On my recent excavations through my collection on UFOs and unquilted tops, I found this set of Stack & Whack blocks. There were 11 finished blocks, with eight of them already stitched together for the center of the quilt. Amazingly enough, the fabrics for the border were packed away with the blocks. All I had to do was join the borders to the center and I had this great quilt top.
Here is a closer shot of the creatures on the main fabric, plus the fabric I pulled from my stash for the back--so cute! I usually keep pretty good records about when I worked on a project, but I haven't found any info on how old this one is or where/when I got the fabric.
Here is a shot of the finished back. The backing fabric I had pulled wasn't big enough alone, but with the addition of the leftover blocks, plus pieces of the border and main fabrics, it was perfect! There is even enough of the blue to use for a binding.
This project has now made the move from the UFO collection to the "Ready for Quilting" closet. Today I am linking up to Confessions of a Fabric Addict and to Link a Finish Friday at Richard and Tanya Quilts. Check out both places to see more finishes and exciting projects.
Julie in GA
It is unusual enough for me to get one quilt finished, but this week I managed to finish two! Granted, neither one is very big, but I was quite happy to get both my Zigzag quilt and my Flag wallhanging quilted and bound.
The Zigzag quilt was made to be donated to Quilts Beyond Borders through the Hands 2 Help challenge. It was great fun to make this bright, cheery quilt, and I hope it will be well loved by the child who receives it. You can check out more quilts that have been made for the Hands 2 Help challenge.
The Flag wallhanging was a project that was started in 2002 when members of our quilt guild exchanged triangles for maximum variety of fabrics. The quilt top was finished in the summer of 2003 and has been hidden away in a box ever since. I ran across it recently and decided it deserved to be finished. The quilting is simple stitch-in-the-ditch straight lines along the stripes. In the blue area, I stitched around the stars, then quilted additional stars for a total of 13 stars (but they are hard to see--I might have to go back over them with a contrasting thread.)
The flag quilt will be hung up later today, and the Zigzag quilt will get packed up to send off as soon as I get a label on it.
Today I am linking up to Confessions of a Fabric Addict and to Link a Finish Friday at Richard and Tanya Quilts. Check out both places to see more finishes and other exciting projects.
Julie in GA
