Hello Everyone! If you are here today expecting a cross stitch update, I’m sorry but this is going to be a brief quilting update. For the past few days, my crafting time has been spent on fully finishing my cross stitch pieces and they are all in different stages of being complete. So instead, I thought I would share the finished baby quilt that I made for my niece’s new baby boy.
I think this turned out so cute and will be perfect for a baby boy. The pattern is Sugar Cookie Quilt from the “Perfect 5” book by It’s Sew Emma. I did rearrange the blocks and they remind me of puzzle pieces or maybe Minecraft images.
The fabrics are Sherri and Chelsi’s Simply Delightful and Admiral Blue Bella Solid for the background, both from Moda.
The backing fabric is a Cozy Cotton Flannel from Robert Kaufman’s Over The Moon line. You can really see the quilting here. I used Quilter’s Dream Delux batting which has a higher loft than what I usually use. I really liked it and think it shows the quilting well. I used my walking foot and turned the quilt as I went. I did mark the lines with a Hera marker. You can read more about that here.
I just mailed the quilt to my niece on Friday, so it hasn’t arrived yet, but I hope to get a few pictures with the quilt and the baby.
Last Thursday, we had dentist appointments so afterwards, my husband and I took a walk around Winchester. It was a spectacular day and the in-town streets were blooming. The first picture was taken from one of the highest points in town and we are looking east towards the Blue Ridge Mountains. The second pictures shows one of the prettier streets with all the dogwoods in bloom. It has been a pretty spring so far and we are trying to get out each week to enjoy it.
I hope you are having a good week and spring. Next week, you can look forward to some cross stitch finishes. As always, thanks for stopping by.
Hello Everyone and welcome back to a quilting update. I’ve been working on two baby quilts since my last post, one for my niece ( who had her baby last Sunday) and one for donation. I’ve also been planning two new projects, a spring table runner and a camping quilt made with Camille’s Nantucket and Shoreline. Neither are on paper yet, but I’ve been looking at patterns and some of my books to get ideas. Since my niece’s baby is already here, that’s the priority.
My niece’s quilt is a variation of the Sugar Cookie Quilt in the “Perfect 5 Quilts” book by It’s Sew Emma. I switched the pieces around so they wouldn’t look too heart shaped. She had a 10 pound baby boy so I thought the squares would be better. I could have turned the outside pieces differently and there would have been three rows of squares but I thought this way had more interest.
Instead of the charm pack called for in the pattern, I was able to use a Jr Jelly Roll of Simply Delightful by Sherri and Chelsi. The Jr. Jelly Roll came in one of the sew sampler boxes last year. The background fabric is Admiral Blue Bella Solid. Both are from Moda.
I’ve decided to quilt this one with my walking foot with diagonal lines. The background quilting will be different than the prints. I marked the lines with a Hera Marker from Clover. This is an easy way to mark a quilt. The only thing you need to be careful with is that the lines can be hard to get out if you don’t quilt on them. I started quilting it yesterday and hope to have it finished by the end of the week.
While I was piecing the Sugar Cookie Quilt, I pieced the blocks for the Fat Quarter Four Patch quilt, a free pattern from Fat Quarter Shop. I used the Tula Pink Besties fat quarter bundle that came in another sew sampler box. I just noticed as I added the link, I have the nine patch units in the opposite direction as the pattern. I can change it or leave it. I may also change the bunnies and the cat blocks around. Above is the second layout for this quilt. I didn’t use two of the fat quarters that were in the bundle because one was too pink and the other had goldfish, but a really large scale print. I changed the block size to 12″ finished so it would be a smaller quilt. By making a smaller block, I was able to just eek out two blocks per fat quarter. I also used the Admiral Blue Bella for the nine patch blocks and if I have enough for the binding, I’ll add a 2″ finished border in the blue, too. At this point, I can take my time and finish making this one as I make other things.
That’s it for me today. When I finish the Sugar Cookie quilt, I need to take some days to work on cross stitch finishes, the pile is getting higher and higher. While I’m doing that, I can throw in designing my camping quilt and spring runner.
We have had a lovely week here. We took time last Friday to take a drive to see the redbuds in bloom along the country roads. It’s been very pretty and green here this spring. I hope you have some pretty roads to travel, too. Thanks for stopping by!
