Another Fleece & Jeans Quilt

My middle daughter's Fleece & Jeans quilt is done. 

She loves it, I love it, everyone loves it.

There are a lot of things I love about fleece-and-jeans quilts. The softness, the warm-ness, the heavy-ness.

Here are some of my other favorite things about jeans quilts ...

Embroidered or appliquéd details that were on whatever-garment-that-denim-used-to-be:

Pockets! Every jeans quilt needs some working pockets!

Belt loops! Just for fun, some of the belt loops got preserved in the quilt ..

Did I mention the fun of embroidered details?

I've started looking at thrift-store denim differently: I see something cute embroidered on a denim garment, and I picture it in a quilt! 

So, for my kiddos, that's 4 jeans quilts down, one to go!  

Fabric Tuesday at QuiltStory is another fun place to see fabric projects of all kinds, and I'm linking this post to this week's Fabric Tuesday, as well. (Click the button below for the most recent Fabric Tuesday).

Starting some Double Irish Chains ...

A work (or two) in progress ...

Lots of pink in a couple of Double Irish Chain quilt tops ...

One will have Hello Kitty; one will have hearts ... 

That's a lot of pink!

I'll probably list these on eBay when they're sewn into quilt tops, so somebody can quilt them and enjoy them ...

Vintage English Paper Piecing ...

Progress is happening on the Vintage Diamonds ...

And, while I'm progressing with this step, I'm making layout plans for the next step ...

The center section, in color, is the exact amount of diamond stars I can make with the neat vintage fabric I've got right now. Naturally, I want it to be the centerpiece of a bigger quilt. So, it'll need borders.

I've got a couple of ideas going, so it will be interesting to see which direction I go with the border. (Will it be postage-stamp-nine-patches, or diamond-cubes? Or rows of end-to-end diamonds?) Aaand, it will be interesting to see whether I decide to go with coordinating solids for the border, or whether I talk myself into buying a little more vintage fabric for the border ...

Stay tuned ...

In other news, I've been doing a lot more of this:

Look for another denim-type blog post soon ...

Work In Progress Wednesday at Freshly Pieced is a fun spot to see stitching works in progress ... I'm linking this post there. Check the link or button to see the latest!

New quilt, new quilter ...

My oldest daughter has been wanting to learn to use the rotary-cutting tools ... She's getting good at quilt-sewing, but she hasn't tackled rotary-cutting yet.

The time has come. 

We've had some fun fabric around that we thought would make a great "living-room-quilt" for football season. Since we just got another piece of said sports-fabric, she set about designing what this quilt might look like. Triangles, big squares, little squares, borders ...

The calculations got done, and the fabric-cutting went well.

I had the rare opportunity to get out BOTH cutters and BOTH mats, since she got the hang of the cutting process, and she thought I should go ahead and do some cutting at the same time. 

Stay tuned for progress reports ...

More Very Tiny Hexagons

The other day, I mentioned the very tiny hexagons I started working on. Here are the latest cute tiny hexagons ... too fun. Tedious, but so cute, and so fun.

And, in case you've forgotten how tiny those other ones were ...

Still planning to stitch them onto something square-ish and white-ish so that they can be Christmas tree ornaments when they grow up ...

Oh! Link Parties are back for the new year! I'm linking this post to the ones below. Click on the links or buttons below to see some great collections of recent sewing projects!

Little Quilt Monday is back at Pieceful Life! I'm linking this post there!

And, Take Your Time Tuesdays are back at So Happy To Sew!

Christmas Inspiration ...

Since I've finished the Christmas Hexagons, I've been getting inspired to work on some related things ~ I got started on Diamond English Paper Piecing, and Very Tiny Vintage English Paper Piecing ... But also, since it was so fun to prepare something neat for Christmas, I've also been inspired to work on something Christmassy sometime between now and next Christmas.

I've got just enough of this sweet Christmas fabric to make a Christmas tree skirt:

Since I want it to look quilty, I'll be trying out some bits of coordinating fabric and some layouts to see what I like ... but hey, I've got time, right? It's a looooong time till Christmas!

Happy New Year to you and yours!

Little Quilt Circles

I had such fun making this quilt for my newest baby niece ...

Here's a close-up ... I was pleased with how the hand-quilted circles in matching colors turned out ...

There were more pictures, but the computer ate them somewhere  between the SD card and the hard drive.  (Yikes.)

This quilt has been in progress for a few weeks ... I mentioned it in this post and in this post ... And I drew a lot of inspiration from this quilt and these blocks, as well as a circles quilt in this book ...

The rainbow look was fun (I love variety!), and the crazy-quilty-ness was fun (I love "made fabric"!), and the circles were fun (I love quilt circles!). 

Fun quilt. And I'm excited for my sister and her family as they welcome their newest little one.