Something Old, Something New

An old project finally finished! This top has been finished since January 2017, but this month I finally quilted it and finished the binding this week. The blocks were made month-by-month in the 2016 Block Lotto, a fun group I have participated in from time to time. It was a great project to use lots of scraps, and I really loved making the chickens and chicks.

I found a perfect chicken backing fabric to finish it off!

A new project (using old fabric). I decided to use up my small pile of Halloween fabrics using Happy Blocks. These blocks are terrific for novelty prints and leftover strips. My kids loved when I made Halloween themed place mats and pillow cases when they were little, but now they are teens and I haven't touched these fabrics in years. Time to clear them out. I'm sure our comfort quilt team will find a kid who loves Halloween to snuggle with this quilt. I pieced the remaining Halloween fabrics for a scrappy back, and I just need to finish the binding for our September guild meeting.

Linking up with Cynthia's Oh Scrap where there are always many wonderful scrappy projects!

Sewing From Stash

I've had lots of sewing time this summer and I continue to try and sew from my stash. After a series of graduation quilts this spring, this summer I'm sewing this and that, mostly for charity. The lid on my batik bin would not close, so I made this quilt inspired by the Bermuda Sunrise pattern. I made my blocks 12", adding half blocks along the sides for a rectangular quilt. Our guild gives quilts to new Habitat for Humanity homeowners, this is a nice gender neutral quilt for that program. The lid on the bin closes now, but I'm sure I could make several more quilts from it.

This orphan block quilt started with the four house blocks in the middle. When I helped our guild's comfort quilt team sort through some donations, these blocks came home with me. This and that from other projects easily filled the other rows.

When I was making the orphan block quilt, I added a row of scrappy blue rails across the top. Looking at my bulging blue scrap bag, I decided to try to empty the bag. Usually an impossible task for me! After making 108 six inch blocks, the bag is very close to empty and I like the look of this scrappy top. Of course, as I look around my sewing room I have found more blue scraps to start refilling the bag.

I continue to be inspired by so many scrappy project shared by others, hope I give someone else a few ideas. Linking up to Oh Scrap where there are always great ideas to try!

Graduation Quilts

I have not done much blogging, but I have done a lot of sewing and quilting. My daughter graduated from HS this year, and I made graduation quilts for 10 of her friends. It was a fun year-long project, with my daughter providing lots of input and suggestions about what each of her friends would like. I used lots of stash fabric, but also added some specific fabrics, like science fabric for the pre-med friend and word fabric for the future journalist. I hope they are enjoyed in their respective college dorm rooms across the country!