quilts and more quilts

Last year was a quilty year.
And here's some of the proof. And when I say some, I really mean smidgen. I have made so many quilts in the past 12 months that I'm actually a little embarrassed.
I'll begin with a quilt I made for my little grandson. Simple four patches were cut to become ...

Disappearing four patches. Here is a link to a tutorial by Material Girl which shows the block technique I used. The only difference with mine is that I didn't use a solid color with a print but instead two prints.

I made this quilt with my outdoorsy son-in-law in mind. Don't you love the little foxes in the blue fabric?

And here is baby Blake's blessing quilt made last September. I took this photo while visiting my daughter and her family for Christmas. The snow on the ground is reflecting some yellow onto the white. I hope that wasn't because .... you know what can make yellow snow!

Isn't baby precious all wrapped up in it?  The pattern is from The Big Book of Baby Quilts and is called "Wonder Baby".

Both of these quilts were backed with minky for extra warmth and snuggliness!

And my final quilt post of the day is of the gift I made for my son-in-law for Christmas.

The pattern was called Apple Crisp, but a Google search doesn't show this block for that name. Hmm.

This quilt was made from two runner kits that I had bought at the shop where I work. But I noticed that if I cut the strips very carefully, I could get 2.5" out of them instead of the intended 1.5". With bigger strips I could make bigger squares, in other words an actual quilt - albeit a scrappy one.  Because I couldn't get enough out of one strip length to complete the large square each time, I simply made occasional blocks a little hodge-podge scrappy.The solid black square in the center keeps it from looking too hobo. I hope.
Cody loved it, and that's the main thing. My daughter says he uses it almost every evening. Success!

More later ...