Pumpkins Gone Wild

I'm in the 'finish 'em up' mode....so i finished piecing this top.

The Jelly Roll is called Pumpkins Gone Wild...designer is Sandy Gervais.

My top came out 50 x 66".  I had a few strips left....so it might get a strip border at some point.... who knows.

I got the idea from Debi on MQR, who showed one like it on October 11, 2018.

I cut the inserts 10.5" and cut the jelly roll strips starting at 4"....and went to 20" with a 2" increase on every cut ....then back and forth.

It was fun and fast .... the perfect top in my book.

Funky Fish

The last time  i went to a quilting vendor show, i bought an embroidery CD from a lady called Funky Fish. it was just too cute to pass up. and she was selling it for $15. 

The background is flannel....as are the sashings and border.

The sashing fish came from the same fabric. i could cut the pink/orange fish for the horizontal sashings and the blue/green fish for the vertical. i like that.

These two are my favorites. i think he might be the guy that is mentioned a lot by the lady fish in the Me Too movement. hahahaha

And I believe you would find this one on the street corner.

They are all so adorable. Most of them have some applique. The top is 45 x 53.

Purple Selvage Quilt for Mary

My cousin, Mary, was in the studio a couple weeks ago while I was piecing these blocks together....and I know she likes purple. she was admiring it, so I decided to gift it to her. I finished the binding on it today and it will go to her tomorrow. It's just under 90" square.

It is so hard to come up with a new pattern for these blocks. i finally decided to make a huge 4 patch ....with 4 patches. haha   it wasn't quite large enough, so i made a scrappy border. That used up just about all of my purple fabrics and purple selvages. I was determined to use all those purple selvages, so i just kept making blocks until i ran out. Even the binding was scrappy bits...in fact, i had to piece a part of the binding to have it wide enough.

There was not enough of the same purple fabric for the sashings, so they got scrappy, too.

I just happened to have a piece of muslin that was just about the right size. There were a few blocks left over, so they increased the length of the muslin and I was good to go.

The panto is called Contour. that is a pretty dense panto and took a few days to finish this. i had to talk myself into quilting on it after the first row. haha  I told myself I had to quilt 2 rows before I could turn that embroidery machine on. 

Top thread was Glide Orchid; bobbin was Bottom Line Statue.

Tomorrow, when Mary gets this, I'll be her favorite cousin. hahahaha

Reflecting Pools

Another scrappy one....this one using up some blues. i need to put a camera in my studio....no matter how much i use up, nothing seems to go away. the piles don't get noticeably smaller. someone is sneaking in and adding fabrics.

This pattern is by Bev Getschel and was in the Sept/Oct issue of McCalls Quilting magazine. see those little stickies at the top of the magazine....there are 3 more quilts in this issue that i want to make. usually, i'm happy to find 1 pattern that i like in a magazine. this was a bonanza.

It is about 72" square. Bev made strip sets, but i hardly ever have enough fabrics to do that. i'm pulling bits and pieces of scraps....usually under a FQ. So, I just count up how many strips I need and start cutting. haha

strips inside the white bordered blocks are cut 6 1/2 x 2 1/2

Strips in the other blocks are cut 9 1/2 x 2 1/2. it was just a matter of sewing all those strips together.

Mrs. Bobbins

If you are a quilter, you probably know of Mrs. Bobbins. I found a panel a couple weeks ago and couldn't resist. She has those bright green glasses, so i had to use some green selvages.

Here's a closer look

And some of my favorite cartoons.

This one cracks me up

Now it will await its turn for quilting.

Strip Blocks with Maroon Borders

A good start to November....I finished piecing something. haha  I've been working on these blocks for several weeks and now they are a quilt top.

It's about 80x98.  Blocks are 8" finished.

I alternated 2 different blocks. One has a border...

One does not.

I set the bordered blocks vertically and the plain blocks horizontally. I was using 1 1/2" strips. I had a whole box of them and there are still plenty left. some are cut crooked and some are fatter than others....but average 1 1/2"

Now it will marinate in the to-be-quilted cabinet for a bit until it gets quilted. would be nice to get a lot more finished this month....we'll see.

UFO Challenges for October

Another month has come and gone....and here it is November already. I'm not ready....it's all too fast. October was pretty much a wash for me challenge wise. I didn't do too well.

I did get the quilt finished....Baltimore Brides quilt. the background is black flannel...it's pretty but every little thread sticks to it.

I did get a few more things quilted...

Barb's Birds

A spider pillow top for my cousin

And Welcome to the North Pole. this one has lots of embellishments...that took me forever to finish.

My piecing project was the purple selvages. I did get it pieced and it is on the frame to be quilted. i only have an in progress pic at this point.

And i have the Pumpkins Gone Wild about 3/4 finished.

On the embroidery challenge, the Hola Mola blocks are still being worked on...

The lighthouse blocks got taken off the display wall and put back in a box for another time.

I did get a new CD called Funky Fish and made all 20 blocks. here are some of them. only the blocks are made so far.....on flannel background. i want some kind of water or fish fabric for the sashings and border.

I have been doing a lot of yard work....still....cleaning out brush and sticker bushes....and cleaning around dead trees so they can be taken down. right now we are on our 3rd day of rain, with a couple more days to go, so no yard work is getting done, either.

Hopefully, November will be better.