Double Take...Almost

This week I have not one but two quilt tops finished. It took a long time to get these babies done so prepare for a picture overload.

The first one is my sawtooth star quilt that I started way back in February and 64 stars later....

This is a pattern from one of my first books on quilting Elizabeth Hartman's - A Practical Guide to Patchwork. This is the second quilt I have made from a pattern in this book, the first one was the Kitchen Windows quilt. I have gone from a confident beginner to an intermediate quilter :) A pat on the back for matching all the seams.

And now time to unveil its little cousin....

I made this from the triangles that were clipped while making the flying geese units in the previous quilt. I arranged them on point, wanted to see what all the fuss was about. The sashing is 1 inch wide. Since the blocks were made of remnants they were not all the same size so it took a bit of  wrangling to make all the seams match but I think I did a pretty decent job.

Completing these quilt tops is an excellent start to my weekend and now on to basting and quilting. The end is near.

More about this quilt: here, here, here

Linking up to: Finish it up Friday, Fabric Tuesday, WIP Wednesday

Blocks galore

I have made quite a few bee blocks lately. I did not document the first few I made for CNJMQG guild quilting bee but you can have a look here.

Then came the string block for Alison. Love this one especially the ombre strip of green.

Two blocks for Ashley in the Scrap-Bee-Licious bee. She is looking to make the converging corners quilt and its going to look great.

One more for a super secret project..It's supposed to be a surprise so not spilling the beans yet.

Then one for the guild banner. Love the colors on this one.

I need to catch up with my Lucky Star BOM blocks. I have been falling behind.

Next up is a house block for Jessica, she has given us a lot of leeway in making the block and I am super excited about it. Block making has been more fun than I anticipated.

A little organization

This weekend spent some time cleaning out the mess under the work table in my sewing room and organizing it.

I went from this

to this:

To this:

I still have a little bit more to go but hopefully I should be able to find things a bit more easily going forward.

EPP mini quilt

My EPP mini quilt is coming along. It's inspired copied from this little mini by Malka Dubrawsky. Can't decide if I should add a few more hexy flowers a 3 x 3 perhaps to just leave it as is. 

Linking up to: Plum & June

Quilting Bee

I love the idea of a quilting bee and the collaborative concept behind it. This year I am part of two quilting bees. One hosted by our quilt guild and recently joined a virtual quilting bee (Scrap-Bee-Licious) both of which I am super excited about. We have already made a few blocks for bee members in the quilt guild and it was interesting to see how quickly a quilt top comes together when there are so many helping hands.

This is the line up for the Scrap-Bee-Licious bee. 

• August: Ashley @ Wasn’t Quilt in a Day
• September: Gwendellyn @ The Rainbow Revolts
• October: Cath @ Wombat Quilts
• November: Alyce @ Wonderland by Alyce
• December: Nicole @  Modern Handcraft
• January: Rachel @ Let’s Begin Sewing
• February: Nanette @  Yeah, I Made That
• March: Liz @ beadqueene’s bits and baubles
• April: Robin Sue @  RobinSue Quilts
• May: Stephanie H @ Simple Sewendipity
• June: Stephanie A @ Quarter Incher
• July: Michelle @ Factotum of Arts
• August: Laura @ Little and Lots

And oh we even have a button.