Working on Scraps

One of my ongoing goals is to get into my 1 1/2 inch, 2 inch and 2 1/2 inch strip scrap boxes. So far I have been digging into the 2 inch strips and have divided them into 2 piles. One pile of "country" colors and the other pile is "bright or modern" colors.

I am using my "go to" pattern with the wonky sashing.

Getting the strips and blocks sorted into "country" colors and "brights".

More sorting and sorting.

Piles of strips sewn. A white or very light square in the center of each 9 patch.

I found several all country 9 patches and decided to sew them into a small quilt. The sashing strips were cut 1 1/4 inch wide, 5 inches long for the first sewn piece. Here are my 5 inch 9 patches with the first sashing piece sewn.

Here the second sashing piece is being sewn on all the 9 patches. These sashing pieces are 1 1/4 inches wide and 5 3/4 inches long. Ease in those 9 patch blocks so all are the same size.

A pic of the layout.

What each block looks like when ready for sewing rows together.

This small quilt ended up being 5 blocks across and 6 rows down. Here is the layout of 2 rows. Once you get going there is a pattern and it gets easier. Just pay attention when you get started and lay them out.

Red border?

Or blue border?

Final decision: BLUE
Now to find a backing.....

So many leftover for another day.

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Scrap Buster

When a couple of my friends decided to teach a class on a 9 patch scrappy quilt I got busy sewing from my stash of 2 1/2 inch squares and strips. Whenever I have left over fabric from a project I try to cut it into 2 1/2 inch strips or 5 inch squares and keep them stored in plastic boxes. I also have 2 inch strips and 1 1/2 inch strips.

For this quilt I chose to use a white or very light square for the centers and a white for the sashing to pull it together with all the different fabrics. I loved the offset sashing.

Just a few rows together. This quilt ended up measuring 83 x 94.

Edge to edge quilting. I like to quilt down as many corners and seams as possible.

A closer look at the quilting. I love blue so chose a solid to balance out the scrappy blocks.

I love how this turned out. This may become my go to pattern for using up scraps.

A Quilt for my Sister-the easiest quilt ever

My sister asked for a quilt for her guest room that is decorated with Minnie Mouse....red, white, and black. It just so happened I had 6 yards of a gorgeous black and white floral and I went to into planning mode wanting something very simple and to showcase the floral print. Here is the final quilt complete with binding.

It doesn't get much easier than this.

Quilts for Grandkids

I love to make quilts for my grandkids and when I saw these 2 panels I had to have them. Raven, Abbi and I saw the Secret Life of Pets while I was visiting in Michigan so I bought 2 panels, one for each of the girls. One-year-old Max's favorite character is Mickey Mouse so, of course, I had to purchase the Mickey Mouse panel. All 3 quilts are backed in nice soft flannel. I simply put borders on and quilted. They arrived to their new owners for Halloween.

Mickey is quilted in edge to edge hearts and has red flannel with white dots for backing.

I did more custom work on the Secret Life of Pets panels with outlining the lettering and using loops and swirls for other parts.

Abbi with her quilt.

Quilts for the N.E. Wyoming Quilt Show

These were the quilts I chose to show in the 34th annual N.E. Wyoming Quilt Show in Gillette, Wyoming this year. I didn't win any awards but for me it is all about the fabric. We had 307 entries and I was happy to be a part of them.

Harvest Time. This was a block of the month.

Mystery Quilt done with friends.

Flower Pots. Designer Cindy Lammon.

Little Baskets. Design by Blackbird Designs. All baskets were hand appliqued on reproduction civil war fabrics.

My husband's Alaska quilt. My design. Hand applique.

Scrappy Log Cabin. Found on Pinterest.

An Amy Ellis design called Placid Curves.

Flower Pots design by Lammons

My summer quilt project was this yellow, green and blue Flower Pots, design by C. Lammons. Loved the colors, scrappiness, and sampler style so no boring sewing the thing over and over again. This will be in the NorthEast Wyoming Quilt Show this weekend, Oct. 1 and 2, with 7 other quilts of mine.

Flower Pots quilted free hand by me.

Another pic of quilting.

More practice on those swirls and feathers.

Applique was needle turn by hand.