The finished Jack O Heart Halloween throw quilt by Daydreams of Quilts.
I got extremely motivated and pieced, basted, quilted and bound this quilt all in one day! (Yes, I was very tired afterwards.) I have a system down pat for these pixel heart quilts now and I use the knee lift lever on my sewing machines to help speed things up. It actually does save time.
Cute fabrics in the background.
I was wanting to sew a Halloween quilt but couldn’t afford to buy fabric. I started looking through my “holiday fabrics” basket and was surprised to discover that I had enough Halloween prints for a whole quilt!
Spider webs on purple for the binding.
I was very pleased that I was able to bust quite a bit of my stash. 🙂
We had a beautiful fall day for photos and I ran out with the quilt as soon as the binding was sewn down.Jack O Heart quilt with fall foliage.A quick little video of the quilt.
Thank you for visiting my blog today. I hope your Halloween preparations are going well.
I did a major four-day clean of my sewing room at the end of December and in doing so I found several bundles of fabrics that I had tucked away for various project. As often happens, the original passion for the idea had faded but these fabrics needed their time to shine. Originally I had planned a quilt of all eight point stars so I had two star blocks. One of those blocks is shining front and centre on this recently finished pixel heart quilt.
The front of this heart quilt is made entirely out of the fabrics from the first Uppercase fabric line by Janine Vangool for Windham Fabrics.
To make this quilt I used my Canadian Flag Pixelated Heart pattern and put the star block where the maple leaf block was. Then I changed the red bars on either side of the maple leaf back to regular pixel squares. I added two inch borders of black fabrics from the fabric line.
Canadian Flag Pixelated Heart Quilt by Daydreams of Quilts.The centre star block. Fabrics are the Uppercase line by Janine Vangool for Windham Fabrics.
The centre star block is made up of 16 three inch squares. Four regular squares in the corners and half square triangles make up the star.
Free motion quilted with wavy lines in the heart and stipple quilting on the background.
This bright beautiful throw quilt is available here in our Etsy shop.
This pattern uses two layer cakes! And you don’t have to buy additional background fabric. That’s my kinda pattern! The Angular Rectangular pattern is the newest PDF quilt pattern from Daydreams of Quilts and it’s currently 20% off!
“Angular Rectangular” designed and Pieced by Daydreams of Quilts.
I used a layer cake of “Honeymoon” and a layer cake of “Paper Bandana” from the original group of Cotton + Steel designers for my quilt. This shows that your layer cakes don’t have to be the same but can be coordinating.
The pattern includes computer diagrams, written instructions, photographs and a colouring page. Find it here.
The cover quilt is also available for sale and is part of our current 20% off sale! This is a nice throw size at 59″ x 64″.
There are sloths on this quilt and this is not the environment you would find them in but one can dream. This quilt is also available for sale 20% off.
This is second Holiday Lodge throw quilt that I finished last week. You can see the first one (the light version) in this post.
This quilt uses a Holiday Lodge panel as well as some of the fabrics from the “Holiday Lodge” line by Deb Strain for Moda Fabrics. I have added in fabrics from Tula Pink’s “Holiday Homies”, Basic Grey’s “Evergreen”, Kate and Birdie’s “True North” and other fabrics from my stash. There are also Kona snow and Kona black solids. The Holiday Lodge fabrics were purchased from Funky Monkey Fabrics and Thread Count Fabrics.
Holiday Lodge Christmas Throw Quilt pieced and quilted by Daydreams of Quilts.
The Holiday Lodge quilt is available here in the Daydreams of Quilts Etsy shop.
We did actually get some snow here the day before this photo was taken which would have been nice for photos but I’m not sad that it melted quickly.
Close-up of Christmas stag.
These fabrics fit in perfectly with the farmhouse decor trend. They make me wish I could spend Christmas in a cozy cabin in the mountains.
Close-up of some of the quilting motifs.
I quilted this quilt with various custom quilting motifs including stippling, wishbones, straight lines and loop-de-loops around the plaid bears, trees and stags. The border is quilted with feathers.
The black shooting star fabric as the background for the trees is a Figo Fabrics print from Studio 39 Fabrics.
The dark wood grain fabrics are what really make this quilt! The wood grain background on the bows is a Northcott fabric.
The back of the quilt is the red and black buffalo plaid check from the “Holiday Lodge” line.
The present block is from Thimble Blossoms “Handmade with Love” pattern. The ornament block is from Thimble Blossoms “Vintage Holiday” pattern.
Here is the first of two quilts I have finished in the last week. This quilt uses a “Holiday Lodge” quilt panel designed by Deb Strain for Moda Fabrics. I used some Holiday Lodge fabrics and mixed in other fabrics from my stash including: Basic Grey’s “Evergreen” line, Tula Pink’s “Holiday Homies” line and some Kate and Birdie “True North” fabrics. The “Holiday Lodge” fabrics were purchased from Birdie and Dot Fabrics. There is also Kona Snow and Kona Black fabric in this quilt.
Holiday Lodge Christmas Throw pieced and quilted by Daydreams of Quilts.
This quilt is available here in the Daydreams of Quilts Etsy shop.
