It's A Finish!

It's a finish!

60 x 78

Sawtooth Stars 

with Square in Square centers. 

Back in 2021 I started making 3 inch Square in Square (SIS) blocks (aka Chips) from scraps as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project.  All of the SIS were made with black and white corners. 

I usually make blocks from scraps until I have a big pile of them and then decide what to do with them. This is the third quilt (and the largest) made with those SIS blocks and I probably have enough for one more small one. In one quilt I alternated the SIS with squares. For another quilt I used the SIS blocks as the centers of Happy Blocks. 

For this quilt I used the SIS blocks as centers for Sawtooth Stars. I used tone on tone scraps for backgrounds and gave the stars black and white points. 

I quilted it on my sewing machine (Brother PQ1500SL) with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines through the star points.  I used a variegated thread. 

The backing is a rainbow plaid and the binding is a soft batik that is mostly black and white but has a few other colors in it too. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

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CELEBRATE! (My word of the year)

Oct. 9 - Scraps and some vintage state flower blocks received from Teresa.

Oct. 10 -- My brother Steve who lives in Bonita Bay, FL and his daughter who lives in Naples, FL are safe and suffered no damage from hurricane Milton. My brother lives only about 40 miles south of Ft. Meyers where they thought it might be hit hard so he went down south to stay with his daughter in Naples. They experienced the high winds and power outages and some flooding in the streets that quickly receded but they had no complaints. 

Oct. 11 - I was hungry for apple pie so made one. I have always made my pie crust with lard but it seems to be harder to find in the store these days. Supposedly lard makes for a flakier crust.  Instead of a top crust I like my apple pie with streusel (crumb) layer on top.  Pie is yummy; however, since hubby cannot eat any (he has G-tube) I have to eat the whole pie. And of course each piece has to be warm and be a la mode! 

 

Stay At Home Round Robin - Round Four

The prompt for round four of the Stay At Home Round Robin (SAHRR) is Square in Square or other on point block. 

For this round I made 36 five inch finished Square in Square blocks. 

I had to go kind of scrappy with the inner squares as well as the outer corners in order to stay with the blue and white color scheme. 

I also added a two inch finished coping strip of blue on white. 

So now my quilt is a 50.5 inch square. I think I will stay at that width and the next two rounds will be added to the top and bottom. I'm aiming for maybe a quilt 50 x 70. 

And sew on...

SAHRR Round 4 at Songbird Designs

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CELEBRATE! (my word of the year)

Feb. 13 -- Celebrating happy endings. I just finished the book Ration Book Baby by Ellie Curzon. It is WWII historical fiction. 

Feb. 14-- Celebrating LOVE, of course!

 

Two More Finishes!

Two More Finishes!

Happy Blocks with Square in Square Centers

42 x 60

The Square in Square (SIS) blocks was a Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project several years ago. Then the transformation of SIS blocks to Happy Blocks has been another RSC project. 

If you missed the history of the making of this quilt more info may be found on a previous blog post made when the top was assembled. 

I quilted it with vertical and horizontal lines. 

The binding matches the backing.

Wonky Stars

37.5  x 45

December 2022 I found a baggie with some Wonky Stars I made back in 2018 plus pieces and parts for more blocks.        

I finished up making the pieces and parts into stars and assembled the top in January of this year. 

And now that I have quilted it with swirls and added a multicolored binding it is finished and ready for donation. 

The backs.

A little quilting marathon has been going on here. Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts for two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

The latest mission was in Luxor, Egypt and if would like to see quilts in action as well as read about the wonderful work done to help children and some adults then you have to read all about it at the Rotaplast website.  A few times I have been able to spot one of my quilts with a child. Oh joy! 

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all. 

And sew on...

 

It's A Top! SIS (Square in Square) #3 of 4

Square in Square (SIS) in Stars

It's a top!

60 x 78

For a couple of years one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects was Square in Square (SIS) blocks (aka Little Chips and Economy Blocks). I used 2.5 inch scraps for the centers and a black and white 2.5 inch squares cut on the diagonals for the sides and ended up with a 3 inch finished block. Well, after a couple of years of making those I ended up with a little over 300 SIS blocks.   So I divided the blocks up into a few piles and decided I could make 4 different quilts with them - four for kiddos and one for an adult. 

SIS #1 is finished and used SIS blocks alternating with squares. 

SIS #2 is a top and used SIS blocks as centers for I Spy Happy Blocks.

For the first SIS quilt I used mostly geometrics, plaids, stripes, polka dots. For the second SIS I used mostly the SIS blocks with novelties. For this one I used mostly floral and solid SIS blocks. 

I turned the SIS blocks into six inch Stars with black/white points and backgrounds a similar color to the center. 

There's twenty-one pieces (and lots and lots of scraps) in those little six inch Stars and that made for a lot of little points to match up in this top. Whew...glad that job is finished!

And sew on...

Finished or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

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It's a Top!

It's a top!

42 x 60

SIS (Square in Square) #2 of 4

Happy SIS?

I Spy SIS?

For a couple of years one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects was Square in Square (SIS) blocks (aka Little Chips and Economy Blocks). I used 2.5 inch scraps for the centers and a black and white 2.5 inch squares cut on the diagonals for the sides and ended up with a 3 inch finished block. Well, after a couple of years of making those I ended up with a little over 300 SIS blocks.   So I divided the blocks up into a few piles and decided I could make 4 different quilts with them - four for kiddos and one for an adult. 

SIS #1 is finished and used SIS blocks alternating with squares. 

For this quilt I picked out mostly the I Spy type SIS blocks and then used them as the centers of Happy Blocks. 

I added the borders and made the Happy Blocks each month with scraps in the RSC color of the month. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

SIS #1 of 4 - Square in Square (SIS) and Square

It's a finish!

42 x 54

SIS #1 of 4

or

Square in Square (SIS) and Square

For a couple of years one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects was Square in Square (SIS) blocks (aka Little Chips and Economy Blocks). I used 2.5 inch scraps for the centers and a black and white 2.5 inch squares cut on the diagonals for the sides and ended up with a 3 inch finished block. Well, after a couple of years of making those I ended up with a little over 300 SIS blocks.   So I divided the blocks up into a few piles and decided I could make 4 different quilts with them - four for kiddos and one for an adult. 

For this quilt I alternated the 3.5 inch (unfinished) SIS blocks with 3.5 inch squares. I have a bin of different sized squares that are the result of scrap processing. The SIS blocks and squares I used in this one are mostly solids, geometrics, plaids, stripes and dots. I sewed blocks together randomly. 

I quilted it on the diagonals through the squares. 

The backing is a green stripe and the binding is a green dot. 

I finished this and another small quilt a couple of weeks ago but didn't get around to getting them washed up for their glamour shots before hubby went into hospital.  Laundry is not a speedy process around here. You know me...this old fashioned girl's washer is two big tubs with a wringer in between. In good weather my dryer is a clothesline, the wind and/or sunshine and in bad weather it is sometimes a couple of drying racks and sometimes (not often) a very old dryer.  SIS finally got cleaned up and had glamour shots yesterday. 

And sew on...

Finished or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

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Transformations

Aqua/Turquoise/Blue-Green is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month. 

Several years ago I made over 300 3 inch finished Square in Square (SIS) blocks as one of my RSC projects to use scraps.   I've been slowly turning those SIS blocks into 3 different quilts.   

With a few aqua scraps this week I turned some SIS blocks into six inch Stars...

...and six inch I Spy Happy Blocks. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Transformations

Stars

6 inch finished

A couple of years ago I made over 300  three inch Square in Square (SIS) blocks as one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects.  I divided them up into piles for three different quilts - #1 Stars, #2 Happy Blocks and #3 SIS alternating with Squares. 

Yellow is the RSC color of the month so I transformed some yellow SIS into Stars. 

Happy Blocks

6 inch finished

and a couple of 

Stars

I also turned a few SIS into Happy Blocks. 

Squared Away

7.5 inch finished

And four little 3 inch finished Broken Dishes blocks were transformed into a Squared Away block. 

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

I Haven't Managed To Make A Molehill Out Of A Mountain

8 inch

  Patchwork Stars

made with 2.5 inch scraps. 

Goal: 63 blocks

Current count: 6

Brown Stuff

has been the theme in my sewing room this month. I moved along a few brown UFOs and scraps but I have not managed to make a molehill yet out of that mountain of brown scraps. But I am ending the month with three brown comfort quilts in process so I am headed in the right direction.  This month I used mostly bits and pieces of brown scraps already cut to a certain width to mke blocks and have not cut into many scrap chunks yet. 

6 inch

18 Patch

made with 1.5 inch scraps

Goal: 108

Current count: 34

8.5 inch 

Pavement Pattern

made with 3 and 3.5 inch scraps.

I'm thinking this quilt will have a 2 inch sashing with cornerstones.

Goal: 35 blocks

Current count: 17

And sew on...

This week was definitely a NOT FINISHED week.

Finished or NOT FINISHED Friday at Alycia Quilts

 

Using Green Scraps

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

This week I turned a lot of 3 inch  Square in Square (or Little Chips) blocks  I made in the last couple of RSC years into larger blocks.  I think I made well over 300 blocks in all colors of the rainbow with black corners. I was going to use them all together in one quilt but they seemed to make a very dark quilt. So I decided I could make 3 quilts instead. 

#1 - I set aside 130 Chips and will turn half of them into six inch Stars and half into six inch Happy Blocks and alternate those blocks for an adult sized donation quilt. 

So this is the bag of Chips left that  I'll turn into Stars and Happy blocks for quilt #1. I'm using Chips and scraps in the RSC color of the month to upgrade those blocks. 

#2. I pulled out 70 of the more the kid-friendly-I - Spy sort of Chips for a smaller kiddo donation quit that will end up 42 x 60. I'm turning those into Happy Blocks that finish at 6 inches.  I wish my green scraps were a little brighter but...

...I have last month's pink ones to brighten things up and I think there will be some brighter blocks in the future too.  So, that's quilt #2 in the works. 

#3. I pulled out 95 blocks that were solid colors, strips, dots or other geometric shapes. I then looked through my 3.5 inch squares box for squares that were similar patterns to alternate with the Chips.  I thought this would make a nice smaller child or wheelchair quilt at 42 x 42.  

My squares aren't all that cheerful so I thought I would look through my scrap bags to see if there are any polka dot, stripe or plaid scraps I can cut for alternate squares to brighten things up a bit if this is going to be a child's quilt. 

Then I'm left with this little pile of Chips. I'm thinking I might use them as centers for Wonky Log Cabin blocks. Some bright strings around them might make them shine. 

Then some 3 inch Broken Dishes blocks got turned into a few 7.5 inch Squared Away blocks. 

Any odds and ends of 2 inch pieces left over after all that got turned into little 3 inch Bow Ties, a Chinese Coin strip...

...or squares - single, sets of 2 and sets of 4.   The sets of four go into the Monkey Wrench work box and the other two piles go into storage for use at some later date. 

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday