A Scottish baby quilt

Yesterday, we looked at the first quilt that I plan to make on my upcoming quilt retreat. Today, let’s talk about the second one.

A few years ago, my daughter, Jenny, commissioned me to make an ocean quilt for her friend’s new baby. I had SO much fun making this one…..

Now, this friend’s sister is expecting and Jenny once again commissioned me to make a quilt for her. But, this family travels a lot and currently lives in Scotland, so the request has been for Highland Cows!!

I am SO EXCITED!!!

I found this fun pattern…..

Don’t you love the tams??

My plan is to make this a row quilt… one tall row with 3 cows, and then other rows above and below to be the sky and land.

The full pattern is 36 pages long, so I printed it, hole-punched it, and put it into a binder…..

It is an intricate pattern, with each stripe less than 1 inch finished!!

I think that having more fabrics will add much interest to them. So….off to the brown shelves I went.

These will be a great start, and I grabbed a handful of scrap strips to add to them…..

I pulled sky and ground fabrics that match the color scheme….

I am thinking about adding one strip of thistle blocks from the pattern, and these fabrics will add the perfect pop of color….

And….we can’t forget the tams……

It is all packed up and ready to go……

This is going to be so much fun to work on!!

Some fabrics deserve more than a tiny square.

Woodland Walk gives your favorite prints room to shine with larger blocks and an easy layout that showcases every detail.

No overcutting. No overthinking. Just beautiful fabric on display.

👉 Get the pattern here

Lots of Stars

As you have seen from earlier posts about the UFOs I inherited from my Mom, she often found one design or pattern and made TONS of blocks from it.

That is the case with these blue-and-white stars…

She had one finished quilt top…..

I think that I will donate this to my guild charity group, but I may re-do the borders a bit first. Maybe make the inner border smaller by cutting it down and then adding a darker outer border. We will see….I may just hand it off.

But then, there are all of these…..

At one point, I decided to take these apart to set them differently….

…but they were REALLY hard to unpick. Apparently, she had used a tiny stitch length.

Now, some of you may be wondering why I am willing to give away so many of her UFO’s.

The truth is that I already own more than 25 of her finished quilts, so I really don’t need to add more to my collection.

At this point, I am excited to see them being sent out into the world to do good!!

Green With Envy

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I wanted to show you a quilt from my past..

Many years ago (1992 to be exact), our guild brought in Katie Pasquini Masopust (before she was super famous) to present a Kaleidoscope Quilt class, and I was immediately hooked!!

We started with a piece of flannel taped to the wall and worked from the center out… adding each round as it came up.

As I worked thru the day, I kept cutting off small corners of my scraps and putting them in a circle around the piece so that I could decide what the next round would be.

When it came time to finish the quilt, I kept thinking about those triangles scattered around the kaleidoscope and wanted to figure out a way to incorporate them into the border and maybe some of the other blocks. I remember lying in bed one night, trying to figure out exactly how I could piece them in, and realizing it would be a mammoth task.

THEN the epiphany came….. why not do them as prairie points so they would add dimension to the quilt AND be much easier to piece!!!

THE PERFECT SOLUTION…..

I was using scraps for much of the piecing and was running REALLY short on greens!! So short that I didn’t have enough to add the triangles in the corners!! Consequently, the quilt ended up with cut-off corners….

I love the final quilt and it is a great addition to my Spring decorating.

Hope you have a wonderful GREEN TUESDAY!!

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I made a good decision

Earlier this week, I posted about the blocks my Mom received in a block swap…

After looking at them, I decided the best use would be to send them to the Charity Bee for my guild.

And, LOOK WHAT THEY DID WITH THEM……

I CERTAINLY made the best decision!!

Thank you, Suzanne for making something so special from blocks made by my Mom’s friends!!

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Making Stroked Flying Geese

A few weeks ago, I posted an inspiration from a beer can that I saw in Mozambique…..

…particularly enjoying the flying geese on the bottom right photo.

One reader (Andrea) commented that they would be fairly hard to make and I concurred.

THEN, I ran across a Facebook reel about making “Stroked Flying Geese”, and as I watched, I realized that they were making a geese block similar to the one on the can!

I did further searching and found that Art Gallery Fabrics has a tutorial on their blog. Check it out….

CLICK HERE FOR THE BLOG POST

They even provide a pdf pattern for this lovely pillow…..

“Summery Pillow” from Art Gallery Fabrics

You can download the pattern HERE

Now, I am thinking that some “STROKED FLYING GEESE” might be in my future…..

How about you?

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