7th Heaven

If you are like me, you never cut exactly the right number of strips or blocks when making a quilt. There are always left over scraps or pieces. Number 7 here is made from left overs from the previous batik quilts I have made this year. I finally used up enough of the scraps to call it an end to the batik quilt tops for a while. I had two fairly deep drawers of batiks and I have made 7 quilts from it and still don't think it is reduced enough to combine the drawers. I have even given away several pieces that I had yardage of but didn't think I would use the color. Most of one drawer was half yard pieces and when you are doing a scrap quilt that goes a long way. The bigger yardage I have used for borders and binding. This one uses 2.5 inch squares in a 16 patch with a 4.5 x 8.5 white between the blocks. On the alternate row start with  4  2.5 squares in a row connected to the white, then add blocks and white ending with another strip of 4 squares to alternate the blocks. I have got to get some of these quilted. I am finally caught up with quilting for others so maybe I can quilt some of these in the next few days.


Happy Stitching,

Teresa

Number 6

I am still playing in those two drawers of batiks, who would have thought I would have gotten so hung up on these wild fabrics. This is number six, it is also twin size. This was a super simple pattern, but a fun one. One night as I was sewing all these strip sets together, Johnny came in the sewing room and said I had that machine really humming. Yes it is really easy to put the hammer down when sewing longer seams. It went together super quick but of course I over estimated the number of strip sets so I had left overs and yes that means I have number 7 in the works. Check back in a few days to see that pattern.

Happy Stitching,

Teresa

From March to June

My last post was in March and now it is June, I am not sure what happened. I have been sewing a lot but really haven't finished anything with the exception of this little pillow. This was made from scraps of a quilt top I am calling Civil Quarters and it has been moved out to the quilt shack without getting a picture. I know I have been doing a good bit of quilting for others but that still doesn't explain the amount of time that has passed since my last post. I will try to do better in the future.

This is a twin size top made from the HST's  that were cut offs from The Spinners quilt. I saw this pattern on Pinterest done in 30's and thought it would be a good way to use the left overs from both Spinners and Mosaic. Of course this did not use up all the HST's so I found another project for them.

It is called a Depression Block but done in these bright batiks, there is nothing depressing about it. However I only had enough half square triangles left to make a few blocks so I ended up back in the Batik box and making more, a bunch more. I have bought yardage of a wide back and plan to load these two sideways and quilt both on the same back. I have the binding ready for both, now if I can just get them quilted. I have a lot going this week so it probably won't happen.

As I figure out what I have done with myself the last two months I will post some updates. I do have a couple of other projects started, yea where is the surprise in that.

I am going to see if I remember how to link with some other blogs.

Oh Scrap!
Slow Stitch Sunday
Making Monday
Design Wall Monday
Main Crush Monday
Moving if Forward


Happy Stitching,

Teresa