Quilts

I made my very first quilt in 2016-17 as a gift for my only nephew Orion, who was turning 1. I liked it okay, but I wasn't interested in making more.

Then I made another quilt, a companion to Orion's, for my niece Aurora, in 2020, for her first birthday. I had a quilting mentor, Annie Nestor, who taught me a lot about quilting, and I realized I really enjoyed quilting.

In 2020 I also did a block of the month quilt, which was also hugely valuable to me in learning techniques.

Here are all the quilts I have made so far. 

Orion's 1-year quilt. Pattern is Hazel Hedgehog by Elizabeth Hartman. Someone in St. Cloud quilted it for me, and one of my co-workers helped (basically did for me) the binding. I chose the fabric for the spines to be all nature-related, with the four corners being Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.

Aurora's 1-year quilt. Pattern is Bjorn Bear by Elizabeth Hartman. I still had *some* of the fabrics left from Orion's quilt, so I made this one to match, but I didn't have much of some of them, so the nature fabrics are just in the little ears.

This is one of the layouts from the block of the month pattern I did, by State Fair Sampler by Leila Gardunia. This one I made for my colleague Sondra's daughter, Hallie. The colors I chose to be warm colors, as she was born in the summer.

Another baby quilt made from the State Fair Sampler options. This one is for Sondra's new baby, August, which I finished for him when he was around 4 months old! I chose the cool colors because he is a winter baby.

This is the State Fair Sampler in the throw size that I made for myself. It took me about 18 months to make this quilt. I finished the other three baby quilts above during the time I was still working on this one.

This is a baby quilt for Charlotte, Kate Westlund's new baby. This pattern came together very quickly, and Brian helped me pick out the fabric, which apparently is a perfect match for her nursery. Charlotte will get this quilt before she is even 3 months old! The "C" is foundation paper pieced from a separate set of letters that I combined with this tutorial from Ricochet and Away. 

I have 4 other quilts I am working on presently.