UFO Alert, and Purple Rainbow Kitties

Welcome to Treadlestitches!

This week I finished a UFO, used up 16 orphan blocks, and did some fancier (for me) quilting--all in the same little quilt! (I promise it's not crooked, the angle is just weird here, sorry!)

This is the block.  I made a lot of these using bright colored batik scraps I got at a quilt show many years ago.  I didn't have the vast stash of brights then that I have now, so everything possible just got thrown in.  And then I bought some more!  

Here's the back, leftover from another quilt.  I bound it in solid orange, just for fun.

The pattern comes from this book, Scrap-Basket Beauties, by Kim Brackett.  There are so many great quilts in here!  Kim Brackett is a genius.

This is the pattern, and I'm sure you can tell I changed it a little.  There are two kind of blocks in the pattern, an A block and a B block.  I used only the B blocks for my little quilt.

When I first saw it, the design reminded me of a Double Wedding Ring, with way less work.  Which was perfect, because I wanted to make a quilt for a wedding.  I got all the blocks done, but the wedding never happened.  (No tragedy or anything, they're still together, just not married.)  I could still have given them the quilt, but by now I had hit the roadblock of How Am I Going to Quilt This.

I always knew I wanted some fancier quilting where the blocks come together, but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do it.  I don't do free motion quilting (yet?), I quilt with a walking foot.  A large quilt with all these spaces just seemed daunting.  I put it away, and the years just kept flying by.

Two years ago, I dragged out the blocks and remodeled the setting to a twin size.  These blocks, plus a couple more, were left over from the remodel, and got made into a small top.  This week I finally pulled up my big girl pants and quilted the little top.  It wasn't easy, but not too horrible either.  So is there hope for the bigger quilt?  Well, maybe.

In other news, purple cats!  Purple is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color of the month.  When I found out yesterday evening, I ran up to the sewing room and made these.  March will be a fun month.  Purple is my favorite color.

I had just finished making these green cats for January, so I'm caught up on Rainbow Kitties now.  BTW, the one in the lower left corner really is a light green, not aqua as I'm seeing on the computer monitor.

Last Tuesday was a wonderfully warm day (60 degrees F!).  Little Guy and I went to the playground and played in the backyard too.  And well, it did snow again on Wednesday, but only a little that has already melted off.  Maybe spring is coming early to Wisconsin?  I would love it, but I'm not going to count on it.

Guess who has a birthday!  It's Little Guy!  He'll be 4 years old this week.  We're going to his party today, so I better get a move on.  I've got presents to wrap and cupcakes to frost.  There may even be sprinkles.

Have a wonderful week, no matter what the weather is.

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Sarah at Can I Get A Whoop Whoop

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap

 

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