Mini Challenge!

 I had time to read some blog posts yesterday.  I came across one of my regular blogs Joyful Quilter.  Joy posted about a cute table topper she made for TWO challenges.  I just happened to find this bag of fun neutrals while looking for my novelty Thanksgiving fabrics for the back of my Gobble Gobble quilt.

I am joining the October Monthly Mini Challenge at The Constant Quilter in conjunction with The Monthly Mini Maker Baggie Challenge at Rogue Quiler's blog.

I recently got the book, Scrappy Improv Quilting.  There's a little mini in there called Botanics that would be a great spot to use these fun neutrals.  Time to sew up some made fabric for this mini.  Woohoo!

My first step in the rules was to lay out the fabrics neatly so that you could see the "before" fabrics in the baggie.  I can add a neutral and one other fabric.  My neutral will be a strip of black for a step.  My one other fabric will be a solid or tone on tone green for leaves.  

WIP Wednesday 11.10.21

More quilty stuff happened this week.

I finished the Happy Little Accident quilt.  It was made from leftover blocks from the Block Lotto.  It measures a cute 31" x 41".

I set a goal a few weeks back to make a house block for the Cabins by the Lake quilt that is on my long WIP list.  I really wanted to started something new, but I refrained.  Now I have four house blocks complete.  Here's the first row put together.  I wasn't sure how I felt about the color combos when I first started making them.  I think the black sashing and the green cornerstones are pulling it all together.

Besides putting these in a row, I made House #5.

I made progress on the assembly of my Gobble Gobble quilt.  Pattern by Lori Holt.  I found this fun dot fabric in my stash in the blue bin and I think it worked out perfectly.  Next up:  make the back.  I have some Thanksgiving novelty fabrics in mind plus that extra Gobble block.

I'm linking up at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers.

I now stand at 49 projects on my WIP list.  

Pieces Need to be Cut & Sewn

 1.  Cheddar Jack cat pattern

 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.  RSC16 Folk Art Birds

 7.  2016 Plus Blocks (from left over pieces of Soul Searching Blocks

 8.  Leah Day Building Blocks QA

 9.  Jelly Roll Rug

10.  Classic Meets Modern BOM

11.   GO! ABC Quilt started during the pink month of RSC21, January 2021

12.  Mod Mod QA (from Block Lotto, circles w/lines)

13.  Stay Centered started February, 2021

14.  Rail Fence Blocks 170/900 complete started during the pink month of RSC21, January 2021

15.  Gobble, Gobble, pattern by Lori Holt, started February 2021

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14)

17.  Amish Country BOM (from Lynn, Johnna's mom)

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

19.  2.5" Scraps from Dani -- making "cracker" blocks

20.  Waffle Blocks (August 2019 -- RSC19)

21.  Little Houses (3.5" blocks)

22.  Kathleen Tracy's 2019 Mystery Quilt Facebook QA started in March, 2019   

23.  Dresser Scarf (My Grandma's WIP from the 1970's found 1/1/20

24.  Gypsy Wife QA started in August 2017

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

26.  Bonnie Hunter Box Kite class from March 2017

27.  Unity Quilt Along with Bonnie Hunter (started 4/1/2020)

28.  Full Stop, started RSC21 (January,2021)

29.  Maroon Sampler Quilt--I found this on 2.6.21

Blocks Still Need to be Made

 1.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt

 2.  Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt 

 3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler

 4.  Drunkard's Path Variation quilt

Blocks Are Made But Need to be Sewn Together (and/or Some Sashing)

 1.  Tula Pink's City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks 5/17/17 QA

 2.  Cruise blocks won from Libby

 3.  Cathy's CRAZY BY DESIGN Dot Dot Dash Bag, Won April, 2018

 4.  Split Stars (blocks won from the Block Lotto, October, 2012)

 5.  African Violet baby quilt (Block Lotto inspired)

 6.  Tall Fly (blocks won from Block Lotto; October 2012)

 7.  Pre-printed cross stitch pillow sham (May 2018)

 8.  Sonja's Windows string quilt

 9.  Flower Baskets (blue and white with some applique) Block Lotto win 10/1/18

10.  Pumpkins & the Beanstalk (a 2nd quilt)

Quilt Back Needs to be Made (Tops are Done)

