Two New Donation Quilt Tops
Snowball and Nine Patch
45 x 54
Blocks are nine inches finished and I used up some big print novelty fabric with cats as well as lots of red bits and pieces.
A long time ago when the grandkids were younger I used to collect cat prints and a few years ago I made several quilts trying to empty the cat box 😉 I never knew what to do with a few big prints so the cat box never did get cleaned out. Recently some folks with the Sunshine Online Quilt Guild started making some nine inch Snowball blocks to be sewn together next year at a retreat and one person was using cat fabric. Aha! Light bulb moment!
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
49 x 61
This is a really really old UFO. I don't like how it turned out.
I was cleaning out a big UFO box because it was under a couple of other boxes and has been for awhile. I was going to empty it and put things in another box but there was not really much in the box but this UFO and another as well as some bits and pieces of fabrics to finish both. This UFO was pretty far along - red, orange, yellow, green columns were sewn together, blue column was mostly made but needed a rainbow strip on the bottom. Then it looked like I needed to make indigo and violet columns and some rainbow strips for the finish.
I dug into my postage stamps (1.5 inch squares) and found most of the squares that could pass for indigo and violet and made a few 49 patch blocks and some rainbow strips. Then made the columns.
I meant to have the violet postage stamp blocks connect to the indigo but forgot to measure length before I made the violet column. I was actually going to rip off the violet column and fix it but decided I did not like the quilt at all and wasn't worth that work so just thought I might as well keep moving forward with it. Then when I went to fold it up for the quilting pile I noticed the sides were uneven. I think it measured 65 inches on one side and 62 inches on the other. Sheesh! So I evened it up to 61 inches.
Not sure if this will get quilted or morph into something else. I have a LOT of kiddo donation quilts to get quilted as it is so I'm not going to worry about it for awhile. (I am having cataract surgeries in October so hope to have quilting marathon in November when I will hopefully be able to see a lot better to quilt.)
And sew it goes...
Two very different tops. Don’t know how you thought about the second one but they will both eventually become warm quilts welcomed by their new owner.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to use a large print in a snowball block!
ReplyDeleteTwo pretty quilts, the rainbow with those postage stamp blocks incorporated is very cool!And those cats are looking very happy with the red nine patches.Well done!
ReplyDeleteoh so very cool !!!! kathleen
ReplyDeleteI looooooove both!!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful use of the cat fabric. I like how those two blocks look together. I thought the rainbow strip on the second top was one print but I can see you stitched that. Wow! Thanks for linking them up with Oh Scrap!
ReplyDeleteCute way to use that cat fabric!
ReplyDeleteIt's so frustrating when you end up not liking a quilt you've made.
I love the red cat quilt of snowballs and 9P’s. That’s a pattern I’ve been hankering’ to do…. The rainbow quilt is bright and interesting, but I understand the feelings toward a problematic quilt. Good luck with the cataract surgery. I had one eye done many years ago and it was a breeze. You’ll be so happy to see again!!
ReplyDeleteI too thought the rainbow stripes were a print - wow! You may not like the quilt, but I think it's bright and glorious, and will make a child very happy!
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like the quilt as a front, it will make a fantastic back. Good luck on your cataract surgery. I understand that it is getting easier and easier to recover from them these days.
ReplyDeleteI too have to have cataract surgery. No date yet but in the works. If something doesn't go well or look right on a quilt-I blame it on my eyes! Lol
ReplyDeleteWhat fun tops!
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