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I loved this fabric line and bought the charm packs several years ago. When I saw the Totally Tulips tutorial I knew this was the quilt to make with the fabric. It is a gift for my granddaughter Ally.

I saw this tutorial and decided to use scraps to try it out. I ended up making a quilt large enough for my bed. The fabrics are all from Lella Boutique, and I think there are three lines of hers in this.

My neighbors were on their deck on Fathers Day watching the sunset. Their deck collapsed sending seven family members to the hospital. Our small community did an auction to raise funds to help pay medical bills for the family. I invited some friends over and we made the Flower Glass quilt for the auction. We didn’t have enough matching fabric for the back so I used the left over blocks and made the quilt reversible.

This is a quilt pattern I watched Angela Walters make on Midnight Quilt Show. Fun project to make. Heartbeat Quilting of Spokane did the quilting. They used a blue variegated thread. It turned out great.

Pattern #PAT1207 from MSQC. Jenny did a tutorial on it. My 6th quilt, made during April -Sept 2016. Entire quilt is Cotton + Steel Basics Collection, the main colors, the background and backing fabric. Finished size, 87" x 88", a little bigger than the pattern. Quilter's Dream wool batt. Free-motion quilting by Camlyn Quilts in an edge-to-edge pattern called Slinky. It shows best on the backside. I made 4 pillowcases to match. I fell hard for the Basics Collection and thought it would be great for Hunter's Star. I started with charm packs, pulled out colors I didn't want and then filled in with yardage to make it more my colors. After all the squares were done, I layed them out on the carpet, rearranging until I was satified. I took black and white photos to check the light vs dark clusters. I put on a tiny 1" border, as I really love an edge-to-edge full pattern look. Lesson learned: fabric with a huge metalic component is way heavier than regular quilting fabric, and 9 yards of it for backing adds a lot of weight to the quilt. It was on sale for $6/yard though, so...cool! I do love a sale on yards and yards of backing fabric. posted 09-22-18

Pattern by MSQC. I made my 4th quilt between Nov, 2015 and Jan, 2016. The fabric is Fancy and Fabulous by Riley Blake; Kona Snow for the background; Moda white for the backing; the batt is Hobbs Heirloom wool. The finished size is 81" X 92.5", which is fine side-to-side but too short for my queen bed. I made 2 pillow case sets to match and one set has the flange trim, very cute. Jenny did a tutorial on flanges. Lessons learned: always check pattern fabric requirements and if they don't look right they probably aren't, and Hobbs Heirloom wool batt is not even close to how nice Quilter's Dream wool batt is. My long-arm quilter doesn't like the Hobbs at all and just loves the Quilter's Dream, which I switched to for later quilts. Love wool batts for autumn, winter and spring here in the Seattle area, and silk batt is perfect all summer long except for those 5 days of summer when it hits the 90's. Usually not 5 days in a row. Posted 06-28-18.

Quilted for my son before he moved away, can’t remember which tutorial but it was one of Jenny’s