Star Gardener Quilt - A Quilt Made Entirely from Sheets

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to stop in and share my newest quilt finish with you all. As the title of this post states, this quilt was made entirely from thrift store sheets. There has been a lot of buzz on Pinterest and Etsy about vintage sheets. Most of my sheets are not vintage which I'm okay with because most vintage sheets are not 100% cotton which is what I try to find when I go to the thrift store.  

I started using thrift store sheets for the backings of my quilts because I can get a King size sheet for $8.00 or less depending on which store I go to and if its a 50% off color tag. And the older it is the cheaper it is. Plus I get to add to my fabric stash when I don't use leftover fabrics for the backs. 

So on to the quilt...

Have you ever started a quilt and then decided what you had planned wasn't making you happy. 

That's what happened on this quilt. This started as me trying to do a quilt based on the back of the Acadian Trellis quilt which you can see here.  It did not go well. The colors I was trying to use wasn't working and I was not happy. So I decided on a Starflower quilt and cut the strips into squares. But once I got all the pieces on the design board I decided I wanted it to be bigger. After some searching for ideas, I found this Star Gardener block and adapted it to make this quilt.    

  

                            

The quilt finished at 68" x 68" which I think is a nice cuddling up size.  Some of the fabric/sheets used were also used in the Wildflower Bouquet quilt. 

I quilted it in two different ways... in the ditch and also straight line quilting 1/4" on both sides of the vertical and horizontal seams.

For a quilt that I was not really happy with when I started, I think this came out pretty good and I'm looking forward to using it this summer as a picnic quilt.

As always, thank you for stopping by!

Camille

 "When in doubt, stand still."

                             - Julie Andrews

Wildflower Bouquet - A Half Hexie Quilt

Hi everyone! I hope this post finds you happy, healthy, and sane. 

I got some awesome news yesterday... DSW and ARC Thrift stores in my area are now open. WOOHOO!!! So on Saturday, I plan to do some much-deserved shopping therapy. I CANNOT wait. Online shopping (which I've been doing a lot of) is great in a pinch but there's nothing like the real thing.

In the meantime...I have some photos to share with you of my latest finish - a half hexie quilt.

Ever since I started quilting I've loved the hexagon quilts that I've seen on Pinterest but knew that I wasn't cut out for English Paper Piecing. So you can imagine how happy I was when I saw a half hexie quilt. I purchased the Lori Holt Hexie Half Ruler set and found two tutorials that I liked - this one by Cloud9 Fabrics and this one by Southern Charm Quilts. After adapting the tutorials to what I wanted to make this is what I came up with.

I used the 10" hexie ruler and I absolutely LOVE this quilt. It was made using fabrics from my collection of thrift store sheets except for the red and dark blue floral, which are quilting fabrics from my stash. There are a total of 144 half hexies from 14 fabrics/sheets.  The quilting design that I used was included with the Cloud9 Fabrics tutorial. Basically, the design makes triangles that perfectly compliment the pattern.

This was super fun and really easy. I will definitely be making more half hexie quilts in the future.

Until next time...

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