Regina’s baby quilt

Posted on August 24, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

Regina quilt

I’m working on a baby quilt for a cousin who’s already been born. This quilt has dogs, an alligator, and dragonflies.  If I’d had any armadillo fabric, I would have used it! I hear that baby Regina has armadillo stuffies.

Here are two closeups:

Regina 1

Regina 2

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Eight different layouts for Chunk of the Month!

Posted on August 13, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

Now that the 6th and last Chunk of the Month has been revealed, I’ve been playing with layout possibilities. Here are eight of them. I’m sure there are more!

Layout 1

Doesn’t use 2 long sashing and 6 short sashing pieces, and isn’t quite symmetrical.

Doesn’t use 2 long sashing and 6 short sashing pieces, and isn’t quite symmetrical.

Uses all sashing but they are a little short. Would need to cut 2 morel small pieces of sashing.

Uses all sashing but they are a little short. Would need to cut 2 morel small pieces of sashing.

 

Similar to previous but 4 blocks moved

Layout 5

Layout 6Layout 7Layout 8

I really like this last one, but i’m going to keep arranging them to see if i find something i like better.

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Work in progress

Posted on August 10, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

Work in Progress

I’m working on two things at once. The other thing is 8 different layout options for Chunk of the Month-but I can’t share them util after Thursday when EBHQ has the meeting when we reveal Chunk #6. Here’s the quilt I can show you! I started some of these circular rectangle blocks while teaching the technique at Hello Stitch. Then there are pieces I made for both Lone Robins, and earlier leftovers that didn’t get used in whatever quilt I was working on. So, this is kind of a kitchen sink quilt, where I make the disparate pieces play well together.

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Playing with the chunks!

Posted on August 2, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

playing w chunks 1

 

I’ve been having fun, playing with the chunks! I think the first one looks like a string of beads. Here are two more options:

playing w chunks 2

playing w chunks 3The middle one is my favorite! I like the diagonals!

 

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5th Chunk of the Month!

Posted on July 13, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

When Julia first told me about Chunk of the Month, she was hoping I would do wonky versions, that would contrast with her more traditional ones. I did curved triangles for the first chunk, but none of the other chunks seemed to lend themselves to this treatment. I tried curved piecing for #5 but didn’t like the result. Here’s the process:

Chunk 5.1

First, I cut curves.

Chunk 5.2

Then I cut the same curves into the second fabric. It’s important to cut both fabrics right sides up!

Chunk 5.3

I sewed the pieces together and cut it down to size.

Chunk 5.5

This is what Chunk #5 would look like. I didn’t like it. It wasn’t worth the effort to make it wonky. I decided to change colors as I haven’t used any light blue since the first chunk.

Chunk 5 blue

Now I just need to make 7 more of these!

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4th Chunk of the Month!

Posted on June 20, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

I have now finished the 4th Chunk of the Month. Here are all four of this month’s chunks.

chunk 4

I played around with chunks #3 and #4, not sewing them together, but just exploring the possibilities.

chunk 4 and 3 together

I really like this combination!

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Chunk of the Month #3

Posted on May 14, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

chunk 3

This is the third Chunk of the month. I made four of these blocks. In Julia’s example, all of the light fabric was the same white.

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Sing back

Posted on May 8, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

Sing back

I decided to use the word sing as the back of my second lone robin quilt. I haven’t figured out the quilting yet, but I’ll make it up as I go along. Below is the front of this quilt.

LR top finished

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Words!

Posted on April 25, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

sing

Today I was the Zoom host in Cheryl Arkinson’s EBHQ class on piecing letters and words into quilts. It took me most of the day to make this. Singing is what’s kept me sane though the pandemic! Well, maybe both singing and quilting!

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Chunk of the Month

Posted on April 22, 2022 by silvert@catskill.net

March began with a new mystery quilt activity designed by Julia McLeod, who brought us our two Lone Robin activities. Each month Julia will provide a new PowerPoint of the Chunk, which will be revealed at Quilters Gather. Participants will sew four or eight Chunks each month, then set aside those Chunks for future assembly.

At the end of six months, the quilter will have 44 Chunks, which will create a 48” square quilt. Julia will provide yardage requirements and measurements for each Chunk. She will suggest a variety of settings for the Chunks. No two quilts will look the same!

Julia has asked me to do wonky/curved/my own take on the Chunk of the Month. Here are my first two chunks of Chunk of the Month. More details are on the EBHQ website.

Chunk 1

Chunk 2

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