Bloggers Quilt Festival Fall 2016

Hi everyone, 

I have just finished this quilt this afternoon. This one has been in my UFO pile since March 2011. I'm very excited to have it all done. This is a sweet baby quilt sampler that I designed. I used the fabric itself as the inspiration. 

I free motion quilted this on my domestic sewing machine. I have an Elna Lotus machine that my mom gave me a few years back. It's a great little machine, but it hates free motion quilting. I made it work, and got it done though. 

This quilt is 37.5 inches wide by 43.5 inches long. I backed it with a super soft flannel. 

I'm so glad to have this UFO off my list. Now, I have a finished baby boy quilt ready to go in case I need a gift. 

I'm entering this quilt in the Small Quilt Category of the Bloggers Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side.

Another finished little quilt!

Hi everyone,

I'm very excited to have another finished quilt to report.

It's my 16 patch star quilt.

I just love this little baby quilt.

It's all made from scraps in my stash.

I just did some straight line quilting on this quilt. 

I used a really cute flannel for the back.

Isn't it adorable?

It's one of my favorite quilts that I made.

It was easy and quick.

It was very windy when I took these pictures.

I'm entering this quilt in the Blogger's Quilt Festival,

in the 

ROYGBIV Quilts Category

I hope you all like it!

Hugs

Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2015

Hi everyone,

I decided to enter the Blogger's Quilt Festival this fall.

I'm entering the Scrappy Quilt Category.

Here's my Rocky Road to Kansas Quilt.

It's a large lap size quilt.

I quilted it myself on my domestic sewing machine. 

It's made with strings from my stash.

I started this quilt February 2009 and finished it October 20, 2015.

I hope you like it!

Make sure to visit the other quilts shown in the show.

Hugs

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Fall 2012

Hi everyone,

Today, I'm participating in the Blogger's Quilt Festival.

 I'm sharing a quilt I just finished this morning.

I call it "The Auge family color quilt"

Quilt Stats

"The Auge Family Color Quilt"

Finished quilt measures : 51″x 62″

Special techniques used : 3 dimentional applique, free pieced letters

Quilted by : Ariane Kring (that's me) on a domestic machine 

Best Category : Throw Quilt,  Home Machine Quilted Quilt, Scrap Quilt

I made this quilt for my brother's family.

They just had a new baby in September.

When I started working on this quilt I didn't know if they were having a boy or a girl.

So, I designed this gender neutral, bright quilt.

I wanted the quilt to be big enough for both of their kids to enjoy it.

I used free pieced letters inspired by the book  Word Play Quilts by Tonya Ricucci.

The block is the Japanese x and + block.

The kite is appliqued and the little pinwheels on the kites tail are 3 dimentional blocks appliqued to the quilt.

I embroidered the line using crochet cotton.

I free motioned quilted this quilt on my Pfaff Expression 4.0.

Unfortunately, it was raining by the time I had a chance to take a picture.

So this picture will have to do.

I hope you like it.

Hugs

Bloggers' Quilt Festival 2012

Hi everyone!

Amy from Amy's Creative Side, is hosting the Bloggers Quilt Festival again.

This  is such a fun event.

I love seeing all the quilts that are shared.

The quilt I'm sharing today is:

My A+ lap quilt

This quilt is my own design.

I shared a tutorial here on how to make the simple blocks.

I wanted a quilt that was easy and fast to piece,

that had little fabric waste and could use fat quarters.

This quilt top used 12 fat quarters to make.

It can also be made using regular 1/4 yard cuts.

I dug into my Art Gallery fabric stash for the top, and used a coordinating fabric from my stash for the back and binding.

I quilted this quilt myself on my old Kenmore domestic sewing machine.

I love the way the quilting turned out.

I used a variegated purple thread.

Here's a close-up.

Here's the back;

I am proud to say that I only bought one fat quarter to finish this quilt.

The rest of the fabric is from my stash.

And this quilt never became a UFO for me.

I got it done over a few weeks.

This quilt is 48" X 64".

Well, have fun checking out all the quilts in the festival.

Hugs

Bloggers' Quilt Festival Fall 2011

Hi everyone,

Amy is hosting the Bloggers' Quilt Festival again. 

I'm a little late joining, but it ends on November 4th.

So, I'm joining just under the wire.

Ha!Ha!!!

My entry for the festival is my Carpenter Star quilt.

I made this queen size quilt for my youngest brothers wedding gift.

