The Last of the Backyard Fabric Quilts

Months after Seams Like Quilting opened in Spooner, WI, a few years ago, I bought a pack of fat quarters - Ruby Star Society Backyard by Sarah Watts. I slowly began making quilts and finished them this year: Backyard 1 Whirly Jig, Backyard 2, and Backyard 3. Recently, I was cleaning out some scraps, and I realized I still had enough of the Backyard line to make a small donation quilt, Backyard Fabric Scraps.

Size:          47" square

Thread:     Glide 50-wt, top -17543 Light Grey, 

                  back - 10439 Battleship Gray

Batting:     Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:    3Cs or Open Blossom

I quilted this with 3Cs. The first C is elongated and the second and third just echo the first. Of course, you can vary things and use just 2 or as many Cs as needed.

I think you can see the quilting here. I used large Cs on this quilt.

The backing on this quilt is a fabric that I purchased on our fall trip while we were at the Fabric Patch in Ironwood, MI.

I think I'm caught up blogging about quilt finishes. Whew! So it's time to get back to quilting.

Sweet Kisses

Sweet Kisses is a pattern from Gigi's Thimble. I had seen a picture of the pattern and I drafted my own measurements. In hindsight, it would have been much easier to purchase the pattern. The blocks are set on point and setting triangles are used on all four sides. 

Size:          59" by 81"

Thread:     Glide 50-wt, top -17443 Bone, back - 38201Steel Blue

Batting:     Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:    Loop de loop (large circular loops)

This quilt was a great stash buster for my neutral scraps. The kisses are all bright fabrics also from my stash.

Here's a photo with different lighting; maybe you can see details better. The quilting is a large loop-de-loop with a loop in each square.  

The backing was fabric in my stash that I purchased a long time ago because I loved it. It's a modern print that speaks to me. I hope the recipient of this donation quilt likes the back as much as I do.

A closeup view of the back.

This is the last of the three quilts that I finished binding on a recent retreat.

Scrappy HST's

A long time ago, I saw a picture of a quilt made with triangles or Half Square Triangles (HSTs). I knew I wanted to try the idea of having a square in the middle and triangles radiating out in four directions. After a little figuring, Scrappy HSTs was created. I have no idea if it is like the quilt I saw but the middle is the same.

You can see the white square in the middle. I began with HSTs that were 3.5" square and finished at 3" square. I wanted the colored fabrics to read solid but I did vary from that a little.

I made this a quarter at a time. My very rough line shows you a quarter. Think of cutting the quilt on the two diagonal lines through the middle.

For each quarter, I began at the right with a setting triangle. Next I made a strip with an HST and a setting triangle. Then I made a strip with 2 HSTs and a setting triangle. I continued working to the left until the last strip had 13 HSTs and a setting triangle. Then I joined the strips. When I had 4 quarters made, I joined them. I like the design made on each of the corner-to-corner diagonal of the quilt - it looks like flying geese.

Size:         64" square

Thread:     Glide 50-wt, top -17543 Lt Grey, back - 50172 Autumn

Batting:     Dream Cotton
Quilting:    Loop de loop (large)

I quilted this with a large loop-de-loop, one loop in each HST.

The back is orange fabric from my stash.

The binding is some leftover orange Grunge fabric. This is a donation quilt on which I finished hand-stitching the binding at a recent retreat.

Large Postage Stamp with White

I was at our fall quilt retreat recently. We had a great time quilting, talking, eating, and relaxing and we got our first snow of the season! I look forward to our retreats (there are just 4 of us and we enjoy this time together.) This fall, one member of our group couldn't make it so maybe we'll have a winter retreat to catch up on things.

I sewed blocks for a few different quilts but I didn't finish any quilt tops. However, I hand stitched binding on three quilts! 

Large Postage Stamp with White is finished and I love it. It's supposed to be a donation quilt but...

Size:         60" square
Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top-17543 Lt Grey, back 20404 Med Brown
Batting:    Dream Cotton
Quilting:   Loop de loop

The quilt used 900 2 1/2" squares - 450 white and 450 cut from scraps. One would think that many squares would make a dent in a basket of scraps but not much!

I think you can see the quilting in the following photo. I did a loop in each 2" finished square. I found this fun and very relaxing to quilt

The back is brown fabric that I purchased on our October trip at Barn Door Quilts in Door County.

I used the same brown for the binding.