I couldn't believe how long it was since I had updated this blog. I have been busy with various craft projects, but obviously just didn't get around to posting my progress on things. I have continued with my quilting (more of that later) and I have joined a lace making group after hubby came home with a lace making pillow and bobbins that he picked up whilst in Sweden. Again, more of that later in another post perhaps.
Today's post though is to show photo's of my finished charity quilts that will be donated to the Linus Project next month. I have managed to get four done this year using a variety of scraps. This one contains a panel that had been donated along with other fat quarters and scraps to the quilting group. A number of us took the fabric home and each came up with something different. I had never really done much with log cabin blocks, but thought I would do some to go around the central panel. To get it all to work out I had to add some border sashing to the panel and add some other fabric strips to the panel too. Quite a bit of measuring, cutting and cursing before I was happy with the result. The top was quilted onto fleece. Below is a detail view of the quilting.
This next quilt was fun to do. I found a lot of little sample pieces of fabric in the donations box at the quilting group so cut them into 2.5 inch squares, sewed together into a block of four and added sashing in alternate light/dark cream and then finally added contrasting sashing around each block. I am very happy with the result as the whole quilt looks clean and fresh. I pieced together some wadding and used a blue and white striped cotton for the backing. Again, a close up of the quilting is below.
This is quite a small quilt and again uses a variety of the fabric 'samples' that I found in the quilting groups stash. I like the overall lattice effect and it was different enough to hold my interest as I worked out how to piece it all together. The darker outer border was some scrap fabric I found whilst clearing out my mother's house earlier in the year. The backing again is scrap fleece made from 3 pieces joined together (2 white, 1 pink). This was quite quick to do despite looking quite complicated.
This is my favourite quilt. I will be sorry to see it go as I had so much fun working it all out and using so much of my scraps from previous quilts. The gills of the fish are made from prairie points. When it came to quilting I loaded it onto my frame and decided to free motion in the form of wavy lines - that way I could leave the prairie point free by making the lines go around them. I did debate putting in 'bubbles' - but didn't feel confident enough to get them to look right as I moved my machine across the quilt. Again, another close up below.
This next quilt was fun to do. I found a lot of little sample pieces of fabric in the donations box at the quilting group so cut them into 2.5 inch squares, sewed together into a block of four and added sashing in alternate light/dark cream and then finally added contrasting sashing around each block. I am very happy with the result as the whole quilt looks clean and fresh. I pieced together some wadding and used a blue and white striped cotton for the backing. Again, a close up of the quilting is below.