I drew up the pattern on graph paper.

I cut out all the pieces with my GO! Cutter, and the 6 1/2 inch hst die and 6 1/2 inch square die.

I really enjoyed making this quilt.

My brother and his wife just loved it.

I quilted it myself on my 30 year old Kenmore sewing machine.

Here another picture.

I hope you like it!

Make sure you go check out all the other quilts in the festival.

Hugs

Blogger Quilt Festival - Fall 2010

Hi everyone,

I thought I would share one of the quilts I made at the beginning of my quilting journey.

This quilt was completed in February of 2009.

It's my Jacob's Ladder quilt.

I made it for my second oldest son.

I used scraps of fabric from my other two beds quilts that I had made for my oldest son and my daughter. You can find them here.

Even though, this was not that difficult a block pattern, 

it took me a long time to finish it. 

It was very time consuming trying to make sure that I didn't have the same colors close to each other.

I had just started quilting that year.

So, even though this is a scrappy quilt, I only had so many scraps.

I didn't have much of a stash. All my stash fit into an under bed storage bin.

One bin. LOL!!!

This was the fourth quilt that I made, and the third bed quilt.

This quilt is a twin size quilt.

The border on it was very difficult for me.

I cut all the pieces for the border with a scissor.

And well, my cuts weren't exact.

My seams weren't exact.

I was just a beginner, doing a difficult border.

It was really tough to get it to fit.

I ended up making an adjusted piece to make the border fit.

I quilted it myself.

It is very simply quilted.

But you know what?

I still love it.

It is an everyday quilt.

So, my son has it on his bed as we speak.

It's been washed many times.

It is still beautiful.

Thanks to Amy for giving us the opportunity to share our quilts with others.

Go, check out the rest of the quilts in the blogger quilt festival.

Hugs

Ariane

Blogger Quilt Festival - Spring 2010

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a good day. I'm a little late posting this...but I had to work today.

Amy is hosting the Spring 2010 Blogger Quilt Festival again this year. It was so much fun to participate before, that I had to participate again. I had a hard time deciding which quilt to chose to share with you.

But, my Woodland Bloom quilt won out in the end. I chose this one, not because it is the best work I've done this year. But because I actually finished it. I had started to make a quilt top over a year ago, and I hated it. So this January I decided to take that quilt top apart and change it. It is always a big decision to take something apart. I just didn't want it to sit forever, especially since I had spent a lot of money on the material. I also had the backing fabric and other yardage to finish it. So, I'm glad that I finished it. It is the largest quilt I've ever made on my own. It's a queen size quilt. I used my 25 year old sewing machine to quilt it. So, I kept the quilting simple. This quilt lives on my daughters bed. It is an everyday quilt. I has a beautiful flannel backing from the Woodland Bloom Collection. I hope you like how it turned out.

This is what it looked like before. It was pretty ugly.

Thanks to Amy for Organizing the quilt festival. It is a lot of work. But I'm so glad she does it.

Have fun looking at all the beautiful quilts.

Hugs

Ariane

Blogger's Quilt Festival 2010....coming soon

Mark your calendars....and be ready for Amy's Blogger Quilt Festival on May 21-28th. It is always fun and full of inspiration. You can also win prizes. So click on the button on my sidebar and go check it out. All levels of quilters welcome.

Hugs

Ariane

Quilt Festival - Fall 2009

Hi everyone, I hope you like the quilt I've chosen to share with you. It's a quilt I made for my brother and his wife who are expecting their first baby any day now. It's my Log Cabin Beatrix Potter Quilt. It's more of a lap quilt than a baby quilt because it's quite large. I paper pieced all the log cabin blocks using a template I made myself. The strips finished at 3/4 inch wide. The fabrics I chose came from all the local shops in the region. 6 shops in total. I chose many different kinds of fabrics from modern, country, reproduction and contemporary. I love to mix all these fabrics in my quilts. I just made sure they were all in the same color range. The back of the quilt was more challenging for me. I decided to put a pieced strip across the back, but when I quilted it all, I notice that it was crooked. Well, I didn't want to take it all apart. I had spent 3 hours quilting it on my little sewing machine. So I decided to add some appliques to the back. All the appliques on this quilt were sewn on by hand and used fusible web. I hope you like this quilt. I know my brother and his wife were extremely happy with it. I love this quilt. It really was fun to make and turned out really nice.

Hugs Ariane :o)