selvage (or selvedge) love

Don't we all love the selvage on our fabrics? I do, especially the color dots. Perhaps it's an extension of my polka-dot love.

Recently I have seen several projects(here, here and here) using selvage that have me inspired. I've now diligently started collecting.

I have a small stash of japanese import fabric who's selvages are adorable (no surprise), so fun!

snowflakes
houses
apples
birds (my personal favorite)
and ice cream cones (my daughters favorite)***update***
(I can't believe I almost forgot this...)
I just love this cute little sewing machine on this one

boxed rings

this is what my sisters fabric swap quilt will look like. i'm excited for it, but i have several other projects that have to come first...

more boxes

My 4th scraps quilt, and I think I can actually see my scraps pile dwindling. I thought I was finished with this one, but my husband talked me into making it bigger--maybe even twin size. This quilt has been pretty fun to make...I've loved NOT matching colors. Up close, it's not my favorite, but from far away it is vibrant.

i really like maps...

I can study a map all day. It's just so interesting to look at places I've been, places family live, places I'd like to visit...

I started this quilt years ago, and finally got it all put together. I almost ripped it apart and started over. I don't love it, but as I've said before I don't redo anything--too frustrating. I had planned to keep it for us--to get my kids interested in maps too, but after looking at it for years, I am okay with letting it go. Plus, we've got lots of new babies coming up (friends and family), I think this will make one of them happy.

The highlight of this quilt (for me) is the backing, perfect! We like to look for Texas in our family.

mendocino zigzag

I had a great quilting weekend...my husband was gone all day Saturday and it rained the entire day. The kids and I holed up in the playroom where they played and I quilted. I don't usually do housework on Saturday, so it was guilt-free quilt time!

I finished my zigzag quilt, I love the sharpness of it. Zigzags always remind me of ric-rac, and I absolutely love ric-rac.
If you've never felt Heather Ross' fabric, you must. It's the softest fabric ever, perfect for a baby quilt.
I used some of my lightning bugs fabric for the backing...I really love polka dots too! I used stripes for the binding, I debated between this stripe and the orange octopus. I wish I would've used the orange, but the stripes will have to do. available in my etsy shop.

doll quilts

I know I am really late on this one, but I have finally fallen in love with doll quilts. It took me a long time to "get" them. I didn't understand why anyone would want to spend so much time on a mini quilt that had no function. Then I saw this and then my daughter started asking for a blankie for her baby, so I decided to give them a try.

I think this was my first, I don't really like this one...I did a horrible job on the quilting. This happens to be my daughter's favorite (it's pink), so I guess I won't throw it out.

this is my favorite, lots of white

this isn't quite finished, I need to finish the binding. I don't really like this one either...I guess that's why it's not finished.

What is about a stack of folded quilts? I just love them.
Originally I wanted to hang them on my little girl's wall, but she likes to use them as she plays. She'd probably tear every one off the wall because one of her best friends (that's what she calls her dolls/stuffed animals) needed it.
I guess a stack of doll quilts is just as great as a wall of them...

zigzag

Almost done with this top, and pleased with how it's turning out. About halfway through making my squares, I got really worried that it was going to be too busy. I should be used to this moment of panic, it happens with almost every quilt I make, fortunately with this quilt I exhaled a phew when I saw it laid out.
I like it.

mendocino

A while back I mentioned that I really love Denyse Schmidt, her design, and fabric, but my top favorite fabric designer is Heather Ross. I suppose I love her so much because I make mostly baby quilts, and her cute (not cutesy) lines of fabric are perfect. I also LOVE her color combinations--lots of oranges, blues, pinks, golden yellow...all favorites.

I finally got my hands on her latest line, Mendocino, and it's as lovely as can be--fishies, octopi, seahorses, and don't forget the mermaids! My daughter wants a quilt with mermaids!

This:will soon be this:I don't often sketch out a quilt, but every once in a while I can't see the whole picture in my head and a sketch works nicely.

double hourglasses (scappy quilt #3)

This turned out to be a very sweet quilt. I think I need to try something new, it seems lately that all my quilts have A LOT of white in them.

I really do love the contrast of the white with the colors.
I used yellow on the back, I really wanted it to be gender non-specific--I'm not sure I accomplished that though...available in my etsy shop

blue?

what do you think? do you like the blue? would it look better all orange with blue binding?

I'm pretty sure I like it (mostly because i don't want to redo my setting blocks), but this is going to be a large quilt, bigger than I normally make...I really want to get it right.I showed it to my husband and I got a mediocre response out of him, so now I'm having second thoughts.