City Lights: Schafer's 10th Birthday Quilt

The Modern Quilt Guild releases a free pattern for members every month. I love them all and have been wanting to make one for quite some time. My son's 10th birthday was coming up so I let him pick out a pattern - he chose City Lights (download here if you are a Modern Quilt Guild member).

My son went to two quilt stores with me to pick out the solids/colors he wanted. Then checked in on my progress about every 30 minutes or so to see if it was done yet.

The top came together quickly, and screamed for some fun quilting.

My son wanted a gray solid out of my stash for the backing. Of course I was short so I used some leftover turquoise to fill it in.

I had a lot of fun quilting this one up. I used a variety of digital designs with a lot of straight line quilting.

 

x plus + anna maria horner + cotton and steel

My first finish of 2015 (hopefully one of many)! The pattern for this quilt is called Perfect Union by Pat Bravo from American Patchwork and Quilting February 2014 (click here for more info).

  How cute are those quilt buddy feet and fingers?!

I used a fat quarter bundle of Anna Maria Horner's Dowry line and peppered in a variety of solids from my stash. 

The back is a linen Cotton and Steel print - perfection! It calmed down the busy front, yet the arrows have all the colors spotted throughout.

Finished this one off with a "quilted label." I'm terrible at making labels, so I figured this was better than nothing!

I love this shot before washing - it shows off the quilting nicely. This was a digital pattern called Harbour Wave (found here) by Patricia Ritter/Urban Elementz. I let my Handi Quilter Fusion ProStitcher do the work....and I think it turned out beautifully.

Happy Stitching!