Grey quilts ideas

A while back I purchased and downloaded a quilting book by Louisa L. Smith: “Double Vision Quilts”. She makes interesting quilts by “layering” – using raw edge appliqu…

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I had a vision for this quilt that I wanted something light and airy that reminded me of fresh white laundry hanging on a clothesline – lots of whites and light greys and nothing else. There …

What a fun quilt this one was to sew. Before I knew it, I was doing the binding. For this quilt, I wanted a modern, clean geometric kind of look. So I made Half Square Triangles and did a Flying…

Marlene made these two wonderful quilts for her grandsons. She made them Christmas quilts with Fireside backing a couple of years ago and they always want to use them early in the fall and well into the new year much to their mom's dismay. So Marlene made new neutral quilts with the cozy backing they love so much. The first quilt is called Nuts and Bolts and Marlene found it in the 2006 Spring/Summer edition of Quilt Sampler Magazine. Marlene selected the Gatsby pantograph for this one. The…

This is Sandra’s Modern Grey and White Neutrals quilt and there is a tutorial on the Diary of a Quilters blog here. I actually was Sandra’s personal shopper for this quilt as I picked out the fabrics for her when I was down in Swan River teaching at Fabriculous. A lot of the fabrics are Zen Chic fabrics from the Modern Background Essentials line but we through in a few other fabrics to give it more variety. The HST blocks are squared up to 7 1/2” and Sandra made her layout a bit bigger from…