Building Fences

I do like making and gifting on charity quilts. So when I saw the Scrap Basket Quilt Along with Crazy Mom Quilts,  I just had to join in.  She gave a lovely tutorial on building a Rail Fence quilt, but you could make any type quilt for this.  Now I have made a few of these, but the scraps I pulled would have to be modified.

   

My SIL had used some of my FQ bundle of 'Peak Hour' by Riley Blake for a stroller quilt.  So I had to work the stripes and dots left overs in a 'broken' fence with a mix of squares of those too cute road signs and cars - couldn't cut those up.

I used the serpentine stitch on my machine with the walking foot to quilt this - yellow thread top and bottom.  The binding was in my left-over binding drawer and I thought it worked with the wheels and signs.

I used a plushy for the backing - BANANA - love the way the quilting looks.  A fun, bright, and cuddly quilt.

This will head out to Margaret's Hope Chest after the holiday.  You can read more about this on Amanda's blog - and please visit those linking up.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

June NewFO and SO/SN

Yes, it is OK to start something NEW and I love the idea of no pressure to finish.  It can be a new technique, a new fabric, a new pattern, a color that isn't your normal palette, something outside the box.  Just enjoy the journey.

Although I start a lot of new things, this was my official NewFO.  My mini for the Doll Quilt Swap Group.  My partner requested something to hang in her new sewing room/studio and I was happy to fill her request.  This is a free pattern found HERE.

Of course, I always send a little dolly dressed in scraps from the quilt and my signature label on the back.

My Something New was the same project as my Let's Book It, but the New was using Batiks for the first time.  I have used a few scraps in projects, but never an entire quilt with them.

And my Something Old was to get those house blocks into a quilt top.  Mixed with some orphan blocks and all sized up with different individual sashing (or boxing) so I could end up with all a 16" block.  Put together like this there is no need for any sashing - they make their own.  I think it needs a border to frame it and since this is big, it will go off to my longarmer.

I finished up my Relaxing Round Robin, combined my Simply Small Challenge and Homemade Christmas Item as one project (zip pouch) and continueing with the RSC14.  Throw in two Row quilts for fun.

This was one of my earlier Let's Book It projects and I managed to finish the last bit of quilting on it.  Add a hanger,binding, and label - done.

I'll be linking up with Barbara @ ThreeCatRanch for NewFO and Never Too Hot to Stitch for Something Old/Something New.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

Let's Book It - June Link Up

Well, it's time again to share those projects from that dusty book.  You know what I mean - that 'had to have' book, or pattern, or print out - and it got filed away and forgotten.  Now's the time to go back and find those lovelies and use them.

This was my June selection - and my SIL selected a project from this same book

I have been trying to add a bit of a challenge with my Let's Book It projects - this time it was to work with Batiks and I thought this pattern would be the perfect choice for that.

Here it is.  The purple isn't that bright and the yellow is actually a lime green - camaras!  The border is a rust color with dots of various colors pulled from the strips. For the binding, I have a mossy green Batik  with fern color (as in the strips) print thru it.

Now this hung on my lovour doors (laundry area) for some time and my Mom came over looking for something and insisted I had done something wrong.  I even got the book - and we looked and looked.  The next day I almost fainted - you look - do you see it?  No I am not taking it apart - it is staying as is.

This is the Quilt Barn Pin and Irish Chain Charm for June

Now it is your turn to share:

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

** The mistake - look thru the middle of the quilt in the book and then mine - I am missing a row of links - which is actually two rows - duh!  I have the same link pattern - just a smaller quilt. **

Tuesday Archives - Dogs & Dots

This Tuesday Archives with Val's Quilting Studio is Dogs and Dots.  I haven't anything with dogs,but on my list for next month.  I do have a post with Dots

I took part in the Dots to Dots Blog Hop in Sept 2012 and you can see HERE how I finished off this fun block as well as some other dotty whimsy.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon