ABC's

This is the top of a baby quilt for my college roommate's grandson.  The fabric was so cute.  I fussy cut the letters and then bordered them with a limey green with red and yellow dots and a tiger-like red and black stripe.  To fill in for the 30 blocks I cut 4 of the cute dragonfly antics squares.
I like the way it turned out and the back will be a stripe with all the colors in it.
Now to get it done. This is an extra block that can go on the back.  Isn't he cute???

Have been working on a quilt for my cousin who does so much for me and is really sweet.  It is a sampler block lap quilt and I am doing it in a class at WCC by Judy Trott.  I had to find some more blueberry crumb cake fabric for the background and I am waiting for it to come in.  I found it on quiltstores.com.  It is nice to have the class to work on it.  Maybe our guild can have a night bee next year from 6-9??? I will work on the borders next week.  Have to make a pot load of blue/cream         4- patches .

Happy quilting.

S

Sewing time

I do so hate to have something not finished so the scrappy quilt that I had planned to have around just to have something in a box to take to bees is .....finished and I have started another one.  The one just finished is a compilation of two inch squares in fou-rpatches and what I call pointey pieces which is 2 inch squares on the end of a rectangle. As I have much stash but few scraps I am indebted to Connie and Pat for their contributions of 2 inch and 3.5 inch pieces from their scrap stash.  Now it is like a "seek and find" quilt.  I love looking at the different fabrics that I would not have bought. There are cows, golf balls, airplanes and even Elvis.   Here is the result with a red inner border ( I wanted to slow down the action not stop it dead with black) and a blue border ( I know surprise...) with white stars to let the acrion creep out to the edge. Now to find backing I like.

The one I started next is from a you- tube linked to the connecting threads from CQG and I liked several of them.  The first block I made with "sashings" ( more pointey things) but when I counted up how many of them I needed I realized of course that I did not have enough material so off to ME's I go looking for whites and creams with dark blue bits (she calls it shirtings... who knew?) but I bought the rest of three bolts.  Don't get excited it was just over a yard...so now the sashings are scrappy also.
Here is the first one.  Love the contrast.

Now all I have to do is make 20 of the 16 patches, 49 of the pointey sashey things and 30 of the four- patches.
I will celebrate the coming cold snap with a trip to The Cinema (Rialto in Raleigh) to see a really strange movie.  Hopefully, I can wake up to 50 something degrees on Monday am.
Happy Quilting
sally