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May is such a busy month! I didn't have much time for sewing this week, but I mananged to drag this little quilt over the "finished" line last evening. It's a donation for the Children's Advocacy Center in Milwaukee.
The pattern is an old standby from the Quilts for Kids website. (Click
HERE for the link.) Instead of 4 patches I used some of the leftover blocks from last year's Bright Hopes stack, made for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I think I can get one more quilt from them.
The unpieced blocks are a cute print that looks like children's drawings. I bought this from Hancock Fabrics online on a whim. I always justify buys like this to myself with these four words: It Was On Sale. Which it was!
I don't usually add a narrow inner border, but this quilt really needed it since the border and the alternate block are the same fabric.
The back is this cute print, which is also meant to look like children's drawings. I bought it second hand and have had it forever. It was good to find a home for it.
A two inch grid in serpentine stitch was quickly quilted, and the binding is the same fabric as the inner border. It's a small quilt, just 38 in. x 44 in., which should work well for a baby or toddler.
The orange blocks are really standing out to me this month. Isn't it a great color?
It was fun sewing the orange Half Log Cabin blocks. I only had to make 4, because the one on the bottom right was one of the blocks I made to try out the pattern.
Orange novelty prints can be hard to find, but thank goodness for Halloween fabrics! Even the Cat in the Hat print was meant for Halloween.
Check out the bats!
And of course these black cats! I bought this print in Kentucky last fall.
In Progress
Oops, I forgot to show my work In Progress last week! I was in too big a hurry to go to the WQSG meeting (more on that below). I'm working on some leftover half square triangles that were in the back of the 2.5 in. square drawer. I'm sewing them into 6 in. finished Friendship Stars to make another quilt like the one I just finished. The orange ones are done!
The Wisconsin Quilt Study Group meeting last weekend was wonderful! We met at the Lincoln-Tallman House in Janesville, Wisconsin, and the staff pulled out lots of quilts for us to enjoy. I think this one was in the servants' quarters. (Yay, orange!)
They even did a bed turning for us featuring some of their oldest quilts. This one was wonderfully scrappy. The colors were still vibrant. Very little information was available on the date, but definitely before 1900.
As part of our meeting, we shared some of our family quilts. I had to snap a photo of this one that belonged to Carol. I have often admired this scrappy pattern. Plus, more orange!
The museum staff was amazing, our tour guide was knowledgeable, fun, and patient, and the house is beautifully preserved. We even got to see where Abraham Lincoln slept! It was a lovely quilty day out.
Yesterday DH and I had another great day. It was Grandparents Day at Buddy and Little Guy's school. We saw their classrooms, played bingo, went to the bookfair, and viewed the art show. Above Buddy is showing us his painting of sunflowers.
Little Guy is pointing to his project, a smiling snail with a colorful shell.
Little Guy was just happy to make something and have it displayed, but Buddy was disappointed not to get a ribbon for his project. I hope I can help them focus more on the satisfaction of creating and sharing art and less on competition. Art (in whatever medium we like!) can give us joy all through our lives.
I hope you have a joyful week, with time to do what you love. Like quilting!
Thanks for reading,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches
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