes away from the screen now.)

I used mainly stash fabric, since I started it right after I cleaned out my studio/office, but did manage to snag 4-5 new fabrics to include, since I didn't have quite enough in my color scheme. Have you seen Lotta Jansdotter has a line at Joann's? I bought a few prints....But hey, it went straight into a project, AND I am totally elated to have the leftovers in my scrap bin. I need to be doing more of this kind of crafting!

Here it is! All finished and crinkly from the dryer.

I went with grays and aquas and blues, perfect for a baby boy I think. Probably fairly gender neutral even.

I used the basic pattern from this book to do the quilt. However, I used this hexi template tool, which is really, really, really cool. It was pricey, but I already have plans to make another hexi quilt to go on our couch and I can see hexi quilts will become a go-to for me.

I added one extra row of hexi's to the pattern to make it a bit longer. Also, I did use a batting, where as the book said to use just fleece. I wasn't going to use fleece on the back, I was going to use a black/white/gray/aqua/blue quilting cotton, BUT, I found 2 yards of this really squishy nice fleece in my fabric stash as I was cleaning out, which I decided would be perfect for this project. Yeah stash project!

I am very pleased with it. This was my first attempt at quilting beyond "stitch in the ditch," and my lines are a bit wiggly still. I used a variegated cotton quilting thread in blacks and grays for the quilting, but you can't really tell unless you look really, really close.

I used rayon batting from Pellon that I had left over from my sewing book and it is lovely. I would definitely use it again. Also, this was my first time using 505 basting spray, and I ADORE it. It made basting SOOOOOOOO easy. I have done it by hand and with fusible batting so far since I thought the spray would be too stinky to use inside. But spray basting is my new basting method. I won't dread basting ever again! And it wasn't stinky, in case you were wondering.

This was also my first attempt at machine binding. I love to hand bind, but I decided since this is to go in my nephew's crib and will likely see a lot of washing, machine binding would probably be the best option. It came out OK, but I think I prefer binding by hand still!

The finished quilt is 39" w x 52" l after washing and drying, perfect crib and lap size. It is very snuggly!

Thanks for checking out my quilt!