I made a quilt top last week for an upcoming gift & it’s ready for the quilter. So when February started, I got right to work on my five RSC projects. The first week of February is over & I have them all conquered with the rest of the month ready for other projects! I feel so efficient & intentional!
Here are the orange blocks for Rainbow Stairsteps. I used more solid looking fabrics for the blacks this time & while I think it’s less distracting in some ways, I think I need more of the white on black prints thrown in, so I’ll do that in March. Based on a layout by Julie.
Orange square-in-square blocks for Sun Print 2016 by Alison Glass kit. So happy to be finally working on this project. The blocks are all the same, so it’s nice to break them up & work on a few each month.
Tumbling Strings got an orange row to add to last month’s two green rows. It is inspired by a selvage quilt by Cathy.
Orange crazy patch blocks will be cut into small blocks & used to create End of the Rainbow from Melissa Corry’s Irish Chain Quilts book.
I need four orange string blocks for the layout I have in mind for Diamond Strings. These are inspired by blocks created by Angela, the host of the RSC2020.
And orange progress on the bonus checkerboard blocks that are not really on my RSC2020 list but are getting done as L&E’s. We’ll see where I’m at by the end of the year.
I’ve been working on this quilt for a long time, in that I’ve been slowly playing with fabric scraps to construct these “made fabric” squares. They were pieced together randomly from my ‘tiny scrap’ bin and when a section got large enough, I trimmed it into a 6″ finished square. When I had enough constructed, I set them on point using the setting pattern for the 1920’s Farmer’s Wife quilt that my quilt group is working on, and voila! A craaazzzzy quilt. I made a wonky, crazy pieced backing and made a totally random scrappy binding from pieces of leftover binding from other quilts. I quilted it myself on my home machine with a free-style crazy quilting pattern of spirals in the squares and loops in between. It’s totally scrappy and was fun to make. The only problem is that with all those biases, it doesn’t square up perfectly. But this was an experiment and it’s made to be loved and used, so whoever gets it can just use it to death, and it’s OK.
I named this quilt “Curvy Cabins” and took a class to learn this curved piecing technique in September of 2017 at Quilt Etc. in Sandy. I cut out all the pieces before the class, then sewed up two blocks during the class to learn the technique. My instructor helped me get all the pieces for the remaining blocks sorted out into piles so that I just had to start sewing blocks at home. It went together quite quickly and then I worked on the curved seams. I finished the top and took it back to Quilt Etc. for quilting on Halloween and got it back from them just before New Year’s. So I got the binding almost sewed on in 2017 and finished the last yard of hand-sewing it down in early May because I set it aside and worked on other things. 
