Here’s my latest finish. It’s a fun size (48″ x 60″), and was quick and easy to make. It includes two Star Wars fabrics, some batik, some metallic print, another gray print, some blue Grunge, a blue geometric, and some Kona Ash. I found these scraps while straightening some of my fabric drawers and decided to make them up for donation.
How do you keep your blocks in order for assembly? Usually I number them using Crayola Washable marker. This time the blocks were too dark, metallic, etc., for the marker to show up on most of them. Instead, I used numbered bits of blue painters tape, which was really more work than I wanted to do. These stuck long enough to get the blocks to my sewing machine, and it went together properly. However, the tape started to come off as I was sewing and stuck to everything else in sight. I wore a few numbers to dinner that night, and I am still finding them. Please tell me a better way!
The quilting was a lot of fun. The light-colored diagonals are sewn with Superior NiteLite (glow-in-the-dark) thread, and I experimented with some decorative stitches to put a little more thread on there. I use gray Bottom Line for the swirls and ribbon candy.
I pieced the back with more of the scraps.
I haven’t decided where I’ll be donating it yet, but I have a few ideas.
I’m linking up to Sew Some Love at Kat and Cat Quilts.
Here is the second of the small donation quilts made from 7.5″ “log cabin” blocks. These have the large 3″ centers again, and I didn’t even bother with “logs”. I just used 2.5″ strips, arranging the colors to imitate log cabin blocks. I set them in the Barn Raising design. It finished at 42″ x 63″ before washing.
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These aren’t traditional log cabin blocks. The centers are large, and there are only two “logs” on each side. They are only 7.5 inches square, and there are fifty-four of them. The quilt came out 42″ by 63″, but that was before it was washed. I didn’t piece these to a foundation, just started adding to the center squares. That made it much easier to chain piece them.
The colors are inspired by both Spring, and the backing fabric.
I quilted this with Sulky white and Superior Living Colors pink thread. The bottom thread is Bottom Line. The batting is Warm and Plush.
This is going to Margaret’s Hope Chest for a program called 
Technically, Yuri and I didn’t finish this quilt until today, but I’m counting it on this Stash anyway. This will be the last report I’ll write for a while, because of my knee surgery, so I want to include this.
This is a 
It was fun to revisit some of the fabrics in here. There are bits of peacock fabric from the 2008 Hoffman Challenge, and some from my nephew’s ocean-themed graduation quilt.
This quilt is 62″ x 84″ (or it was before washing!). It used about 9.25 yards of fabric.
We’re linking up to the 
Today I finished the little Star Wars quilt I worked on this week. It evolved a lot since my first concept, but I like the way it turned out. And I have a lot of left over fabric that I cut along the way, so there will be a sequel. I wrote a 
The back is a blue geometric, a band of of orange Fairy Frost, and a section of gray moonscape.
I quilted it in a six” grid with gray Bottom Line. Then I used NiteLite Extra Glow thread (Superior) to quilt diagonal lines in the direction of the green streaks in the fabric. I did both a long straight stitch, and #44, a “hand quilting” stitch. This would take some tweaking to really look like hand quilting, but the forward and back stitching put down lots of thread to enhance the glowing effect. I used this is a quilt I made my son long ago, so I know it last through years of use and washing.
This week I put this together this little string quilt. Nope, still can’t tell any difference in my string baskets, but it did use a big pile of them.
I quilted it with five rows of feathers in white Bottom Line.
The back is the last of this alphabet print.
The bright sunshine I’m enjoying today played havoc with taking good photos of this understated little quilt (I was just glad it wasn’t sleeting as it was yesterday). I hope you can see how delicately feminine this baby quilt is.
I ordered the floral last month, probably for a backing, but they only had half a yard left when they filled my order. The flowers are a blue-gray, with aqua centers. I paired it with this beautiful mocha colored Grunge that appears to be brushed with aqua paint. On the top I added a linen colored solid.
The back is more of the Grunge, and an aqua and mocha print. I kept the quilting pretty simple, and I love the way it turned out. I used a variegated gray Rainbows thread from Superior on the top, and Bottom Line on the bottom.
He should look guilty, he was playing with an open pen on my new quilt!
The Twilters’ Hashtag Quilt is finally finished. On the Twilters! Facebook group, we exchanged wonky hashtag blocks back in the fall, in a world-wide exchange somehow coordinated by the amazing Carole. I sent twenty-four blocks and received twenty-four back, from nine states and four countries on three continents.
For the back I used a piece of fabric I had been 
This quilt is 56″ x 82″, and should be great to wrap up in during cold evenings, or whenever I need a Twilty hug! Thank you, everyone, for your beautiful blocks!
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