My Quilting Projects Thread

[HeatherJay]

Hey Miss BarbaraJean! I stole your idea, lol. This is a thread for me to post some of the quilts I've made. They're all really simple, but it's my favorite hobby and something I really enjoy. Some are just tops and have yet to actually be quilted...ah well. I'll get to them someday.

 

[HeatherJay]

This is the first quilt I ever made. It's a baby I Spy quilt...I ordered my squares off of e-Bay because I hadn't built my own stash yet. I gave this one as a gift to my niece, Aliyah...she was an infant at the time. The backing is flannel, so it's soft and snuggly.

 

[HeatherJay]

My Fairy Tale quilt tops...I still haven't quilted these yet. I meant them to be gifts for my daughters. I intend to get them quilted in the coming months.

 

[HeatherJay]

A blue Rail Fence design. This was my second quilting project and my wavy binding tells the tale, lol. This one ended up being a gift for my nephew, Evan (I KNOW it's got flowers, but it's BLUE, okay. ).

 

[HeatherJay]

This is a green floral 9 Patch design. I made it from a pre-packaged kit that I bought at WalMart. LOL, my husband actually helped me put this one together. he sewed some of the squares for me. It's not quilted in this picture, but I did finish this one. My hubby sleeps cuddled up in it ever night. He calls it his blankie.

 

[HeatherJay]

A couple of quilts I through together with scraps. These will end up being charity baby blankets. They are quilted and finished now, but I haven't donated them yet.

 

[HeatherJay]

This is my UT (University of Tennessee) quilt that I made for my parents last Christmas. It's in progress in this picture, but it's finished and much loved by my parents. It's also backed in flannel, so it's soft and snuggly and perfect for climbing under and watching the big game. I bought this kit at Wal-Mart also, but I've had some high money offers to make some more of these. I might some day.

 

[HeatherJay]

This is a panel that I bought at WalMart that I quilted for my hubby to use in his missions lessons with our church kids. I actually made him two of them. My hubby is missions president and gives children's lessons once a month. This map is perfect because it's big, we can lay it on the floor, they can crawl all over it...and then we can throw it in the washer and it's good as new, lol. I've considered making these as gifts for my daughter's teachers to keep in their classrooms (because all the teachers that attend my church seemed really impressed with this one).

 

[HeatherJay]

This is a butterfly quilt that I made for my niece, Ashley, last Christmas. It's a beautiful quilt in person...the picture doesn't do it justice.

 

[HeatherJay]

A pastel pinwheel design that I still haven't quilted...

 

[HeatherJay]

Another one of my first attempts. It's an Attic Windows design that I bought in a kit from WalMart (lots of my first attempts were cheap prepackaged kits, lol). This one actually turned out really nice once it was quilted. Not the greatest picture (and ignore the wrinkles, lol). It became a gift for my niece, Kaitlyn.

 

[HeatherJay]

One of my favorite projects ever. This is a quilt that we did with the kids as a missions project. We sent it as a gift to the missionaries that our church was sponsoring. Each child colored their own square with fabric crayons...anything they wanted to draw related to missionaries and missions work or just God or Jesus in general. They did a fabulous job (even though we ended up with a few squares of ABCs or squiggly lines from the smaller kids, lol). They LOVED this project, and we've since done another similar project as a gift for our pastor...that time by having the kids draw their favorite Bible stories. I think this is a project that we'll continue to do at least once or twice a year with the kids, either as a fundraiser (silent auction item) or as a gift for those that our children's program wants to honor.

In fact, I'm going to be working on another quilt like this in the next few weeks for a silent auction we're having to raise money to assist some of the less priviledged kids on their church camp expenses. We want any child who wants to go to camp to be able to go.

 

[HeatherJay]

A really LOUD dragon quilt that I made for my nephew, Max for Christmas one year.

 

[momcani1]

Wow how lovely your quilts are. I love you use of color. I am not so bold of a quilter I tend to play it a little to safe. Do you eve donate quilts to charity?

 

[HeatherJay]

Wow how lovely your quilts are. I love you use of color. I am not so bold of a quilter I tend to play it a little to safe. Do you eve donate quilts to charity?

Most of my quilts end up as gifts for children, lol, so that's the reason for all the colors (plus, it's just so much fun to work with interesting colors and patterns).

As for charity, I have donated several to my church so far, and there are some quilt charities around my local area that I'm interested in (children's hospital ministries and such). I've also looked in to quilts for soldiers and project linus.

 

[spinningwheelgirl]

They are are very beautiful. I like them all a lot.

 

[leytonstones]

The pictures are lovely. Thank you for sharing.

 

[momcani1]

I have been wanting to make quilts and donate them to project linus,but no one at my church was really interested. I am going to do it on my own when I get some time. I bought some St. Jude material. I feel like I am helping a cause until I actually donate something. Keep up the good work.

 

[HeatherJay]

A few pictures of the hoodie quilts that I make...my sweet little 5 year old, Eden, is modelling, lol :

This particular quilt we gave as a baby shower gift to one of my best high school friends. It was such pretty toile...part of me hated to give it up.

They fit like the hooded towels, sort of...kind of a "no hands" quilt for kids to wrap up in. And they're SOOO simple.

 

[momcani1]

It looks lovely is there a pattern? I have a four year old girl named Eden.