Blocks

 Dear Readers,

Miracle of miracles I have another finish to share.  After I trimmed off Starry I had lots of the backing left as I had oversized the back and I also had some end of strips from my seven inch wide strips.  It looked like it could be combined to be a baby quilt.  

48 x 57

So I put them together and was pleased but thought it needed a border.  So in my quest to use some of my "ugly" fabric up I found a small print for the border.  I also did not want to cut up one of the pieces I had that would be big enough to do a large quilt, so I took one of the strips that I had trimmed badly on starry, the ones I had remade, and used it with some larger scraps for the back.  

Super pleased with those results.  This quilt will go to Tracy Carter's first grand.

Close up of the quilting

So far this year, I am 5 for 5.  Five quilts done five months in....

Sew on,

Terry

Starry

 Hey Readers,

During the pandemic I started Bonnie Hunter Summer Mystery that she ran during the pandemic.  Click here to get the pattern.  The first few weeks went well.  It is a medallion quilt.  Each week there was a new round.  In the first 5 rounds I kept up so well... then I must have moved my seam guide or got it on the wrong place and all the stars 

These were the first couple of weeks... next it looked like this... loved the added spinning friendship stars.

The next week we made lots of flying geese.  We just put these top and bottom...

The next week we just made bazillion half square triangles.

The next week we made stars and I don't know what happened but I think the seam guide got shifted a bit and they came out the wrong size, so I decided to trim the blocks down to the right size, knowing I would lose a bunch of the corners, but decided I could live with it.  After I trimmed them down, I hated it.  So I decided I would remake the bazillion half square triangles and redo the squares.  I just didn't have time...right then so I put the project on the corner of my sewing table.  Where it lived for a number of months.  Finally it got close to Spring Break and I decided to do all the cutting for this project and kit it up so that I could work on it at the beach.  

I got everything cut up for the last two rounds as I now knew what the mystery would look like and how many rounds there would be.  So I got the half square triangles done at the beach and trimmed the wonky ones. After returning I made the next round and the final two rows.  About this time, I thought I should check on whether the possible recipient even liked these colors.  Well she said her favorite colors were teal and peach. I had bought the assorted teals from this project and peaches I had bought for another project that never got made and decided to cut them up and make a pieced back.  So I quilted it last week and it is done.  

And the back...

I hope she loves it.   Gifting it on Monday!  It is going to my only Calculus student this year.  Mary Hope Gammel.  I have taught her for 3 years.  She has been the highlight of my day this year.  I know she will be a big success in what ever she puts her mind to as she has a great work ethic and great attitude.  Best of wishes to her.

Sew on and Happy Mother's Day!!  

Terry