Feb27

I did a PSQ block!

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I did a PSQ block!

 

I followed Mary’s PSQ demonstration and now I have one 64 charm block!  Her demo was perfect but I goofed up a couple of times and had to fix it so my seams would go the right direction.  The charms are 1 1/2″, the block is 8 1/2″.

I’m still cutting up fabric for the Postage Stamp Quilt Swap and Challenge and hope I have enough for whatever the next challenge or swap is!  I’m cutting 1 1/2″, 2″ and 2 1/2″ squares but I plan to swap the 2″.

I’m adding 1 1/2 inch strips to my cutting sizes because I just bought the Pineapple tool and the Trash to Treasure book by Gyleen X. Fitzgerald.  Between squares and strips, I’m going to make scrap quilts using my stash!

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’

Linda

Feb25

Thimbleberries Club 2004 Loose Ends

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Thimbleberries Club 2004 Loose Ends

In an effort to organize my fabric and scraps for cutting, I keep finding more unfinished projects!  Here’s 2 wall hangings from a 2004 Thimbleberries club, they just need to be quilted.

Both of them have applique and hand stitching!  Something that I don’t do very often.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next one is in really unfinished.  The center block is complete and I’m pretty sure I’ll never complete this as the pattern is written.  I’m not interested in doing the applique, etc.  Any suggestions?

In defense of myself, I did do most of the projects that year.  Each month was a small project and a block.  And at the end of the year you assembled a big quilt.  I’ll add a photo of that quilt to my gallery soon.  One of my favorite quilts, I made from the scraps (I’ll post that photo too) and I still have lots of scraps left!

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’

Linda

Feb24

Quilt Wrangling!

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Quilt Wrangling!

I’ve been wrangling some big quilts lately and I still have a few more to go!  Here’s a fairly large quilt by Connie.  It’s bigger than my hanging space!

We decided to quilt it with a overall freehand shell meander, maybe you would call it peacock  feathers or 1, 2, 3.  Do you have a name for this quilting design?

The thread is Superior OMNI and the batting is Quilter’s Dream 100% cotton select.

Bonus!  The back is pieced!  The thread matches so well, it’s hard to see but it would make a nice reversible quilt.

 

Our quilt guild had a trunk show this week and the presenters pieced most of their backs from the leftover project fabrics.  Now, that’s one way not to have lots of fabric scraps!  What do you prefer?

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’

Linda

Feb23

Bright Hopes Loose End

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Bright Hopes Loose End

 

Look what I found while I was looking for fabric to cut up for my Chain Gang Postage Stamp Quilt!  This one is an oldie, I think I started it in 2002.

Back then I thought I would machine embroider something in the big blank blocks but I got side tracked on everything else and in a box it went.

 

 

 

The curved blocks were assembled using Quiltsmart printed interfacing.

The original plan was to add wide borders using the background fabric but …. somehow it got used as a backing fabric for someone’s quilt!  In fact, I’m not sure who’s quilt has it, I may have to do a little research to figure it out!

 

I still have the strips I cut for binding and a small piece of bird fabric. There might be enough for a small border but I’m thinking to just leave it as it is and finish it with some fun quilting in the big spaces.

 

 

Any opinions?

 

Thanks for looking!  And just keep stitchin’

Linda

Feb21

Another Sock Monkey Quilt!

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Another Sock Monkey Quilt!

 

 

Has Sock Monkey made a revival?  I recently made a Sock Monkey baby quilt and then the next week I pulled out my next quilt for LAQ and it’s another cute Sock Monkey quilt!

 

 

 

 

We decided to do a little meander in a neutral cream thread.

 

Aren’t those little monkeys cute?!

 

 

 

After it’s washed it will be all wrinkled and cuddly, perfect for any little girl!

The back view really shows the quilting detail, too.

 

Have you made a sock monkey quilt?

 

Thanks for looking!  And just keep stitchin’

Linda

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