I bought these adorable animal panels and the white border from Funky Monkey Fabrics in the summer when they had a sale on Dear Stella fabrics. I didn’t have a real plan for them other than I thought I might make pillow covers with them.
Black and White Animals with Rainbows Quilt made by Daydreams of Quilts.
Then I thought I would like to make a kid’s quilt with them but needed to add to the panels to make it bigger. I collected fabrics in rainbow colours from my scrap bins and cut the panel in half. Then I added the strips of rainbows. I then added the coordinating white border. I felt the quilt should still be a bit bigger as I was thinking it could be for a toddler bed so I ordered the black border and the binding from Thread Count Fabrics. This quilt is 45″ x 51.5″.
Close-up of borders and binding.
The black fabric has a white print of mountains on it and the binding has sticks. So cute! This quilt would be lovely for a family who loves camping or spending time in nature. It’s perfect for my own family actually. 🙂
The bear panel says “Be Brave”. All of the animals have virtues to go along with them.
The animal panels are adorable and they all have virtues. I quilted around them in stipple quilting with variegated rainbow thread in 80 weight from Aurifil.
The ever popular llama.
This was a fun quilt to make and a great one for using up scraps. This quilt is available in my Etsy shop.
It’s a beautiful fall day today to go out and take quilt photos.
Such a cute quilt for a child or even a lap quilt for an adult. Available here.
My Rainbow Hot Air Balloon panel that I designed for the Cheater Quilt Panel challenge on Spoonflower has arrived. I have it all quilted and bound now.
Having the grid lines printed on the panel makes it so easy to quilt this modern quilt in an equally modern grid. The only spot that’s a bit tricky is the white part of the heart. I wobbled a bit but you can’t tell right? 🙂
It’s a lovely September fall day for quilt photos. The rainbow really pops in the shade of the trees.
This is the backing and binding. I used a gradient chartreuse from Cotton and Steel for the binding that worked out very well. The backing is a Flourish print from Windham Fabrics.
A closer look at the quilting. It’s so easy to quilt this quilt with a walking foot.
Thank you for checking out my fun modern quilt today! I hope your day is going great!
This sailboat quilt was made with Daysail fabics, designed by Bonnie and Camille for Moda, with a white on white background. The Kona for the inner border and sashing is Kona Splash available here from Studio 39 Fabrics. The Sailboat quilt can be found here in our Etsy shop.
Sailboat Quilt pieced and quilted by Daydreams of Quilts.
I have written a free pattern for this quilt for my maker’s email subscribers. Scroll down to the bottom of this post to subscribe and receive this free PDF pattern.
I quilted clouds in the white background and waves in the sashing and inner border. The sails are quilted with back and forth lines and the border is quilted with meandering stipple quilting. The boats have waves quilted on them too. I switched out threads to match the fabrics. All threads are Aurifil 50 weight 100% cotton threads.
Close up of the quilting on the Sailboat Quilt.
I used a pretty ombre rainbow wideback for the backing (I believe this one is from Windham fabrics.)
The backing is this pretty ombre wideback.
My husband and son are behind the quilt fighting the breeze to hold the quilt for me.
This quilt is a generous throw or shorter twin size and is available here in the Daydreams of Quilts Etsy shop.
Sailboat quilt pieced and quilted by Daydreams of Quilts.
We, very happily, had a bit of a run on quilts in our shop last month so I’m needing to get moving on some works in progress and get them listed! This quilt was finished a week and a half ago but haven’t had a chance to write about it until now with all the busyness of back to school. I am calling this quilt the Garden Vines Quilt but it was made using the Morning Glory quilt pattern by Allison Harris of Cluck Cluck Sew. Made entirely with the Flourish fabric line for quilt top and we still have some of these fabrics available here.
Garden Vines / Morning Glory Quilt pieced and quilted by Daydreams of Quilts.
I quilted ribbon candy all down the stems and leaf shaped loops on the leaves. The yellow background is quilted with meandering stippling. It took a full day to quilt this quilt on my Juki.
A close-up view of the quilting.
The binding is double folded and machine sewn to the front and back of the quilt.
The back of the quilt is a mottled green fabric.
Here is a close-up of my maker’s label from JJ Labels.
Here’s a pretty vertical image below for you to pin on Pinterest. 🙂
This quilt was fun to make and was a great pattern for these fabrics.
This quilt is available for sale here in the Daydreams of Quilts Etsy shop. Sold! Thank you. 🙂
I finished a quilt yesterday! This one was for a custom order from my Etsy shop. The customer who ordered it said it is for a gift for a new family coming to Canada from Syria. What an amazing welcome gift!
Canadian Flag in a Pixel Heart Quilt by Daydreams of Quilts
Yesterday was a perfect prairie day for quilt photos. I am thankful I finished yesterday because today is windy and stormy and I would not have been able to take photos.
The fabrics are almost all Moda. Mostly from Kate and Birdie’s “True North” line but there are also some French General fabrics, Moda grunge and Moda grunge dots.
There is a horse paddock at the end of our street and the horses seemed interested in what my son and I were doing with this quilt near their fence. I like to think this quilt is horse-approved. 🙂
I hope the family love their new quilt and their new country! <3
