Monday, December 30, 2024

Quilt Piecing

I've been saving the scraps from narrow, 1.5" border strips to sew into tiny 2.5" four-patches. Then, piecing them into these Triple Treat blocks using Quiltville's free leader/ender project. Such little pieces turn into something scrappy and wonderful. I think I'm going to make a bunch more of these so I can get mor variety. 
Sometimes simple piecing is just what you need. 

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Friday, December 27, 2024

Quilt Piecing

Today I have a couple quilts that show how to pull colors together for a quilt. This won't work in every situation, but it is a good place to get started if you think you aren't good at color in practice. First, grab a focus fabric you like, or want to use for your color inspiration. Pull together colors that are in that fabric for your blocks. This one uses primary and some secondary colors. It was easy to pull out the blues, greens, reds, orange, and yellows. In the end, an effective quilt that uses a bunch of different fabrics that work when combined with the focus fabric. 
I did the same thing with this large-scale print. Light and bright blue play nicely with the focus fabric to make a fun little quilt. 

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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Tiny Toolbox

Evidently, these tiny toolboxes are all the rage on the internet. We were at the home improvement warehouse and found them. We picked up a set, one for me, and one for my darling husband. 
I had some delightful purple felt to the drawers. I'm not sure where I'm going to put it. I do know that it needs a bunch of stickers. 

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Monday, December 23, 2024

Quilt Piecing

Another striped quilt to use up those 2.5" strips. 

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Friday, December 20, 2024

Quilt Piecing

I created this block similar to a log cabin that fits into the basic layout for charity quilts and cut the units from that big stack of blue strips I shared. The blocks finish at 12" by 6" so they fit into the 30" by 36" center of a simple lap/crip quilt. Perfect for charity quilts. I added the regular 1" and 3" borders.
I cut the main blocks and outer border from the same fabric and pulled some coordinating squares from my big stack of 6" squares. Easy! 

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Quilt Piecing

I pulled this one together based on the rose print. Sometimes a plan comes together.
This one is full of modes of transportation. Helicopters, tractors, motor boats and sailboats.

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Monday, December 16, 2024

Quilting with Strips

I sorted a bunch of 2.5" strips I have to decide what color t work with. I guess fate has selected blue. Expect to see a handful of blue quilts made with 2.5" strips. 

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Friday, December 13, 2024

Quilt Piecing

Odd blocks tied together with borders.
I like how quickly these come together. I am working on more complex blocks while I stitch up these quick, little quilt tops. 

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Quilt Piecing

I've been doing simple piecing using various leftovers. The cute scotty dog print is one I picked up at the last Annapolis Quilts for Kids. 
All of these were in my bin of leftovers. Sometimes it just works out. 

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Quilts for Kids

On Saturday I dropped off eight quilt tops to Annapolis Quilts for Kids. I've been piecing these when I can. The computer for my long arm went on a vacation (the hard drive failed) so I haven't been able to use the robotics. This changes the time commitment for charity quilting so I haven't managed to get any quilted in about a month.
I also picked up a stack of fabrics to mix in with the scraps I have. I'm cutting out blocks for even more tops. 

If you want to contribute but don't have the time or skills, you can support the national Quilts for Kids by going directly to their website and clicking DONATE. I don't earn anything from this link. 

If you want to support me indirectly, I do include Amazon affiliate links to products I use on my other blog posts. If you purchase the items I recommend, or anything else, after using my links to reach Amazon I receive a small payment from Amazon. I added my yearly income from these affiliate links to the sidebar if you want to see how that commission adds up. 

My personal goal is to quilt at least one quilt per week throughout the year. To that end, check out the Epoch Converter for 2024 to see how I'm stacking up.

2024 Charity Quilt Count: 160
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Friday, December 6, 2024

Quilt Piecing

A couple more little quilts pieced with leftovers. This one was fun. Pieced with leftover 9-patches, 4.5" squares pieced into larger 9-patches, and some leftover 6.5" blocks from other projects. Framed up nicely into a great little quilt top.
While I was piecing that one, I was also piecing this simple quilt using some 6.5" squares. I love that polka dot border. 

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Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Quiltober Quilt

I sewed the columns and rows together for my Quiltober quilt. 
I decided to frame the center with a narrow 2" border and then a 6" border. If I had picked the outer border earlier in the process, I might have added more blues to the blocks and fewer greens and oranges. Not that it matters. I still have plenty of 2.5" charm squares. I might make another. 

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Monday, December 2, 2024

Quilt Piecing

I've been piecing charity quilts using some of the leftovers from other projects. I grabbed squares that matched the snake fabric to put together this simple quilt. 
I had a stack of half-square triangle pieces cut so I matched them up and pieced this little quilt. 
The last few half-square triangle pieces became these churn dash blocks. This one is my favorite of the quilt tops I made last week. 

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Friday, November 29, 2024

Applejack

I've had these 5" charm packs for an embarrassingly long time. I cut some more coordinating squares, added that fabulous red and got to sewing some nine-patches. The red became the center of my nine-patches.
I cut those nine patches into quarters to make these great disappearing nine-patch blocks. 
This is pretty forgiving design and a great way to showcase your fabrics. I quilted it using the design Plus from Longarm League. This quilt traveled across the United States to my littlest cousin. 

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Stamp Collecting

A while back I picked up some fabric from Allison Glass to make stamp blocks. I settled on the green for the stamp background/border fabric. 
I have slowly been piecing the blocks. 
I really like some of the stamp fabrics. So whimsical.
Not all of these are perfect and that's just perfect. I have dozens more to make. 

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