More Quilt Finishes

I have been making quilts for my nephew and his wife.  He wanted me to make a king size Hawaiian quilt but that was too great of an undertaking for me.  I thought I would make them each a lap quilt which they could use on cool days or nights.

Read All About It Quilt

I have made this quilt before.  It is from the book Strip-Smart Quilts by Kathy Brown.  There is one big problem with this quilt and that is that there is a lot of left over squares.  So what do you do with these left over squares?  I made another quilt.

My Version of Read All About It

I used all the left over squares and put the quilt together in almost the same pattern.  I had to take a few squares apart so that the squares in the quilt went together in a pattern.  I call these my twin quilts.

These quilts are not for alcoholics; they are for a couple who live in the Napa Valley in California so I thought the fabric was just the thing.  The light brown fabric is corks and the border and backing are tossed wine bottles and glasses.  I thought it was very fitting for wine country folks.  To top it off I picked these fabrics up when a local shop was going out of business so I go a real good deal on the fabric.  I bought the rest of the bolt of the tossed bottles, so I used it for the backing as well as the border.

Peggy.

My Twin Quilts....Well Almost

Back in November 2011, I blogged about the 90 Degree Double-strip Ruler and Strip Smart Quilts by Kathy Brown.

I decided that I would make "Read all About it" using this ruler.  It was a lot of fun to use the ruler and the blocks went together really fast.  When I got into making the quilt the instructions said that you would have 24 blocks leftover.  Well that got me thinking.  Maybe I would make a second quilt with the leftovers and a few more strips.

"Read All About It" in Green

(My Son wanted a quilt in green)

This is the backing.

"Big Sky Country"

South Sea Imports.

Because I had purchased a lot of fabric I decided to make a second quilt.

This is my own design using leftover squares and a few

more strips of fabric.

The Twin....almost.

The backing is "Wild Wings by Persis Clayton Weirs

for Springs Creative Products Group."

The backing is almost as nice as the front of the quilts.

Possibilities Club

Our local Quilter's Guild has a club that meets the last Tuesday of every month except December and June where quilter's bring ideas or projects to share with the group.  This week Wendy and Sharon were the presenters and they brought specialty rulers to show the group.  Wendy brought the Deb Tucker Square 2 ruler used for making a square within a square block.

Sharon brought the Creative Grids 90 degree Double Strip ruler.

She also brought along a book that used this

ruler to make quilts.

This ruler makes quilt making go very fast

and is very efficient.

I fell in love with the ruler and book

so I went out to-day and

purchased them both.

While I was at Luci's shop I also purchased a pattern to make a cushion from my Paris fabric

"Romance de Paris from Le Rouvray shop".

This gorgeous fabric costs me a lot of Euros so I want

to be very careful about using it.

This is the cushion that was in the shop.

And this is the pattern that I purchased to make

this cushion.

There is also a table runner with this cushion

so I got 2 for 1.

I had a great shopping day and came home with a lot of loot.

Peggy.