Category Archives: Quilting

May Quilt

Quilting
~ 72″ x 72″

This was my quilting UFO Challenge for February and, even with a slow start, I was able to finish it with lots of time to spare.

The pattern came from the May pattern in a 2011 Quilt Calendar (thank you Deloise). It required 600 squares and 300 half-square triangles. I collected for a long time before I was anywhere near ready to start piecing. Everything except the neutral colours are from scraps. The earliest photo I have of a pieced block is from January 2021 so a finish a year later is quite something for me!

The quilting (with a light pink thread) is done with straight lines and once I got started it didn’t take very long to finish.

I had some fabric in my stash that was enough (with some left over) for the backing.

Calendar Block – February

Calendar Blocks, Cards, Quilting
from Quiltish Corner (~ 14″ x 14″)

Not a big surprise that for February Kathryn’s Calendar block is a heart. I swear I’ve made this pattern (or one very similar) in different sizes many times over the years.

Kathryn mentioned that she wasn’t sure she wanted to be cutting onions on her cutting board with last month’s snowman underneath. This month I used some food-related fabric for the back. And that reminded me of a bunch of food-related hexagons that I ended up with when I purchased a bag of fabric scraps (and I know who it was that snuck them in there!). I’ll have to find them and maybe put them together for future backings.

Button Box

Quilting
~ 38″ x 53″

I bought this bundle when Stacia, Deloise and I went to Houston for the 2016 International Quilt Festival. It came with a pattern for a 3-Yard quilt. I’ve purchased 3-Yard quilt books over the years, as has Deloise, and we’ve always shared them.

It wasn’t until this year that I dug out the fabric to make a Christmas quilt for my 12-Day package. Much to my surprise there were six different fabrics in the bundle and none of them were a yard in length. I don’t recall what pattern I picked up with the fabric but I found another 3-Yard quilt pattern that I wanted to make.

It took some figuring and adjusting but I was finally able to make the pattern work with the fabric I had. In my head I planned another zinger for the border but there wasn’t enough fabric to do that and I had to adjust the size of the border. The quilt still came out at a decent size for a cuddle under.

Jelly Snowflake

Quilting
~ 50″ x 50″

This pattern was released in July of 2020 as a sew-along; I put the top together that summer although I’m sure I fell behind as the clues were released. I had a batik Jelly roll in my stash and I won a Bali Pop at a Guild retreat that were pretty good matches. Jelly rolls and Bali Pops are just another name for 2.5″ strips.

It wasn’t until I decided to include this in my 12-Day package that I got it sandwiched and finally quilted.

I’m not fond of batiks but with a flannel backing and a good wash it has turned out quite well.