Hello Everyone and welcome back to a Works In Progress Wednesday. I hope everyone is starting to get some nice spring weather. We had a cold and rainy week last week, but this week we are warming up into the low 70’s for a few days. That means it’s getting ready to be pollen season here. The flowering trees have been blooming for a few weeks, but the other trees are just starting to leaf out. I saw some of you had a big winter snow storm last week. I’m sure most of us are ready for warmer weather. Anyway, this week I have some of my cross stitch projects to share with you so let’s get started.
I have started to fully finish A Vintage Stitch by Hands On Design. These cute sewing themed designs are going into a hexi flower. Even though my fabric is 32 ct, my stitches aren’t fitting on the one inch hexi as well as Cathy’s. I’m lining up the top and folding it over the hexi paper. From there I’m tracing around the hexi paper from the mark, then making adjustments as I fold the fabric over the paper to get as much of the design in as possible. Cathy does have a YouTube tutorial that I watched to get started. Once I have the hexi pieces sewn together, I’ll find a fabric to applique it to. The model is appliqued to wool, but I think I’ll use a cotton.
I finished Sewing Bird from “Keeper of the Pins” by With Thy Needle and Thread. It’s stitched on 36 ct Vintage Country Mocha with all the called for flosses, 1 over 2, except for the bird’s wings. The wings are stitched with the same color as the bird’s body, but with two strands of floss. This is supposed to be a very prim look. I usually like a little more saturation in my stitched pieces, but I plan to make a small display with this one and two more from the booklet to set on my mom’s sewing machine cabinet.
Here is my progress on Rainbow Row. The last house is almost finished. I expect to have it finally finished by the end of April. After that, I will have to wait for a really good framing sale at Michaels. The stitched width will be close to 36″.
I think I mentioned that I was going to restart The Blue Flower’s Spring Quail and I have. I’ve made decent progress and have spent about eight days on it so far. The called for floss is a combination of Colour and Cotton and DMC. When I bought the fabric and chart at a Cross Stitch Station, they had a color conversion to Weeks and Classic Colorworks floss. I’m pretty sure the fabric is a 36 ct Grace Notes fabric but I don’t know the color. I’m using two strands of floss because I wanted a nice saturation of color. You can see where I tested several of the lighter colors with one and two strands.
You can see the start from last spring. That 40 ct fabric has a little more blue than what is showing in the picture, but I love the vibrancy of the new fabric. Because I’m stitching the new start on 36 ct, it’s going to be a little larger than the 40 ct so I’m not going to do the same finish I had in mind. I think I will make a 12″ x 12″ throw pillow with it. I ended of using the 40 ct last year because I wanted the piece to be smaller, but I think I will really like this better.
My plans are to finish my hexi piece and find some background fabric for it. Then I’ll decide how I’ll finish it. It will be a large pin pillow if I finish it that way. My niece had her baby on Sunday night, so my priority is to finish her quilt. I have some of the blocks made, but need to finish the rest and then sew and quilt it. I hope I can send it to her next week.
Thank you all for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your week.
Hello Everyone and welcome to a quilting update. I hope you were able to enjoy your weekend with family and friends. Our son was here and he and my husband spent most mornings fishing, but I did get a full day with my son on Saturday. At the end, I have a few pictures of the Bluebells from a walk we took on Saturday morning. But most of this post will be about the Blue/Tan Stars Your Way quilt.
I finished binding it on Sunday and am so pleased with it. My husband says it’s one of his favorites. This quilt started as a Block of the Month Challenge for 2023 in my quilt group. You were to make one 12″ Sawtooth Star every month. Well you know that I didn’t keep up with that after the first few months, but having it finished by the end of March 2024 is an accomplishment. For “my way” to make the stars, I added a different 6″ block unit for the center part of the star. It was a fun and creative way to make each block.
I started with fabric that I had collected and set aside for a different quilt in 2008. For that quilt, I had already cut some of the fabric into 5″ squares. I was able to use those pieces in the center of the blocks. I used larger pieces of the fabrics to make the star points. I cut all those out first so I wouldn’t mistakenly use the fabric. I was also lucky that I had enough of the background fabric to make this quilt.
For the small stars in the sashing, I used three fat quarters and had just enough of those fabrics to make them all the same.
So here are the stats:
Started: 12-17-22
Top finished: 1-11-24
Quilting started: 2-12-24
Quilting finished: 3-28-24
Quilt finished: 3-31-24
Materials Used:
Background: Cream print from Minick and Simpson Lexington
Blues, Tans and Creams: Minick and Simpson Lexington, Edyta Sitar fabrics from Moda, Union Blues and Baltimore Blues by Barbara Brackman, a few other fabrics from my collection.
