This one is on the list!

I know many of you know the Moda Blockheads quilt from 2017.  I started out with a mighty fire....a green and purple flame.  This is how far I got!  I have decided to make a patient quilt and call it done.  This will be perfect for a hospital bed or drag around to chemo sized quilt.  I need a purple border and I will get it quilted and on to some patient who needs a little extra love.  So...did you know that Moda is sponsoring the Blockheads 2 quilt, this year?  

I know they have a facebook group, and also, here is a link to find the block patterns!!

https://bearcreekquiltingcompany.com/moda-blockheads-2018/

Now I got a little down last night, because I did not have one piece of the limey green that I wanted to make the sashing from.  Nothing was big enough...boohoo!  Then I thought to myself...you silly child!  Are you a scrap quilter, or are you NOT?  

So I rummaged around and found enough of these greens to make a scrappy sashing.  SO THERE!  HA!  I like that better, anyway...

I have all the original blockheads patterns saved, and I love each one!



Julie

It's Tuesday! Time for Log Cabin Loonies!!!

I cannot get that picture out of the middle of the quilt picture for anything...have no idea what I did, but you get the idea of the quilt!!!

I find quilting inspiration everywhere, but a big source is Pinterest.  I find this photo credited to Timeless Traditions, but think maybe she just took the picture?  This is a label on the quilt, and looks like it was hanging at a quilt show.  I, alas, cannot read it...but I salute you, you fabulous quilter you!!  What a gorgeous log cabin variation quilt you made!!!!

Just a little inspiration for us Loonies!!

I am a tiny bit sad...I cut out one zillion!  (slight exaggeration) pieces for the next step on my own log cabin journey, and I cannot find them ANYWHERE!!!  I think they got put in the trash...that is the only place they could possible be.  But I am cutting again, and making good progress.  

Throwing my pieces away is not what I mean about using my stash, LOL!!!!!!!

Here is my pile of centers, plus one piece sewed on...400 blocks.  ONward!!!!

See this knife?  I think it is copper?  Or something...anyway, I sliced my thumb very well today, using it to cut apples into slices.  It bled like anything!!  I seriously had to apply pressure to it!!  Anyway...it makes me think maybe I need to wear a cutting glove while using the rotary cutter.  Do any of you use one??

This is my gift for a lucky Log Cabin Loonie, for this week.  I just found this book...it is a SIGNED copy of Yoko Saito's Traditional block patterns. If you don't know this quilt artist, she is famous for her neutral, lovely soft toned quilts.

These pretty blocks are by Els!  I was delighted when she sent me her picture...these are HAND pieced!!!  How cool, huh?  Thank you, Els!!!

So link up below, and there will be a random drawing for a winner, this week!!

Julie

OH my goodness...finished at last!! Hurrah!!

 I am delighted to say that the Bitty Blocks row quilt top is in one piece!!  I have to say I have loved making this quilt...the different blocks in each row made it fun and not boring to piece the same blocks a zillion times,  because you were very soon on to the next row!  and of course I love using my scraps.  Much of this quilt came from the pre-cut bins.  I use Bonnie Hunter's scrap user system, as many of us do.  I secretly call our Bonnie, Bonnie-cakes....and I love her quilts and scrappy goodness!!


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 Rosie is posing on the quilt...she is my best quilting helper.  Love her!!  I have found some pretty strong opinions of animals NOT being on quilts...but she is my darling girl, gets bathed regularly, and grooms herself much as a cat does, every day, and she does not shed, being a poodle.   She is cleaner than lots of humans, LOL!!!  So she can be on my quilts, for sure.  It is OK with me if you feel otherwise, and I am sure if she were running through the mud and the muck outside, I would feel much differently, LOL!

 Before Rosie...there was Rusty.  He was a darling poodle, too.  I found this old picture of him, and wanted to share it with you.  He was not as brilliant as Rosie, who has finished her PHD....Just bear with my jokes, will you??  Hahaha!  But he was a loyal and lovely companion for nearly 18 years.  He is in Doggy heaven, now.  Rosie is a very smart girl...I believe she is a poodle prodigy!

 These flowers were cut from my garden today.  Such pretty zinnias!!

God makes such beautiful things!!!







Julie

A little basket play!

