Quilts by Julie Ramsey
books
So much for lime and black!
May 21st
I took a trip out to the bookstore today and came home with a copy of Celtic Pieced Illusions by Karen Combs. Now I can’t wait to make my own Celtic knot quilt! The method is very simple, using just two blocks– triangle-in-the-corner blocks and nine-patches– and I think I can put together this multicolor knot quilt without too much pain sometime in the near future.
Snowballs for Grandma
May 6th
The quilt top I’ve been working on for my grandmother is finally finished, and I’m very pleased with the way it turned out. Sure, there are a lot of spots where points don’t quite match up, but the overall effect is very cheerful, and I love the color scheme.
This one will be finished with a stitch-in-the-ditch between the blocks, and probably free-motion heart designs inside the white “snowball” patches.
The design came from “Snowball Quilt: Simplified,” which you can snag for a few dollars used online.
Day & Night
Mar 9th
The “Quilt in a Day” series has lived up to its name: I put together a Day & Night crib quilt in a grand total of about five hours this afternoon.
There were a LOT of points to line up, so there are a few spots where things aren’t quite perfect, but I think the overall effect still definitely works. Not quite sure what I’m going to do with it– maybe it’s good enough to include in my Etsy launch??– but I’m sure it’ll find a home of some sort.
Plenty to Do
Mar 7th
Exciting news: I picked up two quilt commissions this week! One is from my mom, who would like a quilt to give as a gift to her doctor. The other is for a second cousin who liked the pictures I posted on Facebook so much that she wants me to make a quilt for her grandbaby. Unfortunately, I’m still waiting on some batik fabric to come in the mail for the first quilt, and my cousin is still picking a design for her quilt. This leaves me, gasp!, with nothing to work on for the moment.
I picked up a copy of 200 Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match at the used bookstore the other day, and found lots of fun stuff to play around with. One of their suggested layouts was something along these lines:
I picked up fabric for it last night– thank goodness for Electric Quilt’s “calculate yardage” feature!– and will be starting in on it today.
