Friday Finish

I'm happy to have a finish this Friday.

This is a very simple "I spy" quilt

using 5" squares.

I have a bag FULL of  Novelty prints

and my bag didn't disappoint me!!

I had JUST ENOUGH to make this quilt

without duplicating!

Whew!!!

The piano key border is just 2 1/2" strips cut width of fabric....

 sewn together in THREES and then cut into 4" segments.

 I only needed 3 sets of these long strip sets

PLUS a few extra pieces to 

get all the way around my quilt!

So simple and it goes together SO FAST!!!

Now....

I'm OFF to quilt!!!

Happy SEWING friends!!!

Bright and Happy

Three months ago a little one came to stay with us for a season.

(we're foster parents)

It took me TOO long to make him his OWN quilt!

;)

It was NOT for lack of materials.

LOL!

This is a fun HAPPY quilt....

AND

Big enough to GROW with this little boy.

Hey!

I can even call it EDUCATIONAL.

Aren't those alphabet letters cute??

I love bright happy quilts for kids!

don't you??

Scraps and love

I keep making little things.

Seems that's all I can focus on right now.

When I ran across these FALL scraps..

I couldn't resist

SEWING something up!

They DO make nice little gifts.

Thank you gifts.

I gave these away last night

to our dinner host

and she LOVED them!!

 

Makes all that stitching so SWEET!

I have enough scraps to make

MILLIONS of these little things.

 

Just imagine!

I could spread the love of quilting worldwide

if only I had the TIME!!!

The love of quilting is apparent at my home.

Every bed is COVERED.

Covered in

QUILTY LOVE.

:)

Squares

My love affair with squares continues.

I will never get tired of the SIMPLE square.

Pieced some 2" lovelies together yesterday.

Found some gifted fabric

that will make a HAPPY quilt.

 

Squared up my 16 patches to 6 1/2".

Yeah!

They just needed a LITTLE trimming!

Cut some 6 1/2" squares from that FUN fabric.

 

Quickly cut 2 1/2" squares out of the leftover piece on the right.

Put them IMMEDIATELY into the 2 1/2" drawer....

READY for the next time I need 2 1/2"

Loving the process of sewing as I admire my blocks!

They watch me from the floor as I work.

Stacks of Blocks are Piling up.

2" of mostly OLD fabric

joining

the NEW 6 1/2" HAPPY fabric!!!

 

If you look REALLY close

you might even see 2" of Christmas!

:)

 

5 inch FUN!

Today I'm working away on my I SPY quilt.

Carla had a swap in the summer and I played along.

I even had a bunch of blocks pieced together....

but I never finished it!

It needed a few more 5" I spy squares...

I'm sure

You know how that goes.....

You set it aside waiting to get more fabric...

and then.....

it gets forgotten! :/

My little girl's birthday is NEXT week

and I would love to get this one done for her!!!

Most eight year olds would not really appreciate this quilt..

but my little girl has some developmental delays and

I KNOW

She's going to have some fun with this one!!

;)

It makes my stitching time

VERY happy

thinking about her sweet disposition

and

her enjoyment of LIFE!!!

I'm kind of proud of myself for piecing some of the blocks

that needed to GROW to be 5 inches!

Isn't that owl cute???

and these big trucks needed a little whimsy as they GREW!

;)

One of my VERY favorite blocks!

My DREAM vacation home!

O.K.

All I need now is a small white border....

a lot of little scrappy pieces around the outside....

Quilting....

Binding.....

Can I get it together by next week????

I think I can...I think I can...I think I can.....

Crazy Kids quilt

Before blogging....there were quilts.

Lots of quilts!

This is one I made for my son a long time ago.

He chose the centers of these crazy blocks....

and I added the scraps.

I'm PRETTY good with scraps!

;)

This is the FIRST quilt I free motion quilted!

Oh Boy!!! It's a wonder I kept at it

after looking at my stitches here!!!

Eeeek!

But I did....

And I can see that there's been some improvement!

Yep.

Practice makes Perfect Pretty good!

Donation Duo

My goal:

One DONATION quilt a month.

You know what???

I don't always meet my goal....

But THIS MONTH I did....

TIMES TWO!

Maybe I'll give myself extra points for being early too!!!

:)

It all started with these strips given to me...

Already sewn together!!!!

I circled a square of frogs with some of these

Piano key strips.

(I trimmed them to 6" wide.)

Then I circled a rectangle of frogs!!!

A 6" border of scrappy GREEN!!

bright. bright. bright. Right???

Some extra borders....and

VIOLA!!!

Guess what???

I have only little tiny tiny pieces of those piano key strips left!

Two little cuddly quilts.

Aaaah.....But they're not Cuddly yet...are they???

I'd better do some quilting!!!

I'm stuck.

I'm stuck on the disappearing 4 patch.

Totally stuck!

Maybe if I make a few more blocks I'll run out of steam...

But I don't know.

This block sure gotta hold of me!!!

Didn't it???

I used some flannels this time.

Pretty, huh?

I used 6" oops! 8 1/2" squares to make my D4Patches.

It only took FOUR blocks to make the quilt!!!

Then I used a 3" border...and a 5" border on the outside!

42"x42"

Today I hope to make some more wonky D4Patches

hoping my wonky quilt will grow to be

TWIN size!!!

grandma!

I've posted before about being a "quilt Mom".

Well.....this week....I became....

A quilt GRANDMA!!!

Woo Hoo!!!

;)


FYI:
My daughter thinks this post might be a bit misleading.
Soooo...to clarify my post.....
I'm a quilt mom to Jenn in quilting only.
Therefore...
I'm her daughter's quilt grandma in only the
quiltiest sense of the word!!! ;)

waves

I've been quilting waves.

Around and around they go.

More ocean theme on the back!!

This quilt was free.

Yes. Free.

Everything came out of the stash....

That explains the pieced backing.

Plus a good portion of the ocean themed front

came from a fellow blogger last year!

Thank you Mama Pea.

I'm always so happy to be able to use what I have!!!

You can see the waves a little bit better here, I think.

Does it make you want to hear the ocean??

It does me.

I love the sound of the waves!!

Oooh! Wouldn't it be fun to add sound to quilts???

Hmmm...wonder how we could work that out?

last minute

What do you do when a friend calls to say

her little boy's second birthday is tomorrow.

Her little boy has Cerebral Palsy

and you KNOW you have some printed blocks

from a cloth book project that

would make a great quilt gift for him??!!!

Have your bright fabrics handy.

Check.

Sew your brains out.

Check.

Quilt sparingly.

Check.



Make sure you have plenty of
orange backing in your stash.
Check.

That stash
sure
does come in handy!!!!