Some of the center units are my designs and some are from other sources. From left to right, top to bottom they are:
Cross Stitch Block, “Quilt Bee” by Bonnie and Camille
Part of Block 2 from the Sew Sampler Box Bliss Quilt Along in 2022 by Fig Tree Quilts
Spare Squares, “Scrappiness is Happiness” by Lori Holt
Block from Cinnamon Splendor BOM by Fig Tree Quilts
My design
Twinkle Twinkle Scrappy Star, “Scrappiness is Happiness by Fig Tree Quilts
Sawtooth Star
Lemoyne Star
Block from Cinnamon Splendor BOM
My design
Sunday Morning Block, “Farmgirl Vintage” by Lori Holt
My design
The quilting was done on my Pfaff 4.0 Quilt Expression domestic machine. I had it cleaned and some parts replaced last November and this is the most quilting I have done with it since. It was like quilting on a brand new machine. Some of the little problems that I’ve had for years were gone and it made it very pleasant to quilt. Although, near the end I was tired of quilting swirls.
The cross hatch quilting in the sashing and the curves in the star points were quilted using a ruler foot on my machine and quilting rulers. I did mark registration points for the cross hatch with a Frixion Pen.
After I finished quilting with the rulers, I switched to an open toe free motion foot and finished quilting the blocks. Next I added the ribbon candy in the cross hatch blocks and quilted the swirls. I used four different colors of thread and finished one color before changing to the next. That’s one advantage of being able to move the quilt around on a domestic machine.
I have several more large quilts to quilt and will try to get to the next by the end of April. First though, I have a baby quilt to make for my niece and want to catch up on the last months of the Cinnamon Splendor BOM.
The bluebells were almost in full bloom at the Shenandoah River SP. We took a nice three mile walk along the river.
I hope you don’t mind all the details about the quilt, but it’s a nice record for me. Thank you all for stopping by today and have a great week.
Hello Everyone and welcome back for a cross stitch update. I’m getting my post out a little later than usual, but I’ve been busy with some home tasks that needed to get done in the past couple of weeks. One of which was getting ready for my son’s visit for Easter. He made it but was delayed due an airplane mechanical issue, which kept getting longer. He was supposed to fly into Dulles Airport, but after the second delay, he was able to reschedule a flight into National Airport. Although it’s a longer drive for us to pick him up, he still was at our house two hours ahead of the other flight. After many years of flying, my husband and I give ourselves plenty of time to get to where we are going. As a pilot, he was always amazed at the tight connections passengers made. Those were okay 30 years ago, but not anymore.
Anyway, enough about flying and on to some cross stitch.
I have a couple of finishes to show today and the first one is Winter Basket by Crocette-a-gogo. It’s stitched 2 over 2 on 36 ct Affogato by Fiber on a Whim using the called for DMCs. This is a little big for a pillow so I may frame it. Since it’s a winter stitch, it will go into the pile of to be fully finished later.
Since my last cross stitch post, I started and finished Looking for Spring by Blackbird Designs. This chart is in the Nashville Needlework Market 2023 cookbook. This is a really sweet little design. It’s stitched on 36 ct Salted Carmel by Luminous Fiber Arts. I had just a scrap of it left, but I was able to just fit it in my 5″ hoop. It has a few specialty stitches and I stitched it with a combination of the called for hand dyed flosses and DMCs. This one will definitely become a small pin pillow.
Just as I was adding the pictures to my post, I realized I have another finish, the Seasons of the Heart, Spring, but I forgot to take a picture of it. Hopefully next time, I’ll have it fully finished in it’s frame.
I started Keeper of the Pins, The Sewing Bird, a few nights ago. It’s stitched on 36 ct Vintage Country Mocha with the called for DMC, 1 over 2. Since I took the picture a few days ago, I have finished filling in the spool but even though I’m using the same fabric and same DMC floss, my spool is not as vibrant as that in the picture. Also, my pictures this week aren’t very good either. It was very cloudy when I took them and I just couldn’t get my light adjusted to show them very well. Hopefully next time, I’ll have a nice sunny morning when I can use natural light.
I took a picture of my progress on Rainbow Row, but it was just too bad to share this week. Maybe by the next post, it will be completely finished.
Did you all do any Market shopping? I did a little. I really liked American Welcome by Plum Street Samplers. I’ve liked some of the ones in this series, but this will be the first one I stitch. I ordered the Colour and Cotton floss to go with it and have the rest of the DMC that’s called for. I just need to decide on the fabric. I think I may make this my morning stitch when I finish Rainbow Row.
