Quilting

First up, a finish of an RSC2020 quilt: Sand Castles by Bonnie Hunter. It’s my first BH quilt & I like how it turned out. It started out as an L&E project, then turned into a project to work on with the month’s color last year. I love the strippy border, & used a tan ombre for the binding. It looks so subtly cool that it might be my new fav binding option. This is a gift for this Christmas. (photo taken in front of our shed, on which my hubby painted a quilt block for me!)

I got an aqua & a light blue friendship star block done this week, with thanks to Deb A. for the inspiration. I’m making 2 each month.

I know, these aren’t aqua, but I got those done last week, & there’s 16 blues to do in the pattern. They are light & dark blue combined, so I’m in the light blue wheelhouse. Only red, purple, & orange blocks left for this King-size Irish Chain quilt using the tutorial from Melissa Corry. So happy to be getting these done. The middle two seams are pressed open & that takes forever, so it’s an accomplishment to see all those blocks on my design wall!

First up was to make some of my resized Cozy Stars from the Pat Sloan QAL called Cozy Things . They look very striking & I’m getting excited about how this quilt will finally come together at the end of the year.

The last of the March projects is the Nearly Lemoyne blocks by Bonnie Hunter. The first 2 columns are March green, then the 3rd column is April aqua. Since I’m using a Free Spirit scrap box for the main fabrics, there are interesting shades in there. Then I pull the contrast from my stash. They are coming along.

I also managed to get the 5 aqua blocks made for the King-size Irish Chain quilt I’m making for a Christmas gift. It uses the tutorial from Melissa Corry. Because it’s a gift that has to be done before the RSC challenge is done, I’m also making 2 & 4 patches in other colors as L&E’s, so that I can keep it going.

I’ve been busily sewing a top this week to get to the quilter. It’s for a wedding that’s come up & since it’s coming quick, that quilt popped to the top of my to-do list. Therefore, even with L&E’s going, there’s only been this green happening. There are still a few days left in the month next week to finish my other 3 sets of green blocks. Or I will do it in April. It’s all good. So…….this is the second month of “Hip to be Square”, from the book “Splash of Color” by Jackie Kunkel. This month the pattern calls for 7 green blocks & 4 half blocks for the edges & I got these darling little blocks done. Hope your green sewing is going a little faster than mine!

Last April I was inspired to start an L&E project with my pile of cut 2.5″ squares. I had fallen in love with this quilt at Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quilting. It’s an Arrowhead Puzzle block quilt & she kindly provided a link to the free block pattern. I decided to just start making some in the monthly color & someday it would be a quilt. But it went quicker than I thought & all of a sudden I had enough to sew together. I got it quilted & just got the binding sewn on, so here’s an RSC2020 finish to show off!

What I did get done this week was a green row for the zig-zag quilt from Diann at Little Penguin Quilts. I couldn’t resist taking a photo of it with January & February’s rows. I’m so in love!!!

And here are the 2 green columns for the Brickyard quilt inspired by Julie of Me and My Quilts. This is a great L&E project. I pulled the already cut gray 2.5″ squares & 2.5″x4.5″ green rectangles, made sets of 4 & put them by my machine to run through while working on that WIP. This quilt is going to be great when it’s all put together!

I worked on the Irish Chain blocks & since green is the highest number of blocks in the tutorial from Melissa Corry with 21, it took awhile to get them all sewed up. But that’s a big chunk of this king-size quilt, so I feel good about that.

I made 2 more of these friendship star blocks from Deb A. Since I’m not sure yet how I’m going to lay them out or how many I need, I’ve determined I’m going to make 2 of each color this year then see how it looks. These are great L&E blocks & turn out so cute!