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"Closer to you" approx 46" x 48" spiral quilting did not straighten edges, just bound as is I finished! I am super surprised at this one. I have been working on doing the Improv scores from the book The improv handbook for modern quilters by Sherri Lynn Wood. This is my #4 score on the patchwork doodle. I started the center blocks of this quilt last year when Louisiana Bendolph taught a class about Gees Bend quilts and quilters. A good portion of this fabric is up-cycled pieces from my moms scrap box. The coral strips are pieces from an old dress. There is even a dart or two in my quilt that I left in. Some of the denim is from a patch bag that she also had in her stash so I am assuming they are bits from her old jeans. I didn't have any striped scraps from my dads old Oshkosh overalls so I went to the thrift store and bought a few striped shirts. The lighter blue fabrics are from the portrait quilt I made of my mom called So Blue . ...
For quite awhile now I have been focused on fabrics donated to me or to my church group. I get in a mindset that I need to work through the bags and piles and try to keep it as organized as possible while also producing end products. So that is the case. I have not posted much but thought I would do a montage of some of the end pieces going to the womens help center, mission, and outreach places. When I get several mixed bags of material I try to cut down the already scrappy odd cut out fabric into usable squares of precut like sizes. It takes a long time but you end up with a nice stack of variety. The first quilt above is the odd pieces that were left over from all this cutting. I love a good coin quilt don't you? A friend donated a large stack of 15 quilt tops she made from upcycled bumper pad fabrics. I finished all of them for the womens center. They are cozy with bits of minky and other fabric appliques that have texture. Some flannel some denim some mixed. My mantra...just s...
Well this week for Project Quilting 13.5 the theme is Rhythm and Repetition. I dug into my pattern/ruler pile and came up with "Mountain Hiking" by Kate Henderson out of the book Scrappy and Happy Quilts. It uses Perfect rectangle rulers but I had EZ Tri Tool by Darlene Zimmerman made by simplicity and they were same size for the three smaller triangles. I had to make a template for the biggest. This quilt measures approx. 72.5" x 80.5" I had to decide if I could do this large size in a week. I used all scrap or a variety of older low volume pieces for the background. I emptied out a bag of these red violet lovelies ( one of my favorite colors the last few years) that I had been saving for something. So the cutting took a little bit of time because of the scrappy pieces I had to deal with. Still I was able to make the top relatively quickly. did have trouble with my large template size triangles because the top tip was so wide it never gave me a point. I decided...
Sometimes when I think too long on a problem quilt or a hard project I feel the need to just sew. I happen to have some fat quarters that I came across when straightening up around my cutting table (another diversion from hard project). I can't remember ever making a log cabin quilt before. I starting playing with the fat quarters and on such a small scale comes these little 4.5" blocks. I like it so far. I have 36 little blocks. I am not sure if I will keep making them or stop there. There are lots of layout possibilities. Right now I am leaning towards a star shape. I don't know...this was just a diversion. I think I am ready to get back to the other projects now so this will sit on the back burner a bit. There is a group on FB from SewCanShe that is making things this week with mini log cabin blocks. So fun. (it might motivate me)??? For now off to work on what I was working on before I got distracted!! :) Linking up with Lorn...
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