5.26.11

Jack for James. A present for his birthday. I made up the pattern and used Plymouth Encore yarn and a size E crochet hook. It's 6" long.

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Spring 2010

Thanks so much to Amy for hosting this great festival of quilts! So much inspiration!

It took me a while to decide which of my quilts to enter in the festival, but I had to go with the Autobahn quilt. This certainly isn't my most technically complicated quilt, but I think it is the one I learned the most from making, so it has been very important in my growth as a quilter.



This is the second quilt I made for my oldest son, Otto. He was 3.5 years old, and had just figured out that he could request that I make him things. He asked me to make a quilt for him, and wanted to pick out the fabric himself. I took him to the shop and he picked out the three main prints (the big blocks on the front and the large panels on the back), which all featured cars. He also picked out most of the other prints, and was quite insistent on the one with the gears. Then I got to work designing. It was a challenge to use all these very different prints, but I love the way they came together in the end.



This is the largest quilt I've made so far (54" x 72") and it fits perfectly on his bunk bed. This is also the first time I'd attempted free-motion machine quilting, and while there are definitely some rough spots, I love the way it came out. All the work paid off when he opened it up at Hanukkah and exclaimed "oh, my quilt, it's PERFECT!" He loves it and sleeps with it every night, and drags it around the house during the day.



Don't forget to click on the button up at the top to visit the Blogger's Quilt Festival for tons of wonderful quilts and inspiration.

Pip's redwork quilt

I finished Pip's redwork quilt last week and finally got a chance to take some (not great) pictures this weekend after washing it. The finished quilt is 47" square, which is a bit big for a baby quilt, but I figure it will be good for lying on top of at first and leaves room to grow.

This is my own design, a nine-patch of nine-patches, with each of the blocks using 8 red & white prints around a center panel of hand embroidery. The embroidered designs were drawn by Sean. They are a mushroom, hedgehog, hotdog, cardinal, Fokker Dr.1 triplane (the Red Baron's plane), dinosaur, ketchup, lobster and cherries. Closer shots of all the embroidered motifs can be seen here.



I did the quilting in straight lines making boxes within the blocks, and intersecting lines in the sashing (can you tell I was thinking a lot about squares while making this?). There is also one line of hand quilting outlining the triplane, and some straight lines radiating out from the center of that block. The binding is the same small polka dot you can see in the main blocks.



For the backing, I used a large piece of slightly heavier fabric that I cut off the bottom of our bedroom curtains. It's actually red and off-white, but I love the print and it works with the binding (and I'm hoping the sturdier fabric will help it last longer since I'm planning on using it as a park blanket).

I'm working on getting the pattern/instructions for the quilt written up, and will have it available for purchase (with or without the embroidery patterns) soon.

I'm also working on getting better pics, because these backyard jobbies are not cutting it. But I wanted to post something because I am very proud of this quilt!

4.28.10

Working on amigurumi patterns... expanding the line of itty-bitty animals.

squares baby quilt

I finished the squares quilt last week and finally got some pictures. This is another original design of mine, in one of my favorite color combinations. It's 40" square, backed with a single piece of the blue/orange fabric you can see in the second-largest squares on the front.

I'm very pleased with how this one came out, and plan on making another quilt in the same pattern but a totally different range of fabrics soon. I'm working on writing up the pattern now, so I'm hoping to have that available in the near future!

design time: half square triangle mini-quilt

Now that I have made several quilts based on square and rectangular pieces, I decided to take the next step and figure out triangles. Using a charm pack of Plume by Tula Pink, some plain white cotton, and Elizabeth Hartman's triangle block tutorial, I jumped into half square triangles yesterday. These pieces were very quick to put together, and are so much fun to play with.



The only problem now is, there are so many ways to arrange them, I can't decide what I want to do! These are only four of a huge number of possible variations. I like the bullseye and zigzag versions the best. But I need to play more before I decide.

autobahn quilt

I finally got around to taking some better pictures of the quilt I made for Otto. It's 54" x 72", most of the fabrics were picked by Otto, and the quilt is my own original design. This was the first quilt I did free-motion machine quilting on, and I think it came out really well! I'm going to be working on writing up the pattern for this one, and I hope to have it available soon.

rainbow dinosaur mini-quilt

Made for Henry's 2nd birthday. It's 44" x 30", my own design, and I'm very pleased to announce, it's also my first published quilt pattern! FREE Rainbow Sampler Mini-quilt pattern here.

See more detailed pictures of the dinosaurs here, and find the dinosaur embroidery patterns here.

redwork quilt top

Got the top for the redwork quilt finished yesterday! Next up is the quilting (not quite sure how I'm going to do it, but I have a couple of ideas), and then binding (using the same small polka dot at the corners of the triplane). This is shaping up really nicely! It's a bit big for a baby quilt (47" square), but I want it to last a while before it's outgrown.

Better bigger.

4.3.10

Tiny bunnies I made for the boys' Easter baskets. Plymouth Encore yarn on D hook.

NEW! Dinosaur embroidery patterns available NOW!

Here they are in all their glory! All six dinosaurs from Henry's rainbow quilt!

The whole set of patterns is available as a pdf for just $5!













Dinosaur Embroidery Patterns by Goblinko: get stitchin'!

blue dimetrodon

Blue dimetrodon panel from Henry's rainbow dinosaur quilt. Hand embroidery by me, original drawing by Sean. Pattern coming soon!

3.26.10

Orange triceratops panel for Henry's rainbow dinosaur quilt. Hand embroidery by me, original drawing by Sean. Pattern coming soon!

Fokker Dr.I

Here's the final redwork embroidery panel for the quilt I'm working on for the baby (design drawn by Sean), a Fokker Dr.I triplane!



I had so much fun stitching this one up. It's much bigger (and more complicated!) than the other 8 panels. The plane is about 8" across. Now I'm on to piecing together the quilt top!

The full set of redwork embroidery patterns will be available soon!

3.13.10

A sneak peek at Pip's redwork quilt. I'm almost done with the triplane embroidery, so I laid out a big chunk of the quilt to see how I liked it before starting to piece it together. I am SO pleased with how this looks. The day after I took this picture, I got three of the ninepatches pieced together. It is going to be fantastic. I am so excited.

more redwork in progress

Two more small redwork embroidery patches for the quilt I'm working on for the baby (designs drawn by Sean).





Next up is the large center patch, which will be a Fokker DR-1 triplane.

redwork in progress

Redwork embroidery patches for the quilt I'm working on for the baby (designs drawn by Sean). The quilt is a nine patch of ninepatches. Each of the outer ninepatches has 8 red & white prints surrounding one of these redwork patches (which are 4.5" square). The center panel is going to be one large redwork embroidery piece. I'm very excited about how this is coming out!

Small Bunny Pattern

7″ tall knit bunny toy, perfect for Easter baskets!
Small Bunny Pattern still available for free!