finished quilts

Sew Delightful Baby Quilt from A Little Bit Biased

Hello! I am trying to finish up some

blogging before the end of the year. I have about

5 finished quilts that I want to share with you (so stay tuned).

Sometimes snapping nice pictures is the hardest part for me!

Today I have a little baby quilt I want to share.

This pattern is called Sew Delightful from my book,

Quilt the Rainbow. The original quilt (the red one) is quite large

finishing at 90-1/2" x 90-1/2".

Sew Delightful is easy to make bigger or smaller, square or rectangular.

I made just 4 blocks to make the ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 2 years ago. under finished quilts , in my shop , my patterns , quilt the rainbow , sew delightful

A Simple Charm Quilt Tutorial 2.0 from A Little Bit Biased

As I write this blog post, the halls are decked (except for my

Christmas tree) and I am curled up under a new, large,

Minky-backed Christmas quilt. I wish I could say I had

some hot cocoa in hand but you're girl has got

to start laying off the treats!

Making this quilt was a necessity.

You see, I made one just like it a few years ago

and then one day my big sister was in town and started snooping

through my quilts. She's never asked me for a quilt before

but she said she loved it ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 2 years, 1 month ago. under a simple charm quilt , finished quilts , free pattern , tutorials

Harvest Days Quilt from A Little Bit Biased

When Liza Taylor of Liza Taylor Handmade

posted pictures a few months ago of her upcoming pattern, Harvest Days,

I immediately fell in love!

The day the pattern was released I quickly bought the PDF and got to work.

I love this sweet color palette using an assortment of peach, pink, and purple prints

from different fabric lines! I sprinkled in some olive green for the little stars and I just love it!

My quilter, Jen Ostler in Highland, UT quilted it with this

beautiful panto called Breeze. I think it's perfect for this quilt!

I used the same ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 2 years, 1 month ago. under finished quilts , harvest days quilt

Jessica Dayon's Precut Parade Book Tour from A Little Bit Biased

Hi friends!

Today I am sharing a project I made

from my friend, Jessica Dayon's new book,

Precut Parade.

Jessica's book includes 9 precut-friendly quilt patterns;

3 for Jelly Rolls, 3 for Layer Cakes, and 3 for Fat Quarters!

All of the patterns in the book are beautiful, traditional designs.

I chose to do this fat quarter-friendly pattern called Sparker!

[Photo courtesy of Martingale Publishing]

If you know me at all, you know that I love red, white, and blue quilts

They're classic, striking, and never go out of style!

So Jessica's Sparkler quilt really spoke ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 2 years, 2 months ago. under etsy , finished quilts , precut parade , quilts for sale , sparkler quilt

Box Elder Trail Quilt Finish (Multi-Color Version) from A Little Bit Biased

Hello! I finally snapped

some pictures of the multi-color version

of my Box Elder Trail quilt.

For reference, here is the original version:

[ Photo courtesy of Martingale Publishing]

It's the green quilt in my new book,

Quilt the Rainbow.

There are 10 projects in the book to help you whittle

down each color of your stash. Nine are monochromatic

quilts and one (the cover quilt) is multi-color.

Box Elder Trail is a great scrap buster project!

The only fabric I specifically bought for this quilt was the floral

background - a Tilda fabric from the line Daiseyfield.

For the small ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 2 years, 3 months ago. under box elder trail quilt , etsy , finished quilts , in my shop , my patterns , quilt the rainbow

Three Finishes and many plans... from Elsie Quilts

Jessica's quilt is finished, was delivered, and well received. I'd asked her a few months ago about colors and favorite things. She said pastels, cats, horses, elephants, beaches, sunsets, wildflowers and her son Cayden. Enlarge the pictures and everything is there. I called it "Jessica's Heart" and it is about 64" square. The colors are truest in the sunset one on the right and below in the upper left one with the horses.

Before finishing it, I took all my tiny leftover bits of old florals from the third quilt when it was in the top but ...

added by Elsie Montgomery 2 years, 4 months ago. under finished quilts , it started out sane , jessica's heart , walk in the wilderness

Another Boxy Quilt from A Little Bit Biased

I started this quilt on March 9th, 2022 and just finished

it yesterday, June 1st, 2022. I somehow even talked my husband into going

into the hills by our house yesterday to help me get some photos.

