New starts in October 2020

 

I don't ever shy away to start something new. 

These 2 Sew Along are what I have started. 

Sue Spargo is doing a block of the week with free patterns.  It is called Squash Squad and is available on her web site.

The pieced blocks are from Fat Quarter Shop and is their Sewcialite block of the week.

I am truly enjoying these.

Paper Lanterns Quilt Along

 This is my version of the beautiful Sew Along (SAL), that Sue Daley (link on the right side to her blog),

 is finishing up soon. I am using 1 inch hexies and not the 2" hexies on her original SAL.

I have finished a few more rows than this photo shows. 

I am loving this SAL and can't stop working on it.

But I also made a mistake and I will end up with an extra row. Not a problem in my book.

Lucy Boston- Patchwork of the Crosses

I finished my version of the Lucy Boston English Paper Piecing quilt. The setting is my own adaptation of the block. I love the original quilt too. I might make another wall hanging with the original setting. 

 

house block

 This block is one of my favorite house blocks. 

I made it for our guild president. 

We as a guild, make a block to the president at the end of the year as a "thank you" gift. She had requested a house block, any size or color. This is my contribution. I hope she enjoys it.

Another top completed

This is my quilt top for the Snow Flake SAL by The Fat Quarter Shop.

It was fun and fast. 

I used 14 strips from a old but good fabric jelly roll. I had these fabrics for a very long time. 

I will quilt it using my embroidery machine and a winter pattern.

 

Completing WIP

My "collection" of work  in progress is diminishing in 2020. Stay at home and sew has been a wonderful past time for me.

The quilt top is a collection of blocks made by friends. It was a "shoe box challenge."

We put our fabrics in a box and each month the box was passed around my Bee . The person with the box made a block using those fabrics. In the end we got our boxes back with our amazingly beautiful blocks. It was a great fun to put the blocks together.

The placemats were made over 10 years ago. All I had left to do was to add the borders and quilt it. 

Life got in the way of finishing it and once packed it was forgotten.🙈

 

Half Log cabin top

This quilt top was made using 8 inches squares of fabric. 

• For each block you will need 1- 8"  square of white/black fabric, and 1- 8" square of a color batik fabric. So you will actually make 2 blocks at the same time.
• Cut a 2 inches strips on one side, rotate the squares 90 degrees and cut another 2 inches strip and continue this way until a 4 inches square is left.  
• note- I did cut several squares at the same time. I carefully stacked 4 fabrics and cut them all at the same time.
• Alternate the black and white with the color strips and sew the block on a log cabin fashion way. 

• Trim to size (my blocks are 6 3/4 inches unfinished), and sew the top together.

I chose to sew my blocks on a diagonal setting and added black  and white triangles to complete the top.

I cut the side triangles using a companion angle ruler from  5" strips of fabric.

The corner triangles were cut using an easy angle ruler from 5 1/4" strip.

This quilt top finishes at 54 1/2" by 68"