Category Archives: Quilting

Crocuses

Quilting
~ 12″ x 13″

This pattern came from a magazine I found at Stacia’s. Although she said she didn’t want it back, she said that this was the one pattern in the magazine that she really liked.

I was supposed to take a paperless paper piecing class through the Guild but the first date for the class had to be cancelled due to Covid and I still wasn’t going out much when they rescheduled it so I missed it again. I had a quick tutorial from Deloise on an earlier project so I jumped in on this one.

The paper I used to copy my pattern was too heavy I think. By the time it was glued to the freezer paper I had a really thick paper to work from. That may not have been the reason, but that’s what I’m going with.

I also think there were errors in the pattern – I couldn’t have made that many mistakes. Once the various pieces were stitched together the sections were all different heights. I added fabric here and there to get it to a point where I could square it up.

I was happy to gift this one to my friend Peggy. For my birthday a couple of years ago she gave me the lovely crocuses I’ve been enjoying.

Calendar Block – March

Calendar Blocks, Cards, Quilting

No surprise that the calendar block for March is a shamrock. And this particular shamrock may have a design option or a flaw – you pick.

It is nice to have all my greens sorted into one bin so finding the squares I needed wasn’t difficult. The cream colour in the corner looks really bad in the photo; it isn’t great in real life either but it isn’t quite as bad I don’t think. I continue to struggle with colour but I’ve learned something from this mistake and, hopefully, won’t make it again.

In a bag of scraps I purchased from a Guild member I found a number of veggie-patterned fabric already put together and ready for a one-block wonder quilt. When I discovered them I put them in my Guild donation bin thinking at some point I might make some placemats for donation. I’d forgotten about them until last month when I used some fabric with fruit on it and thought I could dig them out for backings for these blocks.

It took some work because they don’t go together into a square but I’m happy with the result and I’ll keep using them until they are gone.

May Quilt

Quilting
~ 72″ x 72″

This was my quilting UFO Challenge for February and, even with a slow start, I was able to finish it with lots of time to spare.

The pattern came from the May pattern in a 2011 Quilt Calendar (thank you Deloise). It required 600 squares and 300 half-square triangles. I collected for a long time before I was anywhere near ready to start piecing. Everything except the neutral colours are from scraps. The earliest photo I have of a pieced block is from January 2021 so a finish a year later is quite something for me!

The quilting (with a light pink thread) is done with straight lines and once I got started it didn’t take very long to finish.

I had some fabric in my stash that was enough (with some left over) for the backing.

Calendar Block – February

Calendar Blocks, Cards, Quilting
from Quiltish Corner (~ 14″ x 14″)

Not a big surprise that for February Kathryn’s Calendar block is a heart. I swear I’ve made this pattern (or one very similar) in different sizes many times over the years.

Kathryn mentioned that she wasn’t sure she wanted to be cutting onions on her cutting board with last month’s snowman underneath. This month I used some food-related fabric for the back. And that reminded me of a bunch of food-related hexagons that I ended up with when I purchased a bag of fabric scraps (and I know who it was that snuck them in there!). I’ll have to find them and maybe put them together for future backings.