Here is a lovely pair of quilts for a
family friend.
The wedding quilt is a large, king sized
log cabin.
.jpg)
I made a matching baby quilt for the
family baby. It measures 43" x 43" and has a
lovely fuzzy back.
Both of these quilts
were made using a specialty ruler by
Creative Grids.
Finally a quilt or two for TGIFF
and OMG ( one monthly goal)!
I just wrapped up the binding on
this Rainbow framed string quilt.
It measures up at 78" x 88".
The companion baby quilt is flannel backed
and finished at a nice 41" x 44".
course the supply is not running out any time soon.
Scrap whites were used for the central
white strips as well.
I use all varieties of print fabrics
but I make sure to use those with
minimal white background.
A 80-20 Hobbs batt is inside so it will
be warm but not too heavy.
This quilt is graced with my first ever
monogramed/ signature binding.
I forced myself to sit still long enough
to program my name and date on the binding!
Once I figured it out, I added three
variations to the machine memory.
binding accent was fun to do and will
be a nice surprise when found. I will also
start putting other encouraging thoughts
on my quilt bindings. Who knows when
words of encouragement may make a difference.
Stay safe and sew on !
Linking up with:
Oh Scrap!
Well, my Wednesday Scrap delivery arrived!
Two great big containers of beautiful scraps.
I always love receiving scraps. They are
interesting since they are someone else's
choice and always exciting and much
different than self produced scraps.
Of course I had to dig right in.
I have other bins waiting but the last in
hasn't been explored yet so here we go!
One bin contained lots of lengths of yardage strips.
This quilter uses the length of the yardage for all
her quilt borders, so this pile is wonderful to behold.
A few are actually the same as fabrics I
have! I found some real surprises!
A two toned length cut from a
border print will lend my blue squares lots of interest.
A nice pile of black strips can be trimmed up
for sashing for a 4 patch scrap quilt I have
on the go. It will be similar to this one.
will get added into my growing stack for
a wild weekend of I spy quilts I have been
planning, and oh those strips !
I can string all summer on the wealth of strips
I am pulling out of this box!!
The second bunch of scraps came via
another city from a mutual friend.
(Thank you for being my enabler!)
They decontaminated in her garage
for a month to ensure they were virus
free. There is a cute little zippered rice bag,
stuffed with patterned goodness,
Christmas in March for me! A great birthday month.
The phone rang while I was writing up this post,
and ... more scraps! Of course I accepted the offer
and here is what arrived.
Well , a birthday week,
lots of stitching, organization
and sorting! Busy time all around!
Beautiful flowers, tasty homemade cupcakes and
lots of visits made it a wonderful weekend.
(quilt everything that falls off the shelf),
got me this week and a stack actually
fell down while I was on a zoom meeting!
The pile was yellow tho so, at least it was
this month's color!!
so organization and some good music
took over. I rearranged, putting the fat
quarter-sized piece stacks closer to where
they can be used. This of course, just means
lower shelves! I think I have a few more cycles
of Rainbow Scrapping here. Each cubby has
four stacks of chunk piles! Sew on!
Large backing pieces that
were taking up shelf space, were measured, refolded,
put in a bin and a snippet put onto a reference sheet.
I can easily choose backing fabric with out unpacking
and remeasuring, yay!
Some droopy wood shelves were flipped and
mixed color yardages stacks were reorganized.
All in all a rewarding afternoon of organization and sorting!
Then I got to stitching up some yellow crumbs blocks.
That lead to a resort and count of my block bank crumb blocks.
I seem to have accumulated 55 -12 1/2" crumbs squares
of various colors! Forty nine squares will make a nice
84" square queen sized quilt.
Hmm an new top may come into being soon!
My RSC top got a mellow yellow row with the
neutral border added. All ready for next
months color there!
Getting on to my OMG -one monthly goal,
I pulled out batting and backs
and got two large quilts pinned up. Some large pieces
of batting got stitched up and two more twin quilts
were ready to get pinned up!!
Woot woot! Now for
some intense time quilting up those sandwiched quilts!
A birthday visit from the pipeline couple got me inspired
to clear off that layered bulletin board. Wow, there
were surprises under those layers! I removed 4 quilt tops and
found this! It is interesting how some items are
no longer important after aging a few years!
I found this cute little Hawaiian shirt.
The buttons are so tiny! I don't think I will make another of these!
This paper pieced pattern might be great for a
weekly project to get ready for the holidays! Such
cute little blocks!
I even found a bag of western shirt accents that
I planned to use for geocache prizes one summer.
I need to get into that to explore the countryside!
Now I can go back to using my bulletin board as
design wall without too many treasures behind.
I want to finish this post with a few pictures of a
support quilt made by my daily walking partner.
She put this together in support of the Ukraine
and it is off to raise relief funds.
Her Thursday group was doing a kaleidoscope/stack
and wack with a beautifully colored fabric.
surrounded by pieced arcs of color.
I had no idea I had so many yellows!
I felt sure I used them all but the yellow
scrap bag is quite full!
So far, in yellow, I have:
9 little houses (gold colored),
The star surrounded blocks were quick to do
since I had a pile of stars in the block bank.
I also made 6 crumb blocks from the last
of the teal. There are only a few
scraps left now.
I have almost all of the blocks
finished for 2 large string stars.
Linking up with :
Wow, time keeps on ticking, ticking into the future!
No spring here yet , still cold and snowy.
Lots on my list to.
First up , finish stitching up backs.
Two are ready and hanging in the vault.
One more to go and I can start layering.
I keep changing my process. I sew all the rows
then press, or press between each row, or only press
after they are completely together ( not ideal).
The best process seems to be pressing after
all the rows are stitched, but before the rows
are joined. Always learning!
First to layer is the pair of Rainbow strips.
The recipient, sweet little Adylyn ,
arrived 2 weeks early! Her folks will
get the matching big one. I will have to
start another one for myself. I really like the pattern!
Then on to finish the corners for the
APQ sew along Many Strips.
I have quite a few units left
so it should be just assembly.
I had to square up the center with some
wider seams and creative pressing but it is
laying nice and flat now,
ready to join up with the borders.
Border work took up a lot
of Monday but zoom meetings make the
work go smoothly.
Stay safe and sew on !
Linking up with:
