Let's Book It -- Scrap Crystals

It's time for this month's Let's Book It linky party with Sharon at VROOMANS QUILTS. 




I'm using these blocks as leaders and enders.
This is all that I made this month:

I am still working on Scrap Crystals, pattern by Bonnie K. Hunter in her wonderful book


This is Bonnie's newest release.  You can order it from her here.

I've only been working on my scrap crystal blocks here and there as a leader/ender project.  Remember my block on the wall for inspiration?  It's still there.  But as "free" blocks as leader/enders, here's the blocks I made last week:



You can see a pic from Bonnie's Quiltville site here.  The red/white/blue version looks awesome on that page too.

 

WIP Wednesday 4.29.15

Counting down the days until summer vacation.  Twenty!  Yikes.  Better get working on some of my customer quilts!  Here's what happened this week:

I finished the quilt on the longarm pictured below and decided to throw another customer quilt on the frame.  Here's Bonnie Hunter's pattern, Smokey Mountain Stars.  I have decided on the Jesters pattern.  The Loopys just weren't working for me.



I made a back for a customer quilt.  It can now be moved to the longarm area in the other house!  Sadly the customer thought she bought enough fabric for the backing of two quilts.  I'll have to shop for fabric for the other quilt back for her. 

 

 

I finished part 3 of The School Bell Has Rung is a sampler QA.  laugh yourself into Stitches.  

 

I finished the two purple Sawtooth sampler blocks for the RSC15 sampler.

 

I finished this purple table topper for the RSC15.  I liked having a little finished project for the month for the RSC15.  I may have to do more of this.  This is called #Twistsandchurns.

 

 

I loved playing with my Circle Lord microfiller templates.  I see more of this in my future for sure!  You can see more about the quilt on my post here.  It took five hours to longarm; love the details!



I worked on this customer quilt.  I quilted it with the Circle Lord Jesters pattern.  Love it too!




I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced today here.  (I'm not sure why there isn't a WIP Wednesday linky party on Lee's blog yet...)

New Projects This Week
None

 

Pieces Still Need to be Cut & Sewn

1.  Underpants Project 

2.  Digging up Bones (Owen's dinosaur quilt)

3.  Rock Island Campfire Quilt

4.  Picadilly Circle

5. ...And Sew On BOM at Quiet Play (one block to go)

6.  MSBHQAL (Molli Sparkles Broken Herringbone Quilt Along)

7.  Spring Sampler Series at Cora's Quilts

8.  Gypsy Wife QA (recycling  Red/White Flower Basket Quilt into this project & duds.)

9.  Leah Day Building Blocks QA

10.  Love Laugh Quilt Christmas Improv QA
11.  Classic Meets Modern BOM
12.  Mod Mod QA (turning this one into a baby quilt) 

13.  Super Mario QA

14.  Grand Illusion -- Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt 2014 

15,  Sew Sweet Simplicity BOM (made from shirt scraps)

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14) Need one more red block and sashing made

17.  Modern Trees QA (at Christ's Quilts)

18.  Cabins at the Lake (from Fons & Porter Magazine) (only one house block complete.

19.  Wanderlust (A Bonnie Hunter pattern -- only 2 blocks done.)

20.  Flowers and Watercan (wall hanging)

21.  Little Houses

22.  Split Stars (Block Lotto win)

23.  Spools (Leader & Ender project with Bonnie Hunter)

24.  Fortune Teller (RSC14 started -- need blocks each month)

25.  Slabs with White Rectangle (RSC14 started -- need blocks each month)

26.  Pat Sloan 2015 BOM -- Vacation Time

28.  Charm Square Sampler QA by Modern Tradition Quilts

29.  QM Bitty Blocks QA

30.  The School Bell Has Rung sampler at laugh yourself into Stitches. 

31.  Starry Night customer BOM project

32.  OSU flannel customer quilt

33.  Urban Churn Dash customer quilt

 

Blocks Still Need to be Made

1.  NY Beauty

2.  Orca Bay

3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler

4.  Sweet Simplicity BOM

5. Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt

6.  Color coordinated hexagon quilt
7.  Gourmet Quilter Sampler
8.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt
9.  Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt)
10.  Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt
11.  Scrap Crystals (working on blue pieces for RSC15)

12.  RSC15 Sawtooth Star Sampler

 

Blocks are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)
1.  Block Swap Adventure Orange/Yellow Sampler (2011-2012)
2.  Block Lotto Dud (Orphan Block Quilt)
3.  Orange/Blue Fish Blocks (that I won)
4.  Split Stars (blocks won from Block Lotto; October, 2012)
5.  African Violet baby quilt (Block Lotto inspired)
6.  Tall Fly

7.  December 2014 Block Lotto Big O blocks that I won 12.31.14!

8.  Sonja's Windows string quilt

9.  Block Swap Adventure (2013) Churn Dash Blocks 

 

Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done)

1.  Celtic Solstice (Bonnie Hunter Mystery 2013)

2.  Surround Stars Pillow (one big block is here somewhere.  It will be a pillow when I find it.)
3.  OSU customer quilt #2

Ready to longarm
1.  Little Letters QA Quilt (A RSC14 project)
2.  Julianne's Grand Illusion

3.  Customer Quilt #2 -- Scrap Squares

4.  Customer Quilt #3 -- Bonnie Hunter Stars pattern

5.  Customer Quilt #4 -- Browns and Golds

6.  Customer Quilt #5 -- Scrappy Fun

7.  OSU customer quilt #1

 

Quilted, needs binding

1.  Antique quilt that needed a binding repair

 

Completed this week:

 1.  #Twistandchurns purple table topper (RSC15 project)

 

65 -- Current WIPS

10 -- Finishes for 2015

 

WHEW!  I'm exhausted just typing this list!

Smokey Mountain Stars on the Frame

I have a customer's quilt (Smokey Mountain Stars) on the frame today.  This is a Bonnie Hunter pattern.  You can find the free pattern on her Quiltville blog here.  I'm still unsure how to quilt it.  Let the inspiration/suggestions flow!

 

Hmmm.  I'm thinking Circle Lord Loopy Loops?

 

Fabric Twine -- A new fun take along project

Cintia blogs at My Poppet Makes.  I think I have found a new love of what to do with all those strings!  Check it out!!!  I plan to make a few pot holders.  After that it will be rugs!  (Quite an ambitious goal, but it's a goal!)  She has an awesome YouTube video

The School Bell Has Rung QA -- Part 3

The School Bell Has Rung is a sampler QA.  Follow along at  laugh yourself into Stitches.  This is a small 31" x 37" quilt.  Thank you,  Karen Walker! What I hope to learn from this little quilt are a few longarm quilting techniques.  I love the way Karen's is quilted.  I may try some freehand feathers!  I'm also making this with Halloween theme fabric.  Here's my eight blocks for step 3:

Scrap Saturday RSC15 Last of the Purples

I am caught up with the sawtooth star samplers for the RSC15.  The star part of my purples are more mulberry.  I love these bold colors (which I don't usually have a lot of.)

Yesterday I posted my little #twistandchurns table topper.  I found the pattern fun and decided to play more with my purple scraps.  I love it!  I also played with my Circle Lord microfiller boards.  Check out this little stitching.  It makes for a really flat table topper! 

I got the pattern from a free e-book.  It's called Twists and Churns.  I omitted the small churn dash from the center of the mini because I will most likely be using it as a table topper.  The design is by Sandy Whitelaw.




I longarm quilted these four patterns onto the quilt using my Circle Lord microfiller templates and a stylus.  It took five hours to quilt.  It was my first time using the boards.  I wanted practice.












I'm linking up with Angela's blog, SoScrappy for the RSC15 here.  Stop by and see what the others are making.  There's plenty of inspiration to use your scraps.

RSC15 #twistsandchurns -- Friday Finish

What a fun purple project I decided to do with the scraps while they were still out on the table.  I got the pattern from a free e-book.  It's called Twists and Churns.  I omitted the small churn dash from the center of the mini because I will most likely be using it as a table topper.  The design is by Sandy Whitelaw.  Thanks, Sandy!  #twistsandchurns

This is the last week for the purple scraps in the RSC15 for April.  I'm not really a purple fan, but I think this came out really nice.  I can't stop looking at the quilting on it!  I'm linking up with Angela's blog, SoScrappy for the RSC15 here.  Stop by and see what the others are making.  There's plenty of inspiration to use your scraps.



I used my micro-filler templates by Circle Lord to do some random quilting.  I couldn't decide which one I liked more.  The quilting is very dense, but perfect for a very flat table topper.

 

Here's the back.

 

Here's a pic with a quarter so that you can see how small the quilting is.  You can also see the four different designs.

I'm also linking up with Richard and Tanya for Link-a-Finish Friday.  Check out all the others here:
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Customer Quilt on the Frame

Another customer quilt is on the frame today.  Boy did I have some tension problems!  I don't know why.  I'm using the same thread...  It took me about an hour and a half to get it adjusted to my quality standards.

