Twinners

 

We jumped on the chance to make matching quilts for two fraternal twin baby girls. Twins are the best...but we are partially biased ;)

 

We stuck to "true" baby colors: pinks and turquoises with gray, lime, and yellow mixed in. 

We made them matching to our Big Zig Chevron quilt. These girly quilts are even cuter than the original gender neutral color scheme. Plus, nothing shoves spring into your face like pastel colors.

The quilts are exactly identical on the front, but their bindings and backings are flip-flopped.

So there you go. One custom order done and more to go. We say it everyday: This is so. much. fun.

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One day turned into two days, two days into two weeks, two weeks into one month. Geesh. How does one month possibly go by so fast? It doesn't add up. So here comes February and more blogging!

There's a lot to catch up on. Let's see...we finished up all nine of our Swoon blocks and got the scrappy top done. (Here is a link to our other Swoon quilt)

We got us some BIG spools of thread that just might last us a lifetime...or longer ;) All 3000 yards for just $2.00. Since these spools don't fit on our machines, we got thread stands to solve our problems:

Here it is in action:

Run to the nearest store and buy one. Seriously, you won't regret it.

We've been doing custom-order quilts again and are loving every minute. Best job ever.

 

Did we miss anything? One month is a long time. We have alotta other quilts in the works that we will post about soon...but don't hold us to that ;)

It feels good to be back.

Striped Chevron Quilt

With the mountain of scraps from this chevron quilt, we decided we needed another chevron quilt. It was a brilliant idea.

Speaking of brilliant ideas, have you been on the blog Kitchen Table Quilting? You should. Really. We found the Striped Chevron Quilt tutorial and knew it was a must-go.

WARNING: the tutorial was super duper easy :) It was a great scrap buster project.

Here's the quilt pre-machine quilting:

"Finally a basting picture" you are thinking to yourself. We hardly ever take basting pictures because as soon as we baste a quilt, the machine quilting is done in a wink. Or something like that ;)

Post-Machine Quilting:

We'll let you in on a little secret: Straight line machine quilting takes no time at all. And when the quilt measures 36" x 43", the quilting fairies smile down :)

Turquoise polka dot binding. What a sight for sore eyes.

 This one's for sale in our shop, like always...Quackadoodle Quilt repeated for the umpteenth time :)

Pinky promise we'll clip that string :)

Swell

The pattern, Swell, from Camille Roskelley's book, Simply Retro has been bookmarked for a while now. Look at us...on the ball for the New Year. It's only the first day and we finished a quilt ;)

We were worried that all the busy prints on this quilt would be hard on the eyes.We spent waaaaaay to long rearranging those pesky gingham prints. In the end, the solid navy border helped to balance out the busy busy middle.

The polka dot binding was one of those impulse buys. The kind where it-doesn't-matter-how-much-it-costs it's a must have. 

 

Oh, and before we forget, this quilt is in the shop. f.y.i.

The machine quilting was tricky on this quilt. White thread would stand out on the dark navy fabric, so we opted out of machine quilting the border. The middle got a simple stipple.

It was relaxing to hand sew the binding on. We haven't done it in a while because it takes for.eve.r.