Another Plus Quilt

This still is my favourite pattern to use up my stash/scrap .... fast and easy .  So when I'm not sure which project to do next, I can do one of these while I think about it.

Organic straight lines for the quilting.  I checked out Lorna's blog, sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com  for  tips . 

Always good to have a baby quilt on hand for a gift!

Two Finishes :))

As usual lately, both are made from what I had on hand ... no shopping other than thread and  a brown minky backing for one.

The main blocks are Haystack blocks (6") from Lori Holt's "Farm Girl Vintage Book".  Quilting is a mix of straight lines with my walking foot and some free motion star shapes.

Most of the fabric in this baby quilt 

is from leftovers after this quilt made bout 3 years ago:

The pieced backing.  34 x46

B O M BLOCKS

Finally I've joined a Block of The Month !!

The Sugar Block Club from StitcheryDickoryDock has been awesome so far:

March's block

Feb Block

January's block

April's Block is just out, check it out!

STRING THING

I planned on making a lap quilt from mainly strings of black, grey and white with one strip of colour in the centre of each block, but I got bored with it quickly. 

   

 Also I had some orphan paper pieced star blocks looking for a purpose so I put them all together.

Some fmq pebbles in the coloured strings, hand quilting in the other strips...

more hand quilting and fmq in the star.

It finished up at 32 x 32 and hangs outside of the sewing room.

Pink Stash-Buster

Inspired by Lori Holt's "Farm Girl Vintage" Book , I used 2 Butter Churn Blocks and 10 Churn Dash 6 inch blocks.

Added some 2 inch sashing and some light pink cornerstones. ... some stitching in the ditch, outlining  and some fmq flowers.

A flannel backing for extra softness.

Our cozy corner in the office is ready for Livia's next visit!

Finishing at 32.5 x 40.5

36 Patch 

It started with one of these :

they became a bit addictive, so then a few more :

a few pinwheels : 

and voila:

Not quite done though, decided to add one more row so it'll be large enough for our bed.  I ran out of black for the star points ... hope to pick some up later today. Other than that this is from scraps and stash :)  Now that I'm only working part-time I have more time but less money... so I can hear all those scraps yelling out to be used!!

EASY, FAST FINISH :))

DISAPPEARING 9-PATCH

After finishing 3 quilts on a deadline for gifts I was looking for some easy sewing and decided to try the disappearing 9-patch.  It definitely was as fast and easy as I had read online.  So I went to my stash and got started.

For the quilting I did stitch in the ditch in the centre and a large stipple in the outer border.  Inside the large squares I hand quilted a tiny  X.

This is the first time I used Minky for the backing ... I didn't give me any trouble :)  I did keep the quilting minimal because of the Minky, I wasn't sure how soft it would be after a lot of dense quilting.

Not sure yet who this one's for, so I sewed empty name tags into two corners of the back to be filled out later.

Checking out the wamth factor !!