Anything Goes

Welcome to Treadlestitches!  This week I pushed through a rotten cold to finish two little donation quilts.

One of the ladies at my quilt group made the tops from donated fabric.  I quilted and bound them.

They are just the right size to keep someone's lap warm.

I was very happy to use up some of my scrap fabric on the backs and for the binding.  More stuff out the door, and for a good cause.

This backing had a date on the selvedge of 1999!  The quilting is a 2 in. grid, that Mrs. Pfaff and I sewed using her built in walking foot.

Check out some of the variety!  This lizard/snake fabric was in both quilts.  So was the poly/cotton gingham, which reminds me of making dresses for my daughters in the 1980s.

Here we have millennium fabric from 2000, a pheasant print, modern prints, batiks, and a Christmas print.  Truly, anything goes!
These little quilts will probably go to a local nursing home, where they will be warm and comforting.
In other news, still green!

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge has been great for helping me use up scraps of all sorts.  As usual, I have a project just for my 1800s reproduction fabric.  These shoo fly blocks are cut from 3.5 in. strips.

I have more dark strips than light, so I settled on this configuration.  I will use two fabrics (at least) for each color (in this case, green), and two fabrics for each light.

They are simple little blocks, fast and easy to make, which I am going to need this year as my life gets busier.
This was the week that was.  (Anybody remember that show?)

For a while now, I've been enjoying the quilts people make that mark each day in a year, such as temperature quilts, etc.  After some head scratching and scribbling, I decide to record the days in 2020 like this.  Each small block represents a week, and each strip is one day.
New Year's Day was a Wednesday, so the top strip represents the sewing I did that day, especially making green RSC blocks.  The next strip has hearts for visiting family, and Clifford is for my little buddy's new book.  Saturday is a serene aqua, Sunday is a bright yellow, Monday has the dinosaurs we're always playing with, and Tuesday is a books print to represent our weekly trip to the library.

My plan is to keep going all year.  The block for each month will be made of  4 of these weekly blocks, BUT when there are more than 28 days (which is every month this year), I will split the strips in the last block as needed.  It's kind of my own Block of the Month.
There's a ice storm outside today, with snow to follow, so we are happily snowed in.  My DH is watching a ball game, and I'm going to get some more sewing done.  Well, after I take a nap.
Have a lovely week, and watch out for cold germs!
Cheers for reading,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:
Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday
Angela at So Scrappy
Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Cynthia at Oh Scrap