It's A Finish! Wonky Log Cabin

Wonky Log Cabin

42 x 56

It's a finish!

For the centers I used some leftover 4.5 inch finished Wonky Star blocks with blue and green backgrounds. Those were old leftovers from making a couple of quilts with Wonky Stars. 

In April of this year the theme in my sewing room was "Strings" so I dug into my bottomless box of strings and dug out blue and green strings to make 14 inch Wonky Log Cabin blocks. 

I quilted it on my Brother DSM with swirls in lime green thread. For the binding I found enough pieces of green and blue leftover bindings in my leftover binding box. 

For a bit of extra fun and a surprise... this quilt has some glow in the dark fabric - the white sheep with blue background.  Those strings as well as quite a few other strings in this quilt were the result of skinny quilt back trimmings. 

The backing is a black and lime green polka dot. I do love polka dots in any colors. They just say "happy" to me. 

And sew on...

 

It's A Top! Orphan Kayleen

Orphan Kayleen

42 x 51

September and October's theme in my sewing space has been "Orphan Blocks". I've been naming each orphan block top made this month like hurricanes are named.  The orphan blocks have come from several different sources and are not just all mine. 

And sew on...

 

Jots, Iotas, Smidgens, Whits and Orts: A Finish!

It's a finish!

Made of Jots, Iotas, Smidgens, Whits and Orts

Some might even call them crumbs

59 x 72

If you've followed my blog you have probably seen me doing a little scrap processing over the years.  One of the last things I do with leftover strip after I make blocks with it is to cut squares or if there is less than a square I sew the pieces into strips by width that I always said would be made into a Chinese Coins quilt someday.  Over the years those little strips have filled up a little box so I decided it was time to sew them together in April of this year. 

I quilted it very simply on my DSM with vertical lines in a caramel colored thread. 

The binding is an orange batik. 

The backing is striped.  It was a little short in width so I added an orange scrap to one side. 

And sew on...

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It's A Top! Orphan Jethro

It's a top!

Orphan Jethro

"Orphans" has been the theme in my sewing space in September and October. I've accumulated quite a few orphan blocks over the last few years so decided to try to put a lot of them together for comfort quilts for kids.  All of the orphan quilt tops have been getting names like hurricanes. I'm hoping to maybe get halfway through the alphabet before the end of October. But I'm also hoping to get some tops quilted since I have a new roll of batting sitting here. But I'm also hoping to get the gardens put to bed. But I'm also hoping...

All the pieces and parts came to me with some assembly required so I did not have to do a bunch of thinking to put this one together. 

Sometimes there is no time for thinking.

And sew on... 

 

It's A Top! Orphan Imogene

It's a top!

Orphan Imogene

42 x 48

"Orphans" has been the theme in my sewing room for September and October. A lot of orphan blocks needed to be put into comfort quilts. As I've been making the tops I've been naming them like hurricanes. I still have a lot of orphan blocks so not sure how far through the alphabet I will get!

This one started with the block in the middle and bottom right. Those two came from other folks.  I also had an old 12 inch block of squares in the orphanage (middle bottom) to add to the mix. It has Strawberry Shortcake in it and she hasn't aged a bit.  Then the top left Broken Dishes block was made with four 6 inch HSTs someone gave me. 

The rest of the blocks were made from miscellaneous 4 inch blocks from the Parts Department. 

I had two different small pieces of pink/white polka dot fabrics I used for sashing and a scrap of a strip I used for the cornerstones. When I finished the top with just the sashing I had just a small piece of the pink polka dot and the stripe left so decided to lengthen the quilt a bit and made some Flying Geese. 

Imogene is in the pink! Really, really pink!

And sew on...

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Monkey Wrench Quilt Top #4

Monkey Wrench Quilt Top #4

42 x 60

FYI:

FYI - 

Monkey Wrench Top #1

Monkey Wrench Top #2

Monkey Wrench Top #3

7.5 inch Monkey Wrench blocks

For the last couple of years one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects has been Monkey Wrench block in three different sizes - 5 inch, 7.5 inch and 10 inch.  It's always fun to make blocks from scraps until I have a big pile of them. Then it's always fun to see how many donation/comfort quilts I can make from those piles. 

For this one I used most of what was left in the pile of the Monkey Wrench 7.5 inch blocks. Now I will deal with the piles of 5 and 10 inch Monkey Wrenches. 

And sew on...

Finished or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

 

August and September Leader/Enders

Monkey Wrench Blocks

10 inch finished

August/September Leader/Enders

For quite awhile I've been making Monkey Wrench blocks from scraps in 3 different sizes as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project.  Someone gave me a baggie of colorful 4.5 inch HST parts. I pulled out all sets of four and paired them up with a neutral to make HSTs. I have been cutting 2.5 inch width scraps that are long enough for four squares into squares for my Monkey Wrench project box. So I pulled out some of those squares and paired them up with more neutral squares to make Monkey Wrench blocks for donation quilts.   I have a big collection of blocks now so after I finish putting the pile of 7.5 inch Monkey Wrench blocks into quilt tops then I will start on the 10 inch pile. 

Now I have sets of 2 HST parts as well as single HST parts to deal with but there are not many of those. The pairs will probably be paired with pairs of the same color for Broken Dishes blocks and the single HSTs will probably go into the Parts Dept. 

And sew on...