Baby Quilt #13

Linking with Michelle - - - 

This baby quilt is made from the pattern - Friendship - by Ursula Reikes in her book "Even More Quilts For Baby".

It is one of the smallest baby quilts I have made so far - finishes at only 33 inches square. I would have made it larger but didn't have enough of the purple fabric to make another row.

Stash Report #9

I needed to get ahead on making my baby quilts - here are #s 9,10,11 and 12...read about them here....

I decided to finish a UFO and picked out these 63 7 inch blocks - only used 60.

The center of the blocks are left over bits from a backing. Using the lime and blue colors from the fabric I framed the squares. They sat for years in a drawer, can't even remember how long they have been waiting or which quilt this fabric was the backing for.

Couldn't find a pattern that used 7 inch blocks so  I decided to use 1/2 square triangles and came up with this quilt. The more I look at it the more I like it. I am keeping this one, it is the perfect size for our air bed.  I used a dark blue tone on tone for the binding.

The blue has white dots. I calculated wrong and I was 1/2 yard short of the light fabric for the triangles and found three yards of it on ebay and only $5 a yard.

Tula Pink's blocks for this week  - - - - so glad I was able to purchase a bunch of scraps to make these blocks with. A lot of the fabrics that I received aren't one I would have normally purchased. Combining the scraps with some of my fabrics is going to make a very interesting quilt. 

I have decided not to participate in Judy's block challenge and in Angela's rainbow scrap challenge, they just aren't working for me at this time. Maybe I am not a joiner. I like to do things at my own pace and in my own time frame. 

There are some really fun quilt alongs in blogland that I think would be fun quilts to make. I just bookmark them and maybe someday they will get made. 

Linking with Judy's stash reports...

Added this week - 3 yard

Added YTD - 18.12 yards

Used this week - 24.73 yards

Used YTD - 178.02 yards

Net Used - 159.90 yards 

fabric not counted until quilt is 100% finished

Quilts finished in 2014 - 24

UFO - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

QOV - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

RMH - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

Baby Quilts - 12 of 52 quilts 

Fat Quarter Shop - 4 out of 24 blocks 

Tula Pink - 89 of 120 blocks - making 20 additional blocks

Baby Quilts 9,10,11 and 12

Some time in May we will be moving (if the weather warms up so the house can be built) and I won't be able to make baby quilts for a few weeks so I thought now was a good time to make a few extra.

Baby Quilts #9 and #10
 I had  these two panels and I just put a border on them.

Gotta love a stripe binding.

#11
The pattern for this quilt came from Moda's Bake Shop...great directions.

It is a cute quilt - the red isn't as bright as the picture shows it. The background fabric is a tiny blue and yellow plaid.

#12

This baby quilt is made from a tutorial from MSQC and can be found here...

I really like the orange binding. This is the 2nd quilt I made from this pattern. The first can be found here...

I have been piecing leftover batting pieces together to use in the baby quilts.

Linking up with Michelle's Let's Make Baby Quilts...

Stash Report #8

For the past year or so I have been having trouble when it comes to my color/fabric choices. I do not know what has caused me to have so many doubts. Any ideas? I struggle for hours and hours trying this fabric and that fabric...sure is frustrating, plus it makes a huge mess!

I love the colors in this week's baby quilt - they look great - probably because I used the same colors as the picture in the magazine and didn't have the stress from picking them out myself.

Read more about this week's baby quilt here...

More Tula Pink blocks ~ so fun...

Might put a different border around the pink swan, maybe a lighter pink.

I bought one yard of pale yellow to make my friend's birthday quilt. Pattern is "Cloud 9" by Villa Rosa Designs.

The next quilt I used the same pattern, I just reversed the solids and prints in the second quilt.
Karen (check out her blog) has a quilt ministry and I am sending this quilt to her.  Some of the colors are washed out in the picture. 54x70

This quilt was cut out and pieced in abt 3-4 hours, so quick and looks so much better in person, honestly. The print (same as the baby quilt's border) is small blue, green and purple tiny squares and I used 4 solids of each color in different shades. No yellows or pinks.

No progress on the house, still waiting for warm nights and no rain in the forecast so they can pour the basement floor - maybe this week things will warm up.

I was sent some fat quarters as a thank you. The fabric in these fat quarters are so very thin that I doubt I will use them in my quilts. I will probably just donate them to the Veterans thrift store. I am not going to count them in to my stash.

