My favorite so far....

This is the baby quilt I am making for this baby...I LOVE it so far!

Rails in Green and Blue

I have made this quilt 2x now. Basically I made enough squares for 3 baby quilts and have assembled 2 now. I used an assortment of greens and blues with some tan/brown tones in there as well and trimmed both with the dark brown border and green binding It's a very basic rail pattern and I'm really thrilled with the way they turned out. I forgot to take pictures of the first one which I gave to my friend Janice for her baby and this one is for my friend Megan and her baby boy. I machine quilted the horizontal and vertical rows to outline the main squares and then traced squares onto the border which I machine quilted as well. The first binding I hand finished and this one I machine finished. I like the plain flannel on the back as the front is so busy and I also think it brings the pattern of machine quilting out better. I plan on using a brown flannel for the third one.

Here we go!

I wanted to start a fun blog that I can post stuff about my quilts on. I love to quilt and although I'm still a beginner I have many quilts already planned. I prefer to piece quilts and to machine quilt them although I have done a number of quilts with just a single piece front and single piece back out of fleece that I machine quilted and they turned out really cute as well. I recently completed a circle quilt for a friend's baby and was really happy with the finished product. She loves it and told me that she uses it all the time. That absolutely thrills me because I want my quilts to be loved and used. So, here are some pictures of the recent quilt!

The picture of the words didn't come out well...but it says:
Burke's Blue Bubble Blankie
Sewn with stitches and
Blessed with Love
Kelly Johnson 2008



If you're a quilter send me some pictures or thoughts or whatever!