Year end round up of Quilt finishes

 I’m pleased with how many quilts I’ve finished this year. Just spent a happy time looking back over my photos and blog posts about them.

Some used blocks from stash, many like my Crumb blocks, made as Leaders and Enders over a few years.

 I made three I Spy Crumb quilts, combining the Crumbs with fabric scraps from stash. These were donated to our local Samaritans Charity Shop:

I used a pile of previously made Sawtooth Star blocks to make a baby quilt for my cousin’s new granddaughter. I had to make more blocks in order to create the quilt but was very pleased with the result.

Two quilts were made from various sized squares I had stashed away:

I finished an I Spy Baby Quilt UFO when I needed a baby quilt in an emergency. This was a flimsy in 2019 and listed on my blog to be finished in 2020. Didn’t quite make that deadline but it WAS finished on 7th January 2021.

I have been making RSC blocks for several years and this year I wanted to use some of those piles of blocks to make quilts. I made 4 quilts from RSC Ticky Tacky houses. Here they are:

Apologies, this photo is upside down!

Sorry this photo is sideways!

I used some RSC Twinkler blocks to make a quilt which will be donated to our local hospital’s Maternity Unit

My collection of RSC 49 patch blocks were turned into a quilt which I will donate to Project Linus.

And two RSC flimsies were finished this year, Warm Strings and Cool Strings:

I now want to spend time in my Sewing Room looking through my sets of RSC blocks to see if there are any sets which can be made into quilts and which sets I need to continue to add to during RSC 2022.

And of course to decide if there are New RSC block ideas I would like to start making next year.

I know I have a completed RSC Ship blocks flimsy which needs to be rescued from the UFO pile and finished in 2022.

Linking with Angela’s So Scrappy RSC blog.

Another RSC quilt is gifted

 Back on 18th April this year I quilted one of the two RSC String flimsies  I had made from the RSC String blocks I had been making for a long time. I used an idea I had seen in Cathy’s blog ( Crazy by Design), dividing my blocks into cool and warm colours. I put blue, green, brown and purple blocks together and called the quilt Cool Strings.

I decided to gift it to my best friend Barbara for Christmas so today I’ve embroidered and sewn on its label ready to wrap up and post tomorrow.

I love the pieced backing I made for this quilt, using some new fabric with an added vertical strip to make it wide enough for the quilt. The strip was a remnant I had from Helen, one of my Patchwork friends who had downsized into an apartment in February 2020 so was reducing her stash significantly.  Sadly Helen died a few months after I finished Cool Strings so this quilt has some nice memories for me.

I know Barbara will love the colours in this quilt so I think it’s the perfect Christmas gift for her.

Linking up with Angela’s So Scrappy RSC 2021 blog.

Another RSC 2021 finish!

 I finished another RSC 2021 quilt, using string blocks I made over a couple of RSC years. I created a flimsy a little while ago but now it’s a finished quilt which will eventually be donated to the Linus Project ( when I have a few quilts gathered together).

It measures 42” square and is machine quilted.

Some close ups of blocks:

Colours are much brighter, we had switched the electric lights on by the time I took the photos.

I bought 3 metres of a lovely backing fabric a little while ago online in a closing down sale and used some for this quilt. I love it.

I knitted another baby cardigan and matching hat:

And knitted three teddy bears from wool scraps:

This evening I parcelled up all my knitted baby things ready to post to trainee midwife Evie tomorrow. They will be gifted to new babies born in the two Maternity Units in London where Evie works.

Linking up with Angela’s So Scrappy RSC blog.