Quilting and other things I love in this colorful world
Another teacher at my school (actually, there are two of them right now) is having a baby. Here is the quilt top.
The pattern is Hundred Hugs in the tutorial section above. Just a lot of 2-1/2″ squares. Most were already cut scrap in my squares bin.
Baby quilts are so satisfying–fun colors, quick to make, scrappy. It doesn’t get any better!
In crazy American units of measure two cups make a pint, and two pints make a quart…and four quarts make a gallon. It makes sense to us, but to persons accustomed to metric measurements it can be quite a mystery. At any rate, and by any measure, I am pleased with these twin Pint Size tops. Whether they add up to a quart or not, I do hope they add up to pleased parents who have quilts to match those two cute babies.
The tops have two shared colors–yellow and green–and two different colors–one with red and brown and the other with pink and purple.
It always surprises me how different colors work together. All the colors, though, coordinate to the backing fabric.
My goal is to get the tops basted and quilted this week. One step closer to a finish and delivery.
Sometimes projects stall because you need one good idea that you don’t have. That was the case with Tile Works. I didn’t know how I was going to finish the top, taking the scrappy blocks and making something that would work. (Excuse, please, difficult indoor photography of a large quilt–76″ x 90″. There is over 2-feet of snow on the ground here and more falling right now. Outside is not an option.)
Then, YAY, the good idea came. Barbara F. said, “How about a dark brown sashing.” Why didn’t I think of that?
So, with brown sashing, dark red corner stones and a detail in the outer border that reflects the block design, we have a finished top.
Thank you so much, particularly to Barbara F., but to all of my wonderful readers-become-friends-I’ve-never-met. You encourage, cheer, support and help generally. I am so glad to see this long term project move towards a finished quilt that will bring warmth and color into someone’s life.
ps–People have asked for the pattern, but I can’t give it to you. It is a 12″ block pattern known as Tile Works #162 from the Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks publications.
It was designed by Monique Dillard of opengatequilts. Hopefully you will be able to find it and enjoy making something beautiful yourself.
As a teacher, it is hard to get in substantial sewing time during the school year, but now I am out on break and enjoying longer stretches with an assortment of projects.
There are two new baby quilts coming soon.
Times Two
and…
Pint Size.
Both quilts just need binding, which I hope to finish today.
Also, tutorials are being written for both, if you are interested.
OLD potholders…
NEW potholders…
It was time!
They are about 8″ square and use my scrappy 2-1/2″ squares. I don’t know if it would be helpful to have a tutorial…What do you think?
It was a low-sew week, but this weekend was better. There was just enough time to assemble this little top, which I am calling Starfish-y. It is 35″ finished.
Just 16 My Size Stars blocks with 1-1/2″ sashing between and around. I have the scrappy binding ready to go, too.
Hopefully it will be a quilt-ready-to-bind by the end of this week. Slow progress. I hope that baby isn’t growing too fast!
My goal for the long weekend was to have a finished top. I don’t have a finished top, but I do have 16 blocks.
Because these My Size blocks are based on a 4-1/2″ square, the blocks will finish at 7-1/2″. Sashing and an outer border are coming. Soon, I hope.