On a personal note ~~~~ I had a "poor me" pity party. Spent most of one day in bed, sobbing - quietly crying is a better description. I think what brought it on was dealing with my mother's doctors, trying to decide which supplement medicare policy to purchase, having to be totally responsible for another person (almost three years since she lost her vision), being home bound for who knows how much longer ( just knowing that I can't get up and go when I want), missing out on some of the grandgirls activities.  So glad it only lasted a day! Spending the day feeling sorry for myself didn't change anything, didn't make me feel any better, just wasted the whole day.

My sister is having 3 surgeries this year and is unable to help, plus she lives in Colorado. I do have a couple of reliable sitters we use from time to time, have to plan ahead with them - they aren't as spontaneous as I am.

One melt down in three years isn't too bad.  I truly don't know what I would do if I didn't have quilting to keep me occupied. It literally keeps me sane.

Linking up with Judy's stash reports...

Added this week - 1 yard

Added YTD - 15.12 yards

Used this week - 20.98 yards

Used YTD - 153.29 yards

Net Used - 138.17 yards 

fabric not counted until quilt is 100% finished

Quilts finished in 2014 - 19

UFO - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

QOV - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

RMH - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

Baby Quilts - 8 of 52 quilts 

Rainbow (Angela)/Block (Judy) Challenge - 1 out of 12 months 

Fat Quarter Shop - 4 out of 24 blocks 

Tula Pink - 85 of 120 blocks - making 20 additional blocks

Baby Quilt #8

The pattern for this week's baby quilt came from the current issue of - Best Modern Quilts - page 64 and is named Metro. It is a table runner, but I thought it would make a great baby quilt for our niece's new baby boy so I made it wider and shorter. I love this quilt, the colors, the block size, the simplicity of cutting and piecing.



Because I have been having difficulties with colors lately I copied the same colors that were in the magazine quilt and it came out perfect!

Linking up with Michelle....

Stash Report #7

My favorite bird in our forrest are the woodpeckers. Every morning I throw a couple of cups of peanuts out for them. Of course all the other birds come for the treat, but I do it just for the chance of seeing the woodpeckers. Try as I might to get pictures, they are gone by the time I can zoom in and focus. Here are the woodpeckers I saw on Thursday morning - pictures from the internet....

  

red bellied                           downey                               pileated

Even though the Nuthatch isn't a woodpecker, he does go up and down the trees just like a woodpecker does and they are fun to watch.

I am joining in with Judy's Stash Report..

Best as I can remember these blocks were made about 4-6 years ago.

I don't remember what I was going to do with these. It appears that I planned some sort of coin quilt. They must have been in really long rows and I had already taken them apart into six strips.  Decided it was time to get them out of the drawer and into a quilt. I had 80 blocks and needed 81, luckily a friend recently made a quilt with this type of fabrics and she sent me 6 strips so I could make the last block. It took me longer to come up with a pattern and do the math than it did to sew all the blocks together! I paired the blocks with this light purple color

I am keeping this quilt. It is about 99 inches square. It kinda reminds me of Easter eggs, bright and happy.

Read more about this week's baby quilt here...

This week's Tula Pink's blocks - this is going to be one interesting quilt! Such fun blocks to make.

This is the setting Bill likes. To make this quilt big enough for our bed - abt 100 inches square - I will need to make 120 blocks. This pattern only uses 64 of the blocks.

I also like this pattern as it focuses on each unique block. Not sure what color I will use in place of the green...maybe green!

Added this week - .12

Added YTD - 14.12 yards

Used this week - 21.42 yards

Used YTD - 132.31 yards

Net Used - 118.19 yards 

fabric not counted until quilt is 100% finished

Quilts finished in 2014 - 16

UFO - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

QOV - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

RMH - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

Baby Quilts - 7 of 52 quilts 

Rainbow (Angela)/Block (Judy) Challenge - 1 out of 12 months 

Fat Quarter Shop - 4 out of 24 blocks 

Tula Pink - 76 of 120 blocks - making 20 additional blocks

Baby Quilt #7

This baby quilt came about from a challenge issued by Shannon, check out her blog and see the great quilts she creates. I made a comment on a quilt she made using floral fabrics and she wrote back saying it was "my turn" to make a quilt using some of my floral stash!

Another easy and quick baby quilt.

Pattern is Center Star found in Ursula Reikes' book Even More Quilts For Baby. I added the border to make the quilt a bit bigger - it is 39 inches square.

I thought it turned out pretty good.

Linking up to  Let's Make Baby Quilts with Michelle and Sarah's Whoop Whoop!