Make It Monday: Baby Quilt

I am sniffly and whiny tonight soooooooo I am doing a bit of a revisit as my Make It Monday because other than some delicious rockin’ homemade organic free-range chicken soup, I didn’t make much other than some snotty tissue paper messes in our waste bins.

I have some major making in my future however. My brother and his lovely wife are expecting their first baby. I am planning to make them a … wait… MIKE, COURT, stop reading this. I am super excited to make my first niece or nephew a quilt. So I am thinking about quilts. And thought a revisit of an old quilt might jump start me AND provide a Make It Monday post. Lazy but true.

So this quilt was my second quilt ever. My first (of which I have no pictures) was for my friend Smothermother. My second was for my one of my oldest dearest friends Melissa’s first bebe Esme.

   

So I will post this for tomorrow, finish my tea and cookies, and then tomorrow beginning making some decisions about my next quilt for a baby I can hardly wait to meet.

Fawning Over Friday: Boo Davis – AltQuilter

First off, I am kinda fawning over this woman’s name: Boo Davis. You can just imagine that Boo is pretty (in that old fashion feminine way) as well as cool and quirky (my favorite combo). But the subject of this post is not Boo’s name but her quilting.

I love contemporary quilting. I love traditional quilting too (namely two hand-me downs made by A’s great-grandmother) but I love what is happening in quilting today. I think “today’s” quilting appeals to me because abandoning traditional quilting rules is acceptable if not desired. And that appeals to me because, let’s face it, I am not patient enough to map and math out perfect squares of equal proportions.

Now, I am not up on my quilt history but it seems to me that perhaps Denyse Schmidt is a well-known contemporary quilter who blends the tradition of quilting with a contemporary abandonment?

top image: Drunk Love in a Log Cabin by Denyse Schmidt; bottom image: Denyse Schmidt quilt

If Denyse Schmidt is the “good girl” flirting with a bit of (modern quilting) recklessness, Boo Davis is definately the wild child. On Davis’s website she writes: “Quiltsryche is my evil quilt studio. I make modern heirloom quilts just like your metal-loving, half-blind Grandma would.” Davis is hard-core for sure – in both her inspiration and themes (like skulls, robots, and heavy-metal music) and her passion (Davis quit her job of 12 years to work on a crazy amount of quilts for her book Dare To Be Square Quilting without the promise of success).

I am not the girl to have a skull quilt per se but I do dig the colour and the mismatchiness of her style. (Look how she gridded some of the stitch work and not all. Niiiice!) Davis has been known to incorporate rock shirts into her quilts. Another reason to love Boo Davis – her consumption reduction. I am finding inpiration here – another way to recycle those stacks of tees in our closets.