flannel quilts

Finish #6 for December 2025........................ from Exuberant Color

I started the day yesterday making 3 batches of Chex Mix to take to the family party tonight. Late in the afternoon I worked on the quilting of this flannel tumbler baby quilt and finished the quilting last night. It is 39" square.

This photo is a little dark and I didn't have any luck trying to lighten it. The binding is the same fabric as the backing.

This is closer to the true color of the backing flannel. I used Hobbs 80/20 batting in the quilt.

Now I have 3 little flannel quilts made. I may be ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , flannel quilts

Merry Christmas................. from Exuberant Color

No white Christmas this year, and I'm thankful for that. We had our white right after Thanksgiving instead this year.

In yesterday's mail there was a Christmas card from my talented friend, Linda Swanekamp. She not only makes quilts, she also paints. I love the warm glow behind the tree.

I got the basting done on this little quilt late yesterday afternoon and started the quilting last night. I quilted in the ditch crosswise on the quilt and am quilting a presser foot width away from the seams in the other direction.

Both packages of treats reached my ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under christmas , flannel quilts , machine quilting

Finish #5 for December 2025 from Exuberant Color

The binding was cut yesterday afternoon and last night I sewed it on, finished by machine. This little quilt is 30" x 39.25". It is flannel and in the Bullseye Log Cabin pattern. It has Hobbs 80/20 batting in it and I quilted it on my Pfaff.

It took only a one yard piece of flannel for the back of the quilt. The binding is a medium tan, darker than the light fabrics and lighter than the dark fabrics.

It was so dark yesterday morning that I had to move this cactus plant to the bathroom to take ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , christmas , flannel quilts , nature

Quilting finished................ from Exuberant Color

I wasn't sure this one was going to bloom. It was a bud for more than 3 weeks. This pot is on my kitchen windowsill, west exposure.

Since I am only a little over 5' I am looking across at this pot when I'm standing at the sink. I kept thinking this pot had 4 pieces that had broken off my pale pink cactus plant, but when I looked closer it is just 2 pieces.

I did have one more thing to bake yesterday and then PT in the afternoon. Last night I finished the quilting on this ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , flannel quilts , knitting , machine quilting , nature

Baking first, sewing last...................... from Exuberant Color

I started the day yesterday baking the other Kringlas, different than the ones I baked last week. The dough was refrigerated overnight.

Next I baked the pink Spritz. It was a relief to have my oven fixed to bake these. I did the previous batch that were for my son's customers last week in the little countertop electric oven and it was tricky getting them out before they got too dark.

A little later in the day I baked the chocolate spritz. After that I made one more batch of fudge. Now I have enough of everything to mail ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , flannel quilts , food , machine quilting

Bright and soft...................... from Exuberant Color

The binding is finished on this medallion quilt and full photos and stats will be on tomorrow's post. The repairman was supposed to come between 2 and 4 yesterday and he got here at 5. By 6:30 he had the oven and the dryer both working normally.

While waiting for him to arrive, I pressed all 10 flannel pieces and cut the squares. Last night I got the top sewn together. It is 32" x 40" so a 1 yard piece will be enough for a backing.

Jack Frost only did a little painting on my kitchen windows ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 11 months ago. under flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , nature

Quilt trimmed, table piece finished................. from Exuberant Color

Another quilt is back from my longarm friend Robin. I got it trimmed yesterday afternoon.

Since I needed to turn on the iron, I also pressed the binding fabric and cut the 7 strips needed. It is Kaffe's Woodear fabric.

I also cut the binding strips for my Christmas table runner and got it sewn on and since it is for me, I hand finished the binding. It is 14.75" x 34.5".

I also finished the second dishcloth from this color ball of yarn. 15 dishcloths have left my home since the beginning of November so I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 11 months ago. under flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , knitting , nostalgia , tablerunner

Busy day.................. from Exuberant Color

I decided to do two loads of laundry yesterday so while I was in the basement I was looking through all of my flannel fabric. I had something specific in mind which I haven't found yet. When I saw the leftover pink with bears I decided to pull all of the others that would go with it for a baby girl quilt. I think I'll use the diagonal plaid on the back but there might be a little of it that I can use on the front, depending on the size quilt I make. If I keep it ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 11 months, 1 week ago. under flannel quilts , food

Last minute November finishes and more...................... from Exuberant Color

There is nothing better than an all day sewing day. It was too cold to go anywhere.

This top is finally finished other than a little trimming of the bottom edge. It ended up at 49.5" x 71". There are 2 Martha Negley fabrics in it and the rest are all Kaffe Fassett Collective.

I determined a final layout and got this flannel baby quilt top sewn together too. When I was putting the blocks up on the design wall, I realized the bottom left block was shorter than the rest. Evidently 2 of the light strips were 1 ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under crazy piecing , flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , marcia derse fabric , nature

All blocks.................... from Exuberant Color

Yesterday morning I got all of the strippy blocks up on the design wall. I think I might have moved 2 of the blocks after this photo was taken.

I decided to sew the columns I'm happy with so the three at the left are sewn, but not sewn to each other. I need to do more playing with the insertion strips. I don't like the grouping of the strippy block columns right now, 3, 2, 3, and 2. After I sew some columns I can move them around and also move the narrow strips to new locations ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , strip piecing

Flannel............. from Exuberant Color

Standing at the design wall didn't sound appealing to me yesterday so I got 2 boxes of flannel pieces off a shelf in my studio.

