It's a Flimsy! Salsa Dancing

Salsa Dancing

72 x 90

It's a flimsy!

Pattern is Anna Maria Horner's Spinning Stars 

When finished it will replace the tattered quilt my hubby keeps on the back of his recliner and evidently uses frequently.  He loves salsa and grows most of the ingredients for it - peppers, tomatoes, cilantro, garlic, onions.   I had most of those ingredients in my stash as well as a few chips. 

My One Monthly Goal (OMG) was to finish 12 blocks. 

I finished the blocks and assembled the top.  

At the end of the month I'll link up to Elm Street Quilts OMG.

I thought I should try to get my goal accomplished since I'll be gone for a week. 

Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun than Housework

More Salsa Dancing

Salsa Dancing

Blocks 5-8

18 inch blocks

Anna Maria Horner Spinning Stars free pattern

My One Monthly Goal (OMG) for May is to finish 12 more Salsa blocks. Then I will have the total of 20 I need for a top 72 x 90.  

Petunias - a Finish !!!

Petunias

72 x 90

From an Anna Maria Horner pattern called Spinning Stars.

I renamed it Petunias because the shape and some of the colors (pink and yellow) reminded me of Petunias I have on my deck. 

Most of the fabrics are left over from a Pickle Dish Wedding Quilt I made for my granddaughter's hope chest. 

Blocks are 18 inches. 

It is all hand quilted in pink thread.  In the wedges I alternated lines out and lines across.  Oh, it gives such a lovely texture (along with a callous on the middle finger of my left hand). 

In the secondary star pattern I just stitched around each section and in alternate sections stitched around twice. 

It's such a busy quilt I wondered if any of the hand quilting would really show. I'm glad I hand quilted and pleased with the results. 

 This might be a Christmas gift for one of the granddaughters next year.  It's the perfect size for a twin bed. I can't give it this year because I don't have one finished for the other granddaughter.  

I had family in town for a nephew's wedding - some from CA and some from FL and some from several states in between.   I took some time off of work and sat around and hand quilted during the times everyone was here visiting and not playing games. I love to play games almost as much as I love to hand quilt. 

And here's the wild back.  I pieced together two sections of sale fabric matching up the chevrons so it looks like a wide backing. 

This was one of my goals (#2) 

for

Q3 Finish Along with Adrianne of On the Windy Side. 

Today I'm linking up to: 

WIPs Be Gone at A Quilting Reader's Garden

Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Finish it Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts

Still Hand Quilting

I'm about 1/4 of the way through hand quilting my Petunia quilt. 

(The pattern is actually called Spinning Stars and is by Anna Maria Horner)

Inside the octagons I quilted alternate wedges with lines going across the wedge or lines going down the wedge. 

I'm quilting with regular hand quilting thread on cooler days/nights. 

In the stars between octagons I quilted around each quarter section and then one half of the quarter section gets stitched around twice.   

It's all kind of difficult to see on these busy fabrics but it makes for some nice texture. 

Doing any slow stitching? Or other hand work? 

Join us for Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts. 

Petunias

Petunias

Four - 18 inch blocks to add to the pile

Design Wall Monday

Who Knew?

On and off I've been making some 18 inch Spinning Stars blocks... 

...using Anna Maria Horner's pattern and the scraps left over from a Pickle Dish quilt. 

It's one of my UFOs or WIPs if you prefer. 

And this is one of my WIPs too...9 inch Wagon Wheels using a pattern on  a McCall's Vintage Quilts CD, 30s reproduction fabrics and solids.   See any similarities? 

Who knew I was working on two completely different quilts using similar patterns?  I sure didn't!

Linky partying at:

WIPs Be Gone at A Quilting Reader's Garden

Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop! at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Finish it Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts. 

From Now On They Are Petunias - Not Leftover Pickles or Spinning Stars

Anna Maria Horner calls these 18 inch blocks Spinning Stars.

In my last post on this block I called them Leftover Pickles because the fabrics were left overs from the Pickle Dish quilt I finished earlier this year. 

I don't think they look like Spinning Stars or Leftover Pickles.

But they do kind of look like the Petunias I had on my deck last year.  So, I will call this quilt Petunias. 

Petunias on deck last year. 

Petunias remind me of my maternal grandmother. She always had a little wheelbarrow planter full of them. 

Leftover Pickles

18 inch Spinning Star block made from leftovers from the Pickle Dish quilt I finished early this year. 

It joins this block above that I made back in September. 

Ten more to go. 

Pickle Dish and Spinning Stars

I finally finished all 72 arches for my Pickle Dish quilt and now have started putting the blocks together. 

And before I forget what I was going to do with the leftover pink, orange, yellow and teal/navy fabrics I made an 18 inch Spinning Star block to see if I liked it.  I think I do.  For now, anyway. 

And, that's what's on my "Cutting Matt Propped Up Against Wall and Covered with Leftover Batting" (aka makeshift Design Wall) this fine Monday. 

To see what other folks have on their Design Walls visit Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times.