Bowtie Quilt #4, Happy Hearts, and Horton

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!  Thanks for stopping by!

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it?  I've been putting my RSC Bow Tie blocks together for the last few weeks, and this is Bow Tie Quilt #4.

It's snowing this morning, so all pictures are inside.  Not much accumulation yet, but we're expected to get 10 to 14 inches.  I'm glad we don't need to go anywhere.  All our company for Thanksgiving was local, so they're safe at home too.

This time I arranged 30 of the blocks more or less randomly.   The blocks are 8 in. finished, and the quilt comes out to 46 in. x 54 in.  That's about as big as I feel comfortable quilting on my domestic sewing machine.

To get a good balance of colors, I actually had to make more bowtie blocks!  The orange eyeballs, blue Dalmatians, and red reindeer prints are new.

For the border, I chose this cute print of cats in cups.  A couple of them look suspiciously like my Snicky.

The backing is this yarn print.  I did very simple quilting as usual, this time stitch in the ditch.

One more new block is this blue one featuring Horton from Dr. Seuss's books Horton Hears A Who and Horton Hatches the Egg.  The fabric was left from the border of Bowtie Quilt #3, which I showed last week.

Lizzy the cat gives this quilt the snuggle seal of approval.  (Don't worry, I will wash it before I donate it!)

One more bowtie quilt is coming next week!

In other news, Heart quilt #1 for this year's RSC is a top.  I'm calling it Happy Hearts.

Snicky really wanted to pose on it.  You know how cats are, I can't persuade him to pose, but he will if he wants to.  This time I actually had to encourage him to move along to other cat activities after I took the pictures.

I finished the top yesterday.  After having a wonderful family Thanksgiving the day before, Friday was a good day for sewing.  Plus we had plenty of leftovers, so no cooking!  

The heart blocks are 6 in. finished.  I framed them with solid strips (cut 2 in. wide) which enlarged them to 9 in. finished,  and set them side by side.  There are 7 rows of 5 blocks each.

And who is that in the blue border?  It's Horton again!  That kind elephant is one of my favorite children's book characters.

This top is 53 in. x 70 in., too big for me to quilt comfortably, so I will donate it as a top.  Both Happy Hearts and Bowtie #4 will be going to the Children's Advocacy Center in Milwaukee.

If we're snowed in this weekend I might get more sewing done!  This is my sewing room In/Out box.  Right now I have 2 sets of blocks plus a pattern and squares for a princess quilt.  I like to have lots of choices of which projects to work on.

I hope all who celebrated had a good Thanksgiving.  We certainly did!  My husband always takes two photos of all of us, one at the table...

and one on the couch.  Little Guy was acting goofy, which is why I'm holding him.  I feel so lucky and thankful to have all our kids and grand kids living close by.  (I don't know why Buddy always takes off his shoes and socks when he comes in the house, even in winter!)

Have a good week, everyone!  I hope you have time for the things you love to do.  Like quilting!

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Angela at So scrappy, home of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge