More Quilts

I haven't blogged for a while because my laptop needs a new hard drive and I might as well buy a new one for the price they quoted me.  Now I am using an old netbook so I hope I don't have any problems with it.

A Scrap Quilt with a sixteen patch made from 2 inch squares.

Peas in a Pod

I made it smaller than the original pattern by using 2 inch squares as the peas instead of 3 inch squares, and then also adjusted the sides of the pods.

This is my own pattern but it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.  I have since adjusted the pattern and made another one so it is better.  I am sure that fat quarters multiply while they sit in your stash.

Whirligigs and Pinwheels

This is a quilt that I made for my great-niece for her first baby.  I found the fabric when I was on the July shop hop in Southern Ontario this past summer.

Half square triangles in a chevron pattern

Churn Dash

A Churn dash quilt made with 2 inch and 2 1/2 inch square from a book called "I love Churn Dash Quilts"

A Scrap Quilt that I found on Susie's Scraps.

Peggy

My Memory Quilt with an update

I made this quilt last year and thought that it was big enough because I don't like making large quilts.  I thought I would use it as a lap quilt but then decided that I wanted to use it in my spare room that has a single bed in it.  I decided to add some borders to it.

Color Block

I found some really neat fabric that was nautical because some of the blocks are nautical theme and others are things that I saw or did on our trip.

I put 7 inch borders all around so now it is 62 x 76.  I nice size for a bed.

Peggy

More Teddy Bear Quilts

I have mentioned here before that our guild supports the Christmas Cheer Fund by making small quilts for teddy bears or stuffed animals.  I have been busy this past week making such quilts.  When I was in Duluth Minnesota at the Minnesota quilt show we also visited quilt shops in town and I found some really neat panels.  These panels had two panels per cut and they were all on sale.  Some of them were only $3, so I think I got a real bargain.

I made 3 of these with the yellow border and then ran out of the yellow so I added blue to the next one.

I bought 2 of these panels and ended up with 4 small quilts by adding borders to them.

I bought one of these panels so I still have one more to make of this design.  So that is 5 in the past week that I finished.

Last spring I made a few more but forgot to post them.  I found this pattern at the Fat Quarter Shop and thought it would make a good teddy bear quilt, so I made two of them.  The pattern doesn't call for borders but that made it a little bigger and perfect for a Teddy Bear.

A multi coloured one,

And a pink one.

This is a quilt that I have made before a few times.  It is really easy just half square triangles.

Our possibilities group thought we would try something new and we found and article in the magazine The Canadian Quilter that looked interesting.

It was called "Snip, Rip, Drop, Pass".  We all brought a metre of fabric and followed directions until we had a 5 inch square left.  We were to make a small quilt out of the fabric that we received and we could add a few pieces if we had to.

This was my quilt.  I found the pattern at the Fat Quarter shop free patterns, called Charm Pack Cherry

Peggy

Canada 150 Quilt Show Challenge

This was the year for our bi-annual quilt show and I forgot to post my entry in the challenge.  With just a few days to go until Canada's 150th birthday I thought I should get things together.

I chose an Inukshuk as the center of my quilt and put Northern Lights and Maple Leaves around it.

We were given 3 fabrics and could only add three more fabrics and then we were to make a quilt that was no bigger than 36 inches square.

I added the red in the writing, the white with snow balls on it for our northern winters and the green for the Northern Lights. 

I fussy cut the maple leaves so that the middle was a complete maple leaf fitting inside the red one.

The binding is the same fabric as the maple leaves.

Peggy

150 Canadian Woman Quilt

In March I started doing the 150 Canadian Woman Quilt.  These blocks are all based on Canadian women that made their mark in life in Canada.   I was 36 blocks behind and had only pictures of the blocks in order to make these 36 blocks.  Some of the blocks were easy because they were well known blocks but many of them were very obscure blocks that I had to figure out myself with no instructions.  I used some math and decided that 2.5 x 3 equals 6.5 since all these block are unfinished at 6.5 inches.  Also 4 x 2 equals 6.5 inches.  Most quilters should be able to figure out my math because I am also taking care of the seam allowances.

I am up to block 75 now and am half way there.  

I am pretty proud of these blocks since the one on the left had no instructions and I figured it out and it came out at 6.5 inches without squaring up.

The one on the right has 36 pieces to it and it came out at 6.5 inches.  I guess I have a perfect 1/4 inch seam.

Three more of my 75 blocks.  I am going to do all 150 of them and make a quilt for myself.  After all the work that I have put into these squares I think I need to keep this one.

Peggy

Bi-Annual Quilt Show

This weekend was our Quilt Show.  It was for 3 days Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Our guest quilter was Mary Elizabeth Kinch who spent 2 days in classes and then a fabulous trunk show last night at our banquet.  

The prize winners:

Third Prize

This quilt was hand quilted with half inch quilting in the negative space.

Second Place

The negative space in this quilt looks like Trapunto because it has regular batting and wool batting between the top and the backing.

First Place

This quilt has petit point embroidery along with Mariner's compass scalloped border.

Peggy

I Have Been Busy Over The Last Month

I haven't blogged for a while but I have been busy making quilts.

I saw this pattern on Missouri Star Quilt Company and it was perfect for my 2 inch squares.

This is a real scrap quilt.

Sixteen patch 2 inch squares with pinwheels.

I really enjoyed making this quilt because there were no seams to match when I put the blocks together.

Another Jar Quilt.  Lots of food here.

This was a neat quilt to make called Arrows but some of the blocks had squares that don't show up too well.

A child's quilt made with fabric with road signs.

This looks like a disappearing 9 patch but it wasn't put together like that.

Another scrap quilt made with a 4 patch and pinwheels.

Another food quilt but just patches staggered on the quilt.

Lots of 4 patches.

I bought this fabric about 5 years ago and finally found a pattern that I wanted to make with it.  

This is a quilt I made at the quilt bee.  I was leery of what it would look like with the assortment of fabric that I was given but it turned out really nice.

Peggy

More Placemats

I put quilt making on hold for a while and have been making placemats for the guild to give to Meals on Wheels.  Still using up some orphan squares and new pattern.

These were from a panel that I purchased a few years ago,

and just added some borders on the top and bottom.

Some flying geese that I found in a drawer that I forgot

that I had.  After I found these I discovered about 50 more 

they will be made into a quilt.

I found these squares all sewn together so thought

I would make a placemat out of them by adding

borders to the top and bottom.

When you don't read the pattern this is the result.

After I read the pattern this is the result.  

This is what they should look like.

Peggy.

Lots of Placemats

I have been busy trying to use up some of my orphan blocks and scraps and placemats are a good way to make good use of them.  

  

A couple of sets of placemats and a few that are definitely using orphan blocks.

Peggy