July Monthly Mini

 

I borrowed this idea from many others who have done this. Scene within  a square of toile, framed with scraps. Lightly quilted. See more on Wendy’s blog, here. 

Meanwhile I finished piecing the center of my BIL’s Quilt of Valor. 

Far from perfect, but at least I managed to not cut off any of my star points. Next round, two rows of 3” blue and light nine-patches, with alternating light blocks. Fun! 

All for now,

Sandy

 

a day late

In my apparent state of (ambivalence? dimentia?) I forgot to hang my Flag Quilt yesterday.

 I took care of that this morning.

 Meanwhile, while I'm here, I thought I'd try to share with you something I came across this morning while surfing around on Pinterest.  Like many of you, I was and am still a great fan of Sue Garman, and was stunned and distressed when she passed away several years ago. I continued to follow her blog when her girls took over, a brave and challenging thing to do. What footsteps to follow! 

I always think of Sue Garman as the creator of beautiful exquisitely detailed quilts that are painstakingly planned and perfectly constructed. But the following post shows her love of scrappy quilts and off-beat quirky quilts, the type that have come into popularity more recently. And I love her take on this! I don't remember seeing this post before. Click on the link and enjoy! http://suegarman.blogspot.com/2012/11/

Also, I just realized that "Come Quilt" is another blog I lost when I inadvertently deleted my blog list a few years ago. I'm still working on finding the missing blogs. It helps to peruse the lists of others, but I'm still missing a lot. 

Here's something new. Yesterday I discovered I can no longer view more than the most recent ten blog posts on my list. The thing at the end that says "show all" ? Its not working. Not on my ipad, nor on my computer. I have gone into my settings, and the maximum blog posts it allows to be shown is ten. Can't be changed, apparently . So if I don't check my list at least once or twice a day, I may miss your post entirely. Extremely annoying. Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas how to solve it?

Sandy

 

June Mini

Happy Fourth of July, everyone!

Obviously, I'm a little late with my June Montly Mini. 

After my vacation, which was immediately followed by guests in my sewing room, I was so itching to sew something I actually started three little quilts at once. Two planned, and one that "just happened". I got the binding stitched down on the first one a couple nights ago (more on the other two next time) but my husband was monopolizing the computer, so I failed to post. I did try to do it on my ipad, but things weren't working out too well there, so it had to wait another day. 

Without further ado, here's my finished mini for June:

The yellows and the green are from Sheryl Johnson's Veridians and Ambers. The double pink I found in my stash.

The back is an old classic from my stash. All hand quilted, as you can see. I haven't washed this yet, as I'm enjoying a "smooth" look for now. I will try to tag on another picture once its properly crinkled up.

The inspiration is an antique doll quilt, which I found on Pinterest.

I actually have a tiny bit of the that green, which I gleaned from a cutter top a few years ago. Look closely and you can see that the maker turned it over to the "wrong" side for the binding. They look like two different fabrics, both usable as "right" if you know what I mean. I may have one or two 1 1/2' squares left of it. Oh how I wish I had just a teeny scrap more! (or a whole bolt) 

Before I forget, here's the link to The Constant Quilter (Wendy's blog) for more Montly Minis. Check it out! 

Meanwhile, I finally put the finishing touches on my Pandemic Quilt, which as you may recall was a virtual round robin with my "beach" group (so named because for the past several years - up until Covid - we rented a beach house for our annual quilt retreat.) 

I'm calling this my Moda Medallion because most of the fabrics came out of my Moda bin - which of course are not necessarily all Moda, but whatever. Years ago I would have custom quilted this by hand, as that would be the most fitting, IMO. However, these days my hand quilting is restricted to small projects such as doll quilts. This will go to a long-arm quilter - I'm thinking an overall small stipple - then will be donated to charity.

Next up are finishing up a few quilts for the VA, and then I want to get started on a Quilt of Valor for my brother in law, who served (and was injured) in Vietnam. Maybe I'll make a few stars this evening, just to celebrate the day!

love,

Sandy