Daybreak Sock Monkey Christmas Quilt

I've been hanging on to a Sock Monkey charm pack for many years. Then one day I went to a Quilts for Kids sew day, started digging through donated fabric to find coordinating fabric that matches the charm pack prints. It was a nice. surprise.

All I had to do is find a proper pattern to use that would incorporate the amount of fabric I found. As I sorted through my many Villa Rosa pattern cards I came across the Daybreak pattern. It was a perfect fit!

I had just enough fabric to make this cute little quilt. I took the finished top to the quilt shop and matched it up with some nice, soft brown flannel. It was a great compliment to the Christmas themed prints. 

I free-motion quilted the quilt and added flannel binding. It's a nice addition to my growing stack of Sock Monkey themed quilts that I have going.

A T-Shirt Quilt

I have a new t-shirt quilt project, a gift for a college graduate. Usually I sew the quilt blocks by spreading them across rows or columns. I wanted to try something new and I love the look of mosaic t-shirt quilts so I thought I would give it a try.

The neat thing about a mosaic is each block can be cut a different size. From there, you measure each block and draw it out on graph paper to scale. 

It was really fun to move the little graph paper blocks around until I liked where they were. What a genius way to work!  It was just as fun to convert the graph paper blocks into a quilt top. 

I spent a rainy afternoon sewing the blocks and by the end of the day the entire quilt top was done. All I had to do was add some borders.

I quilted the quilt with a swirl pattern and made the binding out of the same fabric as the border. There was no need to add any more color to the quilt besides the color from the t-shirts.  

I really like how this quilt turned out. I think it was the feminine color palette as well as the mosaic layout. I enjoyed making this one more than most of the t-shirt quilts I've made.