It's a Finish! Burgoyne Surrounded

 Burgoyne Surrounded

93 x 93

Quilted on my DSM

 The free pattern for this can be found at Quilted Twins

I started this as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project in 2017. I wanted to use up some miscellaneous scrap chunks of fabric so made blocks each month that primarily used the color of the month.  For instance this block used up some blue chunks. 

This block used up some pink scraps.  

You can kind of see how I very simply quilted it on my DSM - first I quilted diagonally along the chains Then I quilted horizontally and vertically along the sides of the sashing and through the middle of each block. 

 Then since batting (pellon nature's touch 80/20) instructions require quilting no farther than four inches apart I added more vertical and horizontal lines through each block. 

I did minimal quilting - it's difficult to wrestle a quilt this big through a DSM with a small harp. 

I used wide bleached muslin for the backing and neutral scraps for the binding. 

And I can mark another UFO off the list!

This was my goal #10 

for 

Q1 Finish-Along

and 

18 in 2018

It's a Finish! Roy G Biv's Coin Purse

Roy G Biv's Coin Purse

63 x 77

Hand quilted

I made this in response to an AdHoc Improv challenge in Jan 2017 to make a Chinese Coin quilt.  I'd made a couple of them ages ago (about 2008?) with Halloween fabrics for my granddaughters but that was it. 

Well, I like challenges but I didn't have any fabrics I really wanted to cut up and use in a Chinese Coin quilt.  So I hit the "Parts Department" looking for bits and pieces in rainbow colors.  Who doesn't love a rainbow? 

I had a few green postage stamp blocks, some blue four inch orphan blocks...

...red rails left over from a kaleidoscope quilt, orange ends I had sewn together into a strip from the ends of 2.5 inch scraps...

...green 2.5 inch strip pieces (yummy broccoli and cupcakes), blue crumb blocks...

...orange four patches, yellow crumb block stars, blue rails...you get the picture.   I used blue for the separator between colors and columns because rainbows go with blue skies. 

I hand quilted with perle #5 in variegated colors of the rainbow that I had on hand.  I stitched vertical lines without marking in rainbow color order.  I enjoyed a visit with all those bits and pieces of fabric as I stitched.  A lot of them made me smile.  

I used a light variegated gray fabric for the background so the rainbow stitching would show up on the back.  Solid colors of the rainbow served as binding. How about that...one strip of each color was the perfect amount. 

This was my goal #11 

for 

Q1 Finish-Along

and 

18 in 2018

I spent a lot of time Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts and 

Oh Scrap! the scraps I used!  Quilting is More Fun than Housework. 

Thinking Big!

 These are my goals for First Quarter 2018 Finish-Along.   In case it takes me longer to finish than a quarter then I'll also declare them as the 18 for 2018 goals.  

1. 42 Cent Forever Stamps - 74 x 92.5.   It needs to be quilted. I'm not sure I have a backing for it yet.  I'm considering hand quilting with pink perle #8 but really still undecided. 

 2. Wandering Geese - 80 x 80.  The backing is prepared. I will quilt it on my DSM one of these days. 

 3. Glitter - It's in the hoop! 

4. Birthday Wishes.  Needs to be sandwiched and then it's ready for quilting. By hand or machine? 

 5 - Trick or Treat - 60 x 72.  It needs to be sandwiched and then quilted on the DSM.

 6. Four Halloween Placemats. Need to make backs and get them quilted. 

 7. Homespun Fun - 54 x 78 - Needs to be sandwiched and quilted. 

 8. Cattywampus - I need to find a backing, piece some batting and get 'er done. 

 9. Star Chain - a Block Lotto win. 56 x 70. Backing made. Need to sandwich and quilt.  How? 

 10. Burgoyne Surrounded.  I need to find a backing!!! Then get it quilted. How? 

 11. Rainbow Coins - I was going to hand quilt this but now I'm wondering??? - I have a possible backing but don't really like it all that much.  I might have to piece a rainbow backing????

 12. Rosebuds - I don't have a backing big enough. This is BIG! After I get one I'm going to attempt to quilt the BIG thing on my DSM.  (I'm not looking forward to it.)

 13. PREPARE - Need to piece the backing. Then will very simply hand quilt. 

 14 - 15. ABC I Spy. 2 were completed in the past but I have two left to go.  I need to find backings, piece batting, iron on ABCs (I only have one set) and get them done and to the new grandnephews born in 2017, Evan and Silas. They are overdue!!  The other grandnephews of 2017, Tyberius and Marshall, have theirs! 

 16. - Really, really, really, really....to infinity old mystery quilt. I have it sandwiched and just need to get it quilted. It sure would make a nice donation quilt for a guy!

 17. A Snowball's Chance.  - It will get a mix of hand quilting and machine quilting when the time is right. It's been sandwiched for a long time. 

 18. Pumpkin Peel - It's only a flimsy. I don't have a backing yet. And I think I need to take the four sections apart and square them up since I didn't do that previously and I think it's a kind of out of whack. I am not sure how I will quilt it. I'm thinking echo quilting on my DSM but hand quilting sounds tempting too. 

19.  Little Lotto - Quilt from Sunshine Online Quilt Guild Block Lotto won last year.  It's ready for some machine quilting!