I am using my Circle Lord's Jester pattern.  I know the customer will like this one.  She loves swirls and jagged things.

 

You can see the pattern better in the blue border in the picture below.

WIP Wednesday -- The one with 7 new WIPS!

There's good news and bad news to this post.  I have a new customer.  She gave me SEVEN of her WIPS to finish!  Whew.  That's a lot, but I know they can be done.  Two of them were started 20 years ago.

She gave me this fleece to use as batting.  I've never used fleece as batting before... only backing.  She also only had backing fabric for one of the Ohio State quilts.  She started these quilts when the boys were four years old.  It's a 20-year WIP!  She did an awesome job of making sure every block was nice.  These deserve to be finished!



This is a scrappy Ocean Waves queen sized quilt.  It needs a new binding.  I'm here to rescue it for her.

 

This was the result of a block-of-the month club project.  None of the blocks are made.  One bag has been opened -- that's it.  I told her this may take a year or so before she sees this one.  I think she would like it for her granddaughter's graduation.  The granddaughter is 14.  I have some time.

 

These are GORGEOUS flannels in Ohio State colors.  Nothing cut or sewn, just purchased again.

 

 More purchased fabrics.  I think she wanted an Irish Chain quilt when she purchased them.  BUT, when she saw my completed Urban Churn Dash QA quilt at Piece N Quilt, she wanted me to use this fabric for that.  I'll need to add a white on white for the background fabric.

 

 

I started something new before I knew I had all of these new projects.  The School Bell Has Rung is a sampler QA.  It just started on 4/9 at laugh yourself into Stitches.  I decided to jump in and make this small 31" x 37" quilt.  Fun, fun.  Thank you,  Karen Walker! What I hope to learn from this little quilt are a few longarm quilting techniques.  I love the way Karen's is quilted.  I may try some freehand feathers!  I'm also making this with Halloween theme fabric.   Here's my blocks for step 1 and step 2:

Here's what also happened the past two weeks:

I had a finish!  I finished the longarm quilting for a customer.  This is quilted with Egyptian Eye.



I worked on more purple scrappy blocks for the RSC15.  These blocks are called Urban Classics by Nancy Mahoney.  You can find it and many other free patterns on Nancy's page here.

 

I also finished three Fortune Teller blocks for the RSC15.  LOVE these purple strings! These are from the book, Sunday Morning Quilts: 16 Modern Scrap Projects - Sort, Store, and Use Every Last Bit of Your Treasured Fabrics by Amanda Jean Nyberg eBook -- I got it from our county library ONLINE!!!

 

I made one more star for the April Block Lotto.  This is a total of three this month for me.  LOVE the made fabric in the centers of these blocks!  The color options are gorgeous too.  I wanna win!

 

I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced today here.

New Projects This Week

1.  The School Bell Has Rung sampler at laugh yourself into Stitches. 

2.  OSU customer quilt #1

3.  OSU customer quilt #2

4.  Starry Night customer BOM project

5.  OSU flannel customer quilt

6.  Urban Churn Dash customer quilt

 

Pieces Still Need to be Cut & Sewn

1.  Underpants Project 

2.  Digging up Bones (Owen's dinosaur quilt)

3.  Rock Island Campfire Quilt

4.  Picadilly Circle

5. ...And Sew On BOM at Quiet Play (one block to go)

6.  MSBHQAL (Molli Sparkles Broken Herringbone Quilt Along)

7.  Spring Sampler Series at Cora's Quilts

8.  Gypsy Wife QA (recycling  Red/White Flower Basket Quilt into this project & duds.)

9.  Leah Day Building Blocks QA

10.  Love Laugh Quilt Christmas Improv QA
11.  Classic Meets Modern BOM
12.  Mod Mod QA (turning this one into a baby quilt) 

13.  Super Mario QA

14.  Grand Illusion -- Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt 2014 

15,  Sew Sweet Simplicity BOM (made from shirt scraps)

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14) Need one more red block and sashing made

17.  Modern Trees QA (at Christ's Quilts)

18.  Cabins at the Lake (from Fons & Porter Magazine) (only one house block complete.

19.  Wanderlust (A Bonnie Hunter pattern -- only 2 blocks done.)

20.  Flowers and Watercan (wall hanging)

21.  Little Houses

22.  Split Stars (Block Lotto win)

23.  Spools (Leader & Ender project with Bonnie Hunter)

24.  Fortune Teller (RSC14 started -- need blocks each month)

25.  Slabs with White Rectangle (RSC14 started -- need blocks each month)

26.  Pat Sloan 2015 BOM -- Vacation Time

28.  Charm Square Sampler QA by Modern Tradition Quilts

29.  QM Bitty Blocks QA

30.  The School Bell Has Rung sampler at laugh yourself into Stitches. 

31.  Starry Night customer BOM project

32.  OSU flannel customer quilt

33.  Urban Churn Dash customer quilt

 

