Scenes from the Road of Life
Here is July's quilt for the UFO Challenge with Quilting Mayhem.
It is called Roses and Arrows after the charm pack of 42 5" squares it was made from, along with some light grey to make half square triangle blocks.
I made the bias binding from the same grey and got it sewed onto the little 32" by 40" quilt today.
It is FINISH #12 for the year!
I sewed these Charm Pack squares together yesterday to make a very small top. There was only 24 of them so I just added more 5" squares instead of making half square triangles out of them. I boldly chose a dark grey for the alternate blocks. And I boldly chose yellow thread for the densely quilted top.
Today I quilted it with an allover pantograph.
I got the Babe In The Woods charm pack sewn together for a baby quilt. This is all flannel. I don't like sewing flannel. I don't know how I came into possession of this charm pack. The top is 36" by 36".
Here's another little quilt I made from a charm pack called "Once Upon a Time".
I quilted a pantograph on it, made some binding and sewed it on and now it's finished.
Finish #8 Once Upon a Time, 32" by 40" with a white flannel backing.
This morning I finished trimming the HST blocks to 4-1/2" and put them up onto the design wall. These were made from a charm pack called Once Upon a Time with some Kona solids added to make the Half Square Triangle (HST) blocks.
After lunch I started sewing the rows together. Then I sewed the rows to each other. It is now a finished top, ready to be quilted, after I make a backing for it.
I got out a charm pack, Roses and Arrows, and picked a fabric for the other half of the half square triangles. I cut the squares and marked the sewing lines on the backs of them.
I thought it best to cut a few and see how they'd look before sewing them all together.
Good thing I did. I did not think they were a good match after all. So I took them apart and looked for a better match. I settled on a light grey, Kona Lighthouse, and started over.
I started quilting on the little quilt I made with the One Room Schoolhouse charm pack yesterday. I finished it today.
I decided to practice making curves. And I'm going to do it using a little Charm Pack I've had around for a while. It's a collection of rainbow colors in 2-1/2" squares.
I'm going to take one square at a time and make a block around it using fabrics from my scrap buckets that match, color-wise, the little square.
About half way through this first one I thought it would be cool to then cut it into a circle and then piece it into a square. Another thing I could practice.
So, here is the first one.
