You may remember that at the March quilting retreat, Krista gave me some flannel for donation quilts. (A friend gave her the flannel for me.) There were eight pieces—enough for nine quilts. I paired them with cottons from my stash and eventually bought a few blender fabrics to go with them.
Flannel #1 (blue with white sports) is 50" square. The blue cotton fabric is from my stash as is the backing.
I quilted this with spirals. It's one of the things I have trouble quilting so I thought I'd get some practice. I also put four-leaf clovers in the corners where the square joined.
The back is blue cloud print. This quilt is very soft and cuddly.
Thread: Glide 50-wt, top - Bone #17443
back - Steel Blue #38201
Batting: Dream Cotton
Quilting: Spirals and 4-leaf clovers
Flannel #2 (flannel daisies with blue dot cotton) was finished a while ago and can be read about here.
Thread: Glide 50-wt, top - Bone #17443
back - Battleship #10430
Batting: Dream Cotton
Quilting: Meander and Lazy Eights
Flannel #3 (pink, purple, and teal) was finished a while ago and can be read about here.
Thread: Glide 50-wt, top - Lt Turquoise #32975
Batting: Dream Cotton
Quilting: Lazy eights, string of loops, wavy lines, straight lines
Flannel #4 (green giraffes with white dot and green) began with a large piece of fabric. I didn't want a quilt with just one fabric used for both the front and back, so I made two quilts. I decided the print was quite cute, so I just added two borders to it - white with green dots and green.
The green back is monochromatic. The borders and the backing are from my stash.
Size: 41" by 41"
Thread: Glide 50-wt, Lt Grey #17543
Batting: Dream Cotton
Quilting: Loop de loop
Flannel #5 (green giraffes with yellow and green) is 42" by 46". Again I decided to not cut the cute fabric and just add borders. This quilt is just a little larger than #4.
I bought the yellow border fabric and the backing, a green with blue dots.
Thread: Glide 50-wt, Linen #10WG1
Batting: Dream Cotton
Quilting: Meander
Flannel #6 (blue flower bricks with yellow) is 46" by 49". The yellow fabric from my stash dictated the size of this quilt. I used all of it.
I've been wanting to quilt a figure 8 that overlapped rows - it worked great here where I could imagine a grid. The figure 8 is really enlarged and looks more like a loop de loop.
The backing, yellow with flowers, was purchased. I had enough of the blue binding fabric (from my stash) to use for part of the back.
Here is a closer look at the back.
Thread: Glide 50-wt, Lemon Ice #80607
Batting: Dream Cotton
Quilting: Overlapping Figure Eight
Flannel #7 (blue perfume girl with yellow gold cotton) finished a while ago and can be read about here.
Thread: Glide 50-wt, top - Baby Blue #30290
back - Bone #17443
Batting: Dream Cotton
Quilting: String of Loops
Flannel #8 (pink flowers with yellow) is a 44" square. The yellow sashing is from my stash as is the binding. I didn't have enough of the sashing yellow for the binding, but I found another yellow in my stash.
I wasn't sure how I wanted to quilt this quilt but decided on daisies since there were daisies in the top.
I bought the pink print for the back of this quilt and connected the pieces with the leftover yellow from #5 quilt.
Thread: Glide 50-wt, Lemon Ice #80607
Batting: Dream Cotton
Quilting: Big Daisies
Flannel #9 (rail fence blue/pink/purple) is 48" by 60". I used a 3-yard pattern that used 9" by 12" blocks. The strips in the two blocks needed are different widths - the strips in one direction are 1" narrower than the strips in the other direction. I bought all the coordinating fabrics to go with this flannel piece including the blue for the backing.
Thread: Glide 50-wt, top - Bone #17443
back - Baby Blue #30290
Batting: Dream Cotton
Quilting: Loopy Spirals
I have a small pile of quilts to bind (4), a large pile to quilt(12), and a few in progress(13). It's almost like an assembly line some days but I love it. I said I had 24 donation quilts done last time but it was only 23 donation quilts. Now the correct number of finished donation quilts is 29! I love that I am moving fabric out of my stash. (Most, if not all of the fabrics I bought will be used with little left over.)
