After making 36 quilties last month, I decided it was time to catch up on binding some of the larger charity quilts that were stacked up in my longarm studio. Most of them I didn't make - I simply quilt & attach binding to what others have made. But there were a few of my own creations hiding in there.
This quilt was made from my red scraps. I started with red & black strings, and made HST blocks from those. They were about 3" finished, and when I figured out that I needed about 315 blocks, I started to rethink the plan. I made as many black/red blocks as I could, with the red strings I had in my stash. Then I came up with this layout, and started filling the missing areas with red crumb blocks. And a few pink-ish ones. When I this was all done, I had used up my entire stash of red strings and crumb blocks. There are of course lots of red scraps left to make more crumb blocks, because that never ends.
This was the Meadow Mist mystery last year. I had the watermelon fabric for some unknown reason, and found the coordinating colours in my stash. Originally planning for a different quilt that never happened, I repurposed the stack of fabric for this project.
Pink spinning stars. This was in progress for ages! It has a friend
here. The leftover blocks when into this quilt, with some scraps to make borders to increase the size up to a charity size.
The backing (next photo) is Yoga Cats :) Not sure where that came from, but it felt like a good choice for this one.
This log cabin quilt was made from a pile of 1.5" strips that I pickup up from a Victoria's Quilts meeting. Lots and lots of 1.5" strips. I had just enough cream at the end to make the borders.
These block were leftover from my Bonnie Hunter Good Fortune quilt. That poor quilt had a checkered past - poor colour choices led to a complete rework. The discarded blocks went
here. And these are the "extras" from the original, with some new bits, because by the time the main quilt was done I had no desire to make it full size.
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