Pineapple Crazy and Bramble Blooms QAL

 I am still doing catch up posts. I finally finished a very long term project, Bonnie Hunter's Pineapple Crazy quilt. Another top that needs quilting! (Sorry for the poor quality of the photos) The quilt finishes about 80" X 90". Linking up with Cynthia at Quilting is More Fun than Housework.

A couple of close up photos of the individual blocks. Each block finishes at 5" and there are 45 pieces in each block. I had several quilting friends donate scraps for this project which helped with the variety.

Now to the exciting news! Audrey of the famous Quilty Folk blog is having a QAL! You can read the first post about Bramble Blooms HERE. Audrey makes the most amazing quilts and they are all her own designs. I am hoping to learn a lot through this process, especially about improv and design.

My initial fabric pull.

Possible center panel fabrics.

Happy Quilting! Rebecca

Catching Up Part 1

Since I haven’t posted in a while I have some catching up to do. I finished both of my versions of Barbara Brackman’s Freedom’s Friends BOM. Here is a  LINK to the BOM patterns on her blog. 

They are just tops and still need to be quilted. In fact I am getting quite a pile of tops that need to be quilted.

My Blue version.

 

My Colorful version

This top turned out completely different than I initially planned. I was going to use all the colors of the rainbow in it, but after the first block was completed it went in a completely different direction.

More snow today, we got another 4 1/2". We purchased a snowblower and we will be trying it out soon! It is suppose to continue to snow Monday and Tuesday, so will wait until it has finished to put the snow blower to work.

Happy Quilting! Rebecca

Mom's Quilt Top

We had our first real snowfall on Monday, October 2, we got about 4". I would say winter is here for us!

I am going to try to blog again, I keep hoping that they will improve our internet speed. A few years ago they laid a bunch of cables along the roadway right in front of our house, but there has been no improvement. It takes me all day to do a post on our desktop, because it takes so long for things to load. If I post a photo I just get up and go do something else for at least 15 minutes, then it might be up. So today I am trying a Blog app and will see how it goes. One reason I want to start again, is that Audrey at Quilty Folk is going to do a QAL, it sounds so fun and so very generous of her to host it. It would be nice to join others in posting my progress. (Sorry I don’t know how to do a link yet)

When my mother passed away in February of 2012, I inherited some of her sewing items. One item was an applique project she had started for my sister back in the 1960's. My sister had taken it home with her when my mother went into a nursing home and a few years ago she mailed the quilt top to  me. The original project was for my sister's twin beds, when she was going to high school. My Mom hadn't finished it when my sister  had graduated from college and moved on to a job in California. Then my Mom sewed the two halves of the top together to make a quilt big enough for my sister's new bed.

Now what do I do with it? I am thinking of separating the two halves and make them into two twin  size quilts for my youngest son's two daughters. They are now ages 2 and 6. The problem there is I don’t know how washable they will be, might not be suited for young children.

 Pattern, templates and etc my Mom used.

Extra fabric, I could make more blocks and enlarge the top.

Batting included!

 Well, we will see how this post turns out!

Happy Quilting, Rebecca