I also picked up a few new Hands On Design charts. The Liberty Pennies is new from Market this year. I believe the Strawberry was from last year. She had a new “Berry Basket” release this year, too. It was either the grapes or the blackberries. I ordered the Weeks floss for Liberty Pennies that I didn’t have. Even though some of those will only be used a little, I like to expand my thread collection when I can. The Strawberry is charted in DMC.
I also ordered “Hello Spring” by Teresa Kogut. I want to stitch almost every design in this book. If you haven’t had a chance to see it, find Teresa’s market release video so you can see the real pieces. I ordered some fabric, too. I’ve been stitching some of HOD’s designs on Charcoal Lugana, but I really think I like the black better. I will give it a try and hope I have enough magnification to see it. I also got a fat eighth of Weeks Beige linen but it is much darker than what it is showing here. It looked more like this color online and I was hoping to use for American Welcome but I think it will be too dark. It will be used for something, maybe one of Teresa’s design.
That’s it for me today. I hope you all have a very happy Easter and that spring will be with you soon. As always, thanks so much for stopping by.
Hello Everyone and welcome back to a quilting update. Actually, I’ve done little else since my last quilting update except to continue to free motion quilt the Blue/Tan Stars Your Way quilt. I did finish one more project, too.
I finished the Mini Charm Pillow or Table Mat by Sherri of A Quilting Life. I was able to finish the pillow cover after I gave the demo of making an envelope pillow back at our last quilt group meeting. The fabrics including the binding are from the Nantucket Summer line by Camille Roskelley for Moda. I love it! I’m looking for a pattern so I can make a quilt with the rest of the Nantucket Summer fabric. I have a layer cake and and some fat quarters. If you have any suggestions, let me know.
I used a left over piece of an Andover Woven Stripe for the back. This fabric was the backing for my Day at the Lake Jelly Roll Sizzle quilt. I only have a little of it left now. It feels good to use up what I have.
Once I finished the pillow, all my quilting time has been spent on the Blue/Tan Stars quilt. I finished quilting all the blocks, then started the swirl quilting in the background of the small star blocks. Well….I decided that the quilted cross hatch squares needed more quilting in that open space. So in went some ribbon candy quilting, which has just added to the length of time it’s going to take me to finish this quilting. I am probably about two-thirds finished with the background quilting and I can definitely get into a rhythm while quilting those swirls. I hope to have it finished soon. I’ve got other quilting projects I want to get to!
I hope you all are having a good week. After a nice warm week last week, we are back to March weather, windy and cold. Good weather to stay inside and quilt.
Hello Everyone and welcome back to a very brief update today. I spent most of my crafting time over the weekend sorting and putting away my flosses from recently finished cross stitch projects, then I kitted up a few new things so when I’m ready for a change of pace, they will be ready to start.
Since the last cross stitch update, I started Seasons of the Heart – Spring by Brenda Gervais. I have a little more than half to finish, but would like to get it finished and fully finished soon. On Monday I did a little early spring decorating and need a few more cross stitch pieces. I have plenty for late spring; ie, strawberries and bees, but I’m not quite ready for those. I have a few things that will work that need to be fully finished, so I should set aside a few days to do those.
I’m stitching Spring on the called for 40 ct Vintage Country Mocha with all the called for flosses. As you can see, it has very muted colors. Spring is the last of the seasons for me in this booklet. I have a 5″ x 7″ frame that it fits into so it just needs to be finished and laced and it will be ready to go.
I also started a Blackbird Designs small from the 2023 Nashville Needlework Cookbook. All I have stitched so far is a vine, so not much to show.
That’s it for me today. Next time I’ll share my quilting progress. Now I have to go put away my Christmas quilts (which are on on the floor of my fabric closet) and winter quilts which need to be folded and put away for the year. I hope you all have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!
Hello Everyone! This week I’ve got a quilting update for you, and I have been doing lots of quilting on my domestic machine. I also made some more Ohio Star blocks and finished a wheelchair lap quilt that I’ll be donating.
First though, look at all those Ohio Star blocks! These are the ones that have been collected so far from my quilt group. I contributed seven blocks and I think there are more from some other members that will be turned in this week. There were enough blocks to make a full Quilt of Valor quilt, plus a few left over to make some wheelchair lap quilts. We’ll be giving our blocks to the local QofV group to be used in their quilts. If you are interested in contributing your own blocks, you can find all the information here.
