Jaybird Quilts: Angela Walters

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Friday, September 7, 2018

My 2018 Quilt Auction to Benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand is Live!

It's that time of year again, quilt auction time! I've been hosting a quilt auction on eBay every other September since 2014 to raise awareness and funds to fight childhood cancer. I've got 12 quilts up for auction this year & 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.

The kind folks at Soak Wash have donated travel size bottles of Soak that will be included with each quilt.

This is Nathan's first appearance on my blog! Our son was born on Thursday, August 9, 2018. He's supervising this year's auction and running the snuggle security operation for the quilts. :-)

They're being kept very warm and snuggled before they head off to their new homes!

Here's the quilts that we have up for auction this year: August Stars, lap-size, in Sugar Bloom by Verna Mosquera for Free Spirit Fabrics.

Comet in youth-size featuring Coney Island by Fig Tree & Co. for Moda Fabrics. The quilting by Teresa Silva is so eye catching on this one.

Disco quilt baby-size in Confetti Dots by Dear Stella.

This is Giggles baby quilt in Happy Go Lucky by Bonnie & Camille for Moda Fabrics.

This is the Glazed Donuts quilt featured on the cover of the pattern in Jasmine by Valori Wells for Robert Kaufman Fabrics.

This lap-size Lotus quilt was made with our wedding colors for the celebration of 30 years of Kona Cotton for Robert Kaufman Fabrics.

This is the pattern cover quilt for the Sprinkles baby quilt in Sew & Sew by Chloe's Closet for Moda Fabrics.

This lap-size Night Sky quilt has feature fabric in Tigerfish by McKenna Ryan for Robert Kaufman Fabrics & background + binding fabric is Artisan Batiks: Prisma Dyes by Lunn Studios for Robert Kaufman Fabrics.

This Science Fair quilt is one of the lap-size cover quilts featured on the pattern cover. The fabric is Honey Honey by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics. The quilting by Angela Walters is stunning on this one.

This lap-size Snack Time quilt features Artisan Batiks: Color Source 2 by Lunn Studios for Robert Kaufman Fabrics.

This lap-size Spectrum quilt is featured in the book Rock Solid, Complied by Karen M. Burns.

This Stereo quilt, as seen on the pattern cover, is lap-size and features Color Theory by Vanessa Christenson of V and Co. for Moda Fabrics.

If you've ever wanted to own a quilt pieced by me, this is the only way to get one! I don't sell my quilts, but when I do it's in a charity auction for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. This is also a great opportunity to own a quilt quilted by Angela Walters or Teresa Silva, two incredibly talented quilters.

Additional details about each quilt are included in the auction listings. We'll do our best to answer any quilt or auction questions this weekend before the auctions end Sunday evening, between 5pm & 5:22pm Pacific time.

Please feel free to share this post and the links to the auctions on social media. I appreciate your help to spread the word, raise some funds for Alex's Lemonade & some awareness about childhood cancer!

Happy bidding! Thank you for helping to fight childhood cancer!

Thursday, May 19, 2016

The Latest Jaybird Quilts Pattern: Set Sail!

Meet my latest pattern, Set Sail! This quilt is all about diamonds and triangles that have fun together and make for great movement across the quilt top. You can get the PDF quilt pattern here.

Quilt Details Fabric is True Colors by Tula Pink Pattern - Set Sail, JBQ 164 Designed by me Quilted by Angela Walters Started on 2/15/16 Finished on 3/14/16 Quilt measures - 61" x 75"

We took the quilt to Hawaii and battled the wind during our photo shoot.

Law really knows how to show off the pieced back and quilt labels during our photo shoots!

Set Sail is Fat Quarter Friendly. The lap size uses 18 Fat Quarters. Tula Pink's True Colors collection has 20 prints so I used everything except the black and the white. I decided to use the white for the setting so the black is the only print I didn't use in this quilt.

Image via Tula Pink

Angela Walters knocked the quilting out of the park... as usual!

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Set Sail was inspired by the prints of diamonds, Track Flags, pictured below in green, cream & blue. It's part of Tula Pink's new collection called "Slow & Steady." This collection is her 20th and is being shown at Quilt Market this week. Slow & Steady will be available in stores in September. Tula and I worked together on the fabric placement & layout of this Slow & Steady Set Sail quilt.

Here is a Twin Size version of Set Sail in Slow and Steady. This quilt is made from Fat Quarters and the Twin size is perfect to show off all 25 in this collection!! (You may want more fabric if you would like to fussy cut.)

Quilt Details Fabric is Slow & Steady by Tula Pink Pattern - Set Sail, JBQ 164 Designed by me Quilted by Angela Walters Started on 3/17/16 Finished on 4/10/16 Quilt measures - 69" x 90"

The twin quilt is so big that I needed Lawrence & my dad to help out for the photo shoot!

After our outdoor photo shoot I brought the quilt inside to get some more detail photos.

It looks so good on my bed that I might need to make the queen size now too!

It also looks great in my living room. Maybe I'll just need to make a Set Sail quilt for each room of my house!

Here are the True Colors Lap quilt and Slow & Steady Queen quilt hanging out together. After snapping this photo I really wanted to hop back into bed!

I love the pop of green binding on this quilt. It is a small scale hexagon that is a throw back to one of my favorite prints in Neptune. I have a feeling that I'll be buying an entire bolt of it!

Set Sail is made using my Super Sidekick ruler (click the link to the ruler to see the video tutorial on how to use it).

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I also decided to whip up this Baby Size version using Kona Cottons.

Quilt Details Fabric is Kona by Robert Kaufman Pattern - Set Sail, JBQ 164 Designed by me Quilted by Teresa Silva Started on 5/3/16 Finished on 5/11/16 Quilt measures - 48" x 53"

Here's all of the Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton colors I used in this baby quilt: Pomegranate, Heliotrope, Deep Blue, Jade Green, Capri, Parrot, Canary, Persimmon, Coral

Setting = White

Binding = Iron

Teresa Silva quilted this sample for me just in time for Quilt Market! I love the texture that it adds to the all solids quilt.

The pattern is printed in full color, and it includes templates. Plus there's no Y seams!
It uses Fat Quarters + a setting fabric and a binding fabric.

It comes in 4 sizes: baby, lap, twin & queen.

Set Sail is shipping to shops now!

Share your photos on social media using the hashtag #SetSailQuilt so we can share in the fun!

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Quilts I finished in 2015

This morning I found myself wanting to post my annual retrospective of quilts I finished in 2015. I made a lot of quilts this year & I also made a lot of stuff. I made so much stuff that it'll have to be another blog post.

I did sew more quilt tops and blocks this year, but this post is just for the finished quilts of 2015. Here are the quilts/pillows/toppers I finished in 2015, a total of 44.