Blue Batik Quilt #3 Just for Me

I love to start quilts!  Finishing them, well... not so much.  There are a lot of unfinished quilts/projects hanging around in my sewing room. 

But I'm on a roll!  This weekend I finished up this beautiful Blue Batik quilt that I started a couple of years ago.  I had seen this quilt in a Missouri Star video and wanted to make one like it just for me.  Check out the video here if you'd like the pattern.  She calls it Super Simple Squares Quilt.  It's actually the same pattern that I used for the Soft and Pretty quilt in the last post, only in this quilt, you can see the square in the corner around each block.

I chose a soft blue batik collection called Yumi that I found from a quilt shop online.  And get this, I've never used batiks before.  I don't really like them, but I thought that they did really look good in this quilt.  :)

I made this quilt for me to to in my family room.  It has deep blue accents in it and I thought it would look nice as a throw in there.  I even like the back of the quilt which is a lovely blue batik.

Honestly, I'm really proud of myself for finishing this quilt.  I just really love it.  And guess who else really loves it?  Ginger thought it looked great in the family room.  She has christened it and it's already full of kitty cat fur.

I'm Doing It: Quilt #5!

I'm doing it!  I'm finishing my quilts!  This is my 5th quilt so far this year that I have completed.  This week I finished this Pins and Paws quilt for my daughter for her graduation from nursing school.  :)

I started this quilt last fall for her.  She loves the colors teal and coral.  I added some grays in it to give it some contrast.  I got the pattern from the Missouri Star website.  They have nice patterns with video tutorials that make piecing the quilts easy.

Here is a photo of Ginger giving her approval for the quilt.  I quilted around each of the kitties and then added some free motion to other areas of the blocks.  The kitties have hearts on them, there's a flower in the white space and some ocean wave swirls in the border. 

It's hard to tell in the photo, but I love how the quilting came out.  I don't think my daughter has seem me working on this quilt, so it will be a surprise to her.  I hope she likes it!

If she doesn't, I know someone who does.  Me!  :)