Last Minute Finishes

Our guild meets tomorrow and I successfully finished up a few more things ...

The scrappy rail top I made earlier this summer is now quilted, bound and ready for the comfort quilt team.

My addiction to happy blocks continues, this quilt is finished for comfort quilts. I love the bright colors and seeing fabrics that have been hidden away in my stash included in a quilt at last. I have enough centers and borders cut to make two more when I'm so inspired.

This little wall hanging (19" x 25") was made with a photo I took, printed on a fat quarter at Spoonflower, and then cut into an attic window setting. I have seen panels done this way, but I like the intimate look of a smaller photo. I have four more printed photos in my sewing room to try soon. This wall hanging is destined for a charity auction.

My work-in-progress is a double square star quilt (instructions found at Missouri Star Quilt Company) destined for Quilts of Valor. I like it's scrappy look so far, but it didn't make much of a dent in my red fabrics.

Check out Oh Scrap this week for lots of inspiration!

Fat Quarter Creations

Our guild has a very active comfort quilt program, and I was the chairwoman for 4 years. We provide kits to members which include fabric, batting and an easy pattern. Now that two other ladies are chairing the committee, I am the "comfort quilt consultant" and stop by to check out the (huge) fabric stash, suggest pattern ideas and make samples.

We receive many yards of donated fabrics and try to find patterns that work with the fabrics we receive. The fat quarter bins are overflowing, so I set out to find some easy, free fat quarter patterns. I started with 2 different sets of 12 fat quarters. This first quilt is the small lap-quilt size Fat Quarter Fizz from the Fat Quarter Shop website.

I quilted loops in the rectangles and funky flowers in the squares.

I used up the remaining fat quarters and some extra fabrics from my stash for the backing. I cut one binding strip from each fat quarter as I cut the primary pieces. The only downside of this pattern for our purposes is the size: it is 48 inches wide, so the backing must be pieced. We try to make most of our kit quilts 38-40" wide so the backing can be a single piece of fabric.

With my next set of 12 fat quarters, I made this triple square quilt. I found inspiration and instructions here, but I modified it slightly. My center squares are cut 5", the first border is cut 2.5" and the second border is cut 3". This gave me 13" finished blocks, and I could cut a binding strip from each fat quarter as well. Overall size 39" x 52", no piecing required for the backing.

Even though piecing the backing was not required, I found several flannel pieces to combine for a cozy scrappy back.

One other fun comfort quilt completion was this Hoffman Supernova panel. Adding stars in the border gave it a perfect finish!

Linking up with Moving it Forward where I always find lots of great inspiration!