My little orphan quilt, a collection of discarded blocks and scraps, now waiting for a forever family .
The large 12" blocks are from Lori Holt's "Farm Girl Vintage" book and were sewn too many years ago to remember when !
The points on the 4.5" wonky stars are made from triangle scraps, usually from bindings.
The nine patches were made for another project, long forgotten and abandoned.
I used a repurposed duvet cover for the backing, which I love doing but I'm not sure if any charities will accept this one since they prefer all new materials.
Hand quilted with perle cotton on all the solid pink areas and with regular hand quilting thread in all the other sections.
Block sizes: 4.5, 9 and 12 inch
Another gender neutral donation quilt. I have to admit, I miss using more girly colours, but I know ones like this are needed.
The squares were cut at 5" and set in a 9 x 11 grid, finishing off at 40.5" x 49.5" before washing.
There are lots of free tutorials for plus quilt out there.
I free motioned the wonky grid on both sides of all the seams.
A fun black and white animal print for the backing ... If you look reallllllly hard, you'll see a tiny dot of pink on each elephant. Somehow I missed that little pink detail, but it's not too noticeable and still looks gender neutral to me :)
This is a quick, fun, fat quarter friendly free pattern from Faith Jones, that I found on the WeAllSew website.
The pattern calls for 12 fatquarters to make a 50" x 60" quilt. I made mine smaller at 40" x 50" using 10 fatquarters.
I fell in love with the large paw print fabric for the backing.
Resting under the Sycamore tree. We love this big, beautiful, ancient tree even though it loves to make a mess of our yard and driveway when shedding it's bark.
Machine quilted in an uneven grid.
I'll definitely be using this pattern again for more Project Linus donation quilts. Sounds like a good excuse to pick out some new fat quarters 😮
Linking up with Cynthia at OH SCRAP
Another 9-patch stashbuster.
I enjoy making 9-patches and 4-patches from my small strips and squares, finding new ways to use them is a fun challenge. Here I used 1.5 inch strips and squares to make 3 inch finished 9-patches
This time I really wanted to use up some green fabric I had won a few years ago, so the plain 6 inch alternate blocks were the choice.
I was running low on the lighter green and had to use the darker shade in the 4 corner alternate blocks and the centre block. The darker shade was already planned for the setting triangles, I think it worked out pretty good.
I still have 4 yards of two even darker green fabrics, still no plan for those .... enough green for a while!
One always eager helper, my awesome hubby, one reluctant helper and one defiant non-helper :)
A gorgeous day with no humidity, such a treat!
Washed, dried, soft and wrinkly! I'm so happy with the feel of this finish: light, cozy and inviting.
Finished size is 51" x 68".
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Peek-a-boo from behind the pieced backing.
A mixture of machine and hand quilting.
Machine quilting in the setting and corner triangles and in the ditch around the 6 inch blocks.
Hand quilting in the blocks .... a rough idea of what I did:
Update: Vintage Green has found a new home with my middle brother and his family, Eric, Angela and Nicole. I told Angela I was thinking of donating it, however I was hesitant. It's one of my favourites and I'm so happy it's still in the family :)
Project Linus 2021 (Quilt #2)
A Block of the Month I joined last year, but lost interest in.
12 inch blocks
machine quilted in organic lines
40" x 54"
Sept 2020-May 2021
Machine Quilted
Project Linus 2021 (Quilt 1)
Scrappy, low volume stashbuster!
Mostly 2.5 inch scraps and strips, with a few small and large friendship stars thrown in.
I had 2 width of fabric strips that I used for the top and bottom, both have been in my stash for way too long!
Hand quilted, shown on the back.
I used Crayola Ultra-Clean Washable Markers (blue), fine line, to make my quilting lines....and yes, they did wash out :)
The shot below was "pre-washing" ..so if you look too closely you'll still see the blue marks.
40" x 58"
Hand quilted
@ Jan-June 2021
Linking up with:
Can I Get a Whoop Whoop
Green is scarce in my stash, very scarce. I decided not to use green for the tiny houses, only use green for the trees. I'm still experimenting with them, but they will be 3 by 6 inch to go with the 3 by 3 houses.
So far at least 85 tiny houses have been built.
As usual lots of other projects on the go, just for variety. lol.
March was not a very productive month in the sewing room, however a lot of handquilting was accomplished for some very special occasions...as you can see in my 3 earlier posts.
