Red Centre With A Brown Center

Red Centre With A Brown Center

It's a top!

56 x 64

The quilt is called Red Centre in the book Making Quilts by Kathy Doughty.

Brown Stuff

is the theme in my sewing room this month to move UFOs forward and to whittle down a brown scrap mountain.

Earlier in the month I used my brown scraps to complete a block set of brown Monkey Wrench blocks which was a UFO.   After I made the Monkey Wrench blocks I had a lot of 4.5 inch scrap pieces. I used those pieces to make the fractured units for this top. 

I used a brown scrap with butterflies for my center. 

FYI - In 2017 I made a Red Centre rainbow quilt with a heart center. 

These stack and whack units are a quick and easy make and can be arranged in a variety of ways. Kathy Doughty has several different quilts that use these units in her books. I think it took me longer to cut the pieces and stack and whack them than it did to sew the pieces together and make the top. 

And sew on...

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Quilts of September #15

Hourglass

60 x 80

I won a layer cake in a drawing a few years ago. Last year I decided to do something with it and I ended up making stack and whack Hourglasses.  The layer cake was kind of a weird one - it had some of what I would consider baby quilt type squares along with floral ones. I pulled out the baby squares for some other someday quilt and added in some of my own florals, polka dots and ginghams. 

I quilted it 1/2 inch from the seams vertically, horizontally and diagonally.  I thought I had some variegated pink, blue and white thread but couldn't find it when it came time for quilting so I ended up using white thread. Of course I found that variegated thread a couple of days later. 

For the binding I used different pastel scraps in pink and blue.

I finally found the perfect quilt for the pink and white striped cotton sheet I picked up from the thrift store ages ago. 

That's finish #15 for September!

My OMG (One Monthly Goal) is to see how many quilts I can finish in September.

And on to the next!

(How many will I finish in September????) 

 

Two Now Stacked, Whacked, Sliced and Topped

 Back on April 26 I posted about four quilts I was working on using stack and whack/slice and dice techniques.   I now have two tops completed. 

Large Hourglass Quilt

63 x 84

 A few years ago I was gifted a package of 11.5 inch squares.  I stacked them and cut on the diagonals and sewed them into Hourglass blocks. And then into a top. 

 And now I have a nice sweet donation quilt top. I think I may have a nice sweet sheet I can use for the back. 

 And now for a top that is not so sweet. 

Critters

42 inch square.

 This was made from a gifted package of 10 inch squares of bugs and other critters. 

Wonky Nine Patches

Stack two contrasting squares face up.

Make two vertical slices.

Swap center piece.

Sew together.

Iron toward darker pieces.

Stack two resulting pieces face up again.

Make two horizontal slices.

Swap center piece.

Sew together. 

This was quick, easy and fun to make.  I think I have the perfect piece of flannel for the backing.

Hey, I might even finish these sooner than later...UFO Prevention!!  

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