I am just playing with different ways to make a basket block...this one came up, in my creative time today!!    I always keep the handwork, like the applique, for night time, when it is still and I am not running around cooking or running for items from the store, or cleaning....and so it is with this block. Those tiny hexies are teeny tiny, as the whole block is just 5 inch finished.

Hey, Julie Holleran!  You won the last drawing for Log Cabin Loonies!!  Send me your snail mail address please...

Thanks to all who are playing along with us...the Log Cabin Loonies!  We are having a great time!!

Julie

Dearest Boy update...the latest block.

 Dearest Boy!  I love these blocks...so unique and fun!    I am learning so much about applique with this quilt!!  Loving each stitch...but I was not sure how to do the stems on this block.  I ended up tucking in those ends in the corners and stitching as well as I could, but I wonder if I should have partially unsew the block and tucked the stem ends in?  Maybe one of these wonderful quilters would know!!

Karen:  Log Cabin Quilter

Cathy:  Big Lake Quilter

Julie:  Juliekquilts (me)
Carole: Wheels on the Warrandyte bus
Doreen:  Aunt Reen's Place

All of these quilters are busy making blocks for this quilt!!  I can't wait to see how they are finishing their stems!!

Here is where to find the pattern:  

https://www.etsy.com/listing/593121045/dearest-boy-pattern-book

A little more log cabin fun happening at my house...cutting more pieces!!!  Thank goodness for rotary cutters.  Can you imagine cutting all those long skinny pieces for a log cabin quilt with scissors, or dress making shears?  We are so lucky these days!

Helen is up to 50 COMPLETED blocks!!  You go, girl!!!






Have an amazing day, each of you!!


Julie

Log Cabin Loonies!!

This gorgeous little quilt, a log cabin (with red centers!!) was found by me, on Pinterest.  When I drilled down to find who made it, I found that this one is a kit, sold on Overstock.com.  Anyway...if this is your quilt...it is the cutest thing ever!!!  Just another example of how versatile the log cabin block is.

OK...So I wish I were this organized!  I made this kit probably ten years ago, and even made a sample block so I could figure it out again in the future, LOL!!!  All reproductions, which tells me this was before the scraps and plaids took over my quilting life.  I think the reason 1800's reproductions were so much a part of my life, is that we had a quilt shop near us...and it was almost every bolt, reproduction fabrics.  I love them...but I love all fabrics, so no surprise there!

 So...this is how it REALLY is, now, LOL!!!  All these are one inch strips, saved from projects and put into a little bin.  Ha...you didn't know there was a bin under there, did you, LOL!! Overflowing!  But not for long... I am glad to have saved these thin little strings, because this is what I am making my Teeny log cabin blocks out of!!  I would like to use all of these up!!  I have used a lot up already.

 Here is this week's gift, for a lucky Log Cabin Loonie, who links up below.  It is bundle of those reproduction fabrics...just right for fall time, which is right around the corner!!

 It says a baker's dozen of fabrics...light and darks.  So link up below, and show off your log cabin blocks, or strips!  I have really enjoyed seeing folks using their strips and strings up, making some log cabin blocks, on various blogs...it is just great fun to see all the creativity!



Thank you so those who have e-mailed in their block pictures...Helen, and Cathy, and Dortha!!  They are so very pretty!!



Helen was randomly selected as the winner for last weeks giveaway of the applique kits, so I will be mailing it out today.  Mail is sometimes hard, because of work...work gets in the way of my fun!!

 I made this block for Linda Brannock's Flowers quilt.  I am making slow progress on this quilt...the blocks are sort of wonky...which is funny, because most of my blocks are wonky anyway, LOL!!

Just some little different baskets I was musing about using instead.  Hmmmm…









Link up below!  Have an amazing day!



Julie

Sweet Land of Liberty update...off work today!

 I have veered off the course a little bit, and have made some different blocks, because I could not figure out the original stars that were in Cheri's and Lori's and Denise's quilts.  So...I made my own!  And added a couple of hearts.  I love this project!!

I was idly thinking over the last few weeks...I need to make a pincushion out of this little orphan block.  I tend to think these things and not actually DO these things...and that changed today.  I made that pincushion! I made a little string wallet too, so I can keep my receipts in it for the month, until I can reconcile the bank statement.  I feel so organized!!  NOT!  Hahahaha!



Have an amazing day today!


Julie