This is my second Boxy quilt. It's such a quick, easy pattern to make!

The first one I made was in really bright fabrics so I wanted

to see what a softer version would look like.

Click HERE to see the original version.

Plus I had these two Dover charm packs (by Brenda Riddle Designs for Moda)

in my stash that I ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 2 years, 6 months ago. under boxy quilt , etsy , finished quilts , gigi's thimble , in my shop , my patterns

» Elsie Quilts

Yes, I have not been posting much, but finished four quilts last week, so that might explain it. On a whirl... use all that fabric before I die? something like that. Here are some pictures. All of them are going to charity or have already gone:

Purple Patches, a lap size leaving me with only a little bit of purple scraps. It is 50" x 50"

Count the Kittens, leftovers from Jessica's Heart (which is not finished yet. The top is done but not sandwiched etc.) This was fun to put together. I had lots of the little ...

added by Elsie Montgomery 2 years, 7 months ago. under busting the blues , count the kittens , finished quilts , purple patches , purple squares in squares , using scraps

Sapporo coat, the memory coat from Zarkadia Quilts

Almost two years have passed since I started making this quilted coat, when I participated on the 100 Day Project. This was my first attempt in completing an improvisational project and I must admit it was totally liberating.

My process in making this quilt coat, was to create the “fabric” first and then assemble the coat. Big mistake, I have to admit! Managing such a big piece of quilt was a total burden at the actual time of quilting it, and I surely will not attempt it for a second time. Now let’s go into some more details.

The ...

added by Zafira 2 years, 7 months ago. under 2021 finished quilts , finished quilts , improvquilt , quiltedcoat , quilting (Comments)

A lighter Half-Square-Triangle quilt from Zarkadia Quilts

Scrappy quilts are the best! And actually they are more satisfying for the maker, because they come out of our “trash bins” (if they were gonna be thrown). But no quilter throws anything away, like NOONE!

So what do we do with them? We upcycle, we use in smaller projects, etc, etc. But today I will not be talking about scrappy quilts, I will be talking about THIS scrappy quilt.

I keep a small box with 6 inch squares, that are carefully cut from my fabric scraps. I have more boxes with different square dimensions, but this time I needed ...

added by Zafira 2 years, 9 months ago. under 2021 finished quilts , cottonandsteel , finished quilts , half square triangles , hstquilt , quilting (Comments)

Two Finishes from Elsie Quilts

Finally finished two projects. This 'tree of life' is quilted now and ready to go back to our guild. I was given the blocks and told "make something from these" but it took me a long time to decide how to quilt it. It is about 72" square. I call it Almost Autumn.

This is a gift, but doubt the recipient is checking my blog so feel safe to post it. I saw similar patterns online but drafted my own versions to suit the amount of fabric I had. The place mats and table runner might only get used once ...

added by Elsie Montgomery 2 years, 9 months ago. under almost autumn , finished quilts , old glory , place mats , sample block , stubborn winter , table runner

Holly Jolly Block of the Week from A Little Bit Biased

Hi friends!

Today I want to share a project I finished recently

that was designed by one of my Instagram friends, Jessica Dayon.

I've collaborated with Jessica before HERE and HERE and I'm

always amazed at her proficiency and creativity!

She is so generous with the number of free patterns and quilt-alongs

she offers and she truly has a great eye for design.

Last year Jessica offered this sampler pattern called the

Holly Jolly Block of the Week. She used the Holly Holiday fabric line

by Christopher Thompson for Riley Blake. The pattern was offered through a free ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 2 years, 10 months ago. under finished quilts , holly jolly block of the week , sampler quilt

Snowball and 9-Patch Quilt from A Little Bit Biased

If you're looking for a quick, scrappy way to use up

some of your fabric stash this is a great quilt pattern for you!

Snowballs (in this case a black square with cream corner triangles)

and 9-Patches are a classic pairing that look great in any colorway!

This project started because I had some of the black text fabric leftover

from the back of my Giant Star quilt using the line Urban Cottage by

Urban Chiks. You can see that post HERE (it's worth checking out, it's

another super-fast, beginner-friendly project!)

I thought that fabric was cute ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 2 years, 11 months ago. under finished quilts , quilt labels , snowball quilt , tutorial

Coded Heart quilt, the pink one from Zarkadia Quilts

I have always been a fan of video games, and Super Mario was a part of my childhood. My inspiration for making this pattern was the Mario pixelated heart. I drafted the design, simplified it from a quilters’ point of view, and Tadah!!!

