I finished this cute scrappy patriotic red white and blue lap quilt recently (and it’s in my etsy shop here) It all started when my scrap bin of blue fabrics was about to explode! I then needed an idea and thought of the Accuquilt pineapple die! (I really LOVE this die!) Then I needed a …
You know the feeling of having no scraps and nothing to do?? ME NEITHER! In fact my scrap bins are overflowing and once in a while I just look thru them and want to use up some before the bin explodes! my bin with red fabrics was very full, so then I started looking at …
I’ve been working on these Rainbow Scrappy Color of the month (RSC) blocks and September’s color is purple! Here’s a four patch string block (From Bonnie Hunter’s book) and now 10 together and a reversed spiderweb block in purple too, this one ended up being all batiks! and 10 together! you may have noticed that …
Call me crazy! I recently decided to dig into my pink scraps and then use the 1 1/2″ square die by Accuquilt and cut out a bunch of squares! I do have a plan! A nine patch baby quilt that’s 8 x 10 blocks and each block is 3″ finished. Yeah it’s crazy! But it’ll …
I guess I’ve been in “catch up” mode, I was going thru my bins of projects and found a bunch of mini hexagons and I played in EQ and then realized I had the matching triangle die from accuquilt too and that I had enough pink half hexagons to make a mug rug This is …
I was really excited when we got the 2nd box of goodies from Island Batik, we noticed a few months before that the theme for September said to use a new Accuquilt BOB die so we all started guessing, and when I got my box I was very fortunate that the die I got was …
I blogged about this last week on Accuquilt’s blog It’s a fun challenge with a FB friend texts me a picture of a block and asks if it can be done with Accuquilt QUBE dies! I think it was called Dinah’s block It was a block from a magazine in the 80s! Look how neat …
Of course I’ve been sewing since I got back from Denmark, I had to schedule the posts about the trip first though and that gave me time to catch up on things. First I had a few deadlines for Accuquilt, those are done and mailed! Next was a quilt for McCall’s Quick Quilts- top is …
I did finish some things in August even though I went to Denmark for 2 weeks and the kids started school. I finished this rainbow mosaic quilt and a mosaic table runner in batiks crazy patch quilt in batiks and the QAL travel quilt and these quilts I were able to show …
I managed to finish quilting my QAL quilt and added the binding this weekend! Here’s a few closeups of the quilting I did curves on most of the blocks but did bubbles on the skinny black border and a loopy design on the outer border The batting is Hobbs Wool Blend The backing is really …