Three More Finishes!

Three Comfort Quilts of Horizon Blocks

Each quilt finishes at 40.5 x 57

If you'd like to know more about quilts refer to a previous post when I finished the tops back in July 2022. 

All were quilted with spirals and swirls on my DSM. 

This month the theme here in my sewing room is KIDS so I'm trying to finish as many donation quilts for kids as I can.  But now I'm kind of tired of quilting so am going to work on moving some partial block sets forward to tops then will go back to quilting again. 

 I'm going to be busy the next few days visiting with family coming from out of town to attend the visitation and services for my brother-in-law who passed away a few days ago so probably won't get much sewing done and will probably be offline until Saturday.

 

On The Horizon

Three Comfort Quilt Tops of Horizon Blocks

All finish at 40.5 x 57

Horizon block instructions at Klein Meisje Quilts

I've been making Horizon blocks since last year. They consist of a 5 x 9.5 inch piece and a contrasting 1.5 xx 5 inch piece.   I made them when I had scraps  leftover from making other quilts or I made them each month in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month if I had a scrap in that size. Over the years I have also been given what appear to be leftovers from layer cakes - pinked 10 inch squares.  So I also used a little pile of those accumulated layer cake squares to make blocks.   

The other day after I finished up three tops of Eight Patches I decided that maybe I should count the Horizon blocks. Again I was surprised I was only 6 blocks short of three child sized tops. So I made 6 more blocks and then made 3 tops. 

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And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Purple Scraps Part I

Monkey Wrench 

10 inch blocks

Purple is the July Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month.  I don't have many purple scraps. I'm going to be away from home a couple of times this month so I thought I would dig right in and complete as many blocks as I could this week from those purple scraps.  I just used smaller scraps that were already cut at the width needed to make my blocks. 

The Monkey Wrench is made of purple and neutral 4.5 inch unfinished HSTs.  Most of the rest of the pieces came out of my little box of 2.5 inch squares. 

At year end these will be made into comfort quilts for kids - 24 blocks to a quilt in a 4 x 6 layout.

Dandy Quilt Blocks

12 inch finished

I've been making these with scraps in the color of the month plus the color complement for the star points and other half of the HSTs. My goal is 30 blocks in a 5 x 6 layout for an adult sized comfort quilt.    I made QSTs with the star point cut offs. I have been collecting the little QSTs for a couple of years for my version of a vintage quilt. 

Horizon Blocks

4.5 x 9.5 (finished)

If I have a scrap already cut 5 inches wide and at least 9.5 inches in length then I make a Horizon Block. I had some gray in with the purple scraps so might as well make those scraps into blocks too.  I really should count how many I have and figure out how many are needed for a quilt. I have quite a pile of these now and they will probably be made into quilts for kids. 

Windmill Blocks

8 inches

Can be cut from 2.5 or 4.5 inch scraps.   I'm making them with dark and light scraps in the color of the month. The light is the background. 

8 Patch

6 x 8 finished

I have quite a few of these now. I should take count. They will be made into donation quilts. 

X and +

7.5 inch blocks

Made with 3.5 and 2 inch scraps. I've been making these for a couple of years. I think my goal is 99 blocks and I think I only have 17 more blocks to go. Most of those will be brown. I've already picked through my 3.5 inch squares and found sets of four brown squares to complete my remaining blocks.  

Postage Stamp Pandemic (PSP20)

8 inch blocks

I've been making these for a couple of years - at the start of the pandemic in 2020. . I think my goal is 121 blocks and I may have over one hundred blocks now. Little by little...

Then I have 3 inch Snowballs with light corners. I'm going to alternate them with some old 3 inch Nine Patches I have with light corners.   The switch plate blocks (3 x 5) can be cut from 3.5 or 1.5 inch scraps.  There's a 3.5 inch width strip for a future Chinese Coin quilt made with pieces less than a 3.5 inch square and 3 inch Square in Square blocks with white on black corners. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Blue Scraps Part I

Blue, bright and dark, is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for June. I'm going to use all blues. I have a lot of blue scraps. The first thing I did was sort them by size.  This week I used pieces that were 5 to 5.5 inches or so in width. 

If they were long enough for a 5 x 9.5 inch piece then that's what I cut to make these Horizon Blocks. 

Sometimes other colors sneak into the mix. I will make these blocks from scraps until year end and then see how many donation quilts I can make with them. 

I'm making two different sizes of Square in Square blocks (Chips) and this is the bigger size made with 5 inch squares and 2.75 squares in the corners.  I am using white on black with the RSC color of the month in jewel tones and have been making them for a couple of years now.  I trim the corners and make QSTs.  Not sure what will become of those but I have quite a collection of them and there might be enough for a small quilt when all is said and done. Or they might make a fun sashing for something. Time will tell. 

Any 5 inch pieces that aren't long enough for Horizon blocks but longer than a square will be cut in half lengthwise and added to the 2.5 inch width scraps and will be made into other blocks when it comes time for me to use 2.5 inch width scraps. 

The pieces that were shorter but at least a square's worth got cut into squares. I have a bin with all different sizes of squares where they are stored until I decide to make something with them. 

