Welcome to Treadlestitches!
I wish it was a sunnier morning for this mini quilt show! These are tops I made years ago that have been patiently waiting in my closet for me to quilt them. Lately I have somehow come to my senses and realized I will never have time to finish them, so they will be donated to the Milwaukee Child Advocacy Center after being quilted by a volunteer.
The first 3 quilts were made from 2018-2019.
First up is this nine patch. I really loved making this one. My friend Debbie C. gave me the blocks. The colors are wonderful, and there's a surprise when you get close up.
Five of the squares in each nine patch are four patches, made of blocks with similar bright colors! I made the pieced border the same way. I'm sure a child will love it.
Next is a heart quilt top, finished in 2019. I think this is the first time I framed a pieced block with solid strips. I didn't even know it was called a Happy Block until much later. The strip border was fun. I could never decide how to quilt it on my own, so I'm happy to pass it on for a good cause.
I used to get lots of quilt magazines, and the pattern for this quilt was in one of them. I finished the top in the summer of 2018. How do I know that?
Because I took this photo then, with my grandson Buddy sitting on it! He was only 2 years old. This is another top I couldn't figure out how to quilt. A long arm quilter will have no such problem.
More tops! These two were Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilts. The patterns for both of them came from books. The one on the left was a RSC project for 2019. It was pretty big, so I didn't add a border. The one on the right was from RSC 2020.
Last two! On the left we have Sawtooth Star, which was also a 2019 RSC project.
The centers are 6 in. finished crumb blocks. So much fun to sew!
I think this 16 patch is the oldest one of the bunch. I used up lots of scraps from quilts I had made for my grandchildren. I had thought to quilt it and keep it here for them, but other quilts got finished first. We have no lack of quilts here! It can go where it's needed.
That's the round up of the "ladies in waiting" that are no longer waiting in my closet! This week I will be taking them to the volunteer who quilts them, and thanking her for all the hard work she does for such a good cause.
Oh no, it's the last Saturday of the month and my RSC blocks are not finished! I only have these six yellow hearts done, and I haven't even started on the Sisters Choice blocks. I could blame my lack of progress on my youngest grandsons, who were on spring break this week and here every day, but that wouldn't really be why.
Here's why--a new project!
I'm making log cabin blocks, with random width logs. It is so much fun, and is using up all kinds of scraps. I'll post more next week.
The basement clean out would be another good excuse, but I didn't get much done there either, except for sorting this big bag of solid colored scraps. There were more packed in there than I thought!
Now they're at least sorted by color. No surprise, the biggest pile is blue, and the smallest is pink! I actually threw away pieces that were bad quality fabric and/or too small to fool with. Progress!
Anyway, we had a very good week around here. Thursday we went to a local park. The boys stood on a bridge and asked me to take their picture fighting off an invisible monster. Monster, you better run!
I left the quilt tops on the kitchen table last night, and woke up to this:
Our little Lizzy is a quilt lover. I think you could say that about most cats!
Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful week!
Sylvia@Treadlestitches
Linking up with these lovely link party hostesses:
Angela at
So Scrappy, Home of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge
Lots of bright and cheery projects -- well done.
ReplyDeleteYou've made many beautiful quilts and quilt tops, Sylvia! That's great that you've found a place for the unquilted ones to go so they can be used. I think I've found a place like that near me, too - a church group that will finish tops and donate them. The photo of your rainbow of scraps is so fun! I can't wait to see what you do with those. And Spring Break with the buddies sounds like lots of fun, too!
ReplyDeleteI love that you empowered yourself to just give away the tops & get them to someone who will use them. I've been getting my donations to finished status, as well, but just gave myself permission to send a flimsy to Many Hand Many Hearts with my block drive donation & let her army of quilters take care of it. It's been in hanging in my closet for several years waiting to be quilted & that's doing nobody any good! Also, I have that Crumb Quilts book, too, & am hoping to get the cover quilt made next year???? Hopefully, because I love it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful pile of donation quilts you are sharing with your community. You made a ton of progress this week!--TerryK@OnGoingProjects
ReplyDeleteThose 7 quilts are so cute. So generous of you to just give them up like that. I know, it's for a good cause and I get, we can't quilt ourselves all our quilts because then, where would we find the time to make more? Lol. I think blue is the colour all quilters have the most of. It goes with everything. Enjoy the logs! ;^)
ReplyDeleteYou did a fantastic job making all those quilts over the years. I loved each and everyone of them! Glad you were still able to enjoy the week with the grands. A park is a great way for them to burn off energy which they always seem to have so much more of than us!
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice bunch of quilt tops. The organization will be thrilled to quilt and finish them up. I also used to buy magazines fairly often and get ideas from them. Luckily for us, the internet is good for getting patterns. I already feel inundated with papers so I'm grateful to have things online for a change.
ReplyDeleteAll those tops are amazing!! I really like the 2019 RSC top!!! They will be loved so much - and bring such big smiles!
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