Pin the Square on the Block.
Here is the back pocket to keep everything organized.
It was fun to do some random quiting.
If you remember, these are all the scraps leftover from my Free Quilt.
This one has a real WACKY back.
(When I was in Idaho I took a picture of the cow blanket- the beginning of all these wacky back! Next week I will have to post and write about it.)
Tommorow I hope to give a detailed entry of finishing and the story of the Generations Unite quilt.
I finished attaching the crystals and………...JPG)
sewing on the label last night. Now this quilt is off to see what the judges will have to say about it. I have it hanging in my studio right now and I love seeing the dimension the folded hexagons give and the occasional sparkle from the crystals. I am pretty happy with this wallhanging. To bad it is about 1″ to wide hang between the windows above our bed. Oh well, I am sure I can find somewhere to hang it!
When the quilting was completed on The Gift Bag Sway quilt George and I were talking and he mentioned that he was feeling kind of restless because of all the tedious work in the Gift Bag Swap quilt. He was wishing we could work on something that he could get a good fast workout on. So, to keep George happy I pin basted one of the Donation quilts and went to work with some FAST freeform feathers.
We did the feathers fairly large and was not very exact.
Sewed the binding down by the machine, so I have one completed project for March.I flew to Utah a week ago Sunday and came on on Thursday. I was really busy while there. I helped Jennie get more settled into her apartment (which is in the same house as Emily’s apartment). It is a great arrangement for me when I am visiting. They have a covered porch between the two apartments so I don’t even have to go out side to go from one place to the other.
Emily is in the process of decorating her living room. She had this orange fabric so she had me made the new couch cover. (See the pillow I made from all those little scraps?)
Here is a picture of the love seat (that I recovered over our Christmas visit ) and the small quilt I made for Emily’s birthday.
I have made a tied quilt for both Autumn and Prairie and they love these tied quilts. This is the tied quilt I made for Zephyr. I really like the animal print. I think it is really cute for a little boy.
Emily pieced this quilt for Zephyr. She decided to not do the applique blocks. I quilted it while in Utah and now Emily has the fun part of sewing on the binding.
Here is the back of the quilt.
My last night in Utah we tied this quilt for Prairie. Emily is decorating the kids room in fish. Lots of fun.
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Back in 2003 Emily made this quilt to match her dishes that she got when she got married. The scraps from the Easy Pieces blocks were left at my house. A couple of years ago she used the fabric she had left and made another quilt like it to go on her other couch. One day we were talking about these fun scraps but decided that even though they were so pretty they really were not big enough to do anything with. We made a pack to throw then away. But………..I just could not do.
At Christmas when I recoved Emily’s glider rocker she was wishing that we still had the scraps so we could do make a small quilt to coordinate with the other two quilts that she has in her living room. Well, I didn’t think that I ever threw away the scraps and one day early this month I went into the attic in search of the scraps and I found them and this is what is on its way to Emily’s. Enjoy!!!!!
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This is an example of the scraps that were left.
See why the blocks have so many seams in them?
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Here are the scraps sitting on the sewing machine while I am trying to decide the best way to sew them together..JPG)
After I got the blocks made I decided that I probably had enough blocks for the small quilt and a pillow. That should be fun..JPG)
After quilting the small quilt it was mis-shapped, so it had to be blocked. If it hadn’t been for this small detail, I probalby would have had it in the mail on time.
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Here is the completed small quilt.
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Close-up of the quilting.