Garden By Moonlight - It's A Finish!

Garden by Moonlight

60 x 75

It's a finish!

In 2021 I decided to make a few quilts to use a lot of aging big prints. I chose to use Double Sawtooth blocks with a big 9.5 inch center. In this top I used big print florals with dark backgrounds. 

I finished the top back in May 2021. I also pieced a backing for it at that time but it wasn't until now that I got around to getting it quilted. I free motion quilted it on my DSM with 3 petaled flowers. 

The backing is pieced with big prints too. 

The binding is a floral with dark background too. 

My husband doesn't usually comment too much on my quilts but he asked if he could have this one. He likes to keep one on the back of his recliner to use when needed.  He kind of surprised me with that request but now the quilt is on the back of his recliner. 

And now I can check the first one of the year off the UFO list! 

And sew it goes...

Happy New Year! 

BIG Prints Series #4

Patriotic Text fabrics happens to be what I used this time for my BIG print series.

Now I have a flimsy 60 x 75! 

I've been trying to use some of the BIG prints that have been lingering in the stash for awhile.  This is the fourth flimsy in the series using the Double Sawtooth block at Quilter's Cache- perfect for BIG prints with the 9.5 inch center square. 

This time I mixed things up while making the top and I changed the orientation of HSTs on alternate blocks. 

I've been trying to use up all of my holiday fabrics and I consider the patriotic prints as holiday fabrics in my stash. I scraped the bottom of the barrel to be able to have enough of the text prints for the centers. 

One block had to have a symbol instead of text. 

And so now my patriotic print box (banker box size) is finally almost empty. 

And as far as BIG prints go I think I will make one more for this series. I'll leave you wondering what that BIG print will be. 

 

BIG Prints #3 - Hen Party

Hen Party

It's a flimsy!

45 x 60

I've been trying to use some of the BIG prints that have been lingering in the stash for awhile.  This is the third in the series using the Double Sawtooth block at Quilter's Cache- perfect for BIG prints with the 9.5 inch center square. 

The BIG print this time was a chicken print that has been around for awhile. I used white on black and black on white fabrics for the frame around the chicken themed fabric - feathers, bugs, eggs, spider webs, paw prints and a couple of florals. I thought I had some white with black chicken wire fabric but must have used that one up. 

I have a similar one yard piece but with blue instead of red tinges that I will use to piece the backing. 

I think the next BIG print quilt will use patriotic text. I threw some red, white and blue fabric chunks for it into a box and I want to use some of those red and blue fabrics in a couple of other quilts. Fabric pieces shuffle from one box to another around here. 

 

BIG Prints #2 - Garden By Moonlight

Garden By Moonlight

60 x 75

It's a flimsy!

I've been trying to use some of the BIG prints that have been lingering in the stash for awhile.  This is the second in the series using the Double Sawtooth block at Quilter's Cache- perfect for BIG prints with the 9.5 inch center square. For this one I picked out all the BIG print florals with a dark background. 

I was thinking of a moonlight stroll through a lovely cottage garden while I was making this.

I used more dark BIG prints to piece a backing.

 Now on to the next BIG print...chickens, ballerinas, light florals or patriotic text???? Hmmmm...