I am so happy to share this finished quilt today! This one took me 10 years to make, start to finish.


It all started with a few lovely things that were given to me! First, the fabrics are from Morning Walk by Leah Duncan which she designed for Art Gallery when I was designing there too. And secondly, the ruler I used to make this quilt. I met Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts at one of the first quilt markets I attended and she gave me one of her Sidekick rulers. I picked up one of her quilt patterns that utilizes it, Night Sky.


I'll be honest, this type of piecing is not typically my cup of tea! I also don't make a lot of quilts that require templates for cutting. The process of making this quilt top reminded me a lot of making my Tula Pink Kaleidoscope Quilt. No part of it was particularly difficult, it just required me to be a bit more organized with all the pieces and do more precise piecing.


This quilt languished in my works in progress storage for many years without being worked on. Finally in 2025 I decided I needed to either finish it or pass it on! I still loved the fabrics so I pushed forward and got the top put together. I ended up arranging the blocks using equilateral triangles of the background fabric rather than with sashing like the pattern instructs. I really wanted to finish this quilt and I knew this layout would help me get over the finish line.


Ta-da! I need to work on a better lit spot to do flat shots, but for now this will have to do. I am so happy that it is done! And my husband claimed it right away so it's staying here! It's been our sunroom quilt all summer.


The quilting was done by Katie of Autumn Moon Quilting. The design is called Moon Phases.


For the binding I decided to use the background color from the top! And I remembered to add one of my labels.


I am so glad I held onto this backing for all these years. I picked it up from a store closing. It's a print from Morning Walk too.


Pattern: Night Sky by Jaybird Quilts
Fabrics: Morning Walk by Leah Duncan, Sweet Mint Pure Solids by Art Gallery Fabrics.
Notions: Sidekick Ruler

Happy Quilting!

Finished: Waypoint Quilt

Hi there! It's been quiet in this space lately, but today I'm back to start sharing a backlog of finished quilts with you all! I think this is the first of 5? I was able to get a bunch photographed recently so I can finally share them!


Photo © 2015 Lauren Hunt for Lucky Spool Media.


We're starting with what I think is the last quilt top that I made in the process of writing my book, Patchwork Essentials: The Half-Square Triangle. For each quilt pattern in the book I made either an alternate block or entire quilt top. This quilt is the alternate I made for the Waypoint Quilt. Above you can see the version that was photographed for the book!


This one was simply an alternative color way! To be honest, I don't remember what the jumping off point was for this color palette, it's been so long ago. I do remember I was excited to use that Momo scissor fabric that I had long stashed.



When I am trying to finish up old works in progress, I try to make the finishing steps as easy as possible for myself. This quilt top lingered for so long, I was not about to do anything fancy for the quilting. At this point my eye was on the prize! So I chose to do my signature wavy quilting. I did however use a fun thread color, a light aqua! This quilting style is relaxing for me to do and it's forgiving too. Win-win! You can find a tutorial for how I do it here: How to Quilt Wavy Lines with a Walking Foot


With the backing and binding, again simplicity was key. I chose one fabric to use as both the back and the binding. One of my prints from curiosities happened to perfectly match the front, yay!


This quilt ended up going home with my younger brother for his condo!


It's a bit hard for me to believe that my book came out OVER 10 years ago, wow. So much has changed in 10 years! I know I still have a few quilt blocks kicking around from the process, but I am glad to have finally finished up all the quilt tops!

Happy Quilting!

Soft and Subtle Candyweb Quilt

Happy Tuesday! I have a finished quilt to share with you today, my soft and subtle Candyweb quilt! This is the fifth quilt I've made in this soft and subtle series. I have one more finished quilt I still haven't shared yet, but you can see the other quilts here: Soft and Subtle Vintage Sheet Plus Quilt, Soft and Subtle Vintage Sheet Star Quilt, and Vintage Sheet Plus Quilt.


Unlike the other quilts in this series, I made this quilt completely from my scraps. After making a few blocks, I realized it would be much easier if I got my scraps a bit more organized. I have these great boxes that my pattern cover printer used to use and I've saved them all. I taped a simple cardboard divider into each box and organized my strips and pieces by rough size. It really helped, especially since I set this project aside and picked it back up a few different times.


