RSC Child’s Medallion Quilt

 I am always trying to use up odd bits of fabric that have been in my stash for far too long. I had a piece of fabric about 10” square that reminds me of quaint churches and silos in the American countryside. No idea how I acquired it but it’s cute and when I found it again on one of my sorting out sessions I decided this was now the time for it to be used in a quilt.

I have been making Wonky Stars as RSC blocks so I picked out ones that would work with the centre piece and some of the many Pinwheels I made from waste triangles gifted to me over the last few years. 

I think I’ve only made one other Medallion quilt and I really enjoyed making this one. I finished hand sewing the binding a couple of days ago and I love it. It measures 40” square and combines machine quilting, hand quilting with Perle thread and I tied the centres of the Pinwheels with Perle thread.

Centre piece. Do you agree with my feeling of American countryside churches and silos?

Close up of some of the Wonky Stars.

More Wonky Stars. I so enjoyed picking these out of my Wonky Stars stash.

The tied Pinwheel round.

Linking up with Angela’s So Scrappy blog for RSC2022.

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.