It's a Finish! Scared Shirtless

It's a finish! 

Scared Shirtless

65 x 82.5

It seems we have had a lot of family and friends diagnosed with catastrophic illnesses this year so my little stack of comfort quilts has pretty much been depleted. This will be put away for the next comfort quilt need. I really hope I don't have to give it if it means someone needs to get sick. 

 The actual quilt name is "For the Boys" from the book Quilt Lovely by Jen Kingwell.  The pattern made a square quilt so I modified it and made mine longer. 

There's lots of reasons to make a quilt.  I made this one to use some men's shirts scraps. 

 I had to do some piecing of itty bitty bits in order to have enough brown and blue solids to complete the quilt. I don't have any other blue solid in that color so I thought I might have to substitute a tone on tone or other blue solid but I scraped by. 

 As you can see I just did some easy peasy straight line quilting both vertically and horizontally. 

I didn't have enough blue or brown for the binding and I thought of using some shirts for a scrappy binding but ended up using the backing fabric for binding instead. I thought it might be kind of light but there's a lot of lighter shirts used in the quilt so I think it worked out okay. 

I used a wide backing that had blue, brown and yellow in it called Scratch Marks.  

This was my goal #7 

for

2019 Q3 Finish-Along

It's a Flimsy! Serendipity

 It's a flimsy! 

Serendipity

It's roughly 60 x 84

     my version                                           vintage version 

 It was inspired by a c. 1940-1970 vintage quilt.  

I think the block is a Stone Mason's Puzzle Variation and I set about making them my way in May.  The blocks finished a little larger than 12 inches. 

When the blocks are joined together they form a secondary pattern. 

 I had a lot of small chunks of blue green fabrics that I decided to use up in this quilt so each block has at least one piece of blue green fabric. 

 It's funny how some of the blue greens tend to look more light blue than blue-green depending upon the colors of fabrics around them. 

 My OMG (One Monthly Goal) for September was to finish 7 blocks and then sew them together into a flimsy.  Mission accomplished I'm glad to say since this has been an unusually busy month with little sewing time.   

OMG at Elm Street Quilts

Moving it Forward Monday at Em's Scrapbag

Monday Making at Love Laugh Quilt

Wishing Rings and Wedding Rings and Double X Variation in Purple

 Wedding Rings from purple  and neutral 2 inch scraps. Blocks will finish at 7.5 inches. 

 Wishing Rings that will finish at 3.5 inches.  The center and four corners are cut from 3.5 inch scraps and the four side pieces are cut from 1.5 inch scraps. 

Double X Variation blocks and Snowballs that finish at 4 inches.  I cut the 1.5 and 2.5 inch pieces from purple scrap chunks.  I had this piece of  mint green Kona yardage in my stash for quite awhile so am using it for the background.  These blocks were inspired by a vintage quilt. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday

It's a Finish! HISSS

 It's a finish! 

66.5 x 88.5

I've only had small snippets of time to sew the last several weeks so I just kept a quilt under the needle and did some free motion quilting when I could sneak away to the sewing room for a few minutes.  A few minutes here and there add up because I have several quilt finishes to share next week after all are bound and washed. 

My husband accidentally changed the settings on my Pentax camera. I've had them set perfectly for my picture taking for so long that I could not remember what the settings were so I've been playing around trying to make things right again, darn it.  So excuse the pics that might seem a little blurry, dark or too light.  

 I used the templates from Denyse Schmidt's book Modern Quilts Traditional Inspiration.  She calls her quilt Snake Trail. 

I call my quilt HISSS. That's the name of color matching game that used to be one of my grandson's favorite games to play when he was younger. (He's now a grown up ten year old). 

 I started making the blocks way back in 2014 as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project to use 2.5 inch scraps for the snakes and a variety of brown pieces for the background that looked like dirt. 

 I quilted it on my DSM with a variegated thread on top and a dark brown thread in the bobbin.  I didn't quilt in the snakes so they would stand out. I did a squiggly line either side of the snake since I'm not good at stitching in the ditch. 

 I quilted leaves...

 ...and a variety of flowers... 

 ...in the "dirt". 

 The binding is the same as...

...the backing. 

 The game and the quilt and some pictures of my grandson Jacob playing the game (when I find them) will go into the hope chest. I'll give it to Jacob at some later date when he sets up his own household. 

This was my goal #4

for

Q3 Finish-Along

Peacock Party at Wendy's Quilts and More

Finished or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

The Taming of the Purple Scraps

 This month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color is purple. 

I dug into the 3.5 inch scrap bin and made some Broken Dishes blocks.  A few pieces left over that were less than a 3.5 inch square was sewn into a strip. Long ago I used to throw those pieces in the crumb box but the last couple of years I've been sewing them into strips for a Chinese Coin quilt. 

 I made a few Cat blocks from chunks of purple. I've been using different gray scraps for the backgrounds.  My goal is a twin sized quilt.  I'm not sure how they will be laid out. 

 I made little rail fence blocks from 1.5 inch scraps. I included a few light blue I didn't get finished last month.  I've been making these for a couple of years and probably need close to 200 more for a queen sized quilt. 

These Sixteen Patch blocks came out of the 2 inch scrap bin. 

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

Serendipity

I just made eight more Stone Mason's Puzzle blocks. I'm calling my quilt Serendipity. It is inspired by a vintage quilt.  Each block contains at least one blue-green fabric and they are approximately 12 inches finished.  If you want more of the back story  and how I'm making the blocks it's in my May 9 post.  

I now have 28 blocks and my target is 35 blocks for a 5 x 7 setting. 

My OMG (One Monthly Goal) for September is to finish 7 more blocks and then sew them into a top. 

One Monthly Goal (OMG) at Elm Street Quilts

Monday Making at Love Laugh Quilt

Moving it Forward Monday at Em's Scrapbag

Rose Petals

 These aren't really quilt blocks but a combination of rose themed scraps left over from two different quilts and leftover crochet cotton. 

 The squares are 4.5 inches. Two of them are sewn right sides together and turned.  That will make for a reversible blanket. Next I blanket stitch around the sides.  Then I crochet around the edges.  I took 14 of these prepped squares on vacation with me last week. 

I completed the crochet around the edges of 12 of them. 

Time to prep more squares. I'm not sure how far the pink crochet cotton will go. If I run out I may have to switch to another color. I have lots and lots of odds and ends of crochet cotton so I definitely won't run out. 

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework