What I'm Working On

Hi everyone!

Have you seen the quilting book Scrap-Basket Bounty by Kim Brackett? If not, you should. I love this book. 😍❤ It's packed with 16 scrappy quilts that are super easy to make and will definitely put a dent in your scrap stash. Not only are there 16 quilts, but each pattern includes two additional block arrangements. 

I started with the Star Petals pattern, but I'm sure I will be making all of them because they are all fabulous.

Today I'm sharing the quilt top with you.

             

No. I haven't made two quilts, but there's a mistake in one of these pictures. Can you find it? 

Luckily, I was able to find it and correct it without too much hassle.

I started quilting it yesterday, so hopefully, I'll be back soon to share lots of pictures of the finished quilt with you.

Until then...thanks for stopping by!

Camille    

                         

A Sweet Heart Quilt

Hi everyone!

I can't believe it's been more than a month since I last posted. Wow, how time flies. But I'm back today to share a quilt with you.

This quilt is a Valentine's Day quilt that I finished in March. For the pattern, I used Big Love Quilt by Modern Handcraft, which you can find here. It's a super easy quilt to make. It's made up of large half-square triangles and, I love how it came out.

All the fabrics that I used.

You can't tell but, the backing is a very light pink.

Our dog Rocko wanted to be in the picture.

I had a lot of fun picking out the fabrics. They are all from JoAnn's and Walmart. The backing, as usual, is a thrift store sheet. The quilting is my usual stitch in the ditch of all the seams. Super easy. And I sewed the binding on by machine. 

The finished quilt is 54″ x 62″.

Since it wasn't finished for Valentine's Day, I guess I have to wait until next year to display it in my house. Oh well.

That's it for now. Until next time...

Thanks for stopping by!

Camille

A Fish Tale - A Completed Quilt

 Hi everyone!

I have a new quilt to share with you today. It's called A Fish Tale and is a gift for a new baby boy coming soon. His parents are friends of my son and, this is actually the second quilt I made for them. The first quilt was done in 2016 for their first child, a little girl. I used the same pattern, Fast Four Patch Quilt by Diary of a Quilter, for both. She has a great tutorial which you can find here.

Now on to pictures…

I started this quilt on 02/05/2021 and was finished on 02/15/2021, so it is truly a fast quilt to make. The quilt finished at 47" x 55". The pattern has you layout the quilt blocks into seven rows of five blocks each, but I used six blocks to make it a little wider.

I had no idea what fabrics I was going to use for this quilt but, I found this fish fabric at JoAnn's and fell in love with it. I knew that it would be my focus print.

The backing and binding are from a thrift store sheet, and the quilting is my usual (and favorite) diagonal grid.

And here are pictures of the first one that I made.

Well, that's if for now. I hope you enjoyed A Fish Tale as much as I do. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Camille

1st Finish of 2021 - It's A String Thing

Hi everyone!

I finally finished my string quilt and, I love it. Do I say that about all my quilts? Yeah, I think I do, but that's a good thing. Right?

It turned out better than I had hoped, and I plan on keeping this one for myself. I have lots more strings left in the stash, so I'm sure I will be making another one soon.

A have a bunch of photos to share with you. So let's get started.

All my scrap bins ready to start.

This is how my workspace looked at the end.

  

This is the quilt top on the design wall. I wanted this quilt to be on point because I liked how the blocks looked. But I didn't want to make corner setting triangles or side-setting triangles, so instead, I whacked off the hanging triangles. I must admit, I started to second guess myself after the first triangle was trimmed. But at that point, there was no going back. 

I really like how the border, binding, and flange came out. The border is 2 inches and is not quilted.  For the flange, I cut 1-inch strips and sewed them together just like binding. Then I sewed them to the quilt before adding the binding.

The quilt finished at 71" x 71".

As usual, the backing is a thrift store sheet. For the quilting, I stitched in the ditch vertically and horizontally each block. Super simple but I love how it looks on the back.

The string blocks are made with a fabric foundation. I read a lot of blog posts where people said using a foundation made the quilt heavy, so instead of using batting, they just used flannel or fleece.  I didn't have enough of either and didn't want to buy any, so I used batting anyway. I weighed mine after it was finished, and it only weighed 4 pounds. I personally didn't see any difference between it and my other quilts of the same size. But to each his own.

Anyway, that's it for now. 

Thanks for stopping by...and I'll see you soon with another quilt.

Camille

WIP - It's a String Thing

Hello everyone!

I'm stopping by today to share what I've done so far on my latest quilt. If you remember from my last post, I started a string quilt last month. As of Monday, I finished all my blocks and got them all up on the design wall. Here's a picture of them...

This is not the final layout. I have a layout planned, but you'll have to wait a little longer to see it.

As for now, I love how they've turned out. It's amazing what happens when you sew strips and strings of fabric together.  As I was making the blocks, there were a few that I just wasn't sure about, but once they were trimmed down to size, somehow they just worked. 

Every time I walk into my quilting room and look at them, they put a smile on my face. 

Well, that's it for now. I'll be back soon to show you more. 

Thanks for stopping by...

Camille

 

Year in Review - Saying Good-bye to 2020

Hello friends!

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, even if it did look a little different. Granted, everything has looked different this year and, I'm sure it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, but there is a light at the end of this long tunnel. Hopefully, when we look back on 2020 many years from now, we will have some good memories to offset the bad.

So let's get to what happened this year.

I didn't set many goals this year other than use up some of my thrift store sheets (🗸), get my quilting studio done (🗸), and try different quilt patterns (🗸).  

Not bad. I also made 12 quilts this year and, only one of them was a Plus quilt.

   

              

                                                                                                                                                    It's definitely been a colorful year. I'm still working on the string blocks that I talked about in my last blog and still having fun making them. I'm pretty happy with all the quilts that I made this year. Looking back at these quilts, I've come to realize that I really like scrappy quilts. So maybe that's what I'll do next year. We'll see.

One thing I plan on doing in 2021 is looking at updating my blog. Maybe moving over to WordPress. 

I haven't decided yet, but I'm not happy with how difficult it is to get pictures where I want them. It can be very frustrating. But we'll see what happens.

Well, that's it for now.

Thank you so much for reading and following along this year.  Here's looking towards a fantastic 2021.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Camille

It's a String Thing

Hello friends!

It's almost Christmas. Are you ready?

I am!! For the first time in many years, I'm a little ahead of schedule. All the presents are wrapped and under the tree. 

This is the first year since I started quilting that I didn't have to put away all my quilting stuff. We use our loft for the Christmas tree, which was also where my quilting space was. But now I have my quilting room, so guess what I've been doing? You guessed it. I've been working on a new quilt.

I've always wanted to make a string quilt but didn't think I had enough scraps. Well, that's not a problem now. So I finally started one and, I'm enjoying the whole process. I can definitely say I will be making more in the future. 

Now a few pictures...

Blocks on the design wall in no particular order.

My working space before I started. (It does not look like this now!)

I'm making a total of 72 string blocks. I have no idea how long this will take to complete, but that's okay because I'm not in a rush to finish. I'm just enjoying the process and we'll see what I end up with.

Thanks for stopping by...and I'll see you in 2021.

Wishing you a Happy Holiday and a joyful New Year!

Camille