Magic Stack-n-Whack

One of the groups I go to decided before Christmas that it would be fun to try a Magic Stack-n-Whack Quilt.  I have never done one and had to go and buy fabric for the quilt.  There were about 5-6 of us that thought we would try this technique.  Today 3 of the gals and myself bought our completed squares to share with the group.

These are Sharon's squares.  

She chose fabric with

birds and fruit.  I love the way the

squares seem to spin.

Deb's square.  

She thought her fabric was too

busy, but it looks just great.

These are Leila's squares.  

She chose fabric with flowers

and also different background fabrics.

This is my square and you can see what happens when

you buy fabric that isn't busy enough and there

was too much background in the main

fabric.  I think that my 8 squares will

become 2 donation quilts. 

I have to go and buy some black fabric now

to use for sashing and borders.

I will post the quilts when they are finished.

Peggy.

Quilts for Twins

This years marks 50 years since I graduated from Nursing School and I hope to go to my reunion in June.  Our renunions are usually held every 5 years and I have been lucky enough to go to the last few.  This will be a big celebration because the Alumni also gets involved when it is the 50th reunion.  There will be an Alumni dinner on the Friday night and then a dinner with just our classmates on Saturday night and a final Brunch on Sunday morning before we say good-bye for another 5 years.

I usually stay with one of my classemates and this year will be no different.  I am going to visit with Joanne and her husband Tom for a few days at their home and then we will book into the hotel in downtown Toronto to be with the rest of our classmates.

Joanne and Tom have twin grandsons so I thought I would make them something as a thank you.  I bought the fabric a few years ago when I was in Southern Ontario.

I bought the cute Riley Blake fabric with the cars

and some of the fabric from the 4 patches

and thought I would make them placemats

but thought that they might like a quilt instead.

The fabric with the children is also Riley Blake fabric

that I picked up here in town for something

else but decided that it would be

better in this cute quilt.

I made two of these quilts identical but the backing will tell them apart.  One is blue and the other light green. I took the idea for this quilt from Quilts by Jen.  She made hers with leftover layer cake squares but I was using fat quarters so I made my squares 9 inches to get more squares from what I had.

Peggy.