Random Monday

 *We are patiently waiting for an empty washing machine so we can crinkle up our quilt.

*Our quilt-tops-to-finish get hung up when we neglect them :) Luckily the pile is shrinking.

*We love machine binding our quilts because you can zip out a binding in 20 minutes flat!

*Just noticed that our quilting gloves have worn a little thin. That hole = lots of quilting!

* Hmm....an uncovered pillow form.

*And our bolt of turquoise fabric is gone. How??

*So now we are plotting our trip to the fabric store. Mahahahaha.

*And are playing the design-a-quilt-pattern game. Here goes nothing ;)

Slowly, but Surely

The last few days we've made sloooowwww progress on machine quilting our latest project.

And in the process, we went through a whole package of 5 needles, and took a lot of breaks because we have zero tolerance for broken needles. Especially when they come flying at you. But that's a story for a different day :)

25 Free Quilt Patterns

There are so many creative people out there. Like a bunch. So we thought it would be fun to throw together a collection of links to free quilt tutorials made by you. Enjoy!

1. Eli's Wheels

2. Forties Chevron

3. Garden Fence 

4. Kissing Fish

5. Peppermint Pinwheels

6. Sweet Girlie 

7. Baby Chevron (3-Part Tutorial)

8. Bow-tie Blocks 

9. Bow-tie Quilts 

 10. Cartwheels

11. Cracker Scraps

12. Double Hourglass

13. Gather Love 

14. Granny Squares

15. Jumping Jacks

16. Ombre Quilts

17. Patchwork Chevron 

18. Penelope's Stars

19. Samurai Stars 

20. Squares and Strips Bed Quilt 

21. Simple Stripes Quilt

22. Equilateral Triangle Quilt 

23. Tumbler Quilt

24. Wonky Windows Quilt

25. Ziggy Quilt 

A Vintage Quilt

Recently we've been thinking about what defines a vintage quilt. Is it fabric? colors? the pattern? It's a combination of all three. We were lucky enough to have a sweet neighbor bring us some of her old fabric. This quilt is a product of playing around with that fabric to create a very vintage vibe.

You may have noticed how many times we have used this yellow stripe fabric, but it is a staple for us because it matches almost every quilt. It looks good in the binding, doesn't it?

We are guilty of putting blue in almost every quilt we make, so we tried to mix things up a little and make a quilt that is blue-fabric-free. SUCH. A. HARD. TASK.

Remember that we said that the first block in the second row was our favorite? We lied. Or we just changed our minds :) Today we're digging the third block in the second row, the inside-out-version of our first favorite block.

Here's a shot of the purple crinkled backing fabric, just for you:

And just a reminder, this quilt is listed in our shop. How many times have we told you now? That's right, too many :)