RAINCLOUDS AND PUDDLES

I decided to cut up green, blue, aqua and purple scraps into 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 inch squares. I wanted to make a scrap quilt out of these with a low volume background. I didn't know what it was going to be when it grew up. I put random color 1.5 squares together into 4 patches. I didn't like the mixed colors. I then just kept the colors the same in the 4 patches.

I made a lot of double 4 patches. I love them on point and thought it looked like rain.

It evolved as I sewed. The ideas just kept coming.

I got tired of making all of those tiny 4 patches so I made some larger ones using one color. They were going faster and I was running out of the larger low volumes anyway.

I clustered the larger 4 patches at the bottom and thought it looked like puddles. So then it evolved into gray clouds at the top. I decided to use the larger 4 patches on the sides too. 

I had an ombre fabric that went from light aqua to navy and used it for my setting triangles.

I would change it up next time and make it wider. I used the ombre as my binding also.

I think the quilting design is Pearls of Desire by Anne Bright

Here's this back.

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Charity quilts that I quilted and bound

Somebody donated a large amount of quilt tops to our Loose Threads circle. I quilted 2 of them in February. 

These 2 are larger than what we usually make. We donate these to St. Jude's Ranch.

This is a stack of 4 quilts that I quilted and bound for our Loose Threads group. I quilted all of these over the last week. I scrounged up some binding for them as well.

snail design  I thought this looked like fire hoses stacked and rolled.

I put fire trucks in the upper border area.

This is a sweet quilt make from a book panel. I quilted it with champagne bubbles.

I quilted this one with a meandering paws design.

I had to make this back larger so I added some squares to one side.

Dragon flies and frogs.

Heart quilt

I made this quilt from a kit from Blueprint. It used charm squares. I used an orange peel for the background and prism for the heart blocks.

I bought the backing for the kit as well. Everything was on clearance price.

I used a light gray thread to quilt it.

Ta Da!

New Year's Day Mystery 2020

On New Year's Eve I got an email from Kris of Scrapdash. She was going to host a Mystery quilt on New Year's Day. She was giving a clue every hour from 10am to 3pm.  She gave us the fabric requirements on New Year's Eve.  I read the first clue wrong and made my 16 patch too small.

I was just too lazy to gather fabrics up so I just waited until New Year's Day and grabbed fabrics from the most recent scrap piles. I had a lot left over from my At the Seashore quilt. I remade the 16 patch here. I'm trying out green stripes for the inner border here.

I went with the green and white stripe and mitered the border. That was part of the instructions. I'm trying out another outer border here.

I was going to use this daisy as my outer border because it would pull it together with the daisy strip and pinwheels. 

I ended up with this crackle instead for the outer border. It is the same as the arrows. It is less busy.

I quilted it with a rolling hills type of design. Very simple and fast.

Here is the back. The strip piece was supposed to be used for a hanging sleeve according to the directions. I am giving it to charity so it didn't need a hanging sleeve. I just incorporated it into the back. This is where the daisy fabric ended up.

Green binding.

I'm no good at those real nice folded quilt shots showing the binding all pretty.

Christmas panels of 2019

I quilted a cardinal design on this quilt.

This was an adorable panel with puppies. I gifted it to my niece.

I bound it in black. Didn't get a photo.

This panel was from a few years ago at Joann's. I didn't get a photo of the finish.

This one turned out nice but I didn't get a finish picture either. I was so busy sewing that I neglected my photography.

Alligator Charity quilt

I made this Charity quilt in November for my Loose Threads Circle. 

It need something else so I put this dragonfly on it. I had this background fabric in my stash for 15 years or so.

The back is parts of other quilt backings. One is flannel one isn't. It all works.

I used a water meander quilting design. 

Oh Look-I used up a bunch of leftover bindings from my leftover binding drawer. The drawer was getting full.

Horse panel quilt

I bought this horse panel at Joanne's on Sunday. I came home and started auditioning border fabrics to make it bigger. The first 5 pictures of this post.

I bought this white with berries for the back and thought I could do the border as well but it was too dull.

I liked the red a lot but I didn't have very much of it. The black print was a clash.

I though this one just popped. Winner winner -Chicken dinner.

It is quilted with computer and free motion here and there.

I free motion quilted the mane.

The face and body is a wavy hair computer design.

Enhance the bow with a little red and black thread.

The back.

I put some wood grain detail in with just straight lines with black thread.

Before quilting.

After quilting. Approximately 53 x 62 inches.