Quilt Stories!!! I seem to save them up into batches!

Shhh! It's Low Volume  made in 2017  64 x 82

This was another hunt for fabric that lasted years!  I saw this pattern on a Swedish quilting website after following the link from Pinterest.  

It was a baby quilt! Oh, Baby! my bin of 'conversation prints' was overflowing and it was such fun to use some of my favorite fabrics!

SL in Scrap Happens called text fabrics "conversation prints" and the name stuck.  Kind-of like 'Beige-ings"!

And of course, I had to buy bright fabrics to go with it!  I use this on my side of the bed in the winter!   And Oregon summers!!  It's my second quilt RIGHT NOW!!

The back is a nautical print that didn't work for a QOV back. 

Spring Strippy  2008

Evening Stars Workshop had a block exchange of the churn dash blocks. Then I was in a "strip of the month" club led by a good friend of mine. I'm sure I drove her nuts! But she never said a word!. [Thanks, M!]

The first month's assignment was "half-square triangles" - that's churn dash! 

The next was "square in the block" - ha! churn dash!!!

Well, you get the picture - if churn dash fit the description - there it was! [I had a lot of the blocks!] I even had a row of churn dashes left over - [they ended up on the back!]

I thought the extra row made the quilt too long for the width and didn't want to deal with redesigning it. That's probably why it had a l-o-o-n-g incubation / Time Out period as UFO.

As you know, if you came here via FB.  Miss JJ is now the proud owner of this quilt.

Kinsey's Whimsy Wall Quilt - Literary Challenge  2007

Just 27 x 27

Lincoln Quilt Guild had a "Literary Challenge".  Pick a favorite book or character.  Make a quilt that character would like.  It was a great challenge - so many different interpretations.  I chose the Sue Grafton alphabet mystery series.

I used nickel squares (Kinsey was very thrifty!) in a Bento Box pattern.  I picked bright "California" fabrics and loved making it.  I used it for years as my picture online.

Edyta Sitar was just beginning her quilting career - or I just found her!  And she said - against all Quilting Rules - that you CAN put quilting fabrics and batiks in the same quilt!!  So I did!  and I never stopped from that moment on!

 Oregon Lighthouse Wall Quilt - the Challenge  2006  40 x 40

I found some mini lighthouses on our Oregon Trip one year.  Quilters Corner Quilt Store in Port Orford had had a challenge with them.  The entries were on display and Halleluiah!  They still had the silk-screened lighthouses.

There was a challenge in Lincoln guild too, so of course, I incorporated them into that theme.  I liked it - but when I hung it up in my cubicle at work ... there was a whole lot of sighing and begging for it.  JJ has an August birthday too, so I gave did it to her ... eventually!

Hmmm, I do love that Bento Box setting.  I have another challenge this year for Brookings Guild ... hmmm!

We're getting to the end of the FB challenge - but this has been a whole lot of fun to pick out favorite projects and review them again.  What do you think of "Quilt of the Week"???  Let's see I'd have enough to publish them for a decade or more!!  LOL!  We'll see!

Have a great weekend and stay safe!

Spring has Sprung!!

I finished the binding on my spring challenge last night.  It did not go smoothly! Years and years of experience binding and well, here were the problems!

I chose a light green plaid but had under a FQ of it.  It’s a small quilt - no problem, right?  But I cut an inch with the selvedge ... and then. I read the ruler wrong and cut it too thin.  So I had 5 seams for the binding the quilt.

Did I mention I was using the back of the fabric for the front of the binding??  That’s easy, right?  Not so much.  I ripped out 3 times and 2 partial seams - because I tended to automatically set it as usual.  Sometimes I discovered it after a few stitches!  My language became shocking!!!

I used a 3/8” seam - but I didn’t cut the binding wide enough for the corners to look good.  That’s okay - I can rip it off; trim the quilt just a little, use the usual 1/4” seam allowance.  It will be fine.

Do you trim your corners as you bind?  I do and there was a divot in my binding!  Okay.  I picked a new green binding, used the right side.  Cut it wider and lengthwise - just one seam!!  Smooth as silk - finally!!  LOL!

TA-DA!  Here it is!!

That’s a lot of quilting, don’t you think!!  As I was working on it for 2 different bindings, at night I folded it in half on top of my supplies - keep it out of the way of my insomniac DH.

It might be a cool book cover in a later life!!

Next project is bind a QOV.  I cut the strips last night, I’ll be using the front of the fabric so hopefully my brain will be working.  There is many more strips than 5 to join!

Stay safe and QUILT ON!!

The first UFO Finish!! (and the crowd goes wild!)

A very old pattern, but always popular in my crowd!  I've made many of these over the years.  These 3 little fishies are going to the Habitat Garden Tour/Auction.

Next up - my Spring Challenge.  The guild challenge is to donate a half yard of that season's fabric.  Something that feels, or reminds you of spring. Our fearless leader takes it all home and then cuts it, mixes it up, and gives back a packet of fabrics.  You have to use all of them, on the front! but you can add whatever fabrics work for you.

My challenge was inspired by a Pinterest photo I saved who knows how long ago!  That's the best part of Pinterest - use it as a personal scrapbook!!  So many ideas all in one place.  Granted it's a big space with that many boards and pins, but easier than looking through my sewing room for some idea!!!

Hope to get the binding on tonight!  But here is a little sneak preview ...  

I'm not saying I was feeling a little 'cabin fever' while doing this ... but I kept circling and circling in closer and closer.  The name is "Quarantine Spring"!

Let's hope I won't need a "Quarantine Summer" project next!!

Stay safe and QUILT ON!