Some starts and some finishes!

We've kept busy this summer and I'm still putting produce - now potatoes and apples - in the freezer. I love fresh, local food so I preserve whatever I can for us to eat during the year. Most of our produce comes from local Amish farmers so I just go get it when I'm ready to take care of it.

I've also been quilting. I have lots of quilts in progress. Here are the most recent starts:

Sweet Kisses is based on a quilt I saw and loved.

This project is a little brighter than I envisioned when I decided to use a couple of fabrics from my stash.

Here's another simple project I've begun from my stash. I love the paint splotch fabric and have used it for backing on a couple of quilts.

I have small drawers that hold little pieces of fabric (less than 1/4 yd) sorted by color. The red drawer was getting empty as were some others.

I went through my large drawers of fabric and moved everything less than 1/2 yard to the small drawers. Of course the small drawers were then overflowing so I decided to make a mostly red quilt with some yellow. Here is the beginning  of it.

The blue drawer was also overflowing. When my Stripology XL ruler arrived in the mail, I wanted to try cutting diamonds. It worked great and now I'm making a scrappy blue diamond quilt with diamonds that are 5.5" between the parallel sides.

Although I keep starting new projects, I do finish some. The next three finished quilts will be donated..

Backyard 3 is from the bundle of fat quarters, Ruby Star Society Backyard by Sarah Watts. Backyard 1 is here and Backyard 2 is here. I found more of the leftover scraps a few weeks ago and I have enough that there will be a Backyard 4!

This 53" square quilt is quilted as puzzle pieces using Glide Light Grey #17543 on top and Navy #32965 on the back.

The backing is a navy with teal and yellow fabric which I found on sale in Woodstock, IL, earlier this year.

I began Bright Scrappy Log Cabins a while back. This quilt finished at 55" by 65".

Many of the strips used in the log cabin blocks are pieced. I love using small scraps this way.

One of my favorite fabrics in this quilt is the Crayola crayons.

I quilted this with a double teardrop that is echoed using Glide Lemon Ice thread #80607 on top and Navy #32965 on the back.

The backing is the same navy with teal and yellow fabric used on the previous quilt.

I bought a kit when I was on a shop hop with friends a while ago. The Villa Rosa Designs pattern came with the kit.

Sisterhood finished at 51" by 61".

I quilted this with a large meander using Glide Battleship gray #10430 on the top and Sterling gray #10877 on the back.

The back is a purple fabric that was in my stash.

Time to get back to the kitchen - it smells so good. I've been making applesauce and apple bars.