Yay! Another finish and more

This morning I took this quilt out of the dryer! The last stitches in the binding were made last night and I immediately threw it in the laundry for a wash and then the dryer before heading to bed. Don't you just love a freshly washed and dried quilt?

Fair and Square is my 3rd RSC quilt for the year and it is finished!

I used gray scraps for the background and color scraps for the blocks all from my scrap bins. The gray and white marble are scraps from a wedding quilt I made earlier this year. The gray border and binding fabrics are from my stash. 

The backing fabric is also from my stash. I added a strip of yellow to 

make the stripe fabric wider to fit. 

I love how the backing coordinates with the rainbow of the blocks!

All blocks are machine stitched and I machine quilted in straight lines both 

vertically and horizontally.

This quilt finishes at approx. 40" x 52" - a good lap sized quilt!

I'm linking to Scrap Happy Saturday @SoScrappy, Off the Wall Friday @ Creations-Quilts, Art, Whatever, Can I get a Whoop, Whoop @Confessions of a Fabric Addict

For Thanksgiving, I made these fabric postcards for my grandson and granddaughter. I follow the tutorial by Annie. She make beautiful postcards and

 art of all kinds!

Aren't these turkeys so cute!

The back before I wrote a special message to each of them. 

I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! 

As we enter into the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we take time 

to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas, find time to enjoy family 

and friends and time to relax and care for ourselves. Enjoy!

Another Rainbow Scrap Finish

I have another RSC finish for 2022! All year long I worked on 3 different blocks for the challenge. This year's challenge is just about over and we are supposed to be working on finishing them up. On my last post, I showed my 1st finish,      Kaleidoscope. Today I'm posting about my Squiggles quilt finish!  

Squiggles was made from the bonus HSTs from the Kaleidoscope quilt plus a few additional  2 1/2" squares. It is my second of 3 RSC quilts made during 2022. This is a baby size quilt. All the fabrics were from my scraps and the backing is from my stash. I bought the white with black polka dots for the border because it coordinated with the backing and the black with white polka dots for the binding. 

Squiggles is a fun block to sew together but it was nice to have the HSTs already made. I am so glad I decided to use them in this quilt right away rather than in my orphaned blocks basket.

I quilted stitch in the ditch around each Squiggle , then a simple pattern each squiggle. In the background squiggles, I quilted the same pattern with variegated thread. I quilted a simple straight lines in the borders.

  

This little quilt finished size is approx. 30" x 38". 

I'm linking to Scrap Happy Saturday @ SoScrappy,  Off the Wall Fridays @ Creations-Quilts, Art, Whatever,  Finished or Not Fridays @ Alycia Quilts, Linky Party @Patchwork Quilts, Friday Foto Fun @ Powered By Quilting, Can I Get A Whoop, Whoop @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Rainbow Scrap Finish!

 Yesterday I put the last stitches in the binding of my RSC quilt, Hang Ten! This is the first of 3 RSC quilts that I have been working on in 2022. 

This quilt is made with the block Hang Time my Melissa Corry @Happy Quilting. Way back in January, I mistakenly called it Hang Ten. Since I have been calling it Hang Ten every month since, I'm sticking with it! EDIT: After looking at the pictures more, I've decided to change the name to Kaleidoscope. Doesn't the quilting and the rainbow colors just remind you of looking thru a kaleidoscope?

This quilt is all machine pieced and machine quilted. The Rainbow Scrap Challenge colors are announced each month by Angela @SoScrappy through October. November and December are to add to and/or finish up your quilt in time for the new year! I added a peach and gray block to round out the number of blocks to 12. 

All the fabrics are from my scrap bins or my stash except the rose print used in the border and to extend the backing. I love that I found this backing in my stash (inherited from my mom's sewing room) that is a perfect fit for the colorful top!

I machine quilted in a swirl about 3/4" apart in each block 

overlapping the quilting into the adjacent block. 

I love the texture that was created. I straight-line 

quilted every 3/4" in the borders. 

This quilt finished at 53" x 68"

I'm linking to Scrap Happy Saturday @SoScrappy,  Off the Wall Fridays @Creations-Quilts, Art, Whatever, Linky Party @Patchwork & Quilts and Friday Foto Fun @Powered by Quilting
Linking to Favorite Finish @Meadow Mist Designs