I made this quilt using my Candyweb block pattern, which is a foundation paper pieced pattern. Now that this quilt is finished, I want to get back to my other Candyweb project!!


I tend to save even the smallest bits of my vintage sheet collection, so it was nice to work on a quilt that uses up some of those small pieces.


I haven't done a lot of paper piecing with vintage sheets, but it worked well! Sheets can sometimes be a little slippery and the paper helped keep things nicely stabilized.


I ended up making nine blocks in total, for a quilt that finishes at around 42" square. My original plan was to make four blocks, but that would have made a very small quilt! I wish that the pattern showed up a little better in photos, it is much easier to see the design in person.


For the quilting I did some simple wavy lines, one of my favorite ways to quilt something. I have a tutorial for this style of quilting, which you can find here: How to Quilt Wavy Lines with a Walking Foot (video!)


I love this sweet sheet I used for the backing.


This quilt is bound in my very favorite stripe for binding vintage sheet quilts! It's this beautiful multi-colored stripe that just goes with everything! I recently found a full sheet in this print, in good condition, which I was so excited about. I had it many years ago and used it all up. Happy to have it in my stash again!


I used one of my custom woven labels to finish it off.


Soft and Subtle Candyweb Quilt
Pattern: Candyweb Quilt Block Pattern
Fabrics: Vintage Reclaimed Bedsheets

Happy Quilting!

Hello Kitty Patchwork Quilt

Happy Wednesday! Today I have a recently finished quilt to share, a Hello Kitty patchwork quilt that I made for my daughter!


I started this quilt immediately after the election last year. I was feeling very sad/scared/angry, and needed a comfort project. I've held onto a stack of 5" Hello Kitty charms that a friend gave me for years and decided it was time to use them in a project. I cut some extra 5" squares from my stash of Hello Kitty fabrics to give me enough for this quilt.


For the background I used a polka dot sheet that I thrifted at the Goodwill Outlet. I love the colors! Now I'm keeping my eye out for more polka dot sheets! A checkerboard layout felt like the right choice.


The quilting is really simple, just some straight lines 1/4" on either side of each seam. Nothing fancy!


I really love the backing!! Sometime last year I thrifted a handmade duvet cover made from this incredible off-brand Hello Kitty fabric. We jokingly say it's "hey there kitty" instead of "hello kitty"! I took apart the duvet and now I have a bunch of fabric to play with.


The binding is another thrifted fabric, just a sweet little red and white polkadot. There are a lot of different colors in the charm squares, but red felt like a pretty good choice, since there is a lot of red throughout. The red also went well with the back!


My daughter loves this quilt, which is happy! It was a good reminder for me too that something simple can be so enjoyable to make and use. I'm so glad to have finally used those charms! There were some really cute prints in there, and now we get to enjoy them!

Hello Kitty Patchwork Quilt
Pattern: No pattern, used 5" squares
Fabrics: Reclaimed Bedsheets, stash

Happy Quilting!

Warm Cool Giant Log Cabin Quilt

Happy Wednesday! Today I am excited to finally share my finished warm cool giant log cabin quilt!



I started this quilt in May 2024. I had been holding onto a bunch of 2" vintage sheet strips that were leftover from when I used to make wrapped wreath kits. I don't sell the kits anymore, but you can still find the free tutorial here: Wrapped Wreath Tutorial. That was back when I had my vintage sheet shop on Etsy, so I probably cut the strips around 10 years ago! I thought it was time to try to use them up. I wasn't able to use all of them in this project, but I made a good dent.


Pretty quickly I decided to make a log cabin quilt. I made a few test blocks playing with color placement before landing on this warm/cool arrangement. I've wanted to make a warm cool log cabin quilt ever since I made my warm cool half-square triangle quilts back when I first started quilting! That was my first sew along, which I ran in 2011. You can find it here if you're curious: Warm Cool Quilt Along


I made four large log cabin blocks primarily from the strips I already had cut. I added in a few where needed to achieve a good balance of color and pattern. Especially for the longest strips on the outer edge, I needed to dip into my stash. The quilt finishes around 50" square.



