Roar!

We're roaring around here today...

and stomping, too!

My Little Buddy's dinosaur quilt is finished!  Some of his favorite friends are helping me.

They're pretty excited, and I am, too.  I can't wait to show Little Buddy the quilt when he comes here on Tuesday.

Here's the whole thing, without the dinosaur friends.  All of the smaller squares were charm squares, either the official kind from the quilt store, or cut by me from my scraps.

Here's the panel I started with back in June.  It took a little bit of math to figure out the layout so everything would fit.  Math makes my head hurt, but I persisted.

I framed up the center to a size that would work with the charm squares.  Those dark blue squares in the corners were cut from a yard of fabric that was meant to go with the panel.  I was really glad I bought it.
The last border is really wide, because I wanted to put the smaller squares from the panel in the corners.
I did the quilting on my domestic machine, quilt as you go style.  It might be easier to see what I mean by looking at the back.

The center section is what I quilted first, just as though it was a small quilt.  Then I added the large outer pieces of backing to the center.  I spray basted large strips of batting to the backing.  Then I added the borders to the top, one border at a time, spray basting the batting as I went.  I would add a border, quilt it, then add the next, and quilt it, and so on.

All of the quilting is very simple stuff.  I did use Golden Threads paper to mark the wavy lines.
It was a relatively easy way to quilt a medallion style quilt.  Best of all, no hand sewing!

So that's one off the To Do list.
Here's something I'm sewing as a leader and ender project.  Does anybody know the name of this pattern?

Here's one block, made with rectangles and squares 2.5 in. wide (cut).

And here's what they can do when you put 4 blocks together!
I just love patterns like this.
I picked up this kit at our last quilt meeting.  Our wonderful charity group had cut all the pieces from donated scraps.  When I finish the piecing, a volunteer will quilt it on a long arm machine, and we'll donate it locally to a good cause.
I would love to know the name of the pattern and the designer if possible.

Thanks for reading this long post.  I'm hoping you have something great to roar about this week.
Cheers,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:
Angela at So Scrappy (Keep her in your thoughts--the hurricane is coming her way!)
Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Alycia at Alycia Quilts
Cynthia at Oh Scrap