Cspoonquilt

Most of the blocks in this quilt were made in a  row by row swap with my small quilt group in about  1998 .   We each put together a basket of coordinating fabrics. Each month the baskets circulated to a different member.  Each person chose a block design to make 5 blocks from each basket. One person chose stars, another nose gays etc.   Funny thing is these were not my blocks.  These are my friend Esther's  blocks.  In about 2014 Esther decided to clean out her stash and move on to other hobbies.   She gave me a big box of stuff to donate to the guild. Of course I got first pick. I found these blocks partly sewn together with some companion fabrics and so I finished the top. The house blocks were my original contributions.  I made a few more and added some trees with the leftover fabrics so I could add an extra row to make it a better shape for a lap quilt. About 54" x 60". When I finished the top I put it away for...

  In 2014 we remodeled and winterized our little cabin in Washington state.  Prior to that the cabin was just for summer use and it would get pretty musty over the winter so I never left quilts there during the winter for fear they too would get smelly.  But after the remodel I figured it was time to make some quilts for the cabin because we'd be going there more often and with insulation we could even go in the winter! I have accumulated a lot of flannel scraps and I thought what better way to use them than to make a                                                                      Log Cabin quilt! OK, the blocks are a little wonky but I just took the strips as they came and I had a lot more darks than lights so I added extra darks where I needed them in order to make the right size for the bl...

Thank you one and all who made these fabulous Churn Dash blocks for me!  They are going to be so much fun to sew together.  I just quickly put them on my design wall so you could see what a great effect they have when put side by side! There are so many fun prints mixed in here and so many great color combos.  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! And for those of you in blog land who are wondering what all this is about....One of the best parts about being the Block of the Month person (and various other Board positions) for my local guild is that at the end of our biz year we give out Thank You blocks to all concerned!  This year I asked for churn dash blocks with the Dash in solid fab and the background to be printed. This is a nod to the first BOM I made for PVQA in June 2015 where I proposed a sailboat block with solid fab boats and print backgrounds.  Read about that here .  That led to a conversation with Lynn over at http://kleinmeisjequilts.blogspo...

I have been trying to focus on getting some of these charitable tops finished so I can send them on. I've decided not to whine about bindings anymore, just put on a good movie and get them done! This first quilt, I'm not even sure I ever posted pix of the top. It's was a little experiment involving a handful of Cotton and Steel fat quarters. I was trying to come up with a method of putting to fat quarters face to face, sewing them and cutting them to create a different grid pattern. Thus the odd shaped rectangles in the middle.  I'm not sure it was worth the effort but it's different?! It's fun to quilt these little quilts.  I just kind of doodle around each section with a different doodle.  No stress, just play!   The backing is this wonderfully soft flannel plaid.  Of course it was not quite wide enough thus the extra strips in the middle.  And I bound it with a dark blue flannel that is so soft it is a delight to touch! I posted ...

 At the end of our local Guild Quilt Fair on Sunday after 2:00 PM everything left in the Bargain Garden aka Flea Market is Free!!!  I managed to Glean a rather substantial bag of Scraps, Leftovers and Orphan blocks for myself at this shopping spree!  These fabric bits 'n bobs make excellent starters for charitable quilts! More recently we made a trip to our family cabin where I generally get in some real quality sewing time so I brought the above mentioned bag of fabric fun with me to see what I could whip up!  I had a lot of fun sorting out the various possibilities and then I got to work. There were a fair number of yellow, white, grey and black scraps in the mix so I pulled them out and got the beginnings of an abstract thingy sewn. Here's the pile I started with.  I pretty much used them all up so I'm going to have to supplement or go searching for some more scraps.  I was thinking maybe a checkerboard border of some kind?! Next up I sorted ...