I really enjoyed playing around with giant log cabin blocks again. I still love the Giant Log Cabin Jelly Roll Quilt I made with Carolyn Friedlander's fabrics a few years ago.


For the quilting, I did a repeat of the quilting design I did on my Vintage Bear Paw Baby Quilt. It's wavy lines in both directions, so you end up with kind of a wavy grid! See my tutorial for how to do this wavy quilting here: How to Quilt Wavy Lines with a Walking Foot (video!)


I've had this backing sheet in my stash for such a long time! Easily 15 years. I have been saving it specifically to use as a backing and this seemed like the right quilt. I actually forgot until I pulled it out that it was a fitted sheet, so I really couldn't have used it on anything much bigger than this. Meant to be! I love the hearts. It reminds me of the backing sheet I used on this quilt. I had to choose a striped sheet for the binding, right? I went with blue for this one!


I used one of my custom woven labels to finish it off.


This quilt was a joy to work on. I loved using up long stashed materials that had been languishing. Since finishing it late last year it has gotten lots of use on our living room floor as a play mat!

Warm Cool Giant Log Cabin Quilt by Jeni Baker
Pattern: No pattern, used 2" wide strips
Fabrics: Vintage Reclaimed Bedsheets

Happy Quilting!

Hand Dyed Lawn On Point Quilt

Happy Friday! I have a finished quilt to share today!! This one has been done for a while (Spring 2023), but I only managed to take photographs of it last month, so here we are!


I started this quilt in late 2022 in an effort to use up some of my hand dyed indigo fabric stash. Specifically I wanted to make a quilt with all of the lawn that I had dyed over the years. I thought I would make a lot more garments with it, so I would dye a yard or two of lawn almost every time I mixed up a vat of indigo dye. In the end, I only made two garments, a tank and a beach cover up. The tank was given to a friend since I didn't wear it, and the beach cover up was way too big. So I started by harvesting the fabric from the cover up and then collecting all the dyed lawns together. I dyed a little more to have enough for a backing too. All the lawn used in this quilt is Cambridge Cotton Lawn* by Robert Kaufman, which is my favorite lawn for dyeing!

If you're interested in learning about indigo dyeing, or just seeing some of the prints I dyed for this quilt in their entirety, see this post: DIY Indigo Fabric Dyeing Tutorial


Like with most of my other indigo quilts I knew I wanted to keep the design simple. I usually stick with large pieces so you can really appreciate the fabrics. I played around with a lot of ideas but ended up deciding on a simple on point quilt. It has a bit of a woven look and uses nice big squares.


This quilt came together fast! The cutting and piecing were both quick, I remember that!


It was so fun to revisit all these fabrics. Many of them were dyed at retreats with friends, or with family and neighbors. I dyed some at cabins, in our apartment backyard, and in our backyard here in CT. I've just looked back, I've been playing around with indigo dyeing since 2013, so more than 10 years! Great times.


This is a big quilt, it finishes at 66"x88" after a run through the washer and dryer. I used Quilter's Dream Bamboo batting* (bamboo, silk, tencel and cotton blend), which is lightweight and so lovely with lawn. It makes for a quilt with beautiful drape, perfect for summer. This is my third lightweight lawn (voile) quilt, see the other two here: Little Folks Voile Summer Quilt and Liberty Lawn Giant Vintage Star Quilt.


The quilting was done by Katie of Autumn Moon Quilting, who did such a nice job. I love this "Rosemary" quilting design in her library, I'll definitely be using it again on a future quilt! Katie is really great about helping you determine the right quilting design size/density. In my opinion, for a lawn quilt this is especially important because you don't want the quilting to be too dense and compromise the texture/drape of the lawn.


The entire quilt is lawn from the top to the backing and binding. I didn't have enough of a single piece to use for the binding, so it ended up scrappy!


Between this quilt and my recent indigo baby quilt, I have greatly depleted my stash of indigo fabrics! Which just means I get to dye more!! :) I already had one dye session this summer, but I am hoping to squeeze in one more while the weather is still nice. If you've never tried it and are at all interested, I highly recommend it. Grab a friend (or two) and make a dye date!

Happy Quilting!

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