1.  Card Trick (pink and blue)

2.  Hunter Green Star Quilt

3.  Good Fortune -- A Bonnie Hunter Mystery started Thanksgiving weekend, 2018

Ready to Longarm

1.  Bubble Gum Pink & Navy Quilt

2.  CM's Draperies Quilt

3.  Happy Little Accident crib quilt

Turkey Tuesday! -- Gobble Gobble

 I'm excited I got all of the Gobble Gobble quilt top completed today.  I put all the scrappy blues together this weekend, added a red inner border to tie it all together, and found this great dotted fabric in my blue fabrics bin!  Score on this border fabric.  I think it's perfect for it.  

Gobble Gobble is a pattern by Lori Holt.  I downloaded mine at the Fat Quarter Shop here.

I snuck outside during one of our son's virtual meetings to take a nice pic of the quilt top IN THE SUNSHINE!!!  It's November and we are having temps up to 65 for about three days.  Then who knows...  

I am really happy I swapped out the green Gobble block for this yellow one.  It makes a difference.  I will enjoy it much more knowing that I took the time to go back and fix it for a better contrasting color like I did.  The other Gobble will make a nice surprise on the back.  

Now to dig through my novelty Thanksgiving fabrics that I would use on who knows what else to make a fun pieced back.  

Linking up at Love Laugh Quilt for Monday Making.

Linking up at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework for Oh Scrap!

Linking up at What a Hoot! for BOMs Away.

Linking up at Texas Quilt Gal for To-Do Tuesday.  AND OMG check out her Indian corn quilt!

Linking up to Small Quilts and Doll Quilts for Design Wall Monday.

House Day

 Here's the house for this week.

I set a goal a few weeks back to make a house block for the Cabins by the Lake quilt that is on my long WIP list.  I really wanted to started something new, but I refrained.  Now I have four house blocks complete.  Here's the first row put together.  I wasn't sure how I felt about the color combos when I first started making them.  I think the black sashing and the green cornerstones are pulling it all together.

Cabins by the Lake is a pattern by Fons & Porter.

Gobble Gobble Progress and RSC21

 I made some progress on putting my Gobble Gobble quilt together this week.  I worked on this quilt during the yellow month, orange month, and the light/bright blue month.  Now it's time to get it together.  It's still not a useable size for our family as a living room throw.  We're all taller than 5'8" now.  I will continue with more borders.  I went a little out of my comfort zone with the scrappy sashing, but I really like it.  I have three bins of blue, but I'm running out of this color family of blues.

I also worked on it during one of the green months of the RSC, but I didn't think there was enough contrast for the "Gobble" block and made a replacement yellow one this week.  See...

I'll end up using that green "Gobble" block in the back or possibly in the border (but most likely on the back).

I also worked on some rail fence blocks for my RSC project.  These are just random colors from recent projects that I had in the scrap basket.  The scrap basket is getting out of control.  I made 27 of them as leader/enders this week.  That makes 197 of 900 complete.

I need to do some thinking of what projects I will be working on for 2022.  Tune in next week for a list with photos.  Today I'm linking up on Angela's blog, SoScrappy, for the RSC21.

Happy Little Accident -- A Friday Finish

 This Happy Little Accident didn't take long at all to finish.

This little quilt started out to be a table scraps challenge on Joy's Blog to use up orphan blocks in my BINS of orphan blocks.  These star orphan blocks were left over from the Block Lotto.  I didn't like just the mint green inner border for the edge.  I added another border and it became too big for a table topper and looked too much like a crib quilt.  Ta da...  It's a Happy Little Accident crib quilt.

I quilted it with Circle Lord Swirls for a quick finish.

I didn't mean for the scrap fabrics on the back to run so close to the middle like that.  I wanted it off centered, but that's the way the cookie crumbled.  It measures a snuggly 31" x 41".

I'm linking up at:

 Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Can I Get a Whoop Whoop?

Alycia Quilts for Finished or Not Friday

My Quilt Infatuation for NTT

House Day

 I again met my goal of making one house a week for the Cabins by the Lake quilt (from Fons & Porter). Here's house #4:

A little progress each week is starting to add up -- especially since these blocks are 15" finished.