Easy Street, step one

I have joined the fun and am participating in the current Bonnie Hunter mystery, Easy Street. I have chosen solids. I love her colors but just don't have the selection. When I started looking at my bins, the solids jumped out. 4 colors + a background. I think it will end up looking South Western or Halloween depending on the pattern. Turquoise, Wine, Green, Orange and Black. Orange as my constant, black as the background.

My son stated that Halloween is over and my DH has asked if I have become a giants fan, wonder why? 

LOL, these comments are not surprising. I plan on making half the quilt so if I'm not in love with it, I can finish it, and move on to another project or add some more blocks to make it the right size.

Linking up to Easy Street Link up #1. Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day!

A Bag of Crumbs

A friend of my inherited a bag of crumb blocks and passed them on to me last month. It included incomplete strips and cut squares. Most of the blocks were made of 4”-5” strips of smaller strips. The blocks needed to be squared up to 8½”, others just needed a strip added. Ended up with 20 blocks and left over 4”-5” blocks which I squared up to 4½” since I planned on adding wide sashing. Almost done, just need 6 more sashing pieces on the side. Thinking about adding a wide orange border.

Funny how I ended up working on these crumb blocks with Bonnie Hunter working on 2½” crumb strips, sewing them together for a finished 8” block.


Bonnie has started a new mystery today. I have chosen solids. I love her chosen colors but just don't have the selection. When I started looking at my bins, the solids jumped out. 4 colors + a background. I think it will end up looking South Western or Halloween depending on the pattern. Turquoise, Wine, Green, Orange and Black. Orange as my constant, black as the background.

I plan on making half the quilt so if I'm not in love with it, I can finish it, and move on to another project or add some more blocks to make it the right size.

Linking up to Confessions of a Fabric Addict. Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day!

Memory Quilt

Finished a memory quilt for a friend of mine using her husbands shirts. Tony passed away about 2 years ago. They were married 57 years.

I received 5 plaid/stripe shirts along with 7 knit shirts. The knit shirts were hard to work with, used them for the hour glass blocks.

I'm using the ChunkyChurndash pattern from Bonnie Hunter, a free pattern from her blog. I increased the blocks size to a finish 7½ “. I also added a few flower printed fabrics, they seem to soften the plaids and stripes which seamed so flat alone.

Delivering this quilt today.


Linking up to Can I get a Whoop Whoop at Confessions of a Fabric Addict and Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Addicted to Basket Weave Blocks

YES, I'm addicted. Had to make these Basket Weave String Blocks after seeing them at Beth's blog, Love Laugh Quilt.

They are so much fun since each turns out different.

I have made 6 completed, but have 5 sets of strings put together.

Thanks Beth!

Made this block out of the scraps this week. My DH has claimed it for a mini quilt to hang in his office.

Linking up to CrazyMom Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

Strip quilts for Project Linus

Didn't make it to the September Project Linus work day but a request for quilts from a head start program came in last week. They requested 22 boy and 11 girl blankets. The PL slave driver coordinator thought we should make some strip quilts. My machine was in the shop last week, but I pulled some of my kid friendly fabric and other strips putting together 3 kits for myself. 48 hours later, my machine was back, sewing so smooth and I was busy.

These went together so quickly, pillow casing and only quilting in the ditch. I using a wavy stitch

Favorite has to be this wild fabric with the monkeys.

It has been hot here, 90's, cooler tonight, tomorrow, low 80s.

Emily's quilt

My DD best friend is leaving for UC Davis in a few days. Loves animals and wants to be a veterinarian. Has worked had towards this goal for a long time, voluntary at a office, being involved with animal rescue and fostering many animals. I wanted to send Emily off with a quilt showing support with lots of love and hugs. Bought some dog fabric for the front.

About 50% of the fabric was found in my stash, including the horse fabric on the back.

I was very happy with the fabric I selected for the binding.

Emily – Wishing you the best, study hard and have fun!


Linking up to Can I get a Whoop Whoop at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

Dump and Sew

When Beth at Love Laugh Quilt first posted about Dump and Sew I knew I had a bag of scraps to use. Several weeks before I had come home from Project Linus with a bag full of scraps and strips to make string quilts. I had made 60 blocks and was getting bored and had already started a few crumb blocks. Out dumped the bag, including the crumb blocks. I sorted a little, taking out the RW&B, and added some triangles.

Crumb blocks are at the top of the picture.


The hardest challenge of this project was not to cut as much as I normally do. There were many strips in the bag and I sewed some together, folded, cut in half, and sewed again. I sat at the machine, sewed, did not iron and did not use the rotary cutter; two hours later ended up with 14 odd shaped blocks. It actually was very relaxing letting go of rules and letting the fabric dictate what shape the block was going to end up. This is what I ended up with after ironing, and squared up the corners:

I made some connecting strips.

Final flimsy:

Yes, it looks like I threw in some perfect 16 patch blocks, but this one was made with a 3” and 2 1/2” strips (fungly fabric – lipstick & mascara). Sew, fold, cut. I think I could make a whole quilt this way.

Thanks Beth for challenge. I enjoy this method and will try it again.


Check out the other quilts at the linky party at Love Laugh Quilt.