Here is my lap quilt using the Ohio Star blocks with the miscut half square triangles. The finished block size of the Ohio Stars is 10 1/2″. I wanted to make the rest of the quilt top simple so I just added 10 1/2″ finished squares of fabric. The flag fabric is from Sweetwater’s Stateside line and the center and border fabric is Stonehenge Stars and Stripes, which was a Quilt of Valor fabric several years ago.
The quilt is free motion quilted with wavy lines on my Pfaff QE4.0 using a variegated Aurifil 50 wt thread. The backing is by Judy Rothermel for Marcus Brothers. I picked it up at one of the quilt group’s fabric exchanges. The quilt measures 36 1/2″ x 36 1/2″, a good size for a wheelchair bound person. One of our members is going to take these lap quilts to a local retreat place for veterans.
After finishing the lap quilt top, I did some more quilting on the Stars Your Way quilt. I love seeing the quilting texture on the backside of the quilts. I finished all the ruler quilting and have moved onto the free motion quilting. I’m working with four thread colors and have finished two of the colors. I’ll get back to this later this week.
I think I mentioned I was going to do a demo at this week’s quilt group meeting. I’ll be showing how I make an envelope pillow back and add a binding to the finished pillow. I quilted The Mini Charm Pillow and Table Mat top to be used in my demo. By the time I quilted this one, I had already done some free motion quilting on the Stars quilt and finished the lap quilt. I can tell how much better my control is on this piece (plus it’s smaller to work with). I’m very pleased with the curved quilting. That is all free hand and not marked.
Here is the front, all that lovely Nantucket Summer fabric by Camille Roskelley.
My plan is to finish the Stars quilting by the middle of next week so I can start a couple of new projects. I want to make a table runner with the Strawberry Lemonade fabrics and I need to get my niece’s baby quilt started. As the weather starts to get nicer, I’m sure my sewing time will start to decrease.
I hope you all are enjoying some nice spring like weather were you are. We are still on the roller coaster between warm and cold, but that’s more expected in March. Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by.
Hello Everyone and welcome to Works in Progress Wednesday. Is it starting to show signs of spring where you are? We’ve had a few springlike days mixed in with some very cold days. It reminds me more of a Georgia February than a Virginia one. I have definitely gotten the itch to stitch some spring pieces and have one to share today.
Since my last cross stitch update, I have started and finished two new pieces. The first is part of Prairie Schooler’s Daffodils.
I was going to stitch the entire bottom of the larger piece and leave off the words like I did with July, November and December, but I just couldn’t get over the sheep. In fact, I was going to stitch this and leave out the sheep, but I started looking at some other Prairie Schooler monthly pieces and thought June might be a better fit for spring. So instead, I just stitched the daffodil border because I love Daffodils!
This is stitched on the non printed side of 32 ct Smokey Vintage White. I used the called for DMC except for the yellow which is a closely matching yellow Cosmos floss. I’m going to make this into a small pillow to go with my spring smalls.
I was getting a little tired of stitching winter so I also started and finished Hands On Design’s A Vintage Stitch – Too Hexie. Each one of the small designs will fit into a 1″ Hexie. Click the link to see the finished piece. I’m going to finish these like Cathy did into a small pin pillow. Each one of the sections took either just a night or a night and a half to finish. They are stitched on 32 ct Weeks Straw (the called for fabric) with the called for DMCs.
Before I started the two pieces above, I did make more progress on the Winter Basket by Crocette-a-gogo. I’m not sure I’ll finish Winter Garden by Hello from Liz Mathews, but I will finish this before giving up on winter stitching altogether.
I have almost finished the next house in Rainbow Row, too. Since February is a short month, I don’t know if I’ll meet my goal of doing one house a month. But it’s almost done, so I should be able to start the next and last house within a few days of March starting.
Have you been paying attention to the new Needlework Market releases? There are several that I’ll probably purchase, but I’ll wait a few weeks for things to settle down for the shops and designers before I order anything. I have plenty to keep me busy for now.
I hope you all have a great rest of your week and get to enjoy some nice weather soon. Thanks so much for stopping by.
Hello Everyone and welcome back for a quilting update. This week, I have some machine quilting to share, the finished Ohio Star blocks and some new projects in the queue.
