Work in progress and another finish

 When I was making my Piccadilly Quilt I found I had made 10 Star blocks instead of the 9 the pattern required. Whenever possible I am trying to use up scraps and leftovers as they occur so I decided to turn the extra block into the centre of a small Medallion Quilt for the local Maternity Unit. I also incorporated some of the leftover HSTs as a border. I have finished the machine quilting and made the binding but I want to echo quilt around the Star with Perle thread so I will work on this during the coming week.

I just managed to finish my third Dolly Quilt to post it to our little great niece Maggie in time for her 4th birthday last Friday.

And the reverse, a lemon coloured small gingham fabric. 

I was happy with how all three quilts turned out but this is definitely my favourite. Very fresh looking with the greens and yellows.

2 RSC flimsies made

 I’ve had a more productive week, sewing two Wonky Stars flimsies using a lot of blocks made over the past couple of years during the Rainbow Scrap Challenges. I love making these blocks and will continue to use my 2” scraps and bonus triangles to make more. I’ve used several in borders on two Medallion quilts completed this year and this week I created two Wonky Stars flimsies.

This quilt will measure 24” square when it’s finished and will be donated to our local hospital’s Maternity Unit. Our Patchwork Group has donated lots of small quilts over the years but recently the hospital asked for larger ones ( 24” square instead of the 15” x 20” they used to prefer) I don’t know why they have changed the size, perhaps they have bought bigger cribs?

I also put together a 40” square flimsy which will be a Project Linus donation quilt.

My stack of Project Linus quilts is steadily growing and this week I added another Crumb Coins quilt to my stash . It measures 43” x  45”.

 A close up of some of the blocks:

And the pieced backing:

All the RSC projects are using lots of my scraps and so far I have managed to bind three Project Linus donation quilts with pieced leftover bindings. They look great.

I enjoyed arranging the three finishes for this photograph:

So, onward and upward!