Dreamworthy Quilts: square quilts

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

It's cool to be square blog hop

This week is the "It's Cool to be Square Blog Hop" hosted by
the delightful Carol of Just Let Me Quilt.com

Today is MY DAY! Hooray! I am excited to share with you some of my SQUARE projects! My interpretation of the theme mostly features square shaped medallion quilts, but I do have a few things made from squares at the end of the post.

Generally I make rectangular quilts, but some just need to be square particularly if they are a medallion type of design.

Several years back I made a couple of unique log cabin medallion quilts which turned out so so fun!

The first was made for my daughter's wedding and the second I kept for myself. They are the very same pattern. I love to see a pattern made in different color schemes. Hopefully you do too because this post will feature several same design quilts.

I did not put borders on my daughter's quilt. Here it is before quilting. It is a king size.

Here it is completely finished and displayed at her wedding.

My Christmas one was made with smaller logs, but it is the same pattern and queen sized.

For the same daughter's wedding, she helped me design a quilt that we named "Jessi's Medallion". This is what we came up with, and of course, it is square as well.

My son loved it so much that he wanted one in the exact same colors, although, the fabrics were not the same. His is not quilted yet.

Mom's was the most unique with a flip of lights and darks. She purchased her fabrics in Hawaii without knowing what she would make of them. We helped her figure out how to do this quilt out of them with the yardages she had.

My other daughter wanted the same pattern for her wedding as well only in brown.

Marie chose purple, orange, and blue...

Phyllis made hers in brown as well.

Tracy's was so elegant!

My family enjoys sewing together, and we decided on a mystery quilt one year. I designed something where each person could create their own 10" or 12" block. I told them to make five of those blocks, and they had no idea what the entire quilt would look like. It was super fun to see how they all turned out different, so let me present a few more square shaped quilts.

One of mine...I made two...

Marie's - love those stars...

Mine and Marie's side by side on a bed. Still loving those stars she chose for her blocks.

My daughter made adorable owls ...

Felicity did a woodsy theme. Once I saw her theme, I altered a couple of pieces and turned the next border into trees for her. This quilt just needed trees.

I quilted some fun woodsy motifs in the border for her.

My bright one is photographed on an angle...

Below is the full photo before quilting.

Here is another square shaped medallion quilt with log cabin blocks in it as well. We made this one for my sister in a family round robin.

A couple of years later I made one for my son and another for Mom. They were identical and made completely from my stash.

Here is the real deal when it comes to squares in a quilt. My aunt Joann pieced these 1 1/2" squares together into this beauty and asked me to quilt it. She pieces to PERFECTION, so I wanted to really do this quilt justice. It turned out to be my very favorite machine quilting EVER!

By the way, this is QUEEN SIZED, so please attempt to imagine just how small those squares are.