I finally finished it!

 I am excited to show you my finished Quiet Play Pattern Club 2019 finish! I named it~ Look on the Bright Side. This quilt is entirely paper pieced. I love paper piecing but it does take me longer to finish each block as there are many small pieces that go into these blocks. 

The top has been finished since late summer but I really didn't know how to quilt it.

The backing is a piece of rainbow stripe fabric.

I finally decided to just quilt an overall meander. 

This quilt makes me so happy! 

I bound it with Kona Navy. 

Here is the coloring sheet I used as I made each block. 

This quilt finishes at 51" x 61.5"

The Quiet Play Pattern Club is the creation of Kristy Lea.  She did run a club for 2020 but I didn't participate because I was still working on my 2019 blocks!

I will link to Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop? @Confessions of a Fabric Addict and Favorite Finish Monthly Link Up @MeadowMistDesign.

 

I also put together my RSC quilt! Here it is with borders added.

Linking to ScrapHappyBooDay @SoScrappy.

Linking to SoScrappy:Wrapping up the year

I promised to show you the placemats I finished to go with the Tossed Apples table runner. Here they are...

They are getting good use this Fall!

Hope you are enjoying the beautiful Fall weather! We have had some snow flurries but the colors were beautiful this year! 

Stay safe!

Rainbows and Scraps

I did a little extra scrap sewing of blues since my blue scrap bin is overflowing. The pattern is Traffic Jam by Pat Sloan.  It was a very easy quilt to piece together. I was limited in the size to make because of the gray marble fabric from my stash. I only had enough to make a baby quilt. 

I'm linking up to Scrap Happy Saturday @ SoScrappy.

I also was able to finish the last of the text blocks from the Quiet Play Pattern Club from 2019. I really love these text blocks! 

Here they are all together. Once I finish the picture blocks, they will be put together into one quilt. I have one to go but I will probably remake one because I used a different background fabric. 

(I made it before I made up my mind on the direction this quilt was going.) 

Soon to come is the finished t-shirt quilt I've been working on. 

Sandwiched✔️ Quilted✔️ Binding Made✔️ Sew on binding___.

Manifest and more text and picture blocks

Today I would like to present Manifest!

In the beginning of April, my youngest daughter ask me if I could 'try to make a cute minimal wall hanging? Pleeaaaasssseeee?' She wants it for over her bed as 'a piece of you with me in San Antonio.' 

(She will be moving there this summer to finish her studies) 

She sent these as examples.

The bottom one is a mural done by an artist friend.

I thought that it would give me a good opportunity to use some of my natural dyed fabrics that I hand dyed last summer. So after pulling them out and searching for more inspiration, I came up with a plan. 

I used 5 of my hand dyed fabrics and some Kona cottons. The yellow in the sun was dyed with turmeric, the orange/red is dyed with madder root, the orange/brown is madder root with soda ash, the yellowish brown is avocado with iron and the gray is dyed with black beans. The blue Kona is Prussian, the gray is med gray and the borders are white. The piecing was a little tricky but I did it without much waste! The inverted V could be interpreted as a mountain or as shelter. 

The backing is a lovely yellow/orange from the Sunny Splash Collection my Lecien. The machine quilting is all straight stitched 1/2" apart except the gray which is 1/4". The finished size is 36" x 44".

I love this wallhanging (I love when I step out of my comfort zone and try/learn new challenges) 

and most importantly, so does my daughter! 

Thanks to my hubby for being the quilt holder!

I also worked on 2 more of my Quiet Play Pattern Club 2019 blocks...one text and one picture! Last post I asked for recommendations as to which color I should do the next text block in. Light pink was chosen so here it is! The word cut with the rainbow scissors picture block.  

Here are all the text blocks together so far!

Only one more to go! Which color next? Light blue or light purple? 

Make is dark purple

Here are most of the picture blocks.

I made one more that I used a light blue background because I used white for the cloud. I will either remake that block with a white background or chose a different block. Many bonus blocks were included in the pattern club.

Linking up to Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop?, Brag About Your Beauty, Peacock Party, Finished or Not Friday, Friday Foto Fun, and My Quilt Infatuation and UFO Busting 

What have you been working on?

What else I've been working on

May brought a new color for the Rainbow Scrap challenge and it is dark green!

I pulled out my green scrap and sorted through the darker green pieces. 

I made my grid on graph paper for this months block column of blocks.

5 months and 5 columns of colors!

I'm linking up to Scrap Happy Saturday over at So Scrappy. 

I also worked on another of my Quiet Play Pattern Club blocks from last year. 

Another word block:

Here are all the word blocks before I added this one.

I welcome any suggestions on the next color to use: light blue, light pink...?

Quilt Play blocks

I have been very behind in my 2019 Quilt Play pattern club blocks. Each block is paper pieced and does take a bit of time that I just didn't seem to find enough of. This past week or so I have been working on a few as I waited to find enough time to quilt my Mosaic Mystery Quilt. 

I made 2 more text blocks! 

Here are all the text blocks together so far!

I also made one picture block.

Here are the picture blocks!

I still have a few more to go but little by little I'll get them done. Slow and steady wins the race! 

A new finish!

Last year I inherited yards of beautiful Christmas quilting cotton from a friend of a friend. My intention was to make each of my girls a Christmas quilt. I order the pattern Those Trees by Zen Chic - a simple minimalist design that my girls like. However, Christmas came and went without those projects started. 

A couple of weeks ago, I pulled out the pattern and some of the material and started on one. Here is the sneak peek I posted of it. 

Since we were going up to our friend's cabin in the U.P. I thought maybe I should just gift it to them (although it was Christmas trees rather than just trees.)  I showed it to one of my daughters and she said that she would like it 

(I explained my original intent.) So I got busy! 

Using the same pattern modified, I drew out a pattern that would work and found fabrics in my stash. 

It came together fairly quickly...in time for our trip UP North. 

Pictures were taken at our friend's cabin in the woods ~ a beautiful backdrop for this quilt!

The backing has a small bit of piecing using the fabrics from the front.

This quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted following the diagonal lines of the trees and FMQ inside the trees. 

It is a cozy, lap sized throw for the cabin, finishing at 43" x 51"

I'm linking up to Can I get a Whoop Whoop? and Finish or Not Friday

So the Christmas quilt is still waiting the finishing stitching on the binding....

Meanwhile, I paper pieced another of the text blocks for the Quiet Play Pattern Club.

School starts next Monday for me...only a few more days! I will miss the summer!