100 Quilts for Kids

Woohoo for a productive weekend! 

I completed my 100 Quilts for Kids!!

 Love this binding!

 For whatever reason the blocks look crooked in this picture.. they're really not in person haha

close up of quilting

Please excuse the nighttime shots, I was so excited when I was finished I couldn't wait to take pictures!

This quilt top was my favorite yet. The colors are so bright and I have loved this line (Terrain by Kate Spain) since it was released.. This is the first time my entire family has tried to convince me to keep a quilt, but this baby will be sent to Back to Basics.

Victoria from Bumble Beans is fantastic and organizes this program. 

Since I personally don't know of any children's charities in my direct area, I figured this would be a good place to send it!


The only part of this quilt that I less than love, is the red backing -- error on my part, I ordered this online and the picture looked more pink and bright than it actually was.. Guess I might need to invest in a Kona color card... oh well, lesson learned!

btw.. i'm linking up canoe ridge creations - Sumo's Sweet Stuff - Sew Chatty - Skip to my Lou

Saturday Quilting

This weekend is devoted to my 100 Quilts for Kids quilt.

As of last night this is what I had done..

This is what i'm looking at as of lunchtime on Saturday!

Finished quilt top..

 Closeup of some of my favorite blocks!

 Now for the backing!

The rest of the day will consist of basting and maybe starting to quilt.. now heres the problem..

How should I quilt it?!

My FMQ'ing experience is ZERO, so I was figuring fallback with some straight line quilting but I'm not sure what kind.. I'm worried diagonals would be too busy and take away from the color scheme..

But then maybe just in the black sashing, too simple?!

UPDATE -  I decided to go with quilting in the sashing for this one and it makes a nice design on the back, so as soon as I decide on binding and get that done, i'll post some pictures - thanks for all the advice and help!

Little Fix

seriously, 4 days of no quilting for me after the recent trend of LOTS of sewing was torture!!

I managed to get SOME in last night, but not nearly as much as I would have liked.

I decided to start on my 100 Quilts for Kids

I turned my "Terrain by Kate Spain" charm pack into these...

Which I then turned into these...

Love the brightness of this, I'm getting excited to start my Spanish Tiles now that i've decided on the brights too!!

Anywho, off to my local quilt shop tomorrow to pick up some Kona solids for the sashing, I'm hoping to get some serious quilting done this weekend

Happy Friday everybody!