My husband went to my son’s in Georgia over Super Bowl weekend and I was looking forward to some free motion quilting on the Blue/Tan Stars Your Way quilt. Friday afternoon on the day my husband left, I basted the quilt. It was a nice warm day in the mid 60s and I wanted to take advantage of spray basting outside. Then I set up the machine for free motion quilting with the ruler foot on it, selected the threads for the different colors, wound bobbins, then asked myself “how should I quilt it?” “Myself” didn’t have a fast answer.
I spent the rest of weekend drawing and planning the quilting with a little help from my daughter. She looked at the pictures I sent her and did a nice job of listening while I talked myself in and out of different designs. There are more designs on another EQ8 printout (left). The picture on the right is a black and white photo of the actual quilt. Using it helped to see what the designs looked like with the center of the star units. If you recall, the Stars Your Way quilts were a block of the month with my local quilt group in 2023. I plan on quilting the Christmas quilt in July.
There is all that nice open space between the star points and I wanted to add a new design element and as you can see from the drawings, I tried a few different things. I kept coming back to the square with the feathers around the outside edge though. I also tried a few different things with the space around the small stars, but that will end up being some free motion swirls. This took all weekend to decide and the sewing machine never got turned on.
After I picked my husband up from the airport on Monday morning, I was finally ready to quilt. You can see what I chose to quilt in the middle of the squares above, a simple grid. I’ll add the feathers when I’m finished using the ruler foot. All the stars are outlined and the grid in the small stars are also completed. I did all the outlining in the star centers in the neutral Aurifil 50 wt thread while I was using the ruler foot. I finished all this on Sunday and the quilting has been put on hold for this week.
It’s hard to see in the picture above, but I did draw out all the squares on the quilt with a Frixion Fineliner Erasable Marker. You can see the lines in the picture above this one. I was able to buy just one to try at the quilt shop in Harrisonburg and I really like it. I guess it’s a marker rather than a pen and it glided nicely on the fabric. When I was quilting, I used a straight quilting ruler and used the marks as a guide. This is a much slower process than free motion quilting and other than a few bobbles here and there, the lines are relatively straight. I’m going to use some curved quilting rulers in the star motifs when I continue the quilting. I spent two to three hours a day quilting it so hopefully when I get back to it next week, it will be another week or so to finish it.
The rest of this week is going to be about more Ohio Star blocks. Above are the ones I finished a few weeks ago. What I didn’t mention was that I originally cut all the corner HSTs too small. So I ended up with an extra set of five. Our quilt group is going to give a set of Ohio Star blocks to Quilts of Valor, however we are going to keep some and sew them together as wheelchair lap quilts for a local organization. Since I have the too small HSTs, I have cut and plan to sew four more blocks that will finish at 10.5″ I’m going to add five print blocks in a 3 x 3 grid with a border to make a lap quilt that will finish at 36.5″, a good size for a wheelchair quilt. We are going to be sewing together at our Friday meeting and I want to have the Ohio Star blocks made by then.
After I cut fabric for the Ohio Stars, I cut the print pieces for a new baby quilt I want to make for my niece who is having her second baby in April. I’m going to make the Sugar Cookie Quilt using a Jr. Jelly Roll of Simply Delightful by Sherri and Chelsi. The quilt instructions are in the book, “Perfect 5 Quilts” from It’s Sew Emma. I’ll sew the blocks while I’m sewing other projects.
I haven’t had time yet, but I also want to cut out the Tula Pink Besties fabric for a donation baby quilt. I thought I would use the Fat Quarter Four Patch pattern, a free pattern by Fat Quarter Shop. I am going to reduce the size of the block to better fit the size of the baby quilts I usually make. By reducing the size, I may have enough fabric for two quilts, I’ll have to see how much fussy cutting I do. I got both the Tula Pink fat quarter bundle and the Jr. Jelly Roll in Sew Sampler Boxes.
Since I ordered the Bella Solid Admiral Blue fabric to go with the Simply Delightful fabric, I went ahead and got a layer cake of Sherri and Chelsi’s new Strawberry Lemonade fabric. This is a very pretty line. The Navy Daisy Dots is an exclusive color to Fat Quarter Shop so I bought some yardage because it’s a very pretty color and can go with lots of things. I don’t have any firm plans for this fabric yet, but I want to make something sooner rather than later with it.
I’m going to have a busy next few days getting those Ohio Star blocks made, then I plan on going back to quilting. I hope you all have a great rest of your week and weekend. Thanks so much for stopping by.
Brenda
By the way, my heart shaped pizzas came out nicely and were yummy.
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