Finally finished this WIP. The jelly roll is from Riley Blake & supported autism research. It was given to me by the hubster for my birthday when I first began quilting & has waited for the “perfect” project. At the beginning of my Covid isolation I decided to pull it out, just pick a pattern, scrounge up background fabric & sew it up. I finally got it quilted last fall in a cute puzzle pattern & got the binding on & hand-sewn. It’s destined to be a 2022 Christmas gift. “Twists & Turns” is from a free tutorial by Melissa Corry and is my 100th quilt.
RSC2021 flimsy done! This is the re-designed Plus quilt I did without a pattern. I had a different original idea but didn’t like how it was going halfway through the year, so unpicked a lot & put it together like this. It’s made exclusively from 2.5″ scrappy squares. It’s hung in the closet with the ever-growing pile of tops to be quilted.
And here’s what my quilting partner & I are doing in our weekly virtual quilting group: Cookie Cutter by Jaybird Quilts. Without knowing it, we both took a class for this quilt (at different quilt shops) in summer 2018. One day a few months later I mentioned something about this quilt & how I was scared to get it back out & do the cutting & sewing. Then she said she had it, too! Hilarious. We’ve been dreading it for years now & after finishing our large hexie quilt, I got it out & started looking through the instructions. I realized that in the time that’s transpired, we’ve done everything in the instructions in other quilts! So we are pounding out a color set each week & they look great. With holidays, we expect to finish sometime in January! Hers is solid, mine is prints by Tula Pink.
In other projects:
- almost done sewing rows of Hip to be Square, RSC2021
- current L&E flying geese project has progressed to blocks coming together
- one RSC2021 left to tackle: snowball corners of Cozy Stars & sew them together into a flimsy
- finish binding on black, red, & white quilt for friend’s son
- binding almost on Clear Sky
- started cutting block kits for Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter for RSC2022
- started cutting block kits for Scraps by Amy Ellis for RSC2022
- still making foundation pieced blocks for Rockabilly Swing by Bonnie Hunter
Cookie Cutter looks like it will make a fabulous quilt, and how fun to do them together. I’m working through the Farmers Wife Sampler book blocks with a “virtual” friend this year. We live in different states. She posts 2 blocks each week and we both make them. We have 80 of the 111 done as of this past week. It has been fun.
Your Plus quilt is sure pretty!
Great work! I particularly like the plus quilt with the darker background, a great idea for a masculine rainbow quilt! How nice that you are completing that put aside project with a friend, and making great progress with a little friendly competition.
Love your bright and happy jelly roll quilt and also the rainbow of plus blocks! Fun things going on in your sewing room!
Congrats on a colorful quilt finish, a fabulous RSC top, and your growth as a quilter, Sue!