Log Cabin

Another top which I had the blocks knocking around for (I think there's only one or two sets left, not counting the new, pink blocks I've made recently).  All assembled into this cheerful top (don'tcha love log cabins? I do, as you may have guessed!)

And another bordered top

Yep, another one. I am so all over this! And yes, there might be more featured in the near future.  Woo hoo.

Another bordered quilt

Here's another top which was hanging around waiting for a border, which no longer is.  I will add this to my charity pile... And the stack of tops waiting for borders is smaller - hurrah!

Quilting with Broccoli?

Here's another little quilt, bordered and ready to go to a charitable home - and no, the print in the border fabric isn't trees...

More borders...

Still working my way through a few more scrappy quilts which I want to border, adding the borders as I do other sewing. Here's another one I bordered this weekend. The print is a Lonni Rossi vegetable print - this one has broccoli on it (looks like trees from a distance, I know!)

Two scrappy tops

Had a chance finally to put together all those blocks from the scraps, which I showed a while back. There are two tops, same size, though slightly different both due to scrap fabrics and placement of the neutral strips, which I didn't control, particularly. 

Scrap stripy blocks

Here are 20 of the blocks laid out together to show what they'd look like as a quilt - not sewn together yet, mind you, though I am beginning to get them into fours. I actually ended up with 40 blocks, so there will be two quilt tops from these blocks.

Inspired by the block lotto...again

Today I needed something to sew where I didn't have to think a great deal, and which would attack the scraps which are once again building up in my strip bag and my scrap basket, so I decided to go with the idea of the December block in the block lotto (with strips added down the sides to make it a square). There are more to come, but these were the finished ones - others are still in process. This will probably be the first quilt top for donation made in 2014 - though I do still have a stack of 2013 tops in the house...

Second Scrappy Block

This one, same colour scheme, I think works slightly better than the one from the other day. When they are all together, I think they'll be alright, so I'm going to keep going with this colour plan. It's only a scrappy quilt, after all...

Actual sewing

Yep, really. Amazing, I know.  This is just a scrappy block,  as I am toying with the idea of doing another block of the month project (like the Oh My Stars Christmas quilt). I think this is too scrappy, though, so I might try again - I was trying to only use pieces from my scrap boxes (except the larger sizes - my boxes only go up to 5" squares) but I think they will probably prove to be too busy, even for a scrappy quilt. I might make another block from the project in a similar style and see how it works out.

Block lotto stripes

Actually had about half an hour to sew today, amidst many other things, so I made a few blocks for the December block lotto - a nice simple block this month, which is what I needed.  I might make some more, either for the lotto, myself, or both. There's still almost half of December left, and I actually have a couple of weeks off, so you never know!

More blocks together

Another set of blocks off my list of blocks waiting to be assembled. Not sure whether these will get a border or not - guess it will depend on the usual caveat of whether I have anything suitable to use as a border!

Flying Jetsons...

Yet another in the series of tops I am bordering and (eventually) sending off to Project Linus. These flying geese blocks were once again inspired by the block lotto (they are in groups of 3, grading from light to dark in each group - more or less). The border fabric is some of the Jetson fabric I bought on sale in the US this summer, with the express purpose of bordering.  I have enough to do another quilt with it as well (as long as it's small), though I might use it for a double four patch or something instead of a border. You never know!

Rectangles...

Once again, a set of blocks which were inspired by the block lotto. So often, the blocks there are quick, easy, and useful  for using up scraps. I made these a while back, but of course they sat as blocks for a few months before I joined them, and found a suitable border for them.  But now they are together, which is nice.  Nearly through with my pile of blocks waiting to be sewn together and my subsequent pile of tops waiting to be bordered.  Of course, then I will just start generating new blocks!

Batik leaves

Well, despite my good intentions, I missed the deadline for making some batik leaf blocks for the block lotto in October. But still, I wanted to give the pattern a try, so I made a few today. I didn't, however, want to make loads of them, so I just made 5, and turned them into a 9-patch with some batik fabric. 

And then used another pink and blue (and lavender) batik for the border. This should make a sweet quilt for a small girl, I think.

Strippy blocks, joined

It didn't take long to put together those 12 strippy blocks I made the other day. Of course, now that I've put them together, I will have to find some border fabric to go around them...

Hawaiian, with border

And here's the little Hawaiian shirt top, with the border fabric added. I still have quite a bit of the border fabric left - at least enough for another small quilt, so I guess I'll have to dig those shirts out again and think of something else to do with them!

Strip squares

Alongside all the catching-up-putting-borders on Linus Project tops, I happened to notice that my strip bag was getting a bit full (it's not a big bag, intentionally). So I decided to use some of them up, making some 12" blocks out of the strips. I made 12 of them (varying width strips, as well as a couple of pieces of binding leftovers - like the pieced green one in this block), which will be enough to work into a top (yes, another top!)...  The bag is much emptier now (though I will need at some point to do something with all the strips that were in there which were shorter than 12" to start with...)

Another Quilt Bordered

I had this little Christmas top waiting for a border and didn't think I'd be able to do anything with it, as I don't have much of a stash of Christmas fabric, but then I found this brown and gold fabric (which is actually kind of Australian aboriginal when you get close to it) which works very well with the centre. Another one ticked off the list - only a few more made up tops which need to be bordered in order to be sent off.  Of course, I do keep accumulating tops by making more scrap blocks. So that doesn't help!

Another little quilt bordered

Here's another top, with a border. It may well be the last for a while, though, unless I can find some more fabric to use as borders.  Might see what they have inexpensively at the local haberdashery department...