Parts and Piecing

I have worked on several miscellaneous projects recently.  I have a Block of the Month I have been trying to catch up on and I started a new project but I am not sharing those photos yet! 

However I did get a couple of tops made.  The Leprechaun one was a kit for a shop sample.  It was super fast and easy.  The clovers are pieced.

For many, many months I have been making 6" finished nine patches with an alternating block as a leader/ender.  I used Kaffe Fassett fabrics leftovers from other projects with a Kaffe blue dot background.  I have more blocks, but decided this would make a great size for a donation quilt to Camp Erin, a camp for grieving children I have volunteered at.   Now to get it assembled!

 This is a closeup.  The background is light blue, not gray.

 This came to me already cut with the Quick Curve ruler by Sew Wonderful.  It is the Urban Abacus pattern and I had made one previously.  It was super easy to piece, I love not matching the curves!  The background is a white with turquoise pin dots.  I will send it back to it's owner for quilting.

That is what I have for this week!

Linking up with Design Wall Monday.

Revisiting Quilts

My sewing room is the biggest mess!  This reorganization thing is really intense and I keep getting sidetracked!  I have my vision and my husband said I am making progress, but it's hard to see at the moment.

One thing I uncovered was these hearts and flowers blocks that were sent to me by quilting friends when my son passed away 4 1/2 years ago.  The center is from a woman in Australia.  I couldn't deal with them at the time, but now I am ready and found them stuffed on my very top shelf.  They are wrinkled and need squared, but I had to put them on the wall to see them.  It will make a nice Valentine's wallhanging.   I don't know what I will do for sashing yet and will probably rearrange them.

 I am revisiting some older quilts.  I finished this Tropical Flowers quilt in 2006.  I paper pieced at one retreat, trace and appliqued at another and machine quilted at a third!  It's about 60" square and I had to stand in my laundry room to take a pic on the wall.

This is Urban Abacus I made a few years ago using the Quick Curve ruler by Sew Kind of Wonderful.  I LOVE this quilt.  I used the turquoise because I had enough of it on hand, but it's one of my favorite colors.

 I walked down to get the mail and I was a bit too early for the real sunset, but I took a picture anyway.  This is the road that runs in front of us.  The roads are good currently, but it's cold!