The Lauren Quilt

Here is my latest quilt – the Lauren Quilt.  I helped my mother-in-law make it for my niece. I only had to buy the white background fabric, the rest was already in my stash.  The shoo-fly blocks are done with 30’s reproduction prints.

It is an original design based on a traditional block. The blocks are 9″ square, with partial blocks in the border. I designed it on Quiltography, a great app for designing quilts. I highly recommend it if you have an iPad or tablet. 

  

The blocks were quilted with free-motion flowers surrounded by stippling.   I quilted a chain in the chain blocks. 
  

Even the back was from my stash. I made 20″ squares and pieced the back. My kids think the back is just as good as the front. 

  

You can see the quilted flowers even better on the back.