Quick Medallion Quilt

 It all started Saturday afternoon with these fabrics which had been residing in a plastic shoe box, just waiting for the perfect pattern.

This Villa Rosa Designs would be the one!

 I tried a couple of combinations of fabrics for the center and inner border

and chose this one!

Here is one layout I had early on but then decided the burgundy paisleys were too dark and took away from the border. I find my camera to be one of my best tools for looking at my quilts and seeing what needs to be moved or taken out.

Here is the final quilt top! Made in just a few hours! It is 54" x 63". I enhanced the colors on my computer so it brightened it up a bit. How fun is this??!! Makes me want to take another fabric combination and try it again! Happy Stitching!

A Trip to the Zoo!

 This is another one of those fun quilts from Villa Rosa Designs called Mojave. I saw it at a quilt shop in Florida last year and bought the kit for $29 it was so cute!

 It was also SO easy to sew together!

 Very simple blocks, large pieces of the theme fabric and some squares around the quilt for the border.

 I quilted it with the pantograph "Amaze Me", which looks like a maze or puzzle pieces to follow. I noticed my 3 year old grandson following the actual quilt design on one of his quilts a couple of weeks ago. That was fascinating to me that he would even notice the quilting, but he did.

I tried my hand again at sewing the binding on the machine for both sides. It is acceptable, but I still need to improve on it.