Every year in the spring, there is a fantastic event - it is called Hands2Help. Over the years, this event has prompted thousands of quilts to be donated to various organizations.
I think I have been participating since 2015.
Every year in the spring, there is a fantastic event - it is called Hands2Help. Over the years, this event has prompted thousands of quilts to be donated to various organizations.
I think I have been participating since 2015.
I actually sewed quite a bit this week.
But I sure do not feel like I have much to show for it!
I did sew this little 4" tall block. I think it took me most of the week!
I am looking forward to April's RSC color to see what letters I get to sew next.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned one of my quilt buyers wanted some small sized quilts to gift and to donate. Since then, I have been going through my stash and pulling some fabrics for inspiration.
As I went through my stash, I was finding a lot of kid friendly fat quarters so the first pattern that came to mind was my Wiggle Time pattern. It needs 5 fat quarters and about 2 yards of a background fabric.
Here is the first quilt I made and finished.
I loved this colorful balloon fabric.
It was easy to add some bright red, yellow and orange prints from my stash. I also had some Kona Navy that worked perfectly for the background.
I found an orange and blue print in my stash for the backing. It was some bits leftover from a previous backing so I had to piece it quite a bit. But the seams hardly show.
The second quilt I am making will have a cat and mouse theme. Most of the prints are very soft in color so I pulled some Kona Snow for the background.
The sunny days have turned rainy here so I was able to spend some time in my sewing room.
I love this project more with every month's worth of blocks added.
I also finished two more of my Bloom blocks. I still have four more yellow ones to make for the quilt design I am making. Hopefully I can get to them next week - they are all cut, I just need to sew them up.
And lastly, I finished up my letter R for my booth banner. I still have the letter S to make in the color yellow.
Here are all the letters I have made so far. I still have 12 to go!
(The letters are a paper piece pattern by Quiet Play)
So many scraps and so little Time...I am never going to get to them all!
Can you believe it? This is the third month in a row I have finished an older UFO!
I have had these six appliqued blocks squirreled away for over a decade.
With the help of a friend, I finally figured out what to do with them. It required me making one more block but I quickly finished that one evening.
I added in some negative space and I made this sweet table runner.
I continue to work on making some baby quilts for one of my quilt buyers.
She plans on donating them so I want to keep the costs down as much as possible.
I thought I would dig through my orphan blocks and pull a few more leftover strip sets. The ones I used on these blocks were actually really odd shaped (sorry, no photos). They were improv pieced and a circle was cut from them. I decided I could still make them work by cutting away the curvy parts and ending up with a triangle. I found some older stash pieces and sewed the corners to a 9" square of fabric.
I spent the evening playing with layouts.
I decided I like this one the best.
(sorry about the nighttime photos - it looks far better in person!)
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I thought I would quickly pop in today and wish all of you a Happy National Quilting Week. I think we should all get the week off to spend in our sewing rooms!
With National Quilting week comes some great deals on some of the things we love most.
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Connecting Threads is having a sitewide sale this week. This is a great time to pick up any items you need. I always use this event to stock up on my backings. When I get them out of the sale section, the additional 20% makes the fabric a steal!
I finally found some time this week to start sewing up my yellow scraps for my RSC blocks. I don't really have a lot of yellow scraps so I spent a lot of time sorting my scraps into little piles that were the right size for each of my blocks.
Then I cut all the necessary bits to size. Now I can easily sew them up!
I finished one more of my RSC Two Bit blocks.
I already have three yellow blocks from last year so just one is needed.
I also need a total of eight of my Bloom blocks in yellow. I have them all cut out but I was only able to sew up two of them. I still really love making these blocks!
Did you do any scrap quilting this week?
You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!
Click here to enterJust a few days ago, I shared how I was using some leftover strip sets to make a fun little baby quilt.
I loved how it was turning out so in no time I am ready to share my finish!
I started out with these leftover strip sets that I adopted from a friend.
I dug through my stash and found a fun print that I liked with them and started making some large HSTs. Then it was just a matter of playing with the layout.
I decided to go with this barn-raising design.
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