A finish!

I'm excited to show you my latest finish! Last Friday, I showed you the spiral quilting on my quilt, Blush. Today, I'll can show you it all finished! 

I added quilting in the white borders around the 4 patch blocks, in the sashing between the blocks, more quilting in the white borders and in the ditch of the piano keys. 

The quilting in the border corners of the 4-patch blocks reminds me of  arrowheads. Sometimes I get stuck on how to turn the corners when quilting. Do you feel this way too? 

The quilting in the sashing are flowers that mimic the flowers in the fabric. 

I quilted flying geese in the borders and also a rope. Lots of different elements. 

The fabric line is Blush by Basic Grey and it was the first fabric bundle I purchased way back when I was a fairly new quilter. The background is Kona White, I think the inner border is Kona Bahama Blue, and the binding is Kona Chocolate. 

The back was pieced using all the remaining fabric from the line and a few coordinating pieces from my stash. 

The quilt finishes at approx. 51" x 61".

It sure does feel good to have another finish before school starts!

I'm linking up to Linky Tuesday at Freemotion by the River, To Do Tuesday at Stitch All Things, Color Inspiration Tuesday at Clever Chameleon Quilting, and MCM at Cooking Up Quilts.

Under my needle

After finishing my Rhythm in Blues quilt and catching up on my RSC blocks, I had time to start a new project. 

I challenge myself to work from what's in my stash as much as possible. 

In my stash, I was gifted a large amount of fabric with bees on it. 

Did I ever mention that my husband is a hobby bee keeper with some friends? We have been around bees and harvesting honey for many years. I'm sure most of you have heard of the situation with bees dying and campaigns to save the bees. So I decided to use the 'bee' fabric to make a quilt. 

I found the pattern Pinwheel Puzzle by Elaine Theriault in the March/April 2018 issue of McCall's Quilting magazine. I made it a bit smaller than the pattern and then added the words Save the Bees on the side. I used the book Spelling Bee by Lori Holt for the letters. The top is finished but it needs to wait for quilting until I finish what went under my needle this morning...Blush!

I pieced this quilt back in May but it has been waiting for quilting. I pushed the Harry Potter, Rhythm in Blues and KF Mini ahead of it so it starting nagging begging me to start quilting it. Yesterday, I got busy and sandwiched it and this morning it went under the needle. I quilted the spirals in the centers of the 4 patch blocks. Borders and sashings are next. 

I'm linking up to Finished or Not Fridays at Busy Hands Quilt, Can I get a Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Off the Wall Friday at Creations.

Here is my entry for Pets on Quilts 2018! 

Nellie loves to sit on the quilt and rest her head as she watches out the window! Feel free to vote for her! Head over to see all the cute furry friends!

Another finish!

I have been steadily working on getting my UFO's finished while still moving forward with new projects and ideas! 

I'm happy to tell that I have another quilt finished!

Do you remember the red letter quilt that I started in the spring? 

It came up as my next quilt to sandwich and quilt. 

(I try to do them in order of being finished but sometimes I have a few waiting.)

Last week I was able to take time to sandwich it and then start on the quilting.

I quilted around each letter in the ditch and did some FMQ in the negative space between the rows of the lowercase letters. I also did some straight line quilting in the borders. 

All the letters are made from different red fabrics from my stash 

(mostly from my scrap bin.) 

The backing is a red apple print from my stash. I still need to label it.

This quilt finishes at 32.5" x 47.5"

So what is next you ask? 

I have 2 more quilts waiting their turn. The left overs from the Regatta quilt

and this one.

I finally cut into one of the first fabric lines that I bought after starting to quilt (so many years ago!) This line is called Blush by Basic Grey. The backing is pieced with most of the remaining pieces from my collection with a few coordinating pieces from my stash. 

You will just have to wait and see which one speaks to me next. 

I also have a few more piecing projects in the works. I'm thankful to have the summer days to spend working on the many ideas in my head. 

I'm linking to Let's be Social @ /Sew Fresh Quilts

and Midweek Makers @ Quilt Fabrication and Can I Get a Whoop Whoop @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict.