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I've been enjoying playing with my solid scraps the last few weeks.
This quilt was a fun exercise that used up the scraps from last summer's Lucky Strike quilt.
I love the soft look of this beachy color palette my daughter-in-law pulled together from my stash.
It was fun to piece and equally fun to quilt. I can see a lot more hand quilting in my future, I have missed it these last few years.
Finished measurements 21'' by 22.5''.
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I have been plugging along on my projects here between our family summer activities. This binding on this little quilt is almost finished and I've started quilting the liberated log cabin that I made a couple of weeks ago. I'm approaching the quilting in an improvisational manner making it up as I go. The quilting on both of these little quilts has been done while my husband reads chapters of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to us. It has been heavenly. My boys were just the right age when the books first came out and had to wait for each book until it was released. We read each of them as a family one chapter a day and savored that time. I thought we were teaching some good life lessons there. You only get to read them for the first time once. Two years ago we started the series with miss P. one book each summer starting on Harry's birthday. It is a slow pace for some but just right for us and faster than the boys made it through them. I think enough time may have passed that it isn't on everyone's mind and so far she hasn't heard spoilers from her friends. So far so good.
Yesterday I was a bit under the weather and spent the afternoon on our back porch couch with this quilt. I love the quilt but being feverish I really wanted to snuggle under it and thought it needed to be about eight inches longer. So, today, I started another log cabin that I hope will end up a little bigger than the postage stamp quilt I used yesterday.
I'm working with my blue scraps with a touch of gold. I like it so far but dang, these pieces are big! I'm hoping for a quickish finish so I'm pushing through.
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We are back from a week up north. We were completely "unplugged" with no electricity, internet, phones etc.
Drummond Island is definitely a place I'd like visit again.
It was so peaceful.
I am having a hard time getting back in the swing of things this week. I think I need more time up north.
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Thank you all for sharing your Splederette stories. I enjoyed reading them all so much I decided to give away FIVE copies of my Atomic Pinwheels pattern!!!
The lucky winners are:
Carola
Sue Winerbotyom
Judie Harrom
Sherryl Wynne
Anita Jackson
Congratulations!
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I had fun making this little liberated log cabin quilt this week. I always struggle with the quilting ideas on small scale patchwork like this. I like the look of the hand quilting because it is not a solid line of thread over the top, but these pieces are small with a lot of seams. What to do, what to do?
I may try a simple channel or grid quilting with a very fine thread.
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Are you participating in The Splendid Sampler quilt along? This week marks the half way point.
I was going along zippety zip with these blocks. I was having such fun keeping up and trying all of the different techniques and styles presented by the different designers. Then, that end of school madness set it, and then I went to summer music camp with my daughter, my son got married and my other son and his wife had a baby. Whew, things have been crazy busy here this summer.
Luckily, I read Pat's article on The Splendid Way to Do Things. I know that there is no such thing as being "behind" on this sew along. I've been saving all the patterns and they are ready and waiting for me when I'm to continue.
Even though I don't have the first 50 blocks made yet - or anywhere close, I'm celebrating!! This has been such a fun adventure and I've met a lot of new quilters over in The Splendid Sampler facebook group and through the #thesplendidsampler hashtag on instagram.
In celebration, I'm offering a digital copy of my Atomic Pinwheels quilt pattern. To enter, leave a comment on this post. Let me know how you are doing - are you participating in the sew along? is it not your thing? are you being picky about which blocks you make? do you eagerly await the next pattern every Sunday and Thursday? do you have a favorite block that you have made? I'll announce a winner on Aug 10.
Hop over to The Splendid Sampler page for a list of other Splendid Sampler Designers who are celebrating this week. Some of them may be offering a free pattern or give away so be sure to visit all of the designers.
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Last year after making the quilt for the wedding photographer, I saved the scraps together in a bag. I really liked the colors in that quilt and wanted to make another project with the same palette. I cleared off my design wall so that I could focus a little better.
I started sewing pieces together and had quickly sewn five strips of liberated triangles. I added sashing between them and voila, a quick little quilt top.
I'm hand quilting this one and am enjoying the cooler temperatures stitching on it outside this week.
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