Meet the Coded Heart quilt

A fun and beginner friendly pattern that has no HSTs and is really forgiving with beginner mistakes. It makes your fabrics pop-up, and is totally fat quarter friendly!

Quilt Sizes

The pattern includes instructions for a number of quilt sizes:

Baby quilt (45” x 48”)
Throw quilt (60” x 64 ...

added by Zafira 2 years, 11 months ago. under 2021 finished quilts , coded heart quilt , finished quilts , heart quilt , heart quilt pattern , quilting , zarkadiapatterns (Comments)

Postage Stamp Quilt from A Little Bit Biased

Hi friends! Today I have a really special (long) post for you!

Today I want to share a quilt that took me two years

and about 85 hours to complete - my Postage Stamp quilt!

I got so many questions on Instagram every time I posted pictures of this project

so I will try to cover all the FAQ's here. First, let me start at the beginning...

THE INSPIRATION

My grandmother passed away in October 2019.

She was the one who taught me how to quilt and who my pattern company is named after.

After she passed, my mom and ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 3 years ago. under finished quilts , postage stamp quilt , scrap buster

Christmas Kaleidoscope from A Little Bit Biased

I'm back and today I'm sharing something I'm super excited about!

A new Christmas pattern! It's called Christmas Kaleidoscope!

It started with this beautiful, scrappy bundle of fabrics.

The reds are mostly wovens and the greens are an assortment

of dark and light greens from different fabric lines.

The white fabric with red stars is from the fabric line, Stars and Stripes

by My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake. That was my background fabric.

Green 4-Patches make up the Holly blocks.

I've paired them with some fun Star blocks to make a really pretty ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 3 years ago. under christmas kaleidoscope , etsy , finished quilts , in my shop , my patterns

Finished Golden Quilt from A Little Bit Biased

Look at me; two posts in one week!

I've got a lot of catching up to do here on the blog so I figured

I wouldn't waste any time posting about this other finished quilt -

my finished Golden quilt!

For this quilt, I used the fabric line Pumpkins and Blossoms by Fig Tree for Moda.

I did a scrappy background (which is different than the original quilt and

what the pattern states to do). But who doesn't love a scrappy background!?!

I threw in a couple other low-volume fabrics from other fabric lines to give me enough ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 3 years ago. under etsy , finished quilts , golden quilt , golden quilt along , in my shop , my patterns

Finished Autumn Glow Quilt in Solids from A Little Bit Biased

Well hello there!

It's been a while since I've posted here on the blog so I wanted to check in

and tell you that I'm still here and I have some finished projects I'd like to share with you

over the next few weeks! Today I want to share my finished Autumn Glow quilt in solids.

Unfortunately, I don't know the names of the solids I used.

I need to do better about writing them down beforehand!

But basically, I used a terracotta color, a cream, a dark brown (all shown above)

plus I ended ...

added by Gigi's Thimble 3 years ago. under autumn glow , autumn glow quilt along , etsy , finished quilts , my patterns

Two Finishes, lots happening from Elsie Quilts

Finally. My TO-DO program keeps reminding me to post, but I tend to procrastinate progress reports in favor of finishes. Sigh.

Anyway, this is a queen-size, long because the man is tall, and these colors because his wife wanted a bit of pink in it, with grey and white solid. They read solid anyway.

The other one is a quilt for a 4 year-old boy who has an abundance of energy, likes bright colors, and enjoys the alphabet. It is 38" x 56" and was fun to do.

This is a refugee family who fled their home because of death ...

added by Elsie Montgomery 3 years, 2 months ago. under finished quilts , quilts for refugees

Peer Pressure from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

Peer pressure is a good motivator! A number of us have signed up for the One Block Wonder using a panel at Thimbles and Things. Not that I needed to make one, but it was on my list of quilts to make so now seemed like a good time.

I found those small panels in my stash so I didn't even have to buy anything. I also found some coordinating fabric for the binding, backing, and the filler along the edges. I attended the class two weeks ago and today is class number two. We are supposed to have ...

added by Elaine 3 years, 2 months ago. under bear , finished quilts , m , my quilts , one block wonder

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Meet the Coded Heart quilt

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