Rainbow Scrap Challenge-Light Blue

I have been busy sewing together my light blue blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

I have 10 of the nine patches.

And 10 string blocks with the bonus 2 1/2 X 6 inch strips.

I will probably not make any more blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge because I have plenty of these blocks to make a quilt from each of them.

I do have my Craftsy blocks to finish but these last two blocks will be made up of multi-colored fabrics and not just one certain color for the month. I will show these two when I get them finished.

This is all for today!

Memories

I not only have a completion we have a memory.

My husband's father past away last November and this summer his brother wanted us to come and get some stuff from the house. Among the things he wanted gone was some clothes of Dad;s. I picked out all the flannel shirts and jackets that he would wear on the deer hunt and decided that a memory quilt was just what was needed.

This quilt is very simple and the main point is show casing the flannel shirts.

Since Ron's Dad wore most of these shirts at deer camp I think it will look great in the trailer.

I used a green and brown variegated thread and the baptist fan for the quilting. This will be a quilt that will be enjoyed by my husband for years to come.

The only other thing I have done this week was make labels for this quilt and 4 other quilts that needed labels

This is all for this all for this week. Keep on Scrappin!

What I am Working on Now

I have a couple of projects that are going on.

I have completed all of the 2-patches into 4-patches that I had ready before deer camp. I have 1,280 4-patches done. These will be used in a number of quilts and I am feeling pretty good about having all of this fabric on the road to new quilts

I also have the memory quilt on the HQ.

I am doing the baptist fan for this quilt. The texture is looking very good. This quilt should be totally done by next week.

I have pulled from my stash the fabrics I have for the new mystery from Bonnie Hunter that will be starting right after Thanksgiving. I have but I am not showing the black with white and the white fabric I have for this quilt. I need to go shopping for some fabric for this quilt though. I do not have enough turquoise or the right color of pink. I also need 2 yards of yellow. I plan to go shopping in a week or two.

So until next time. Keep on Scrappin!

Some More Completions

I have been very busy chain piecing a couple of different projects.

Before leaving for deer camp I completed my blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. These are the string blocks with the bonus strips. I forgot to take a picture of the 9-patches but I have 10 of those completed also.

While I was at deer camp I worked on these star points.

When I got home I finished sewing these together and pressed them. I have 420 units that will make 105 blocks. I am planning on using these star blocks for Quilts of Valor.

I also worked on my tumbler piecing. I had 10 strips going at the same time and I am now half way finished with them. I need to have 40 tumblers in each row.

I have my feather weight set up on my dining room table and have now started the brown star units. I probably will have the same amount of units as I do of the the blue. I need to cut over a hundred more back ground triangles to go with these wings. These units are all left over cuts from the Smith Mountain Morning quilt I finished back in January. I got a little carried away cutting out these wings.

Well, this is all for now. I will keep on scrappin!

Slow Stitching & Completions

I have been very busy slow stitching and completing a couple of projects.While we were going down to the deer camp I hand stitched the binding on my hexie table runner.

Aurora picked the backing for this runner. It was not 30's reproduction but it fits nicely with it anyway.

This will look very good on the dining room table come spring.

I also have completed my Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt from last year. This means it has taken me almost a year to complete it but now I can move on.

I hand stitched the binding while I was at deer camp.

This is a beautiful quilt. I used a variegated Superior thread that had orange and green. I don't remember the official name.

The colors in this quilt go well with the fall decorations I have out.

I used the baptist fan for the quilting. I really like this pattern and the texture looks great. Sorry the picture doesn't show it very well.

This is all for now. Until next time....

Rainbow Scrap Challenge-Brown-October

I have pulled all of my brown, black and dark gray fabric strips from the string bin.

I have actually started sewing on these strips but I have not completed them yet.

I have also almost finished sewing together these 9 patches in brown. I was very surprised that I had this many browns, blacks and dark gray fabrics. I was also a little hesitant about doing the blocks in these colors.. I have been pleasantly surprised with the results so far.

I will not be making the Craftsy blocks this month in brown. I only have two blocks left for this quilt and so I have decided the wait until next month to see what color is chosen. These two blocks really need a color that I like better than brown.

Other Things I Have Going in the Quilt Studio

I know I have been rather quiet in blogging for the last 2 weeks but I have been busy doing a number of things.

First off I have finally quilted the table runner I have had on the HQ for the last couple of months.

This was going to be a hexie quilt but I down sized this because I lost interest in hand stitching the hexies.

I did a simple stipple in the white background and a simple swirl in the flowers which cannot be seen. I also did a half feather in the outside border but no stitching in the blue border. I am happy with the results. I have the binding all ready to be sewn on. I will show this when I have a completion in a couple of weeks.

I have also put the small borders on the memory quilt I have been making and I have the backing cut and ready to be sewn together. I will be putting this quilt on the HQ as soon as I finish the mystery quilt that is loaded now.

This quilt will finish at 89" by 89". It is a very large quilt.

I have one other thing to share.At the end of September I shared that I was busy sewing 2" strips together to clean out 2 drawers full of very old and ugly fabric. I have finally finished cutting and trimming these into 2" 2 patches that will soon become 4 patches.

I have filled to bins very full of these 2 patches. I am pretty sure I have a couple thousand of them.

I will be sewing these together while I am at deer camp so hopefully by next week I will have about a thousand 4 patches all ready for the quilt I have planned to make. I will show how this goes when I get back late next week.
I also will be taking my very old tumbler quilt along to make some progress on it. I need 13 more rows put together to finish this top.
I will also be working on sewing together some extra wings for star points left over from my Smith Mountain Morning quilt I made at the first of the year. I got a little carried away cutting the wings and have large zip locks full of these that need to be put together. I have cut out probably 300 hundred background triangles to sew with them. It will be interesting to see just how many star points I will end up with and just how I will use these units for a future quilt.

I will talk again soon. Keep on Scrappin!