More Scrappy Goodness!

With all the great weather lately I have been very neglectful of my blog. I can be found most mornings on the pickleball courts near my home. I have more scrappy quilts to share resulting from the Scrap Sewciety BOM that I arranged for the Etobicoke Quilters Guild. Laurie; a relatively new quilter didn’t have a stash so she used a co-ordinatated grouping of FQ’s. I have loved the grey/soft yellow combination since Alfred Sung came out with a clothing collection of those colors years ago.

I love that you have to really look to find some blocks and others are very easy to see.

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Laurie decided to leave the corners of her string star with background fabric only, it really makes it stand out as a feature in the quilt. There are so many fabrics in this quilt it does read “elegant scrappy”. This is a gift for her granddaughter. Soon Laurie will have a stash like the rest of us and she will be scratching her head wondering what to do with it. Seriously speaking having stash was a good problem to have during the past year.

I have one more quilt for you to feast your eyes, unfortunately there is only one picture. Mary also made this for her granddaughter, who is just getting a big girl bed! Mary added a lot of extra blocks and didn’t follow the guidelines that I provide for putting the quilt together, something about needing a more symmetrical look. I applaud the result, as I know it takes a lot of math to get things right.

She kept her blocks in groupings by colouring and didn’t make a string star block. She added a lot of heart blocks of different sizes and filler (coping) strips of half square triangles. She quilted this herself using my all-time favourite;the Baptist Fan. I only wish I had closeups to share.

If you belong to a guild, I am offering this as a guild project with great instructions and encouragement via zoom, so please feel free to contact me, I would love to work with you. There are beautiful quilts waiting to be made from your stash!