#Economyblockalong

I mentioned previously that I got sucked into the economy block along.  I call it square in a square.  Well, I finally got it all finished up and quilted.  I believe I will be keeping this one for myself.  I might even have to make another once I got some other projects finished.

My munchkin went with me to the school to help with pictures.  It was windy and I didn't think I could do it all on my own.



I used the Baptist Fan design to quilt it.  I like how it turned out and it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be.



Have a great day!!!

Auction Quilt

Picture of the winner of the auction quilt.  It's my best friend's husband.  I think he's pretty excited.  The quilt is being gifted to his sister.  Couldn't have worked out better.  He got a deal at $135.



 

Email with Pictures

Yesterday I got an email with a picture attached.

The fun thing about the picture is that it's a t-shirt quilt I made for a active miltary service person.  His mom sent me a box of shirts and I put them all together and returned the finished product.

It's fun to see the quilt with it's recipient.



Michael, David, Chris (father and son), Derrick and Stephen

David just returned from Afghanastan and Chris left for a tour in January.

 

Auction Quilt

I finished another quilt.  This one is going to be auctioned for charity in Illinois.  I can't wait to hear how much it brings in.

I made this quilt before in king size for my bed.  The pattern is very easy and it works great with fat quarters and scraps.


Added a little color to the back.  It's also my cheater way of lengthen the fabric so I didn't have to buy more.


I did a large stipple in the border and then smaller stipple around the hearts.  I didn't do anything with the hearts, but the stippling makes them pop up.



Thanks for stopping by.  Have a CREATIVE day.

Quilted for Another

I had a lady drop off a quilt top and back last Wednesday and was in a rush to get it quilted.  I think the baby it was for came much sooner than planned.  Anyhow, I had some time so it wasn't a problem to put it right on the machine.  The quilt is far to cute not to share.  The light in the girl cave isn't the best, but you get the idea.  It's 5" charm squares with the appliqued flowers.  The pink was VERY BRIGHT and cheerful.  It was hard to hand it back.  I quilted it with pink thread on the front and gray on the back using Frisky Feathers from Lorien.





Have a great day!!!

Everybody's Doing It

Economy Block Along a.k.a Square in a Square

Last year on the interwebs there was a Scrappy Quilt-a-Long that offered up some really cool quilt tops.

This year on the interwebs is the Economy Block Quilt-a-Long.  You can read more about it here.  I've been looking at pictures on Instagram and Flickr.  Needless to say I've totally gotten sucked in.

The thing is though, I don't have a love for triangles.  I know I should because they are all the rage, but they just really frustrate me.  Then I remembered that I bought a bunch of Square in a Square stuff at a guild meeting about 3 years ago and have done absolutely nothing with any of it.  So I pulled out my new ruler and books and got busy.

I'm definitely going scrappy and am just pulling fabric from the shelf.  What ever I grab is what goes into this creation.  My center blocks are from Block Party Studios and they are blocks about Quilters and Quilting.



I've managed to finish 12 blocks.  There are about 30 more sitting next to my sewing machine ready to go. Tomorrow night will be spent in the girl cave enjoying some sewing time.

I have been spending some time with the embroidery machine making blocks and blocks and more blocks.  I've bought so many designs, I don't know that I'm ever going to use them all.  After making these blocks, I have all sorts of ideas floating around in my head.

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January 30th...really???

Seriously where did the month go?  It can't be the end of January already, can it???

I did manage to finish 2 quilts this month.  The first is a t-shirt quilt that's already gone to it's home and is for a boy who is graduating in May.

This was my inspiration -



This was my interpretation -



All of the t-shirts were about 15x15 so that's what I cut all of the big blocks.  I only had a few small blocks to mix in, thus the reason for only 2 skinny rows.

I like how the top turned out.  Definitely will give it a try again.

The pictures of the 2nd quilt are out of focus, so I will try again tomorrow.