For Cat.

Posted on 02.Oct.11 by kait

Being in Roanoke this weekend, I was able to gift a quilt I’ve yet to really blog about, to my dear friend Catherine.Sorry it’s not the best picture. Jango sure is cute!

She recently completed a really messy, nasty divorce, the kind of divorce no one should ever have to go through. But she’s come out the other side and is better for it, I think. When I decided to cut out my Single Girl quilt I accidentally cut too many of a few pieces and then decided to go with it and make Catherine a (hopefully) meaningful quilt. I asked her what her favorite color was and she said, in all honesty, “puke green.” I tried to find a color like that and while I don’t think I succeeded, Kona cotton in Moss worked out.

Unfortunately, as I sat down to write this post, I realized I never properly photographed it! Next time I go up there I’ll have to make a point of it.The rings are all Denyse Schmidt fabrics and a couple solids.The backing is mostly Katie Jump Rope brown bandana print that I got on clearance at Thimble Pleasures.

It’s quilted on Ursula in a large blowing maple leaf pattern with a variegated brown thread. It was bound in the orange plaid from KJR and I embroidered a label reading “for catherine, a single girl. summer 2011. ♥ kait.” It measures somewhere around 45″ x 65″ and she loved it :)

For a dear friend and her baby.

Posted on 23.Jun.11 by kait

My long ago and beloved roommate Abby, with her lovely husband Ben are having a baby any day now. I knew I had to make something special for them. I have been working on it for the last couple months but now that it has been sent, received, and blogged about by them, I can finally show it off.

You might think this looks very similar to another baby quilt I made early last year and you’d be right. I love this fabric line (American Jane Snippets) and loved the first quilt, I decided to make another (though not identical) one.

The rainbow stitches around the border took weeks (granted, I pretty much only did it an hour or two a week at Stitch ‘n’ Bitch) and I was so ready to be done with it until it came time to put on a label and then something possessed me and I made the biggest, most intricate quilt label ever (for me). I think though, that it was worth it.

I had a fun time with this photo shoot. I’ve been struggling with my last couple quilts about how best to photograph them in our yard. For this one I wrapped a bungee cord around two trees and clothes pinned the quilt up which worked really well. I like how the dark ivy sets off the bright quilt. There are a couple neighbors’ yards I’d like to ask about using for my next completed quilt.