My Scrappy Little Miss Sunshine Quilt

Hi everyone!!

I hope everyone is doing good, washing their hands and not going stir crazy. In case you didn't know, as of yesterday, there are 27 states with Stay-at-Home orders. Colorado's order went into effect on March 26th and I am already going a little nuts. Unlike most people, being at home every day has been my normal for a couple of years and right now I just want to get out of my house!!! 

I want to go shopping, I want to go visit my son in New Mexico, I want to go on our anniversary trip that we were planning before this new 'normal' started, I want to hang out with our friends in person and hug them to my heart's content, I want to drink beer at a bar instead of my couch, I want to shake hands with people I meet for the first time, I want to go to a baseball game, I want to see how far the Colorado Avalanche would have made it in the hockey postseason (hopefully the season will resume and we'll find out) ...I want to do all the things I took for granted last month...TODAY!!!

Okay...enough of my ranting...thanks for listening. I feel much better now.

Now back to quilting.

This is the quilt that I did during the Little Miss Sunshine quilt along that was run by Melanie at Southern Charm Quilts. It was my first QAL and I'm not sure I will do another one. It was fun and I learned a lot of new quilt blocks but I don't like to spread things out over such a long period of time.

The quilt was started on September 6th, 2019 and I finished it on March 6, 2020. There are 15 different star blocks and the background blocks are large 4-patches. Most of the blocks I had never done before so I learned a lot which is one of the reasons that I decided to take part in the QAL. I think I might do the pattern again but I will use a fabric bundle instead of making it scrappy.

The quilt finished at approximately 60" x 72". All the print fabrics, including the binding, are from my stash. The background fabric is a Low Volume Bundle purchased at Meander + Make (which is owned by Melanie of Southern Charm Quilts). And the back of the quilt is one of my thrift store sheets.

Well, that's it for today, but before I go I wanted to share a quote with you that I heard the other day. You might have heard it before but for whatever reason, it resonated with me. I hope it does the same for you.

Make each day your masterpiece.

                                    John Wooden

Thanks for stopping by...
Camille

Spring Forward

Happy start of Daylight Savings!!!

I can feel spring in the air. This weekend its been in the high 60s -70s in Colorado and I found daffodils (my favorite flower) at the store. I love it. I am done with winter, though I'm sure we'll have another snow shower before too long.

Things have been kind of quiet in my quilting room for the past couple of weeks. Yesterday, I finished sewing the binding on the quilt I made during the Little Miss Sunshine QAL. I haven't taken any pictures of it yet so you'll have to wait until my next post to see pictures. Hopefully, that will happen next week.

I started a new quilt on Monday using the Scrappy Summer Quilt pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew. Still working on it but here's a little preview...

The other thing that I have been working on since my last post is my collection of thrift store sheets. I decided I wanted to spend some time organizing and cutting them up into usable sizes. So I brought some comic book boards and started ... and I only made it through 8 sheets. And this is what I have so far...

 I feel good about what I've done so far but when I look at all the ones still to do it just seems soooo overwhelming. But they look so nice all organized so I'll keep working on it. But I think I'll break it down to one sheet at a time. Some of the sheets I brought to use specifically for the backing so I'm not going to cut those up. 

I must say playing with them has given me a couple of quilting ideas. 

One idea is a half hexagon quilt like this one I found at Southern Charm Quilts.

And the Acadian Trellis quilt made by Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation which you can find here. This is the back of the quilt and love how it looks. I have some sheets that are similar in color which I think would look awesome.

Maybe I'll just have to do both. 

Well, that's it for now. Until next time...

Camille