This month Lindsay asked us to use this Altered Four Square tutorial from Leah Riley’s blog to make our blocks for the Hope Circle of do. Good Stitches {A Charity Bee}.
It was a pretty easy tutorial, and I used some of the Amelia fat eighths I won to make my blocks.
I have a new commissioned quilt in the works! This will be similar in idea to my first commissioned quilt. The little boy’s name is Brayden and look at the cute clothes I get to work with!
I’ve also made a gathered clutch using Anna’s tutorial…I’m addicted to these little bags! This one is for my mother-in-law Carole. I used fabrics from her stash since she’s a quilter also!
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m in the Hope Circle of do. Good Stitches {A Charity Bee}. This month Natalie at Threaded Mess requested 2 blocks using Joseph’s Square in a Square Block designed by Anna Maria Horner. With the help of my mother-in-law Carole (also a quilter!), I mailed off these 5 blocks to Natalie today.
Natalie recently started the Rainbow I Spy Block Drive to collect blocks using this same pattern. She will use all the blocks she receives to make quilts which will be donated to the Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children NICU. So if you have any cute novelty fabric and some free time, send her some blocks – or even one! You’ll find her address and all the details here.
The fabric on the cup area is High Society – Victoria by Anthology Fabrics. The bottom is some random fabric I’ve had forever, and I made the bias tape out of some pink satin-y looking fabric my grandmother gave me a while back. I also lined the cups with this pink fabric.
I finished another block from the Summer Sampler Series, so here are the 10 blocks together – 2 more to go!
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| Mosaic |
I finished 3 more blocks from the Summer Sampler Series, so here are the 9 blocks together – 3 more to go!
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| Lucky Pieces |
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| Flower Garden Path |
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| Kansas Dust Storm |
I am way behind on the Double Wedding Ring Quilt Along hosted by Kaelin at The Plaid Scottie, but I do have some arcs completed.
I also have two bags to show you. The black and red one is for my UGA alum husband, who drives a red car with black racing stripes, and the blue one is for my mom (part of her birthday present). I used this tutorial for the blue bag.
The other part of my mom’s birthday present is a quilted version of her company’s logo, to be framed and hung in her office.
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| Company logo |
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Yay! I won a fat eighth bundle of Amelia by Me and My Sister Designs!
To enter the giveaway on their blog, I had to tell a “big fat lie” about myself, so I did just that and said “I really hope I don’t win this giveaway!” Aren’t these fabrics beautiful?
For WIP Wednesday, I have 6 blocks from the Summer Sampler Series quilt along to show:
Click “keep reading” below for close ups of the individual blocks!
Remember what I told you about our Labrador Dixie? I snapped this picture today as I was finishing my 6th block.
I’m in the Hope circle of do. Good Stitches (no, that’s not a typo) which benefits Threading Hope.
For July, Hollie asked for a single strip measuring 48″ by 6.5″ that uses red as the main color. Here’s my submission:
Dixie and her quilt, a photo by JustSewY’allKnow on Flickr.
I finally finished quilting and binding the little quilt I made for my 2 year old chocolate Lab Dixie! She’s giving me her best “would you stop taking pictures so I can go back to sleep?” look.
Here’s a shot of the front:
The pieced back:
For the quilting I did wavy lines through the brown strips using brown thread, then wavy lines through the middle of the pieced sections with variegated orange thread, to bring in the orange binding.
I’m entering this quilt in the Pets on Quilts Show!