In The Pink

Four Patch Economy Block

2.5 inch scraps in the Four Patches

4 inch corners cut on diagonal for sides

6 inch finished

I now have 28 blocks. Target is 70. 

I think I will move my goal out to 120 or 130 blocks for a twin sized quilt instead of a kiddo sized quilt.  I have this little box of fabric chunks for the sides and bag of 2.5 inch scraps for the Four Patches set aside and have been adding to it as I come across suitable scraps.  

Floral Happy Blocks

8.5 finished

5 inch centers

2.5 inch sides

Target is 63 blocks and I now have 32.

And sew on...

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday

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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)

Finished Forest of Lost Souls by Dean Koontz. 

"A fearless woman, raised in the forest, fights against a group of powerful men in a novel about good versus evil, the enduring nature of myth and the power of love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz."  - DeanKoontz.com

Sixteen Patch Finish

Sixteen Patch

42 x 60

It's a finish!

I was looking back on blog posts to see when I made these blocks. It looks like I had most of them made by October 2019.   I'm not sure when I assembled the top but it appears way back in 2019 I was thinking of making a larger quilt with Sixteen Patches alternating with Broken Dishes blocks.  

I do know when I made the blocks I was trying to empty out the 2 inch width scrap bin and there were a lot of novelties in there. 

Some blocks were strip pieced. Other blocks were squares sewn together - sometimes the fabrics within the square were different fabrics of the same color. 

I quilted it on my sewing machine on the diagonals in light green thread.   The binding is scrappy and came out of the leftover bindings box. 

The backing is green with white polka dots. 

And sew on...

Finished Or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

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TREASURE (one of my words of the year)

Yesterday I received a box of treasure from Katie - some half log cabin blocks and fabric for more. 

 

Four Patch Finish

4 Patches

40 x 60

Back in March 2023 someone gave me a big bag of 3 inch squares. For this quilt I pulled out the blacks, black and whites, whites and colored tone on tone (TOT) squares.   I made four patches that contained black and whites and one TOT square arranged in no particular order.   I had to add a few squares cut from other scraps in order to have enough for a kiddo comfort quilt. 

Then the four patches were sewn together randomly as they came off the pile. 

I finished the top back in September 2024.

I quilted it with black thread on my sewing machine with vertical lines on each side of the seam lines. 

The binding is scrappy blacks and whites that came out of the leftover 2.25 inch binding box. The places I donate kiddo quilts request binding be sewn down by machine. So for kiddo quilts I trim quilts right up to the edge and use 2.25 inch binding sewn first to the back and then turned to the front and sttitched down by machine.    

On other quilts where I attach the binding by hand I trim the quilt 1/4 inch away from the edges and use 2.5 inch binding stitched first to the front and then turned to the back and hand stitched. 

I almost had enough of the black with polka dots for the back. 

This batch of batting seems to have more scrim than usual so the quilts seem a little stiffer than usual but I had no problems quilting so I guess all is okay. 

This month's theme in my sewing space is "Quilting Marathon" so other than make my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks for this month then that is what I will be doing most of the time. 

And sew on...

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GROW! (one of my words for 2025)

A new sign for my garden! 😀