100 Quilts, 100 Kids: Quilt 004 - XOXO

Four down, ninety-six to go. I have a couple of quilts I want to make as wedding gifts and decided on using the XO blocks with some hearts. I thought I'd enlarge the XO and give them a shot for this quilt here. I put it together real quick one night and then realized I didn't have anything for the back or binding so I hopped online and ordered a solid aqua and the pink and white stripes. I really like stripes for binding.


I didn't have enough pink fabric for the "O", so I had to fudge the block a little bit to make it work. I hope that everything stays where it needs to when it comes to washing this guy.


I like these easy blocks. I may make a couple more quilts with these blocks.



Quilt Stats:

• Size: Approx. 41” x 41” 
• Pattern: XOXO
• Fabric: mostly miscellaneous fabrics from Art Gallery Fabrics
• Quilting - wavey horizontal lines varying widths apart

Finished Quilt 010

100 Quilts, 100 Kids: Quilt 003 - BQA 2.0

And number 3 is complete too. I took the remaining 4 BQA blocks and made 5 more blocks to create this quilt. I planned to make it mostly churn dash blocks, but didn't have enough scraps to do it so I ended up with 1 extra churn dash block and 4 blocks made from 2.5 inch squares. Those 4 blocks are my favorite blocks from this quilt.

I forgot the binding for this quilt was the pink and khaki stripes when I added the border. I don't really like the binding with the border. Oh well.


There is a boo boo on the blue churn dash block where my block is square up and it's a little short and doesn't catch the white strip. I fixed it the best I could. You don't really notice it.

The backing is the same as Quilt 002.



Quilt Stats:

• Size: Approx. 41” x 41” 
• Pattern: leftover blocks from a BQA and 5 extra blocks made to go with
• Fabric: California Girl by Moda Fabrics
• Quilting -echo squares around each block and around the middle square of each block

Finished Quilt 009

100 Quilts, 100 Kids: Quilt 002 - BQA 1.0

Quilt number two complete. I finished this girl at the end of August. The blocks were actually from a Beginner's Quilt Along I did about two years ago. There were 13 blocks total. The BQA made me dislike HST, but now we're okay and I almost kind of like them.

I couldn't decide how I wanted them laid out and then couldn't decide if I wanted to finish the quilt for myself so I pulled 9 of the blocks for this quilt.


The backing is the blue floral found in the middle square of the bottom left corner block. Now of course I want to keep this quilt for myself...a larger version though. 


I might like to break the rules sometimes. 

Quilt Stats:

• Size: Approx. 41” x 41” 
• Pattern: miscellaneous blocks from a BQA
• Fabric: California Girl by Moda Fabrics
• Quilting - straight line diagonal and up and down through the middle of each block

Finished Quilt 008

Quilt 007 - laying enchanted bricks

I don't know how to name quilts, it's so much easier to just number them. I tend to give them "old" lady names like Bernadette and Gertrude. I may just stick with numbering them for the time being. This quilt was made from the leftover fabric I had after making 18 churn dash blocks. I was able to get three 41" x  41" quilts out of 18 fat quarters. That's not bad. I still have some scraps left too. I'm thinking either a mini quilt or pillow.


Quilt Stats:

• Size: Approx. 41” x  41” 
• Pattern: bricks
• Fabric: Enchant by Riley Blake
• Quilting: straight line horizontal an inch from each seam

Quilt 007

100 Quilts, 100 Kids: Quilt 001 - churn dash

This is the first quilt completed for 100 Quilts, 100 Kids. I finished it probably over a month ago, but I just got around to photographing it today. All it needs is a good washing and it'll be ready to be the first in the donate pile.


The backing is a solid pink. Nothing fancy. I had a hard time getting the quilt to stay up on the lion things rump. The wind was not my friend.  


 Quilt Stats:

• Size: Approx. 41” x 41” 
• Pattern: churn dash
• Fabric: Enchant by Riley Blake  
• Quilting - straight line quarter inch from the seams in each block

Quilt 006