Red Wonky Stars quilt

 I am steadily working through collections of blocks, mainly the result of RSC projects.

I had a lot of Wonky Stars in various colours and have been using them up in several little quilts.

Red is this month’s chosen colour so I picked out 13 blocks to make a hospital baby quilt. I chose two cream neutrals from my stash and cut 12 x 4.75” squares. When trimmed my Wonky Stars measured 4.75” square. A narrow neutral border brought the quilt up to the required size of 24” square.

I had a large piece if wavy red striped fabric which I used for the backing and binding.

I machine quilted it and I’m really pleased with the result.

Linking up with Angela’s So Scrappy blog.

Another finish. A Wonky Quarter Log Cabin Quilt

 I made a great bright quilt based on one of Pola Quilting YouTube videos.

It’s Scrap Buster #10 Wonky Quarter Log Cabin #1

I love Pola’s style, using scraps, strips, recycled fabrics to create colourful quilts for charity, friends, family and so on. Pretty much what I do, although not so much recycled and I certainly don’t have the stash that Pola has. I enjoy seeing her hauls from the scrap store and how she deals with them. So efficiently too!

I watched the video and made a pile of quarter log quilt blocks using 2” lemon, bright yellow and vivid lime green squares. I so enjoyed the process. I watched how Pola tried out making a quilt by putting four blocks together in the middle and then going out from that centre.

 I had to do a lot of jiggling and measuring but it was such fun! 

Here’s my finished quilt, perhaps it should come with a warning to put sunglasses on before you view!

It measures 42” square. I quilted it with a design I saw on Pola’s Quilting. I have never have been brave enough to try before and I took Pola’s tip to go with the flow. I used a yellow thread - literally just had enough to finish the quilting and put the binding on.

Heres a view of the backing, a lovely bright jungle print.

No other quilting was done because I wasn’t very well and ended up in hospital on Friday. Hoping to go home tomorrow as the team has made great strides in sorting out my various problems.

Hope I manage to make a start on those Friendship Stars that I intended to do this week.

Joining up with Angela’s So scrappy RSC blog. Plenty of green in my quilt to qualify for RSC green theme.