Rectangular Log Cabin

I got another one pieced today. It is called Rectangular Log Cabin by BonJour Quilts.

I used up a lot of whites and blacks.

Here is a close up

Kirsti's pattern actually had another round on it, but i decided to stop here. It's a good couch size.

There are a lot of tops being pieced here but practically nothing is being quilted. haha 

Patriotic ABC

I found these blocks online at embroidery.com and absolutely love them. The quilt top turned out smaller than I thought it would....but it is still awesome.  I hope to quilt it soon and hang it in my house.

Here are a few close ups....

I love the United States block

I think Yankee Doodle is pretty cool, too.

Scrabble

I have had the embroidery CD to make scrabble tiles for years. I had started to make one....and it sat for years....undone.

Finally I got it out....changed it around....embroidered all the letters....and got it together.

Here it is..

Here are some close ups.....

I hope to quilt it soon and hang it in my studio. I am a scrabble fanatic....I play every day.  I should have finished this long ago. haha

Also, on that same CD....I found some alphabet squares.....A is for ....   etc.   I am working on those now. Today I did S is for squirrel....H is for hippo....R is for rabbit....and T is for turtle.

Toys

June finally got here....and the color is white for the color challenge from Judy.

I have about as much white selvages as I had of the blue. It's going to be a busy month again.

So far, I made some blocks with toys in the middle and put selvages around them. I am using mainly the white selvages but throwing in a bit of color here and there.

Here is what they look like.  There are about 7 of each.

Bear...

Blocks...

Duck...

Jack in the Box...

Bunny...

Rocking Horse...

Roly Poly...

Train...

I have a few more of them to make then I can piece the top. Should be done in a day or two.

Then on to the second white project.

Blue May Challenge report

This was indeed the craziest month of blue. I used TONS of blue....all the selvages are gone....and most of the bits and pieces of scraps are gone. I still have a shoebox size box of blue scraps but they are going to have to wait for another project. The tops I pieced this month are.....

Blue Madness I....

Blue Madness II....

Blue Madness III...

Blue Madness IV...

Blue 4 Patches...

Blues Moon.....  with St Louis Blues fabric

Double Boxed Squares...

Flannel  Boxed Squares...

I counted up the blue blocks I made this month for all these tops....950 blocks.  That might be a record for me. haha

I also did some embroidery. I got all the animals embroidered on these strips so I can create a top with them one day.

And, I embroidered a lot of blocks of the Patriotic ABC series. I am more than half finished with these. Here are some of them.

I did manage to quilt one top this month. It is Balloon Animals II....and it has gone to live with a little girl I know.

And I started this little project with wool ovals that I found at a thrift store. I am embroidering oak leaves in the middle of each one with variegated red/orange/yellow thread and sewing it onto a brown fabric background and sashing them with red, orange and yellow leaf fabric. So far, these 4 are finished. I have embroidered 8 more ovals but need to sew them down. It will be a slow project over several months....to amuse me between other projects. haha

Have you made any altered books? This is another project that I have wanted to try for years. I went to a couple thrift stores and found a few books to practice on. It will also be a long term project.

And, also....Blue Madness IV.....hahaha

I made more blue blocks and discovered I had enough to make Blue Madness IV. never had 4 madness quilts in one month....a first. And, actually, I still have a shoebox size box of blue scraps left. But, I am done with blue for a while. It was truly a madness month.

It's a larger one also....10x13 blocks....60x78". I decided to make a pattern of sorts with the HSTs and the 4 patches in this one.

The HSTs are going the same way in each line of them....the flowered fabric is always on the bottom.

The 4 patches with the dark squares followed the HSTs on the bottom

The 4 patches continued along the HSTs at the top, but there are no dark squares so they don't show as much...but they are there....oriented in the same direction as those on the bottom.

I put a little piece of the St Louis Blue fabric....from the Blues Moon quilt top....in here, too.

I had 3 blocks left over. They will go in the box with the other multi-colored blocks and will wind up in a quilt someday.

This is my 'pattern'. I just drew out how many blocks I wanted to use....counted the HST blocks and the 4 patches and put them in my drawing so as to use them all and make some sort of design. My coding was to tell me which block went where. Primitive....but it works for me.

Now, I am done with blue for the month. I am going to catch up on a couple of things that got kicked to the curb before white starts for June tomorrow.

Guess What????

There is a Blue Madness III.  And it is actually a bit larger than the other two. it is 10x13 blocks. Usually I do 10x12 but I had made a few extra and forgot they were in the pile. Turned out it was 10 extra, so it got an extra row.

There are several different styles in here....4 patches....crumb blocks.....strip blocks.

I keep thinking I am at the end of the blues, but not yet....but i can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I had a bunch of 3" wide pieces and i sewed them all together and put strips on the side to make them the correct size.

A 4 patch....and a strip block...

A smaller 4 patch...

I have actually used up a couple spools of thread this month, too.  and my fingers are sore. haha

But, got 2 more days to sew up blue things.