I decided bullseye blocks was a nice mindless project. They will probably be made into a baby quilt.

They haven't had their final press yet so they look a little crooked. Some of them used a variety of short pieces and others were just 3 fabrics for the whole block.

I still have tomatoes ripening in the garage. A lot of them are golf ball size or smaller but they taste great, better ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under flannel quilts , food

3 quilt tops................... from Exuberant Color

I finally turned on the iron and got all three quilt tops pressed and measured. Then I staystitched around the perimeter of this 16 patch made of Nancy Crow fabric. This photo was taken with my Canon camera and is the closest to the real color. My previous photos were too light. This one is 64" x 80".

I am so happy these simple borders worked so effectively to make this medallion into a rectangular shape. It is 61" x 81". It is now a shape to cover a body. No one will ever convince me that a 61" square ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , strip piecing

Borders, sewn top................... from Exuberant Color

Thanks to a friend I decided on borders on a medallion quilt made 9 years ago. I was stuck at 61" square and wanted it to become rectangular. The borders are sewn on the top and bottom. Here is the top and the inspiration for it.

Last night I finished sewing the flannel tumbler quilt top. Now I have 3 quilt tops to press so maybe I'll turn on the iron today.

A friend started blogging again so check her out. She mentions me in this post from yesterday.

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under flannel quilts , kaffe fabric

A different project............... from Exuberant Color

After grocery shopping and putting everything away, I wasn't in the mood to turn on the iron and press the quilt top....so I started a new project. A while back I showed all of the precut flannel pieces I had and I decided to make another baby quilt with the 4" tumblers. This is just rows pinned to the design wall. I'll decide if I want to move any of the rows to a different position and then sew them together. This one should finish around 40" x 40".

There were 257 tumblers (cut with my die ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year ago. under accuquilt die cutter , flannel quilts

Counting pieces................... from Exuberant Color

There wasn't time yesterday to sew on any project so I counted pieces of flannel, both pieced and cut. This pile is 35 flannel 16 patches. I need to make 28 more blocks for a decent throw size quilt, or mix these with some of the pieces in the following photos.

There were several boxes of cut pieces. In this one there are 53 of the 4.5" x 8.5" rectangles, 45 of the 4.5" squares, and I didn't count the strips since there are only a few of them.

A lot of my flannel quilts ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 1 month ago. under flannel quilts , stash

Checking out an idea................... from Exuberant Color

This is the idea I had for the Kaffe rectangles and Brandon Mably's Gameboard fabric. I have seen this done with different dimensions for the pieces and I think longer rectangles might look better, but this is what I have already cut, so I need to use it. I only got 110 B&W squares out of the yard of fabric that I had. I had figured I needed 150 for a quilt 54" x 75". I have another of his black and white fabrics called Chips that I could possible mix into the outside edge blocks. These pieces ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 3 months ago. under flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , nature

It was binding day...................... from Exuberant Color

I had the binding sewn onto the flannel baby quilt before lunch time yesterday. I need to take some blocks off the design wall before I can take its full portrait.

These are the blocks that need to be removed from the design wall. I added the 4 new ones so I could take a photo of all 36 blocks (one of each combination of fabrics, two alike of each are sewn). This wasn't necessarily the final layout but I have a photo of it now if I do want to start with this when I get the rest ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 3 months ago. under binding , flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , marcia derse fabric , strip piecing

Another hot day.......... from Exuberant Color

Yesterday I found a flannel binding fabric that was lightweight and the right color for this little flannel baby quilt. I hope I will get it sewn on today.

A friend came over and was designing a quilt on my design wall. She brought Subway sandwiches, yum!

I had another dishcloth more than half knitted so I finished it late yesterday afternoon.

That gave me permission to start another one (or two).

I cut the black and white squares for another idea I have.

The overnight temperatures are staying up in the mid to high 70s, some close to 80 ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 3 months ago. under binding , flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , knitting

Quilting a small one.......... from Exuberant Color

This flannel quilt has been ready for quilting for a couple weeks so I finally quilted it yesterday. It will get trimmed today or tomorrow and then I'll look for binding.

I pressed the stratas yesterday and sliced off the segments for 8 blocks, 2 of each combination. They aren't pressed so they can't go up on the design wall yet. I have 72 blocks made now. That would give me an 8 x 9 layout but that is too close to square. I would rather have 7 x 11 or 8 x 10. I could still ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 3 months ago. under flannel quilts , machine quilting , marcia derse fabric , nature , strip piecing

Finished a small one................ from Exuberant Color

I made the top for this quilt in February, using the 6" Bow Tie dies so the blocks are 3" finished. All of the fabrics in the blocks are Kaffe Fassett collective prints, a large variety in the larger piece and in the triangles. I think I would call this exuberant pastel because of the large scale prints which appear darker. It is 34.5" x 45".

The cute print on the back is flannel that I found on sale. The binding is a gray print I found in my stack of grays.

I used Hobbs 80/20 batting in ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 4 months ago. under baby quilts , flannel quilts , nature

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