These are the two Patchwork Hearts from Quilty Love that I need for this year’s version. Only aqua & gray left to make! The star is my Angela’s 2015 Sawtooth Star with a Swamp Angel Star in the center. Hooray for getting some purple scrap sewing. Next week I’ll make my 5 Moda Blockheads for the month & I’ll be done with July’s purple sewing. So great to be on track.
A couple years ago, one of my quilting partners had 4 charm packs that she no longer loved. I told her to give them to me & I would turn them into donation quilts. I remembered that the majority of each pack was purple, so got them out for purple July & whipped up this lap version of the free pattern, Wrap Around, from abrightcorner.com. I had that purple grunge for the centers & it all came together great. It’s the start of a new pile for Many Hands and Many Hearts.
Then I was left with the blue & yellow portions of the charm packs & decided a simple patchwork was all that was needed for a cute donation baby quilt. This one will be quilted by one of my quilting partners & then sent to MH & MH because I have backing for it.
Yes, these all came from the same 4 identical packs. And yes, they seem completely different & would you put them all in the same quilt? I said no, hence the two different quilts.
Sometimes you have to do mindless grunt work to make good things happen, right? So I sewed & trimmed a bunch of scraps into 2″ HSTs for my Ocean Waves L&E project, which now has three completed rows. As you can see, I haven’t had the urge to press them yet, but next week, I will. 🙂 At least it’s done, along with sewing the binding to another quilt so it’s ready for evening hand-binding.
The purple quilt top is a beauty! I really like those blocks – thanks for linking to the pattern. You’re so right – sometimes charm pack squares just don’t all go together!
You had a very productive week. I love the Sawtooth Star with a Swamp Angel block in the middle. Looks like a fun block to make in a rainbow of colors.
I know! I’m making them each month with a different center as she designed the QAL that year, but every month I think, that would be cute in all the colors! Maybe there are more in my future….
Ohhh I love that purple – the heart blocks are beautiful – the one under it – WOWZERS!!!
Nice job on working through the charm packs. No way would I put all those charms in one quilt either. Would’ve been a strange combination, for sure. That is a beautiful Sawtooth Star.