Aqua based quilt is progressing

 At the beginning of the month I found all my aqua/teal fabrics and scraps and put them together in a basket, ready for making into RSC blocks.

One of the pieces I discovered buried in my stash was this 10.5” square of fabric.

Obviously too interesting to cut up so I decided to make it the centre of a Round Robin style quilt. Can’t even remember how I acquired this fabric and it’s definitely time to use it.

I have been making some aqua Wonky Stars so picked out some of those and added a few with different colours to the mix and cut some 1.75” strips of a turquoise fabric with tiny white dots.

 

I framed the centre piece of fabric with the strips and started to add the stars for the next round.

I chose Wonky Stars that had a cream/fawn background but didn’t have quite enough so made another 6 blocks.

Then I added another round using a 3” frame of the turquoise and white dots fabric.

The quilt top now measures 27” square. I had intended to make this into a baby quilt for the hospital but now I’ve decided to keep on adding rounds and turn it into a Linus Project quilt instead. 

Wondering what to use for the next round and I remembered I had a packet of 3” pinwheels stashed away so, as the idea is to use up things (either scraps or blocks) that I have in my stash, I’ve decided to use these.

Here’s some of them:

I’m now laying out 1.75” HSTs from my stash to increase the variety of Pinwheels for the next row.

I’m having such fun creating this quilt, making use of scraps and blocks which have been squirrelled away for far too long. I’ve also enjoyed photographing and recording the process of creating this quilt.

Linking up with Angela’s So scrappy RSC blog.

Cute Happy Cats - a finish!

 My focus for 2022 is my word “Consider”. Part of the process is to consider my stash: to go through my stash, using up yardage as well as scraps. This has been easier to do because of my thorough sort through last year when I reorganised and labelled everything.

At the beginning of the year I started to design little quilts around the contents of my box labelled Happy Blocks. Firstly I made the little quilt called “In the Nursery “ I recently showed on my blog and a couple of days ago I finished a quilt called Cute Happy Cats made from strips of cat pictures given to me several years ago by my dear Patchwork friend Win when she was downsizing in readiness for moving into Residential  Care. Win died a few years ago at the wonderful age of 104. Some of the strips I used to frame the cats were also in the Happy Blocks box so the top came together quite quickly. 

It measures 40” square and was machine quilted. A nice bright fun quilt with lots of quirky cats to look at, ideal for a Linus Project gift.

                                               

                                                     Now, a couple of Close ups of those Cute Cats:

                                       

   I used my Pumpkin fabric for the backing and a cream coloured fabric for the sashing and binding.