been busy quilting

Since I made Weston's quilt, I've been busy making other quilted items.  Three of them are all based on the same combination of fabrics, just put together a bit differently and in different sizes.

First, I made a birthday quilt for our friend's baby who was born last year in October.  To me it was fitting that the quilt had a halloween theme.

Birthday Quilt back.

Then, seeing how that turned out, I decided to make a bigger quilt (lap quilt size) for David (and me).  But before I finished the Halloween quilt for us, I made a little table runner.  I wanted to practice my free motion quilting and see how it would end up looking on the Halloween quilt. I did a little playing around with different color threads for the top and bottom.  You can see where I switched the top thread in the second picture (on the right).  Not the best look, but it did make me realize I liked the black thread on top --it made it look much less busy.

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And now the Halloween quilt...I decided to use black sashing instead of the white I used on the Birthday quilt.

Here are the some of the squares I used in the Halloween quilt.

Here is what the quilt top looked like before I made the quilt sandwich and quilted it. 

and here it is after quilting (Sam is guarding it!):

 It shrunk a bit after washing--I didn't prewash any of the fabrics, so I usually expect some shrinkage.

I used an all-over free motion technique like on the table runner, but the scale of the pumpkins is bigger on the quilt.  Detail shot to the right.

We have been using it, but I think it will be put away for the summer.  I guess I'll have to make a different lap quilt we can use all year round!