Another quilt with Lori Holt blocks.

COUNTRY BOY is for my sister's grandson, Brooks.  

His older brother received one a few years ago .... so fair is fair!

Like his brother's quilt, it's backed with a cozy, repurposed flannel sheet.

Ivy, my helper for the day.  Ivy has her own quilt, kind of similar to this one.

Several Farm Girl books were used.  I love that you can mix and match the blocks to personalize.

Some closeups:

So many pieces to the scarecrow, I couldn't imagine doing the 6" version.

  Ivy has a 12" scarecrow in her quilt too, they are fun to make.

The snout and udder are pinker than they look here. 

 I thought about leaving a tassel on the tail... maybe on the next cute cow.

I did the hand quilting mostly with regular Guitermann hand quilting thread, but did use some perle cotton thread here and there.

I think there is a Fall / Pumpkin quilt in my future.... love the flat pumpkin!

 

Ok, I cheated on a few things as usual, this time on the horse blanket, going with a checked fabric instead of piecing tiny 1 inch squares.

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A little charity quilt using one of the patterns in Lori Holt's Scrappiness in Happiness Book.  

 Most of the star fabrics are from a Lori Holt charm pack.

She finishes up at 40 x 56 before washing.

Hand quilted, big stitch.

Baptist Fan motif 1/2 inch spacing.

Washed and ready.

So lately I make a top for a charity quilt and by the time I'm done the hand quilting I'm very attached to it....so they linger around the house for a while before moving on to their new home.   Some linger longer than others,  much longer, lol.

She will remain unnamed... If I name her, I'll never let her go!

 

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This one is for my granddaughter, Livia. She has always loved to dance, sometimes like a ballerina or silly and funny like the Grinch.  Watching her get lost in the moves, graceful or silly, warms this gramma's heart.

 

Here is the Link to the Be A Ballerina pattern from Be Sew Inspired. 

 I  did change it up and left out the side curtains.  The full width was too much for the 60 inch wide minky backing.

 I  had the pink fabric, but Livia picked out the blue,  purple  and multicolored fabric.

I also replaced the flowers with my granddaughter's name.

Machine quilted, free motion....a bit of a challenge since I  usually do big stitch hand quilting and was very out of practice. 

Our silly girl;

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Hudson's Birthday Pillow

 

A personalized little birthday present to go with the  Dinosaur quilt given for Christmas.

I used Lori Holt's 6 " letter patterns and a 24" pillow form.

A repurposed flannel sheet for the back.

It warms a grandma's heart when they love these handmade, little gifts.

Maybe next time I'll be brave and attempt a zipper on the back...maybe. lol.  It's been decades, maybe highschool home-ec class!!

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Scrappy Charity Quilt

 

 A low volume little quilt from the book Sisterhood of Scraps.  I love most of the scrappy quilts in this one and couldn't resist.

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I did make it smaller than the pattern. I've been keeping my donation quilts to 40 inches wide so I  don't have to piece the backings 

I did use all scraps and stash, I was tempted to shop for some low volume fabric , and the final quilt would have been prettier if I had.

All in all, its a very sweet and cozy quilt. 

Hand quilted in a simple grid.

42" x 54" 

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Itty Bitty Houses Donation Quilt

 The first of the Itty Bitty House Quilts, I have many more 3" houses ready but here I've picked the less girly ones in hopes of it being donated to  a child not into pinks and flowers.

The house pattern is one of many free 3" blocks available for free: Bitty Blocks

Hand quilted. 

Stitch in the ditch around the house blocks.

Crosshatch in the inner border, using perle cotton.

Straight lines in the outer border.

A bit of a different backing, but it reminded me of the tree colour on the front so I went for it.

40" x 50"

Now to come up with a totally different layout for a girlier version!

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RAINBOW STARS

A little finish, but a cutie.  This one turned out with a cuddly, light feel to it.

I started out with a plan to make a quilt full of these stars and matching rainbow diamonds.  Of course, I had no patience for that many half square triangles, especially such small ones.  I must have started with that plan at least 5 years ago.  Since then I've learned a few things about  my quilting stamina .... the bigger the pieces, the  more likely I am to keep at it

My stash was a bit short on low volume fabric, so I admit to using the back side of several pieces of too bright fabric.   A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do :)

Big stitch hand quilting, Baptist Fan design. It's of my favourites along with the Clamshell motif.

Our grass is getting crunchy and very thirsty,  excuse the brown grass 😞

 

No recipient in mind for this one, it'll probably go with  my donations to Project Linus.

My new bike, new to me. lol. 

 I'm hoping it will help me adjust better to this semi-retired life.

Now when I need a sewing break I can just hop on my bike for some exercise and fresh air, not to mention Vitamin D as well!
 

My next handquilting project, still in the pinning process.

Linking up with Cynthia at OH SCRAP.  Go stop by and check out all the scrappy fun!