Migration Across the Land

 I have mentioned before that I belong to an

online quilting bee with 12 quilters from around the country. 

Each month one of us is Queen Bee and we ask the other

Bee Mates to make blocks of our choosing.

 

My month was May this year.

I found this block using different size Flying Geese  

and knew this would be my block.

 

I asked for the geese to be made from bright, fun fabrics

with a black and white geese thrown in, too. 

I asked for the sky to be made with white on white or gray fabrics.

 

Boy, did my Bee Mates come through!

 

 

 

 

 

The variety of fabrics in this quilt is unbelievable.

There are a couple of repeats in individual blocks,

but, aside from the sky fabrics, I don't think

there are any other repeats.

 

 

 

 

 

I never would have made all of these geese with this

much variety.

 

 

 

 

And there are some super fun fussy cut geese, too!

 

 I had planned on making the quilt bigger and had cut the pieces

to make more blocks.

Then, as I was getting ready to assemble these blocks,

I realized I had cut the pieces to the finished size!

Needless to say, a few swear words may have been said.

I made one more block and called it finished.

It's a little narrower than I would like,

but it will make a good couch quilt.

 

 

The free pattern for this 16 1/2" block can be found here. 

 

The backing fabric has been ordered and then it will get quilted.

 

Being a part of this Bee is SEW much fun!!

 

Happy Quilting! 

Binding Scraps

 After binding a quilt, if there is any left-over binding 

I put it in a bin in one of my cabinets.

Well, this bin was overflowing.

I couldn't fit any more binding pieces in it and

pieces were on the shelf around the bin.

 

My plan was to use these scraps for scrappy binding,

but that rarely seemed to happen.

The other day I had an idea to use the binding scraps

to make a scrappy quilt.

 

Out came the bin and I started sewing strip sets.

Once they were all sewn and pressed,

I cut them into squares.

I have enough squares for one larger quilt

and two smaller quilts!

 

 

 

 

 

I cut my binding 2 1/4" wide, so these squares will be 8 3/4" square when finished.

This larger quilt will be donated to the group that delivers quilts to the

Veterans Hospital.

 

 

 

It shouldn't take long to sew these all together

and then quilt it.

 

Once this larger once is finished,

I'll make the two smaller ones

and donate those as well.

 

 

Happy Quilting! 

 

Provence and Orange Kiss

 Back in December,

my favorite aunt died.

She was my mom's sister and the 

last of her generation.

She was also a quilter.

 

In June, I went to Michigan for her

memorial service.

While I was there, her husband

asked me to go through her stash

and take whatever I wanted.

She didn't have a huge stash,

but had some beautiful fabrics.

 

One of the things she had was

blocks made from fabrics they had 

bought on a trip to France.

 I don't know what she had intended

with these blocks,

but I was able to sew them together into

this little quilt.

 

 

 

 

 

This little quilt is 33x40ish" and will go to my daughter.

She can use it as a table topper or a small wall hanging.

 

 This piece that I used for the backing also came from France. 

I was glad I was able to use most of it for the backing and binding.

 

 

In addition to finishing this little quilt,

I quilted and finished Orange Crush.

 

 

 

 

 

I posted earlier that these blocks were left-over from another quilt.

I had planned on one layout for the original quilt,

but changed my mind and ended up with 9 extra blocks.

 

 

 

 

While quilting this one, I practiced some ruler work.

Since the quilt was small, it wasn't too cumbersome

to move under the needle. 

 

 

This little quilt has already been donated.

 

Happy Quilting!