It's A Finish! Wiggle Time Olympics

Wiggle Time Olympics

48 x 54

It's a finish!

Wiggle Time is a Cynthia Brunz pattern.

Last year someone in our Sunshine Online Quilt Guild  (an online group dedicated to making comfort quilts) challenged us to make a quilt using the Olympic colors of blue, yellow, black, green, red. 

I used plaids - mostly men's shirts- for my colors. I didn't have a plaid that was mainly yellow so I ended up using a multicolor for the yellow.  I finished the top in July 2024.

I don't usually have a couple of yards of any fabric to use for backgrounds in quilts but I do have quite a bit of that tan fabric so went with that. 

I quilted it on my sewing machine with squiggles and loops in natural colored thread. 

This one has a pieced back.  I had enough of that striped fabric to use as the binding. 

A long time ago someone gave me that piece of kids at the Olympics and I could never figure out what kind of quilt to use it in. I set it aside for a backing or strippie quilt because it was too nice to cut up. Finally the Olympic kids found their quilt! 

And sew on...

My January quilting marathon continues!

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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)

Yesterday was my lucky day! A lot of treasure arrived in the mail - a bolt of red from Liz and a fully stuffed box of fabric from Dawn. 

 

In Response To A Challenge...

It's a top!

Wiggle Time

in Olympic colors (red, blue, yellow, green black)

48 x 54

Wiggle Time is a Cynthia Brunz Design.

Someone from the Sunshine Online Quilt Guild (an online charity sewing group) issued a challenge to make a quilt this month in Olympic colors. 

I used some plaids I had on hand but didn't really have a good fabric for yellow plaid so it is multicolor with yellow in it. 

It's just a top for now. I'm not sure when it will get finished but I'll consider that I met the challenge.  And actually I might have another quilt in the works that will meet the challenge.  Stay tuned. 

And sew on...

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CELEBRATE! (my word of the year)

July 27 - I got a lot of weeding done and I also got quite a bit of scrub brush trimmed away.  While I was weeding I was thinking about how we have been getting rain at just the right times this year. I haven't had to drag hoses around and water very much. 

July 28 - Big thunderstorm in the middle of the night. That's not what I celebrated...I was excited that the tarp my son helped me put on the flat roof over the leak in my sewing room kept the rain out! 

 

Wiggle Time Finish

Wiggle Time

It's a finish!

48 x 54

Wiggle Time pattern by Cynthia Brunz Designs

Someone gave me a coordinated set of four fat quarters and I added the fifth  This is a quick and easy make and I can see many variations of this quilt in my future made from scraps. 

I usually don't have many yard lengths of fabric to use for backgrounds but I just happened to have enough of this green tone on tone fabric left over from a backing I used on another quilt quite some time ago. 

You can't really see it unless you get close but there are what look like dandelions that have been wished upon. So, staying with a floral type theme I quilted in leaves on branches in green.  Maybe I should call the quilt Leafy Greens. But I don't usually name quilts I give away. 

And added green binding. 

And I added a wonderland backing. 

And now it is ready to comfort someone. 

And sew on...

Monday Making at Love Laugh Quilt

 

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

 

Every Once In Awhile A Girl Needs a Quickie

Wiggle Time Top

A Cynthia Brunz Design

Someone recently sent me 5 Fat Quarters (FQs) and I bought Cynthia's Wiggle Time pattern quite some time ago and I had a piece of fabric long enough for a background so...voila!...I whipped up a quick and easy top. AND I think I may have something for the backing but it may need a few pieces of something else added. So, this top may actually end up getting quilted in the same year the top is made which is very unusual for me. 

I've had the Wiggle Time pattern for quite awhile and this is the first time I've used it. I usually don't have FQs around and it never seems like I can decide on five fabrics that go together. When I can figure out five fabrics that go together then I don't have yardage for the background that matches. So then I move on to something else. 

This was quick and easy and and now that I know how it is constructed I think I have some orphan blocks I'll use to make one next. Or maybe some crumbs.  And sew on...

Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework