Easter Quilt

I made this little quilt as a Spring/Easter quilt for my little one. The fabric is Daring Little Dickens by Moda. It was perfect for a child quilt!

It's a simple charm pack quilt with a border. It's the perfect size for a crib though!

Tatting

I have been learning to shuttle tat for a year or so now. I took a break and recently picked it back up. It seems much easier now than before. Anyway, here are some 2018 tatting projects:

Beaded earrings, pattern by Jennifer Williams at www.cariad-tatting.co.uk/. Direct link to PDF is here.

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Clovers for the March tatting swap with The Greater Birmingham Fiber Guild.

Patterns (from left to right) are:

1. "Celtic Four Leaf Clover" by Ruth Perry [aka Rozella Florence Linden]

found at http://tat-calendar.blogspot.com/search?q=march+13+celtic

2. "Celtic Knot Shamrock" by Marilee Rockley 

found at http://yarnplayertats.blogspot.com/2009/03/celtic-knot-shamrock.html

3. "Lucky Seven Shamrocks" by Regina "Gina" Brummett 

found at http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/GinaShamrocks.pdf

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Tat-a-long project with The Greater Birmingham Fiber Guild called Rosaleen by tattingbythebay.blogspot.com, free PDF pattern can be found here)

Group progress shot on 2/10/2018

Round 3 of 4 done

Hogwarts at Dusk

I have been enjoying decorating my little one room in a Harry Potter theme lately. After making The Golden Snitch mini quilt, I knew it was time for Hogwarts.

I had bought this fabric ages ago with the plan of making this mini quilt. The background is the blossom colorway of the Enchanted Pines fabric line by McKenna Ryan (this whole line has some amazing background options for applique!). You can probably use any of the other colors, so long as you can still easily see the silhouette you're trying to achieve. I love how blossom looks like a sunset that fades to purple (my favorite color) with stars in the sky. I couldn't have made a more perfect fabric for this!

All I used for this mini quilt was a fat quarter of it. Since the fade joins in the middle, it would be hard to get more than 20 inches or so tall to work with. I did quilt my front, batting, and backing before doing the applique. I didn't want the quilting lines going through the castle and distracting from it. I use Coats and Clarke machine quilting thread in variegated purple for the quilting. I usually don't use variegated threads, but I think it was perfect here.

I then drafted my Hogwarts and hippogriff images and went to town with applique.

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This is my entry for the 2018 Panatone Quilt Challege in the mini quilt category.

Finished size approximately 18 by 21 inches.

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