Lazy Sunday Part 2

Have finished the blocks for Lazy Sunday Part 2.  I am using red fabrics in place of pink,  and my greens are not limey like Bonnie's, but a more earthy green.  I changed these two colors only because these are what I already had in my stash.  For this part, we had to complete 24 of the 9-1/2" block; 96 of the quarter-square triangle block; 92 of the red half-square triangle blocks and 4 of the green half-square triangle blocks.

Looking forward now to Part 3!!

String Stars

Back in January I made a bunch  of 5-1/2" string blocks and then decided to use them as the center square for a star block.  Here is a photo of the completed queen size String Star quilt.  The star points in each block is from a different scrap of fabric.

I had enough blocks left to also make a smaller quilt. It is shown in my "Scraps & Leftovers" post.

Scraps & Leftovers

I've been trying to use up fabrics in my stash.......some large scraps and some strings......the "Girly" quilts shown below were made from fabrics left from a quilt I made for my granddaughter for Christmas a couple of years ago, and I don't think I'm ever going to finish up with it.  Every time I pull these fabrics out and piece a quilt top, I still have more left over.  The backings for these two quilts are made up of leftover blocks and pieces from previous quilts also.

The star quilt shown here is made from star blocks left over after making a queen-size String Star quilt.

 



For the following quilt, I got out my box of 2" strips that I had cut from scraps and sewed together strip sets of 5 fabrics, beginning with a dark fabric and ending with a light fabric.  Thought I might make a Rail Fence quilt top, but decided instead to alternate the strip blocks with solid squares. Since I was using scraps, my strip sets all finished at different lengths, so after cutting my 8" squares from them, I had leftovers.  That is what I used for the middle scrappy border. 

I think my next scrappy project will be from 8" string pieced blocks.  Haven't even started the blocks yet, but that's what I have in mind.  Will keep you posted.

Split Decision

Found a new pattern called Split Decision that uses a jelly roll for the blocks.  I had one on hand called Audra's Iris Garden, so decided to go with it.  Prints are a little busy and some blocks don't have quite enough contrast, but it turned out okay.  Was very quick and easy to put together.

Treva's Sampler

I recently went with a friend to look at a Gracie Quilting Frame and Janome 1600 that a lady had for sale.  Treva had purchased it several years ago, with the intention of quilting her own quilt tops but because of health problems of her parents and herself, she was never able to use it.  While we were there and finding out that I have a Gammill longarm, she asked me if I would quilt one of her tops for her.  She pulled out this pretty sampler that she had put together in 2003.  It was so much fun to quilt it and look at all the beautiful blocks she had put together when she was still able to do it.  Here is a picture of Treva's quilt and close-ups of a couple of the blocks:

 

Thank you, Treva, for giving me the opportunity to quilt this for you!!

Brittany's Quilt

Brittany, the 15-year old niece of a friend wanted me to help her piece a quilt.  So we went shopping and she picked out her fabrics.  Using the Turning Twenty pattern, I helped with the cutting, then she matched fabrics for her blocks and did a GREAT job sewing them together.  She was a little uncertain about trying to add borders, so I did that for her, quilted it and hemmed it for her.  Made some valances out of one of the coordinating fabrics and she was able to re-decorate her bedroom.  She was so excited!  Here's  Brittany and her quilt:

 





GREAT JOB, BRITTANY!!

Lazy Sunday Mystery

Have finished the pieces for Part 1 of Bonnie Hunter's Lazy Sunday mystery:  48 Red & Cream 4-patches; 24 red & purple 4-patches; 96 large green/cream half-square triangle units; 148 small green/cream half-square triangle units; and only 8 purple/cream half-square triangle units.  I used my new Easy Angle ruler for the half-square triangle units and was very pleased with that technique......

Now I just have to wait another month for the next issue of Quiltmaker and Part 2 of  the mystery.