Fishbowl Quilt Blocks

I went up to see my sister graduate from College (Diesel Tech / Mechanic) and of course we bought fabric, we went through her stash, and decided to use some of it to make a couple of skirts. They turned out real cute (I'll upload a picture of mine). Also we decided that we would do our own version of quilt block of the month. Each of us would make 2 blocks, keep one, and send the other to each other. Our first choice was the fishbowl block, and our variation was since the block is only a 6" block, we would alternate the block with a solid 6" block and create a 12" block. The only other criteria was the fishbowl was to have fish in it. I had finished mine, and then discovered some really cool fish fabric my mother had brought me from Hawaii, and I had made Doug a pair of boxers with it, but had some perfect sized scraps for the fish bowl blocks. I was originally looking for some black fabric as the contrasing color, but then my eye fell on the rainbow fabric I had bought for bags, and decided it would be a fun contrast since all the colors were already in the fish fabric.

Doug's Quilt

So, I promised Doug I would make him his very own quilt, theme being route 66, cars and motorcycles. I have it to the point where it's pinned together, and I have been trying to figure out how I'm going to quilt it the way I want. I want a wandering road all over it, with in between the road quilted motor cycles and maybe cars. I created an easy image of a motor cycle that will work, and a car should be simple too. The problem is, I need to draw the road and most of the fabric is dark and my pencil is not leaving a very good line for me to see. He wanted it to be reversible, and I actually got him to go shopping for fabrics with me. Quilt store employees gave him a lot of ribbing.

Doug tended to pick out fabrics that were very dark, so I had to add in some brite ones as well, as you can see, and Napoleon approved.

Jaydin's Quilt

In the middle of making Doug's quilt I discovered I was going to become a grandmother again :), and needed to make Jadin a baby quilt, used Noah's ark theme. Turned out really cute, and I have perfected the wave quilting, so that is what I used on this quilt.