Laundry Basket Quilt Along

After a lot of contemplation, trial and error, I made some changes to Edyta's design by adding some kaleidoscope, the heart and a couple of the other blocks.  I'm pretty happy with the changes.

Edyta still has the mystery quilt blocks available to download or print out as of today

Design wall Grid (center block photos taken in dim light, so the color is not quite so off in real life)  I love the kaleidoscope ruler I got on Amazon.  I can see a lot of kaleidoscope blocks in my future!

 Now to actually finish sewing all the blocks

It will go quicker now that I have figured out my color and design choices for each block.  

 I see why people love kits, as it removes that very time consuming and error prone steps and you don't have to worry about spending a lot of time and then not liking your creation and starting all over

But you may understand, having a deep need to be the designer in at least part if not all of the process

Isn't it wonderful, the spring wild flowers are coming out!

There are so many pink wild flowers that the Super Moon that occurred a couple weeks ago, was called a pink Super Moon

These colors kind of reminded me of my Alexandrite quilt colors

Well, hopefully I'll be back sooner than later to show the completed bordered and quilted Alexandrite Quilt!

Happy Easter!

I made a pink basket for my granddaughter and a blue one for her cousin.

Hope you had a lovely day!

Projects in Progress: Laundry Basket 2020 Quilt Along and Spock

I have two complete rows of blocks sewn, plus some other blocks complete but being able to duplicate the blocks, digitally, lets me see how it will look.

I substituted my own heart block into the center of the outer rows

This is the complete Mystery Quilt Along from Laundry Basket Quilts that you can still download.

This is the Spock Quilt I'm making for my coworker, Dave, who is retiring soon.

I think mine will look better when I start getting the dark colors around the face.  I'm going to piece letters for the border, which say LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

I found this Quilt and felt very inspired to make one similar. 

Check out Carol's blog post to see how she did this!

Edyta Sitar's Mystery Quilt Along

I love a good quilt along but if it's a mystery, I'm not so gung ho.  But after quite a few days of seeing how pretty Edyta's quilt was coming along, I decided I wanted to do it.

If you are interested be sure to go to her blog and download the block patterns as she will only have them up for a little bit longer.  All fifteen blocks are available!

The colors I'm using are like a semi precious jewel, called an Alexandrite.  Have you ever seen one?  Depending on the light, they shine purplish to bluish green!  So pretty!

Anyway, if you are interested, go download the blocks

Pinks and Valentine's

Little pink fabric basket would be a cute Valentine's gift with some fat quarters or hand soaps and candles.

Ayumi's tutorial.  For my reference (not patchwork), cut 

(2) rectangles [ 9 1/2 x 3 1/2" ] (sides)

(1) rectangle [ 6 x 9 1/2" ]  (bottom)

(2) 1 rectangle [ 1 3/4 x 10 1/2" ] one in main and 1 in coordinating fabric (handles)

(1) rectangle [ 12 x 9 1/2 ] lining

Table topper

This is a storm at sea designed into heart shapes.  Find the pattern here.

I love the secondary ribbon design going through the hearts

The amazing thing is I had all the fabrics in my stash!  It was gratifying to make something beautiful with what I had on hand.  It was a little tricky figuring out which colors to put where though

Pink baby quilt in process

Winter Blues Blog Hop and More!

I'm so happy to join a fabulous group of quilters for the Winter Blues Blog Hop.

What could be nicer than joining in on the Winter Blues Blog Hop?   Completing your Winter Blues table topper AND looking at your topper, out your window, onto a Winter Blues Wonderland!

Close up of snowflake and swirls quilting on completed topper (still need to bind)

Star Burst Tutorial from the Missouri Star Quilt Company  Basically take two 10" squares (background and a color), place right sides together, sew around the perimeter, slice in half diagonally twice, to get four half square triangles. I made 100 HSTs (25 for each quadrant).   Mine turns out to be about 56" square.

topper ready to quilt

Other Winter Blue Projects:

Winter full moon painting

Winter Blue Snowflake table topper Gift (from the Snow Flake Sew Along)

Blues Log cabin and birds with tutorial

Blues Starry Night 

A Spring time Blues project.  This was a tutorial by the Crafty Quilter.  Quilt Along 1st week link with tutorial is here.  My original post for this project is here.

  Be sure to stop by the other blogs to get a bigger dose of Winter Blues (the good kind) and leave a sweet comment to warm their hearts!  

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Wednesday, January 22nd

Little Bunny Quilts

For the love of geese

The Joyful Quilter

Ms P Designs USA

Quilt Schmilt

Karen's Korner
Made By Marney
Podunk Pretties

Sunshine in the Attic 

Find the rest of the schedule by clicking HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by!
P.S.  To my fellow hop bloggers:  Although I am posting comments to your blogs, there are only a small percent that actually publish for some reason.  But I am thoroughly loving to see your beautiful and creative projects!

Pink baby quilt

An embroidered label

Quilting Detail

For Baby Jolene

Merry Christmas!

A couple of homemade Christmas gifts!

Painting of a full moon on Christmas Eve .  Inspiration from a painting on Pinterest but I added the deer and bunny and message.

Snowflake table topper. Pattern from the snowflake quilt along.

Nicole's quilt pattern is modern looking with a large partial snowflake, but I wanted a full snowflake as you can see.  You can find the pattern here.

Maggie's Quilt

Our wonderful manager, Maggie, is retiring soon.  Of course since our tradition is to give a quilt to the retiree, I had to come up with a plan.  The quilt design was to symbolize our love for her!  We had a nice dinner, a skit, and some dance numbers, all put on by my wonderful talented coworkers!

One of my coworkers is a professional photographer, hence the photos (and videos).  And one is an artistic cookie baker and she made "quilted" cookies to go with the theme!  It was a memorable night!

Here are a few photos of the quilting and quilt under construction.

I made a tutorial for the heart and chain blocks here, in case you want to make one like this.