Courthouse Steps Log Cabin - A Hand Quilted Finish

 

It's a finish!

Courthouse Steps

60 x 80

I used civil war reproduction scraps to make the blocks.  The top was finished in March 2021. 

I big stitch hand quilted it with pink, brown and ecru perle cotton #8.

The quilting makes a design on the solid burgundy back. And the burgundy solid sure picks up a lot of stray threads!

And sew on...

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

Oh Scrap! at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

Green Scraps

Snowball 9 Patch

9 inch finished

Made with 3.5 inch squares and 1.5 inch corners

Blocks with light and dark corners will alternate in a quilt

Crossroads

7 x 9 inch

Made with 3.5 x 4.5 rectangles. All blocks have brown sashing and red center.

I think I've been making these blocks since 2024. 

After I made blocks using what was in the 3.5 inch width scrap box I noticed I only needed a few more to reach my goal of 81 blocks for a quilt layout 9 x 9 (63 x 81).

So I made a few more blocks from scraps in the 3.5 inch width scrap box and met my goal.

Last year I assembled a child sized comfort quilt with these blocks.  Now I'm going to cross this block off of my list of scrappy blocks I make for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC). 

Buckeye Beauty

6 inch blocks

Made with scraps from the 3.5 inch and 2 inch scrap bins. 

Courthouse Steps

7.5 inch 

Made with scraps in the 2 inch width bin.

Rick Rack Blocks

8 inch

Made with 2.5 inch width scraps.

1 width of fabric makes two blocks. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

Pie Birds - A Complete Block Set

 

Pie Birds

I now have completed 35 ten inch (finished) blocks.

They sure used a lot of 1.5 inch width scraps!

I was inspired by a quilt on Viridian's Blog.

Now there is some assembly required!

And sew on...

Finished or NOT FINISHED Friday at Alycia Quilts.

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I thought the groundhog was wrong when he predicted six more weeks of winter. We have had a week of unseasonably warm weather with 50-60 degree temperatures.  It was so nice to get out and putter around outside.  There were a lot of sticks to pick up because we have had some 30-40 mph wind gusts. This morning I woke up to a light dusting of snow on the ground and 28 degrees. It is predicted that temps will be below freezing for the next few days.  

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You may or may not know that I do my laundry the old fashioned way - two washtubs with a wringer in between. My clothes dry on a rack or line in the basement or clothes line outside.  Why I do my laundry that way is another story for another time. This story is that I took advantage of the nice weather and hung my sheets and pillowcases outside on the line to dry IN FEBRUARY on a sunny and windy and warm day. Oh, I had the smell of wind and sun  and fresh air on my sheets when I went to bed last night! 

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I finished reading the first two books (Seeds of Hope and Beneath the Panhandle Sky) in the Dirty Thirty Saga series by Jean Hackensmith. I've started the third and final book in the series. A family who has lost many relatives in the mines of Pennsylvania moves to Oklahoma to claim land under the Homestead Act. 

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I have only managed to get two of the seven Amaryllis my husband gave me last year to bloom again this year. The rest of the bulbs have leafy growth but have not sent up any flower spikes. I have been enjoying and thankful for what I have. Both plants have many blooms on them now. 

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Oh joy! Wanda D. in TX sent me another box of scraps. And I mean SCRAPS. I measured every piece with my little six inch ruler so I could add them to my bins of scraps I organize by width. I usually have a block or two going for every scrap bin.  Most of these scraps were under 3.5 inches in width. I had such a good time sorting scraps. Now I will have a good time using them!

Courthouse Steps Finish

It's a finish!

Courthouse Steps

52.5 x 73.5

The 10.5 inch finished blocks were made from 2.5 inch width scraps.

The top was completed in December 2024.

I quilted it on my sewing machine with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines. 

The backing is pieced with two green fabrics and the binding is scrappy greens from the leftover binding box. 

And sew on...

Round Four - Curves

Orphan Block Center

Round one with 2.5 inch finished Hourglass blocks.

Round Two with borders and Double Four Patch cornerstones.

Round Three I added a Flying Geese border. 

Round Four I added 3 inch Drunkard's Path blocks.

The top is now 42 inches square.

The round three prompt for the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2026 is "Curves".

I am making three comfort quilts using the SAHRR prompts. 

Curves - Drunkard's Path blocks with fabric that has curves in it.

Curves - Faux curves in the top of the heart blocks and fabric with curvy hearts. 

Curves - Faux curves in the top of the heart blocks and fabric with curvy hearts. 

Raggedy Ann and Andy

Round One with 4 inch finished Hourglass blocks.

Round Two - In round one I used Four Patches for the cornerstones.  I replaced the cornerstones with Double Four Patches. 

Round Three - I added a border to two sides of each top and added Puss in the Corner blocks to the top and bottom of those side borders. 

Round Four - I added borders with hearts to the top and bottom. 

Both are 36 inches wide and 32 inches in length. 

And sew on...

SAHRR Linky Party at Pieceful Thoughts. 

Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

What's In The Hoop?

What's in the hoop?

Log Cabin 

I am big stitch hand quilting it with pink, ecru and brown perle cotton.

. I used civil war reproduction scraps to make the blocks. I assembled the top back in 2021. 

I think I have finished stitching more than half the quilt. I stitch about an hour or so each night after dinner. 

The theme in my sewing space this month has been "log cabins and variations" so that's how this top got picked for the hoop.

And sew on...

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

Oh Scrap! at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

 

Green Scraps

Uneven Nine Patch

7.5 inches

Made from 3.5 inch squares

Four Patch

6 inches

Made from 3.5 inch squares

Hollow Nine Patch

9 inches

Made from 3.5 inch squares

Waffles

5 inch

Made from 1.5 inch x 5.5 inch solid rectangles and 1.5 inch squares

Puss in the Corner Variation

6 inch

Made from 2 x 3.5 inch neutral rectangles and 2 inch squares

After I made blocks with green...

...I noticed I only needed 10 more blocks toward my goal of 108 blocks for a 9 x 12 (54 x 72 inch) layout. So I made more blocks with squares I had cut. 

Now I have met my goal of 108 Puss In the Corner Variation blocks! 

And sew on...

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday where the color of the month is green!