Scrappy Spring Quilt

Hi everyone!  

I have a finished quilt to share with you today. I used the quilt pattern Scrappy Summer by Cluck Cluck Sew which you can find here. I made the throw size quilt and it was a super easy pattern to follow and I love how it turned out.  You know how much I love scrappy quilts. Every time I look at it it makes me smile because it's so bright and cheerful. I hope it makes you smile too. 

The print fabrics are from my stash, the white fabric is from a thrift store sheet and the solid color fabric is from Kona jelly rolls (Bright Rainbow and Candy Bright). 

The backing is a thrift store sheet that feels like it was meant for this quilt. And the binding was leftover jelly roll strips. The quilting design is my tried and true straight line quilting 1/4" on both sides of the seams going both vertically and horizontally. The quilt finished up at 56½" x 64½" (before washing).

Well, that's about it. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Camille 

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

Re-Imagined Pottery Barn Kids Quilt

Hello everyone!

Today I'm sharing my latest quilt that I finished last week. As many of you know, I love to find sheets at thrift stores and use them in my quilts. Sometimes  I find old quilts at thrift stores too and I take them apart to use the fabric in new quilts. 

Last year while thrifting, I brought a Pottery Barn Kids quilt for $7.00. I had no idea what I was going to do with it but I loved the colors. The quilt was ripped in places and definitely had been well-loved.

When I found out a friend of ours was having a baby boy I knew exactly what I would use to make them a quilt.

So I spent a few days taking it apart and trying to figure out exactly what I was going to do with it. Once I had it all separated - quilt top, quilt back and binding - I decided on cutting the quilt top into 12.5" blocks. Once I did that, I then cut the blocks apart into  3 pieces: 6.5" x 12.5" and 4.5" x 6.5".  I didn't think I had enough fabric so I added some leftover plaid fabric from my Menswear quilt and I cut those up also. Then I sewed everything back together.  

I used the original quilt back but the binding was not in good shape. So instead I found a green sheet that was almost the exact green used in the original quilt back and cut strips from it. 

The quilt layout is 6 x 6 and finished approximately 68" x 68". (Not your usual baby quilt but a size that they can use forever.) 

I did my usual straight line quilting design - diagonal lines about 4" apart. Super simple.

So that's about it for now.

And Happy Valentine's Day!

Camille

Hello 2020!

Hey everyone! I can't believe January is almost over and this is the first blog that I've done. I wish I could say that I've been super busy but I can't. For some reason, it has taken me a really long time to get back to normal after the holidays and I don't think I'm there yet even now. 

Maybe this is my new normal????

Anyways, I finally got my quilting room painted and put together...not completely put together but enough that I've been working on quilts again. 

I think I told you guys that I was going to be starting a Christmas quilt...well I've gotten the quilt top done. Here are a few pictures...

 

                           


The pattern I used for this is Squares & Stripes by CluckCluckSew. (It's a free tutorial.) I haven't finished it yet because I haven't picked out the backing fabric or figured out the name of it...so I put it away for now until I find some more inspiration. But that's okay because I still have 11 months to finish it.

In the meantime...I started working on the Pottery Barn remake. Here is a picture of the quilt that I purchased at the thrift store...

I remembered I wanted to take a picture after I'd started taking it apart.  Luckily I caught myself while still working on the binding. (oh and it's hanging from a pole I had put up in above the closet door to hang stuff from.)




After taking it all apart I cut it all up into 12" squares. I then spent yesterday cutting the squares up and resewing them together. So far I'm really liking the randomness of it. I'll share more pictures of this one next time.







Well, I think we're all caught up. Today I'm going to actually start sewing the blocks together and see if I can get the quilt top completed this week.  I think next week I'm going to take the week off and work on finishing up my quilt room. We will see what happens. 

Until then...

Camille

Goodbye 2019

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone had a magical Christmas and is ready for 2020.

I hadn't planned on posting until after the new year but at the last minute (today) I decided to do one last 2019 post to catch everyone up on what happened in November and December and to have a quick look back before we get into 2020.

In November I finished the four-patch quilt where all the fabric used was thrift store sheets. It didn't come out exactly as I had planned in my head but I'm happy with it. It's called Flower Garden.

                               The quilt finished at 64" x 72" and is quilted with a simple diagonal grid.

 

                  

               

Then in December,  I wanted to do something for Christmas and found a really cute pattern in the December/January 2010 issue of McCall's Quick Quilts. It's called Nordic Flake and it finished really quickly, which I needed.  The fabrics that I used was another white thrift store sheet and a blue tonal fabric from JoAnns Keepsake Calico line. It finished at 47½" x 47½". It's hanging on the wall over my Christmas display in the loft, which is where we put up our Christmas tree and why I take 2-3 weeks off from quilting during the holidays.

 






So now that you're all caught up let's see what I did this year...

Of my 2019 goals, I completed 4 ½ out of 10:
Learn how to use the Electric Quilt 8 software that I got for Christmas (still working on this)
Make a quilt using paper piecing and/or foundation piecing ✔ 
Post on my blog every week ✔ (until I decided that was too much for me)
Participate in a quilt along ✔
Move my quilt "studio" out of the loft and into the spare room (still working on).

I also made 11 quilts this year, which included 3 Plus quilts (still my favorite pattern.)

So all in all 2019 wasn't bad.

And we have lots to look forward to in 2020. This year my only goals are to try different quilt patterns, use up more of my thrift store sheets, get my quilt studio done and try completing my 2019 goals.

I already have my first two quilts of 2020 planned out. The first quilt will be a Christmas quilt (why wait until December) and the 2nd quilt will be a present for good friends of ours who are having their 2nd child in Febuary. I also made them a quilt for their 1st child, Rainbow Blocks. They didn't know the sex of the baby so I made a gender-neutral quilt.

This quilt will be for a boy so I'll be using blues and greens. I already have an old Pottery Barn quilt that I found at the thrift store that I plan on taking apart and using to make something new. Can't wait to get into that.




Well, that's it for now.  I need to get ready for our annual New Year's Eve party at our friends' house and I still need to make our contribution...Crab Poppers. Hope they come out okay.

Until next time...Thanks for stopping by...

Happy New Year!!! and I'll see you in 2020.

Camille

I'll be back after the new year. Until then I hope you all have a Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!