Pixel Quilts 2

I had too many of these to share last time so here are some more. It seems like a large portion of the quilts out there are mario focused but there are lots of others too. Enjoy! 




Another pattern from Carolina Patchworks

I loved Dr Mario when I was a kid.

Done by Oh Fransson which is linked on the right

Ok, so I've been thinking too much about this for the last few days and I think I'm going to try to do one. So here's the question, do you think I should do Frog Mario or Tanooki? They will be similar ideas to the ones below. Let me know what you think.



Pixel Quilts

For a while now I've been eying quilts that I will call Pixel Quilts. Most of them take old nintendo game characters and transform them into quilt form. This is done fairly easily with the 8-bit characters from our childhood since they are already pixel-y. Essentially what you do is cut out a bunch of colored squares and sew them together to make something cool. Each square is a pixel. It will probably be some time before I try one of these since I'm still not good at the exact patterns (see last post). Update on that one: not going as planned.

I just wanted to share a few of my favs. Apologies that I haven't figured out how to give credit for everyone's pics - I am not claiming these to be my own, don't worry (we all know I can't quilt like that).

















This last one is a pattern by Carolina Patchworks (link to the right) who has all kinds of pixel quilt patterns including Donkey Kong and Mario. She also has a book coming out in September called "Pixel Play" which is entirely pixel quilts!! Can't wait!

City Green Revisited

When I first started quilting about a year ago, I bought a book called City Quilts by Cherri House. What drew me to it is that it was a whole book using geometric patterns with solid fabrics. I find a lot of quilters use patterned fabric which can look awesome but can also look way too busy in some cases. I generally stick with solids but sometimes add patterns to the back.

The first quilt top that I started was Cherri House's City Green. It didn't turn out well but since then I have learned the importance of making sure that your measurements and cutting are exact so that things line up. Here's the first one I did. Instead of it looking like mosaic tile, I had to offset the pattern so that it wasn't as obvious that things didn't line up. It is on my bed and I use it every night but I'd still prefer if it looked nicer.

My First City Green with Jack

 
Now, here's what I'm hoping my next one will look like. Cross your fingers but this is the general color scheme. PS this one is made by Red Pepper Quilts who makes awesome stuff. If you search flickr, you can find a million variations of this quilt but I love the beach glass look of this one.

Here are all of my fabrics starting to come together. Since this pic, I have cut them all up and am ready to do the strips. I will know soon how well I did. Wish me luck!

Finally Done!

It's taken me awhile but this is finally finished (no thanks to annoying things like exams and cleaning). This quilt is another collaboration with Jayme of RAWR creatures. She did a cute little owl to go with it but I don't have a pic yet. This project is for a preggo co-worker of Eric's and Jayme's. I hope she likes it but it's going to be really hard to let it go. Might have to make one of these for myself.

This picture of the back gives you a good look at the diagonal quilting I did. I'm pretty happy with how that looks - especially in the morning sun.

New Fabric (so excited)

I should be doing school work right now but I had to share my newest fabric find. The Berenstain Bears was my favorite book series when I was a kid. I stumbled across the newly released fabric by Moda completely by accident this morning and had to add it to my stash. I have no idea what I'll use it for but I'm sure I'll find something (and it probably won't be given away). These are the two that I got:

Liv's Plus Quilt

Got a lot done on the Owl over the weekend but at this point, I don't want to show it until it's complete. Instead, here's a pic of a quilt I did for my niece about a year ago. I was just going to do random pluses all over but Eric thought there should be a pattern. It does look good after all.

Turns out, she likes the back better than the front. I think it looks lumpy and crappy. Oh well, that's kids I guess.

Hootenanny Update

Finally had some time to work on this quilt which will be for Eric's co-worker's baby-to-be. It's actually coming together pretty quickly although I was so into it Friday night, I stayed up waaay past my bedtime. I have been watching "Shameless" while I sew which really makes the time fly.