End of the blues

This week I've been working on a few projects 

 I finished my flimsy for "Jack's Jack"

I've very slowly been working on a scrappy trip quilt called "Stay-cation" this week I did a block for it in blues as my RSC14 project for the week

Check out what others are doing with blue scraps at

http://superscrappy.blogspot.com 

hopefully we find out the new colour soon I'm running out of ideas;)

I'm working on a Folly Beach (Charleston, SC) inspired sampler quilt. I made two of Angela's sampler blocks (the split pinwheel) and (54-40 or fight) for it and they came out pretty well. Hopefully she doesn't mind I'm not doing them in rainbow colours.

I like the idea of having all different sized blocks in my sampler quilt so I'll probably make more of these as they strike my fancy,  hopefully it comes together in life as it has in my mind ;)

 Happy Quilting!

HST and a Jack

I found out my doll quilt partner received the quilt I sent her called "Stay in Wonderland" so I thought I'd share it here

The finished version as well as Jack testing it out before the binding was added

This week I've been working on 2 projects one is my "Love is like a Butterfly" quilt for the Rainbow Scrap Challange which you can check out at

 http://superscrappy.blogspot.com 

I decided to make more HSTs for it so I chain pieced

a few more

Trimmed them down

And ended up with 32 total blue/white HSTs

 The other quilt I've been working on is called 

"Jack's Jack" as it will be a Union Jack for a cat called 

Jack the Lad so far I've cut out all the pieces

 and have foundation pieced 3 of the 4 sections

of the flag

I even had a red London themed FQ just waiting to be used!

I got the pattern from the jan/ feb 2014 issue of McCall's Quilting magazine.

Have a great week and happy quilting!

The elusive double rainbow

Last week I showed my progress on my HST quilt that has come to be known as "Love is like a Butterfly"

I'm a huge Dolly Parton fan and I could not resist a quilt with butterflies and in rainbow scraps being named as such

I still have to square up my HSTs from last week and I may decide to make the quilt larger in which case I'll need to sew a few more anyway; but for this week I decided to work on my "Charming Rainbow" quilt it is from flutter.kat's blog

 http://flutterkat.com/2012/01/reverse-rainbow-starburst-block/

I have used charm squares instead of the 4 in ones that she calls for but otherwise I've followed her plan

I had started this quilt last year but it is to easy  to follow along with the colour of the month when it works out :)

Here is my blue charming rainbow block

Here are my 3 blocks laid out together

You can check in at http://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2014/01/scraphappy-saturday-blue-skies.html?m=1

To see how everyone is doing with the scrappy projects thy chose!

Rainbow quilt is a-go!

Today is the first scraphappy Saturday of 2014 over at <http://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2014/01/first-scraphappy-saturday-of-2014.html?m=1>

This is my first time participating and I'm really enjoying it so far

I've decided on a plan and made a mock up on my computer with my 

EQ5 software 

I've got all colours of half square triangles with appliquéd butterflies 

added at the end. I'm really hoping I can accomplish this design because 

I love how it looks on the screen!

The first step was finding the scraps

I need to make 20 or 22 blocks each month to finish by years end

This time I did 20 which meant I needed 10 blue charm squares and 

10 in white

 Here's what I ended up with

Hope everyone's scrappy projects are turning out great 

Happy new year!

Next year is here

I had several things to finish in time for Christmas, but now that I have its time to start planning new quilts. I've started on my first ever quilt for the doll quilters monthly group and I'm liking it so far. the theme is try something new so I'm doing a new to me technique :)

I'm also starting to think about ideas (the top contender currently is a triangle quilt) for a rainbow scrap project for the rainbow scrap chalange 2014 January's colour is blue

Here are some example pics I found

This one is from filminthefridge.com

Or this one from squaresandtriangles.com

I'm still working on my charming rainbow quilt based off of flutter.kat's quilt <http://flutterkat.com/2012/04/grand-reveal-reverse-rainbow-starburst/>

Here's the purple block

And light green

I'm working on a scrappy trip around the world quilt 

(well more like I have one block done of many but I'm well pleased so far

The home stretch

As Christmas gets closer I'm finishing up the last few projects and one that I didn't think I'd finish for my Mum, I likely will! :) I used the pattern for the Snow Happens table runner

I made a few modifications and came up with this… 

New FO quilts!

I got my log cabin quilt back from the long arm shop…

really love how it turned out! You can see it here on the back of the couch. Also I finished the elk hanging I was working on for my dad