Marcie's Maze

Design board set up

I had purchased 20 pieces of fabric and cut it into 2 1/2" strips for a course that was being offered by a local quilt shop.  Unfortunately, it was cancelled at the very last minute on 2 occasions (urrrgh!!) and so I was left with 40 jelly roll strips.

Quilt in nature

The fabric was from the Moda Chic Neutral collection and was one I really liked.  I decided to make another project, but it would require another jelly roll.  I wanted fabric to be from the same collection. But, since it had been out for a while, it was nearly impossible to find any additional fabric to enable me to make a large quilt.  Luckily I found Dinkydoo, an online fabric store at the time, in British Columbia that had a jelly roll of this line.   If you are not familiar with this store, check them out.  They have lots of fabric choice and daily deals :) They are also opening a bricks and mortar shop in Pitt Meadows if you happen to be in the area.

Quilt design is an original design by a local long arm quilter.

The pattern for this quilt was Marcie's Maze Quilt Pattern by Mack and Mabel which I ordered online.   A fun quilt to make and directions were easy to follow.  Lots of sizes available for this quilt pattern as well.  This one turned out to be the biggest quilt I have ever made - 93" x 110" !!

This quilt was made for my daughter's 10th wedding anniversary.

Tango

The Tango quilt pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew caught my eye on a visit to Mad About Patchwork  in Richmond, Ontario earlier this year.  With pattern in hand, I and the helpful gal in the store, Katy,  picked fabrics that would work.  I also picked a wideback material - Kaffe Fassett Wide Circles in Black, something a bit different.  I love using wideback fabric as it makes it so much easier for the backing.  Mad About Patchwork has an online store, but it's a real treat to get to see and feel the fabrics they sell. 

So with fabric and pattern in hand I headed home to begin the project.  The pattern had good instructions and the color combinations were fun to match up.  I started off cutting individual strips as the pattern suggested but soon found a slight problem.   Some of my fabrics had a bit wider than usual selvage edge (with the name of the company and fabric name) and this ended up giving me less than 40" of usable WOF.  A bit of a nuisance.  So a piece of advice for anyone working with the pattern -  get an extra few inches to make up for this.

Other than that slight problem, I enjoyed working with this pattern.  It worked up fairly quickly and was a real splash of color.  

The striped binding (also suggested by Katy) was a great idea! 

The quilting design I chose was Meander.  It was done by a local long arm machine quilter who always does great work.

This quilt is for my granddaughter - I hope she enjoys it.

Baby Boy Quilt

Saw this fabric, Le Elephant by Ellen Crimi-Trent for Clothworks, at The Running Stitch and couldn't resist using it with the pattern Yellow Brick Road from Atkinson Designs. It is  made for fat quarters and has easy-to-follow instructions. 

I had it professionally quilted with bears, moons and stars and the quilting really pops on the solid border and backing.  I like using Kona solids for that reason.