Two Donation Quilts
Both 40 x 60
Finished!!
The October theme for the Sunshine Online Quilt Guild (SOQG) block lotto was Sunshine. I made several different blocks that seemed pretty sunny to me. I sent in two of each for the lotto drawing and kept two of each for myself to make my own Sunshine quilt. This was the result which is now finished.
I used up most of my yellow and orange scrap chunks but that left me with other yellow scraps I used in this month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks. The quilt is actually brighter than it looks. You almost need sunglasses to look at it. But it was nice and cheery to finish up on a cold and dark winter day.
I used a yellow solid on the back and you can see how I quilted it on my DSM. I used the same yellow solid for the binding.
Then I was also one of the winners of the October SOQG lotto. Rather than let the 15 blocks linger in my block orphanage I made a quilt top right away with the winnings. I noticed a lot of blue in the blocks. I had a piece of yellow with blue floral stripes left in the scrap chunks so made some Flying Geese with it. The blue and orange wings were also from the scrap bin.
And another quilt with a Sunshine theme is now finished. It is also much brighter in person.
This one has a yellow fleece backing so I skipped the batting. This is the first time I've used fleece for a backing and I thought I would have problems quilting it especially since I quilted it on my backup machine because my main one is in the repair shop but it was a breeze to quilt, thank goodness. I have a couple more pieces of fleece in different colors I will use as future backings. It washed up just fine too. I quilted it the same way as the other one and made a scrappy binding using leftover trimmings from other quilt backs that fit with the color scheme.
from my
Q1 Finish-Along list.
16 comments:
Your yellow quilts are definitely full of sunshine! I really like the combination of stars and suns in yellow and orange!
Congrats! on your Block Lotto win. Your sunny quilts are super!! Both were perfect finishes for a dreary winter day.
Two happy little quilts that I am sure the recipients are sure to love!
Both are wonderful happy finishes! They are sure to brighten someone's spirits!
Love the happy brightness (and bright happiness!) of these two! Such an antidote to the winter blahs!
I love the house with the smiley face in the window!
I am surprised the snow didn't melt around your quilts :)
Both are wonderfully happy finishes. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!
Two more fabulous scrappy quilts... very sunshiney!
Some-one is going to be lucky to receive one of these sunshine quilts.I'm sure it'll make their day!
Amazing how much you get done every day! ---"Love"
Two lovely bright and cheerful quilts, bound to bring a smile to anyone's face. Love the way you have put the sets of blocks together - the column of Flying Geese brings the second quilt together so well.
They are awesome! Especially the yellow sunshine quilt - it just radiates warmth. Great ideas and I love (and will likely copy) your quilting!!!
I love both of those. Love the bright colors and, of course, the white snow background really adds to the pics! We rarely get snow in our part of the country.
Love the sunshiny quilts -- especially the scrappy sampler. The recipients will be warmed, too.
I was a bit jealous that you won the lotto in October! But mostly I wanted to win the block that you had made. It's great to see both these quilts all finished and ready to go :)
Such gorgeous quilts! Congrats on the finishes. On behalf of the FAL crew, thanks for joining up!
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