Sixteen Quilt Tops in 2 Weeks

I have been doing a lot of quilting during this stay at home time.  We are still in school and I am so ready to be done.  Teaching Kindergarten and First Grade over Zoom has taxed me mentally and I just haven't been up to making a blog post.  Getting my pics to my computer from my phone isn't hard, I just didn't take the time!

I am going to make two posts because I have too many things to show!  As you may recall I make a lot of shop samples for Your Best Friend's Quilt Shop in Idaho.  I was sent sixteen bundles of fabric to make three yard quilts from the books Modern Views and Easy Peasy Three Yard Quilts by Fabric Cafe, 8 from each book.  I was able to pick which quilt top to make from the bundles I was sent.  Some of them are not my favorite combinations of fabrics, but at least there were a lot of batiks! 

During this time period I also gave away 4 bags of scraps to a friend.  She loves my scraps and this time I even gave her batiks scraps.  I go to town about every two weeks to do what I have to.

Here are the 16 quilt tops in no order.  They all measure roughly 45 X 60.  The books give directions for enlarging the patterns.  The first photo is the bundles of fabric I received.

Sampler and Campers

I finished the latest batch of shop samples I had (two huge boxes!).  I finished the top of the Riley Black Sugarhouse Picnic quilt.  It took a lot of cutting, but at least there were only 8 different blocks and it went together well. 

Sugarhouse Picnic

 Here are a couple closeups. 

 The other items I made were from a panel.  The panel has two placemat fronts, one pillow front and a potholder front.  They are fun to make and are very cute!  I am not a camper and don't own a camper and they wouldn't match a thing in my house, but they are fun.

 Daffodils in my pasture when I was out doing a photo session of the sampler quilt.  I love how they are so random out there.  I have always had an idea of digging some up, but I have a few scattered around my flower beds and decided I would rather leave them.

I am joining Alycia for Finished or Not Friday. 

Feeling Overwhelmed, but still Quilting!

As with everyone else, my life has been turned upside down by the virus.  Have you ever tried teaching Kindergarten and First Grade over a computer screen?  I don't recommend it, but we all do what we have to do!  Today I had two girls hiding under blankets, one putting her eyeball up to the camera and not paying attention, a girl who won't talk, a boy who likes to play hide and seek and other students who don't log on for their Zoom meeting times.  We sent Chromebooks home with all students at our one room school and they all have internet access.  It's been quite a process, but I can't complain.  I have a job, my husband is farming, and my kids and grandkids are healthy and safe in their homes.  I have turned my dining room into an office and use my phone as projector on a white board while using my school computer.  I have learned new technology at least! 

I don't' even have pictures of everything I have made or quilted, but I have two actual finishes.  One is a gift for an online group.  The woman requested lavender and spring green and we could make anything we wanted.  I made this table runner.  Nothing worked for the vines but I found a rickrack in my stash.  

In my last post I showed a picture of Going Places, a fun quilt with cars and campers.  I had leftover pieces and made this modern style wallhanging.  The smallest half squares finish at 1".  It's my favorite thing I have made this year.

I made more shop samples for Your Best Friends Quilt Shop.  I am on my last one.  

Riley Blake table runners

flannel quilt

These are Ovens but they need button knobs that the owner will put on after quilting

Riley Blake Baked With Love closeup

Good Morning Mugs table runner

Harvest table runner

I can't remember the name!  Not my colors, but it was fun to make.

I have made quite a few masks and unless I get a request specifically I am done for now.  I went to town last week for the first time in a month because I had a dental emergency and wore a mask in Costco.  Not a fun thing to do.  I am a person who normally keeps a good amount of stuff on hand, I guess you could say my husband is a prepper.  My county so far has zero covid cases thankfully.

Linking up with Design Wall Monday.

Patriotic Quilt Finish and a Few Tops

I made a few more quilt tops for my friend's shop, Your Best Friends Quilt Shop, I will show at the end, but I also had a start to finish this past weekend!  I have a non-quilting friend, who wanted to make a quilt for her son in patriotic colors.  He was in the military for many years and was in the Reserves and called up a couple of times.  It is not an official Quilt of Valor though.  She bought the fabrics and had a basic design idea and I made that quilt a couple years ago in queen size.

She had leftover fabric and wanted to make a quilt for her grandson who is currently serving.  She cut a bunch of 5 pointed stars but then didn't know what to do.  She brought everything to me and I had this panel.  She loved it and I designed around it, fusing 1/4" wide fusible web to the stars and blanket stitching them.  Fortunately she had a large piece of red and I was able to use only her fabric, other than the panel.  The 4 corners are a fabric her mother had had and I had included some of it in the previous quilt.  I pieced and appliqued it Saturday and quilted and bound it Sunday.  I do all my quilting free motion on a domestic machine with a 9" throat area

 Spring is coming!  There is still a little snow in our woods and I can't wait for leaves to come out on the trees!

Here are the tops I quilted for the quilt shop.

This quilt uses a cloth book panel cut up.  Closeup is below.

Linking up to Design Wall Monday.

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.

Sew Many Strips and Scrappy Finishes

I had this quilt waiting to be quilted from my last basting party.  It was the last one left and sat for a few months.  I finally quilted it last weekend and got it finished during the week.  The center star blocks were from a swap many years ago.  The hostess designed the block and sent us background fabric.  I have never been into random scrappy quilts, although I like lots of fabrics in a quilt, just controlled scrappy!  This quilt is shown on my daughter's queen bed with my grandmother's treadle in the background.

One block showing the twisting I did to use up more fabric and make the quilt bigger.

Last year American Patchwork and Magazine had a sew along for this quilt called Sew Many Strips.  I love the bright cheery colors I picked.  There are a LOT of pieces in this quilt, since each unit finishes at 1" X 2".  I got the quilt top done last year and set it aside like I usually do!  This weekend I opened my quilt top cupboard and it jumped out.  I had backing for it and got it pin basted, quilted and bound in two days.  I even hand stitched the binding.  I just did swirly texture quilting on my home machine.

center closeup

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Earlier I made more shop samples for my friend's shop called Your Best Friend's Quilt Shop

This uses a large panel with small panels and a border print.

This one was already in half hexis when she sent it to me.  She used two colorways for a one block wonder and is sending me border fabric so I haven't mailed it back yet.

If all this wasn't enough I machine quilted a HUGE quilt for a friend of a friend.  It was a simple quilt panels and large borders, but I custom quilted it.  I thought I was quilting a lap quilt when I agreed!

Linking up with Small Quilts and Doll Quilts for Design Wall Monday