Pantry Jars Quilt {Sorted}

Merry Christmas, Quilters! I am working in the hospital today, but I'm off this week. I hope you're all having a fun holiday. 

I thought I'd do a bonus post today to show a personal quilt I made recently. I like to listen to a lot of YouTube while I sew and over the summer I got into a food channel called Sorted. 

So I did what any reasonable person would do and made them a quilt! (You know what it's like when the inspiration bug bites.) I decided on pantry jars, which is a design I've never made before. 

I looked at a lot of quilts as inspiration and had fun adding elements like these books with funny titles from selvedges and the spice bottles and wine.

I also did several larger containers of fruit and veg in crates/boxes/bowls. I just stabilized those and then did raw edge applique.

I quilted wood grain on the shelves and the crates and stitch-in-the-ditch around the jars, and then stipple in the background.

To my surprise and delight the guys actually opened my quilts during a segment on their Christmas live show! The entire show is behind a paywall, but you can see most of their reaction here. 

I'm tickled by how excited they got about the backing. I bought 2 yards of a novelty food print and then pieced the rest from scraps. I guess all quilts are, by definition, two-sided? 

There's nothing more gratifying as a quilter than seeing something you made be appreciated and used in the spirit it was gifted.  Merry Christmas, everyone!

PS: the Covered in Love block drives will be back in January, so keep an eye out for that post in about a week. 

Tops by Jo

Happy Friday, quilters! I've got a few more quilts to show you this week. These tops were all made and sent in by Jo. this first one was sent in to Sundance Quilting to be finished.

Sundance did this cute ladybug motif, and I really like the rainbow backing and binding I found to complement it. 

This top, made from batiks, was quilted with a stipple by me here at home. 

For some reason this one didn't photograph particularly well. It's stunning in real life. 

I LOVE this quilt design with various sizes of flying geese. I really like the white space in it. 

It uses vintage 30's looking fabrics and Sundance did a big loopy flower design for the quilting.  Thank you Jo!! And Merry Christmas to everyone.

 Linking to Finished or Not Friday

Quilted by Doris

Happy Friday, quilters! Some neat monochromatic quilts to show this week. These were all worked by Doris, who has recently started to help CiL with competing tops.

This first quilt top in the bright, punchy orange was sent in by Nina. I like how random and busy the pattern looks, but the color scheme pulls it all together.

Next up, two tops from Judy G.

Both of these have just three fabrics, yet make a very effective design.

Simpler quilt tops are some of my favorites to send out to long armers because the quilting can really shine.

  

Thank you to Nina, Judy, and Doris!

Linking to Finished or Not Friday