An Actual Regular Sized Quilt Is Completed!

I have not been making many regular sized quilts these days.  I have been absorbed in art quilting and, of course, helping "the girls" with their quilt projects.   Once again, I started doing some scrap-busting about a year ago and this thing occupied my design wall for many months before I finally carved out the time to finish it.

It was quilted by Virginia Gross of Crabapple Creek Quilts.  In April, I took A on the shop-hop, as she had never been.  She is now retired and has time to do many more things.  We went to Nyssa, to visit Country Corners Quilt Shop.  Naturally, I spied a very fine old barn to take a photo of.  I asked permission and it was granted!  This is my latest quilt photographed on a barn.  

Scrappy Happy Strip Quilt Completed!

I started this strip quilt last October, at the retreat in Cascade.  I made it a specific size just for me.  I needed a quilt with a flannel back, but a scrappy top to encourage sweet dreams.  I wanted it big enough to cover just me and not lots of extra on the sides, but long enough to cover my feet and my shoulders.  Sometimes I like to sleep in my recliner, because of my back problems.  This quilt is perfect, except now that it is finished the weather is too warm to use it.  It will be perfect next fall/winter.

It has scraps from my friends Annita, Elverta, Betty Ray, Teresa, and my mother.  In addition, I have included bits for memories of my friends Hope, Caryl, and Leni.  Besides my "Zinnia portrait" (in the top row), I have Zinnia portraits of Hope and Caryl.  The blue floral L is for Leni.  To quilt it, I did the stitch-in-the-ditch method.  It is so cozy and fun!

Random Chickens Quilt is Complete

I got off on a whim last summer with this fabulous sort of quilt design that I found in Freddy and Gwen Collaborate Again.  Freddy did her quilt with red blocks, with scraps strips around each one.  I had some scraps of yellow fabric, with chickens, that I was going to toss out.  I decided to use them, and I created the Random Chickens quilt.  Then, due to unforeseen circumstances that caused me to realize what a fabric hog I was, I decided to do scrappy borders with reds I already had and use the chicken fabrics I got last summer on the back.  Oh, I have not taken a photo of the back.  I guess I had better do that.  Meanwhile, this quilt looks like madness, but is truly wonderful.  It has twenty blocks, each with a center of yellow.

This looks good, but to see it in person is a real joy.  Let's see the close-up . . .

In this close-up, you can see the wonderful swirls quilted into it by Phyllis Oneal. 
Somewhere in my blog, in 2018, (August maybe) there is mention of my Random Chickens quilt.  Keep scrolling down, or click on the 2018 section of the "Blog Archive" found on the right-hand side of my blog.  It is directly under the photo of Ebony looking out from under my flannel quilt on my bed.  Then you can read more details about the quilt.