Happy Scrappy Stars

Welcome to Treadlestitches!

This week, I'm winding up all my projects for Hands2Help, the annual charity quilt drive hosted and organized by Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  The deadline is the week of May 31st, which is coming up fast.

This little quilt is for Little Lambs, and will go with a baby going into foster care.  I have been out of some important supplies, like basting spray and my favorite needles, which arrived to squeals of joy.  I love getting packages in the mail, don't you?  Even when I know what's in them!

The pattern is a simple Friendship Star, made from scraps, which finishes at 6 in.  The sashing is 1 in. finished, and is a light fabric with a star print.

It was so much fun putting these stars together.  Here's a robot under the sea.

The back is this bright alphabet print.
Once I got it finished, I started to wonder if maybe I shouldn't have put so much white fabric into a quilt meant for a baby.  But I guess if the foster parents are concerned about stains etc., they can just flip it over.  Problem solved!  Let's not worry about stuff.

The stars for this quilt came from my stash of 2.5 in. squares, triangles, and hsts.  I am working on organizing my stuff better, which I think is a natural response to lots of time off during a pandemic.  I still have to work on the reproduction scraps and other sizes of squares and triangles.  But now when I'm making a quilt from bright fabrics, I can pull out this box to get me started.

The triangles are tucked in the back.  Ooh, seeing these makes me itch to get sewing.

First things first.  This top will be my last quilt for Hands2Help this year.  It will go to Quilty Hugs for Happy Chemo, and I hope it brings a little hug from me.

Most of these blocks were made by wonderful ladies in my quilt group.  I won them in block swaps, and then couldn't figure out how best to set them, etc. so they were in my orphan block "collection".

They are orphans no more.  I will focus on quilting this 48 in. x 48 in. top this week, and get it ready to mail out.  I hope they have someone who likes purple.  I love it, myself, it's one of my favorite colors.

We had a birthday party yesterday!  Little Buddy turned 4!  It was our usual babysitting day, so we gave him his presents when he first got here.  The cake and ice cream had to wait til after lunch.  No guests, of course, but he didn't seem to mind.  As you can see, he is still into dinosaurs.

Baby Buddy didn't know what the fuss was about, but he was happy anyway.

Later, Little Buddy became a T Rex on the back porch (that's Grandpa weeding in the background).

All around us, the natural world is coming back to life after the long winter.  In these uncertain times, I appreciate the joy of spring even more.
Some of the rhubarb is ready to cut today.  A pie is definitely in our future!
I hope there are good things in your future, too.
Thanks 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