One MORE- up to FOUR!

Karlee picked the border color for this little top.

She actually picked all the block borders too.

I think she is going to be a little quilter.

It is so much fun to have her 'help' me in the sewing room.

Today she helped pick up threads and scraps that ended up on the floor.

Karlee is 2 1/2 and a joy to be around. So far she is our only grand-daughter. I tease her that she has to learn to sew b/c grandma is giving her all the stash!

She laughs and says: But grandma, I'm just a little girl- give it to my momma. Too funny.

Look-See, I did Three!

I planned to make one set of the blocks into a small quilt top using a black Swiss to border the pieces.

When I pulled the fabric to get started I realized that there were several different ones including this Navy.

Even though it is 'dark' the blue works well.

Can't wait to see this one quilted!

I Have just enough 'blocks' to make one more little quilt. Plans are to border each block with misc. Swiss (I still have orange,greens,yellows etc...) I am also considering just using different blacks and blues. After laying out the stash it turned out the there are different size dots and slight color variations even in the blacks.

Here are the THREE so far. I like the texture of the bumpy fabrics. Hopefully I will have baby gifts for awhile!

-cw

Stripes one done three to go

Have to brag, I really enjoy cutting and sewing the stripes into 'squares'.

I got a kick out how the different fabrics ended up looking after the block was sewn.

Good news is I got about 50 new blocks sewn up in just a short amount of time. (my bad is I don't iron or pin so a few are a little wonky)

Really Bad news is that even though I like the concept, I am not so much a fan of the materials I played with.


The stash I started with was left overs from who knows what- I had started a pile years ago and threw in all the bumpy stuff as I was given into it. Plans were to someday make a baby quilt or two- I love texture! I said I like the way the 'blocks' turned out and I do, I just didn't like setting them together. I didn't feel like resizing them so they could play well together.



I dealt the blocks out into four piles. I hope to get baby quilts or at least gift starter kits. For the first one I decided to use a polka dot Swiss to sash the blocks.





I had just enough to make a 30" x 40" top. There is Swiss in other colors and I may do this again and try use up what I have. One can never have too many small tops started.

I took a few pictures of my 'favorite' squares. I like the one above b/c of the way the different colors look. The wedge to the right was cut separate and didn't line up perfect. Oh well.

This one below, with the wide and narrow flowers, looks pretty neat. I could have done better on the lining up but was speed cutting, and I get what I get when do that.






The two color fabrics, work up in a neat way, you don't have to line them up as well for them to still work.









The top looks pretty primitive but once it is machine quilted the wrinkles will pull out. I have just enough of a pink stripe that I don't have to piece the back!

There are enough blocks left for a couple more small quilts. If anyone wants to try their hand at a set, I have extra.



This really looks better in person, the white w/red polka dots just really makes my camera dizzy.

cw

STRIPE - A Future TO-DO

One of our quilting friends, who seems to get a kick out of twisting my arm and making me start new projects has done 'it' again.

Check out Nancy's wonderful stripe quilt top.

I had decided I WAS NOT going to have time to make one of these interesting patterns.

In fact I even fondled men's stripe shirts at the thrift shop and didn't purchase any. How is that for sticking to my guns!!

Tonight I spent a little time sorting through a few piles that hadn't had any attention in a while (I don't keep track, could be years) I came across a pretty good stack of bumpy fabrics. I am sure they have a real name but for me they are textured materials that 'feel' good. I have polka dots and strips and flowers, etc...

As I sorted I started putting the stripes in a pile and realized that I have more than enough to kill two birds with one project. One is commit to a top out of the bumpy stuff and two is copy another of Nancy's Did it Firsts! Yeah me- two points and no real poultry was injured.

This one with the flowers is going to make an interesting block. I haven't figured out the scale I am going with. I tend to not follow exact patterns or directions. (Why learn from others trial and error when I can make my own mistakes in block size)



I was delighted to find I have over a yard of each of the pink and blue, so these will be used to make some of the larger blocks and/or borders





Here I am showing off some of the favorites I uncovered. I am pretty happy with the overall look of the fabrics together and hope to live long enough to see how the top turns out.

For now my TO-DO is just to finish this post. Print a copy, add it to the pile and put it all into a TO-DO bag.

My way of getting organized.

I have at least a couple of stripe-tops in this batch and happy to brag that when I sorted the dots(Swiss) I know there are several in that one too.