Angel Garden Quilt

A friend in Hugs and Stitches handed me some fabric and asked if I could come up with a quilt.  One fabric was cute girl angels on white background.  The second fabric was a pink button pattern.  The third fabric was an ugly green/turquoise modern looking pattern.  The fourth was a pink flannel for the backing.  I didn't know what I would do especially with the ugly green fabric.  

Then I thought of a pattern I had in my file using Beatrix Potter fabric called Garden Tales.  It would downplay the ugly green fabric and highlight the prettier fabric.  I was able to add to it lots of leftover pieces from earlier Hugs quilts.  I only had to use a few pieces from my own stash.  Overall I was pleased with the final result.  The pattern calls for rows of different designs.  I changed one row from a picket fence type design to pinwheels and small fussy cut angels.  The quilt was machine pieced and quilted in the ditch.  I quilted a scallop design in the border.

Angel Garden Quilt

Close-up of quilting and blocks

Primary Colors Kid's Quilt 1and 2

Someone donated nine quilt packets to our Hugs and Stitches ministry at church.  Each packet contained the same pattern (9 patch) and included fabric. The solid fabric colors were yellow, 2 blues, and green.  Really ugly!!!  No one wanted to do anything with this, but since it was a donation I hated to see it go to waste.   So I decided to take on the challenge.

I was able to make two kid's quilts out of the packets by adding my own fabric and trying to make it look more interesting.  The fabric I added was patterned to set against the plain solids.  I bought a bright yellow dot fabric for sashing for both quilts and the blue submarine fabric. The other fabrics were already in my stash.  Fortunately Hugs had some backings that could be used.

The blocks were machine pieced and quilted.  Quilt #1 was quilted in an all-over meander design with blue thread.  Quilt #2 was quilted along the ditch with a serpentine stitch.  The submarine blocks were quilted with three waves, and the 9 patch had a quilting motif done in free motion.

Quilt #1

Quilt #2

Fun backing for Quilt #1

Beach ball backing for Quilt #2

Close-up of quilting motif in Quilt #2