Toy Story - a Finished Quilt

March 31, 2017

Just in case you thought I only made t-shirt quilts these days...sometimes I finish up really, really old projects.

Like this one from 2012. It is the simplest of quilts - some border fabric and coordinates, just four patches and pinwheels. And yet it took two years to make the top. {Obviously not consecutively.} Then it took our friends' new baby boy to finally get it quilted. I have plenty of baby girl quilts for fast gifts, but people insist on not choosing their babies' genders based on this information.

I busted out my best Quilt Kisses impression and quilted each row differently. Some better than others - I like the pinwheels a lot, but my wishbones are...not quite right. But hey - it's practice and it's NOT LOOPS. {Okay, some of them are basically loops. But not all over loops!}

I like this row because the loops are in the fabric, too. And my orange peels are far from perfect, but I really love doing them.

In shocking news, CC continues to be a brat.

The backing is minky from Joann's, and I adore the pattern. Just the right colors, and the quilting is barely noticeable. {You know, in case I screwed it up!}

The binding is the same yellow dot from this t-shirt quilt. It's always nice to nearly use something up before it heads to the scrap bin! And yes, I know, I'm going to fill out the label. I promise.

This goes to the new brother of this quilt, born almost exactly the same day two years later. That's some decent family planning!

36x42"

WiP - March

March 29, 2017

Apparently, March is what happens when the weather is still too nasty to have outside fun time, but nice enough that there's no snow days {still had a snow storm, of course.} I was stuck inside a lot and I got.stuff.done.

To be fair, a few things were done and/or mostly done in February. Like these four t-shirt quilts - one was done at the end of last month, but not blogged. Two were nearly done. {I think I quilted them on March 1?} So only one was really made in March.

Memoirs of an Undergrad / A Million Steps / Nevertheless She Persisted / Bloomsday #1

And in the mini-finishes - all of these were tops before March, and the stars were already quilted. So not hard to finish these up, either.

Flying Geese Mini 2 / Shivaun Place Pillow- my OMG Goal / Star Pillows

But then, on the other hand, I got a lot of other stuff in motion. Toy Story was quilted and bound and now I just need to do the clean up. My Flower mini using leftover pieces is ready to be quilted. I sorted my flannel scraps and pieced a strip quilt using backing pieces - it's basted and ready to be quilted.

Inspired by Instagram, I pulled out two charm packs and finally made the cracker block quilt I've been meaning to do for years. I added sashing and...yeah, it's a finished top already.

Oh, yeah, and I forgot to take pictures, but I cleaned up all the blocks for my sister's wedding quilt, and started to plan out what I need to finish it. Mainly, um, for my mother and myself to write on our blocks.

Oh, and there was my BOMs and my next t-shirt quilt!

So, yeah, definitely a productive month. And April looks good, too, as I'm quilting right now. {Well, I don't actually know when you're reading this. So maybe.} Another t-shirt quilt and, finally, California Girl Hourglass!

Just, you know, don't ask how much housework I did in March.

BOMs Away - Floating Stars

March 27, 2017

I wrapped up my last Quilts of Valor leader/ender about a month ago {slowly hand binding it now!} So it was time to break out a new l/e and stick it in my last BOMs Away slot. I figured it would take a while to build up a stash of these, but it's going much faster than expected.

I'm part way through the next red one, and I cut out the last four blocks so they're ready to keep moving forward. There's not that much cutting, actually. My local QOV chair gave me a "kit" with a stack of 6" flag background and told me to have fun. I decided on the floating stars because, well, it uses lots of the background squares!

I'm using 3.25" squares for the star points. And I'm using those big flag prints that don't work as small scraps! And of course I'm saving the bonus HSTs...sigh. No, really, I'm going to do something with those. I swear I won't end this BOMs Away project with those suckers in a bag somewhere!

They're 17" unfinished, which makes sashing a little more interesting. I was going to go with 6" scrappy, but now that they're on the wall, I'm thinking skinnier is better. Maybe 3x6" rectangles? Anyway, I have about a month to go before I need to worry about that.

So how's everyone else doing making those parts into blocks and blocks into quilts?

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Star Pillows - a Mini Finish

March 24, 2017

Well, you know how I have a massive amount of unfinished projects just sitting around? Including a whole box just of minis and leftovers from other projects? Turns out, some of them barely needed any work. Like, at all.

Say, for example, these pillows. Leftover blocks from my Fat Quarter Stars sampler, which I last worked on in October 2014. {Ugh. On the plus side, everything else in that post is now finished.} They were quilted a looooooong time ago - probably 2014, too. Look, one of them is even custom quilted! At this point, I don't even remember why I kicked them out of the sampler...poor things.

{Check out the matched pattern on the blue one! #winning}

I pulled out my box o' Stars and found two matching chunks of fabric for backings. Whipped together some nice envelope backs, serged the edges, and there we go - two finished pillows. It literally took me longer to order ribbon tags on Etsy to put on said pillows. Which I will NOT delay in doing so once they arrive. Hold me to that, folks.

And considering the actual quilt only needs the last round of borders, maybe it's time to finish that one up, too...

In further adventures of either 'CC is a jerkface' or 'CC thinks she's a model'... Every time I put down the board!

Fabric is Minick & Simpson's Charlevoix...long out of print, of course. They're about 12" square. Or approximately one half CC-size.