Quilting

First up was to make some of my resized Cozy Stars from the Pat Sloan QAL called Cozy Things . They look very striking & I’m getting excited about how this quilt will finally come together at the end of the year.

The last of the March projects is the Nearly Lemoyne blocks by Bonnie Hunter. The first 2 columns are March green, then the 3rd column is April aqua. Since I’m using a Free Spirit scrap box for the main fabrics, there are interesting shades in there. Then I pull the contrast from my stash. They are coming along.

I also managed to get the 5 aqua blocks made for the King-size Irish Chain quilt I’m making for a Christmas gift. It uses the tutorial from Melissa Corry. Because it’s a gift that has to be done before the RSC challenge is done, I’m also making 2 & 4 patches in other colors as L&E’s, so that I can keep it going.

I’ve been busily sewing a top this week to get to the quilter. It’s for a wedding that’s come up & since it’s coming quick, that quilt popped to the top of my to-do list. Therefore, even with L&E’s going, there’s only been this green happening. There are still a few days left in the month next week to finish my other 3 sets of green blocks. Or I will do it in April. It’s all good. So…….this is the second month of “Hip to be Square”, from the book “Splash of Color” by Jackie Kunkel. This month the pattern calls for 7 green blocks & 4 half blocks for the edges & I got these darling little blocks done. Hope your green sewing is going a little faster than mine!

Last April I was inspired to start an L&E project with my pile of cut 2.5″ squares. I had fallen in love with this quilt at Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quilting. It’s an Arrowhead Puzzle block quilt & she kindly provided a link to the free block pattern. I decided to just start making some in the monthly color & someday it would be a quilt. But it went quicker than I thought & all of a sudden I had enough to sew together. I got it quilted & just got the binding sewn on, so here’s an RSC2020 finish to show off!

What I did get done this week was a green row for the zig-zag quilt from Diann at Little Penguin Quilts. I couldn’t resist taking a photo of it with January & February’s rows. I’m so in love!!!

And here are the 2 green columns for the Brickyard quilt inspired by Julie of Me and My Quilts. This is a great L&E project. I pulled the already cut gray 2.5″ squares & 2.5″x4.5″ green rectangles, made sets of 4 & put them by my machine to run through while working on that WIP. This quilt is going to be great when it’s all put together!

I worked on the Irish Chain blocks & since green is the highest number of blocks in the tutorial from Melissa Corry with 21, it took awhile to get them all sewed up. But that’s a big chunk of this king-size quilt, so I feel good about that.

I made 2 more of these friendship star blocks from Deb A. Since I’m not sure yet how I’m going to lay them out or how many I need, I’ve determined I’m going to make 2 of each color this year then see how it looks. These are great L&E blocks & turn out so cute!

First, a rainbow finish inspired our host, Angela. I got the binding sewed onto “Diamond Strings”, which I’ve been working on here & there for the last couple years. It was a fun project!

My hubby gave me the book “Splash of Color” by Jackie Kunkel a few years ago because I want to make every quilt in it. They are all black & white with splashes of color. To that end, I have been collecting pieces of black on white whenever I see them on sale. I used a bunch for the Sun Print quilt last year, but with plenty leftover, I’m embarking on this quilt called “Hip to be Square”. There is no pink, so this is the first month. I cut all the pieces last month, so they are just hanging out in a project box to be sewn together. There are 9 blocks & 4 half blocks for the edges.

A yellow row accomplished on the zig-zag quilt from Diann at Little Penguin Quilts. No Nearly LeMoyne blocks this month as there is no yellow in the Free Spirit scrap box I’m using for that project.

By ripping apart the old project & repairing 7 of them, then constructing 2 new ones, I have 9 cross blocks for the too-be-determined cross quilt. Yes, the bottom block has an extra gray column. Since I don’t know how I’m sashing it, I didn’t unpick that until I decide.