Blocks Still Need to be Made

1.  NY Beauty

2.  Orca Bay

3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler

4.  Sweet Simplicity BOM

5. Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt

6.  Color coordinated hexagon quilt
7.  Gourmet Quilter Sampler
8.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt
9.  Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt)
10.  Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt
11.  Scrap Crystals (working on blue pieces for RSC15)

12.  RSC15 Sawtooth Star Sampler

Blocks are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)
1.  Block Swap Adventure Orange/Yellow Sampler (2011-2012)
2.  Block Lotto Dud (Orphan Block Quilt)
3.  Orange/Blue Fish Blocks (that I won)
4.  Split Stars (blocks won from Block Lotto; October, 2012)
5.  African Violet baby quilt (Block Lotto inspired)
6.  Tall Fly

7.  December 2014 Block Lotto Big O blocks that I won 12.31.14!

8.  Sonja's Windows string quilt

9.  Block Swap Adventure (2013) Churn Dash Blocks 

 

Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done)

1.  Celtic Solstice (Bonnie Hunter Mystery 2013)

2.  Surround Stars Pillow (one big block is here somewhere.  It will be a pillow when I find it.)

Ready to longarm
1.  Little Letters QA Quilt (A RSC14 project)
2.  Julianne's Grand Illusion

3.  Customer Quilt #2 -- Scrap Squares

4.  Customer Quilt #3 -- Bonnie Hunter Stars pattern

5.  Customer Quilt #4 -- Browns and Golds

6.  Customer Quilt #5 -- Scrappy Fun

7.  OSU customer quilt #1

8.  OSU customer quilt #2 

 

Quilted, needs binding

1. 

 

Completed this week:

 1.  Julianne's 2nd Celtic Solstice 

 

59 -- Current WIPS

08 -- Finishes for 2015

 

WHEW!  I'm exhausted just typing this list!

The School Bell Has Rung QA

The School Bell Has Rung is a sampler QA.  It just started on 4/9 at laugh yourself into Stitches.  I decided to jump in and make this small 31" x 37" quilt.  Fun, fun.  Thank you,  Karen Walker!

What I hope to learn from this little quilt are a few longarm quilting techniques.  I love the way Karen's is quilted.  I may try some freehand feathers!  I'm also making this with Halloween theme fabric.

Here's my blocks for step 1 and step 2:

RSC15 -- Purple

This week for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge I worked on more purple scrappy blocks.  These blocks are called Urban Classics by Nancy Mahoney.  You can find it and many other free patterns on Nancy's page here.

 

The little loose 2.5" squares on the bottom of the blocks will be used in the sashing.  Might as well cut them while I have all the scraps handy.

I'm linking up with Angela's blog, SoScrappy for the RSC15 here.  Stop by and see what the others are making.  There's plenty of inspiration to use your scraps.

Friday Finish -- A customer's Celtic Solstice

I longarm quilted this Celtic Solstice quilt for a customer BFF quilty friend.  Aren't her colors just bold and gorgeous?  Beautiful quilt, Julianne, @ Quilting with Calicos blog!  I quilted it with the Circle Lord Template called Egyptian Eye.  I love this pattern!  I used a florescent blue thread.  It turned out great.

This gorgeous quilt design, Celtic Solstice, is by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.  Thank you, Bonnie, for all of the beautiful patterns and designs that you share with us -- along with all the tips to make us better quilters.

I love the way Julianne did the borders!

And what a GORGEOUS Ohio day to get a picture in the sunshine!!!

Linking up with Richard and Tanya for Link-a-Finish Friday.  Check out all the others here.

Scrap Saturday -- RSC15

Today I finished three Fortune Teller blocks for the RSC15.  LOVE these purple strings!

These are from the book, Sunday Morning Quilts: 16 Modern Scrap Projects - Sort, Store, and Use Every Last Bit of Your Treasured Fabrics by Amanda Jean Nyberg eBook -- I got it from our county library ONLINE!!!

I'm linking up with Angela's blog, SoScrappy for the RSC15 here.  Stop by and see what the others are making.  There's plenty of inspiration to use your scraps.