Crabtastic Quilt

I was able to finish up a couple projects before I went to the beach... Last year after the beach, I decided we needed a beach quilt.  I saw Faith's crabtastic patchwork quilt and wanted something like that.  I snatched up some Maude Asbury's, Crabtastic from Hawthorne Threads last year and it took until this May to finish it.

I adore this quilt.  Its so happy!  Luckily I finished it before the beach because I'm weird about comforters in hotels and rental properties... So, we used it every night to sleep under and woke up to cheerful beach prints!

The design came from a picture I saw on pinterest.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to get a great photo of it.  I'll keep trying!  Excuse my husband's feet.

I backed it in Joel Dewberry's, Floral Drop!  I love that print.  Bound in Amy Butler's, Full Moon.  The quilting took Forever!  I did 4 straight lines with my walking foot every 6" and then went back and added a triangular zigzag on both sides of the lines.  Probably the most quilting I've done on a quilt.  I'm really happy with this quilt even though it took a year to complete!  

An Ode to Summer

My lemonade quilt was my ode to this hot summer, we broke record highs in Knoxville for 3 or 4 days in a row! I do not do well in hot weather... I sometimes break out in hives. No fun. I'd much rather be cold and numb, riding the chairlift up at a ski resort than sweating by just stepping out my front door.

I won all of these fabrics at my first Knoxville Modern Quilt Guild meeting! And put this quilt together to donate to the Hurricane Sandy Drive.

I practiced several different FMQ techniques. And added kona cerise for binding. I love how it turned out! The dark gray and yellow remind me of blistering hot summer pavement.