Fire and Ice quilts.....

I just finished binding the edges of the Blue and White quilt and it will be going to its new home this weekend, so I thought I had better get some photos.

These two quilts are based on the same quilt block....Delectable Mountains.  I made the orange quilt first....I call it "Fire on the Mountain" :-) 

 I was feeling "cold" and wanted a nice "warm quilt.  Then I decided to make a blue and white version, which turned out to be a very "cold" quilt.  I had snowflakes quilted on it.  Haven't thought of a good mountain inspired name for it yet...."Snowfall in the Mountains"??

 So.....Fire and Ice....not sure which I like best.  Both have their attractions depending on whether you feel hot or cold at the moment :-)  Both are about twin size....a nice snuggle under quilt for watching TV or reading or having a lap full of cats, which is what usually happens to me when I get the orange quilt out.

(Because Blogger makes me shrink down the size of the photos, it messes up the way the fabric patterns look.  I hate that!  I have better photos of the orange quilt in other places in the blog when I was posting full size photos.  I used a slightly larger size in the header photo and it looks a bit better, but I have very little space left to use for larger photos.)

Winter snowflakes and fall leaves....

I seem to be doing seasonal quilts at the moment :-)

I have not put the binding on this yet....you all know how I hate to bind edges!.....but it came back from the quilter looking just beautiful!  I asked for a snowflake design, and Avery did a wonderful job!  If you look at my sidebar and the "orange" quilt.....this is the same basic pattern.  I guess I could call them "hot and cold".

 Small snowflakes in the border...

 ...large snowflakes on the blue and white areas.  This is a gift for a nephew and niece.  Their wedding theme was blue and white and snowflakes last December.  Just a large lap quilt to snuggle under.

 And....looking back at Fall.....a maple leaf quilt!  I made a maple leaf quilt many years ago...one of my first quilts.  I look at it now and wonder why I chose the fabrics!  I just looked it up and I made it in 2002, so this is 10 years later and my taste has changed a lot in fabrics!  So I thought I would do an updated version in batiks...my favorites!  

Some of the leaves up-close.  I just love batik fabrics and how they look!  I'm trying to make myself cut them up and use them......I have a tendency to hoard them because they are so beautiful and I don't want to cut them up.  Must break that habit!  Maybe this is a new beginning for me in using my batiks!  Now to get some backing fabric and get it to a quilter.  I want a warm cozy flannel on the back.