Dream Tree

 Remember this?  It has been quilted a couple months....and laying around staring at me to finish it. I finally got the binding on yesterday.

It's a monster at 100 x 104".  Scrappy seems to be my middle name these days and this is no exception.

I just basically sewed down all the fusibles and went around everything....nothing fancy.

Blocks were mainly X'd

Plain white blocks with no leaves were CC'd. 

CCs around these blocks that had ovals to sew down. This is one heavy quilt.

The back is pieced with these 3 fabrics.

My stitching is getting wobbly. Maybe after the next cataract surgery and new glasses, I will be able to see better.

But, the main thing is.....it is finished.

Glide Peach for the top and So Fine dark pink for the bobbin. 

Mary's Stars

 This is #2 of my cousin's projects that she gave me to finish for her. It is 68 x 79".  She had made 9 stars and I made the rest. If you count from the top left, going across to the right, her original 9 stars are #s 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 25.  They form an X across the quilt. I added another row to the bottom so it wouldn't be square. She had given me a bunch of red, white and blue scraps, so that is what I used. The backing she gave me dictated how large the quilt would be. 

I will take it to her in a week or two when I visit my sister.

I didn't know if I could find 21 more star patterns, but it worked out. A couple of them are paper pieced.

This was a labor of love since I really don't like making stars. haha

I tried to do the easiest patterns, with the fewest pieces, but it was a challenge as I was getting to the end.

I hope she likes it and gets a lot of use out of it.

This is the back. It says Liberty and Freedom on it....along with bells and flags.

 

I used Glide Linen on the top and So Fine light tan in the bobbin. Panto is Star Swirl

Star Splitter....it's a flimsy

 Where did that word flimsy come from?  across the pond?  Anyway, this is an unquilted top. Will it ever get quilted?  who knows.  I like it...and want to keep it....but not sure I want to quilt it. haha   perhaps it will just be for sale on eBay.  We'll see.

I found the pattern in the Mar/Apr 2013 Quiltmaker magazine. The pattern is by Victoria FIndlay Wolfe.  I had just made about a 100 scrappy blocks to sell....saw this pattern....and decided to cut them up and use them here. Here are the magazine pics.

Alternate stars and scrappy blocks....12.5" blocks....set on point...little HSTs all over the place.  I skipped the HSTs in the border....i had enough of those.

Here is my version. white on white background....gray setting triangles. white on white border.

a star block

a scrappy block. that middle is the cutoffs from other projects. I always keep them to use in the scrappies.

HSTs all around the outside.  Since most of my scraps are rather small, there are thousands of seams in this thing. haha  Even the 2.5" HSTs are scrappy pieced.

Scraps galore. And I have enough to make a dozen more quilts just like this. Just as soon as I empty a scrappy box, another one starts filling up.

It is rather large. 95 x 104". But I think it just looks so cool.

 

Storm's Bees

 A friend of mine is having a new grand daughter, so I made a quilt. The baby's room, I'm told, is decorated in honey bees. The baby's name is going to be Storm.....but I hesitated to put it on the quilt....that might change....who knows.

I saw this pattern in a Quiltmaker magazine. Except the top was a smiling sun face. I just substituted embroidered bees.

See, that embroidery machine comes in handy when you need a specific thing....like bees...and bee hives.

 

the body of the quilt was all ruler work.  the border was flowery feathery things that I do.

A few bees in the body of quilt

And a couple flowers and more bees on the bottom.

The back is a bright yellow with polka dots.

Top thread was Glide Celery; bobbin was So Fine light yellow.

Finished size is 50 x 64"

Flannel quilt...with applique flowers...and buttons

 The last time I stopped by to visit my cousin, she asked me if I would finish her projects for her. She can no longer sew. So, of course, I said I would finish her projects.  This is the first finish.

She had gone to a quilt class with her sister many years ago and made these blocks. She says she absolutely HATES applique. haha    she had the blocks put together into a top, but it was too narrow and too long. I took a row off the bottom, cut 2 more blocks from extra fabrics she gave me, and added another row to the side. Then added a border. I used every bit of fabric she gave me. I would have liked the border to be larger, but there was no more fabric, and the backing fabric she gave me JUST fit this top. 

It is 59 x 74"  Binding was cut from pieces left over.

There were some large buttons on these flowers, so I could only quilt so close to them.

I had to use my cup foot to quilt it. Flannel on top and back made for some bulky seams.

Kept it simple with Xs in the blocks and went around the flowers. And a curvy thing in the border.

Bless her heart....she took classes for quilting....and classes for sewing....yet, these blocks have selvages showing in them. haha

The back is a pretty floral.

I will deliver it to her Sunday. She says she can't wait to put it on her bed.