Silent Sunday

Scrappy yellow goodness

Fabric lettuce.

Did you start the year off with a stash challenge?
There are several stash challenges going on right now. Some of my friends are doing them and I decided to play along, but using a block I designed for the challenge. I have about a million 2.5" squares, so I colorized some of them first. (I might make some color/scrappy ones later but wanted to start with colorized blocks.  I had used some blacks and grays in a different scrappy style quilt, so I thought using them for the stars would make a nice contrast to the other colors and hopefully show up with most colors.

It might bother some quilters that the background in the star points doesn't match the rest of the block, color wise. We all like a different level of scrappy.

I found a few baggies of squares that I had used as leaders and enders, so I have a bunch of them that are already sewn into pairs and sets of 4. That is making the last few blocks quicker to sew. I think I might have more somewhere, as I was taking them with me when I went to sew with friends. Plus I know I have some other colorized blocks I made as a start to a different project and they are hiding somewhere. I know what the plastic tub looked like....

Here are a few blue blocks that I made last week.  I have about 20 blocks done so far in assorted colors.

Bright and cheery

I designed and made the My Little Pretties Sampler quilt a long tme ago, but never quilted it as I didn't have time. Plus it hung on the wall in the classroom so nicely unquilted. I recently asked my friend Cindy to quilt it for me and she did! I love what she did! 

Cindy does free motion quilting and said she was trying out a new design idea. She quilted in yellow and I really like that color choice. I used this pink/orange stripey fabric that I got not long ago because I knew it would go with something! And it does.

 Here's a close up of that gorgeous quilting.

My associate checked it out for softness...

One pattern, 3 finishes

I've been trying to finish quilts that I made but never completely finished. Sometimes when making quilts for classes it was easier to hang them without being quilted, plus I didn't always have time to get it done, so they waiting their turn to be finished.

This quilt is a variation of the Lotus Quilt by Jaybird Quilts. I originally made it out of reds, golds, and black and really liked it, but as I worked on it I could see that there could be flowers there instead of the more triangular design of the original. So I dug out some fabrics and tried it. I really liked it, but it was never finished as I'm sure I got busy on the next project and put it away.

Can you see the flowers?

I haven't been machine quilting very much the past year as I had some problems with my machine. I took it in to have it repaired and it seems to be working better now. I loaded the Lotus variation a few months ago and quilted it and recently bound it.

Finishing this one reminded me that I made another one using the Lotus pattern when my great-nephew Owen was born using bright graphic fabrics. I never did ask his mom if it kept him away at night...

The brown blur in that picture is his 2 yr. old brother running around him.

Bicycle Wheel

A few years ago, I started work on the Bicycle Wheel quilt from the Kaffe Fassett book Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts. I got it finished not long after, but never quilted it.

 I finished the quilting recently and bound it yesterday. 

 Now...how many more are there to quilt?

Canyon Creek

Bugsy Backpack class

 I had a great time helping these great students make the Bugsy Backpack bag the other day....I didn't take too many pix during the class, but I didn't want to miss them birthing their bags!

Pretty tricky getting it through the 5" opening, but they both got it done!

 We had started out the night before so that the bags were cut and almost all interfaced before class began on Sat. So they were able to finish them in class.

They were both so different, but so cute. It's fun to see something made up in several different colorways. I have made 2 and have my class model to finish for a third. It will have to wait as I'm going on vacation to see my daughter in Baltimore tomorrow. I will try to blog if I can, but if not I will post when I get back.

My Bugsy Backpack #2

 I have made 2 and have my class model to finish for a third. It will have to wait as I'm going on vacation to see my daughter in Baltimore tomorrow. I will try to blog if I can, but if not I will post when I get back.

Back view of  my #1

My Bugsy Backpack #3 in progress