Any 5 inch piece less than a square was sewn into strips for a Chinese Coin quilt. That box of coins is overflowing because I've been adding to it for years so maybe I should make that Chinese Coins sooner rather than later. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday

 

..."In Every Wood In Every Spring There Is A Different Green"...J.R.R. Tolkien

 

Green, specifically forest and sage green, is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for May. I'm going to use all greens because I have a lot of RSC projects in the works so I'll make some of my blocks this month and when the RSC color is lighter and brighter greens I'll make the rest of my blocks. 

I have a giant tote of green scraps. I took out the solid scraps and any scrap chunks (larger than a six inch square and smaller than a Fat Quarter).  Then I sorted the rest of the scraps by width. If they did not fit nicely into any width category or pieces were small they went into crumbs or strings or a pile to be cut into squares.

5 inch width pieces were cut 5 x 9.5 and made into Horizon blocks for donation quilts I'll make near the end of the year.  That light one on top right might be too light and may end up in the orphan pile but for now it's going into the block collection. 

5 inch squares in jewel tones got made into Chips (Economy Blocks). The corners are trimmed and made into Quarter Square Triangles (QSTs).  As I come across five inch squares in jewel tones I put them into the project box and make them into Chips at the same time I make the RSC colored ones. 

The rest of the five inch pieces I cut into a square if possible. Some of the longer pieces I cut in half to use when I make my blocks from 2.5 inch scraps. From the bright green 2.5 inch width lengths I cut four squares if possible for Indian Hatchet blocks when I'm ready to make those.  If there was a 1.5 x 5 piece I cut it into pieces 1.5 x 3.5 pieces for a new project and then I had postage stamp sized pieces left for my postage stamp collection. Any 2.5 inch width pieces that were left that weren't long I cut into squares and/or 1.5 x 2.5 inch pieces for Legos. 

That does it for the 5 inch width green scraps. Next I'll be working with the green 3.5 and 2 inch scraps. 

Pink Pieces and Parts

Pink is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month. So far this month I made a couple of twin sized tops and a baby one using up some small chunks of pink. This week I worked on using what was left of the small chunks after making those tops and a few other small bits and pieces of pink. 

Three x and + blocks that finish at 7.5 inches. 

Three Buckeye Beauty blocks that finish at 6 inches. 

Three Postage Stamp Pandemic blocks that finish at 8 inches. 

Six Puss in the Corner blocks with light corners that finish at 6 inches. 

Three Horizon blocks that finish at 4.5 x 9.5

Eight Bow Ties that finish at 3 inches. 

Two Wonky Log Cabin blocks with black background novelty centers that finish at 12 inches. 

Two Heartfelt slab blocks that finish at 12 inches. 

Two pink Hollow Nine Patches that finish at 7.5 inches.   Then I made a few in other colors because I had some 3 inch squares and some 3 inch width scraps laying around ready for these blocks. (Now I'm going to cut the rest of the 3 inch width scraps in half lengthwise for some 1.5 inch scraps because I have several RSC projects going that take 1.5 inch scraps). 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Tickled Pink!

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month is pink. 

Last week I mentioned I had a lot of larger pink scraps around 4.5 to 5 inches in width. So I started pairing some pinks with some grays and started making 4.5 inch (unfinished) HSTs. After that I had a lot of pink 4.5 inch squares and pieces left so I made a second quilt top. 

The pink and gray HST top - 56 x 72

There's lots of different pinks and grays. I don't have a design wall and usually just sew blocks together randomly. For this one I didn't exactly sew the 4 Patch HST blocks together in a totally random manner - I tried to put all the lighter blocks near the top and darker near the bottom as I webbed blocks together.

The second top is a Wiggle Time variation -- I made a version bigger than the pattern  so this top measures 60 x 76. I also made my "wiggles" scrappy but all in pink. 

I hunted around for something to use for the background and came up with an old pink floral in my stash. If I didn't have enough of that I was thinking of going scrappy neutral for the background. 

Some of the lighter pink squares kind of blend into the background but I think after it is quilted with some garlands of flowers in pink thread it will be okay. 

Both quilts will be donation quilts someday when all is said and done. 

And there's more...

If there was enough of the 4.5 inch strip left to cut two 2.5 x 4.5 pieces then I did. And then I made some Hearts for a quilt I'm making for me with red, pink and white hearts. I'm making it in memory of my granddaughter Kayla who recently died from "probable cardiac arrhythmia". 

The hearts have "flippy corners" on the bottom and the cutoffs were made into bonus HSTs which were then sewn into strips of five for a slow moving quilt inspired by a vintage one. 

Then I combined some 4.5 inch scraps with some 2.5 inch scraps and made a couple of Dandy Blocks...

...and a few Bear Paws for the growing collection. 

Speaking of growing collections...I made a few 8 Patch blocks. I had a few 2.5 inch width pieces that yielded four 2.5 x 3.5 cuts so I combined them with some previously cut pieces in that project box. 

While I was in that 8 Patch project box I matched up some previously cut pieces and made a few more blocks. 

Then any 4.5 inch scraps left got cut into squares if possible. Same with the leftover 2.5 inch scraps - squares and/or 1.5 x 2.5 inch pieces for the Lego Project box. 

Any pieces less than a 4.5 inch square was sewn into a strip for a future Chinese Coin quilt. 

Then I made a few Horizon blocks for my collection with some 5 x 9.5 pieces. 

Yes, I do have some pink scraps left  - mostly strings and crumbs I think.

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday