Another Strippy Baby Quilt

The quilt guild sewing day was held last week, and we had about a dozen members in attendance working together to make baby quilts for a local pregnancy center. I decided to use some older batiks from my stash to make another Quicker Strippie quilt. Like my previous version of this pattern, I changed some of the strip sizes, cutting all of the widest strips at 9.5".

Quicker Strippy baby quilt

38.5" x 44"

My fabric choices for this quilt top were based on the beautiful flannel print that was used on the back. I remember buying this fabric when the Hancock Fabrics chain was having their going-out-of-business sales, probably 8-10 years ago.

I might have enough of these fabrics to get one more baby quilt out of them if I reverse the placement of the green and the peachy/orange batiks. Maybe I'll go ahead and cut the strips to keep together as a kit for when I'm in the mood for a quick and easy project.

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Happy quilting!

Julie in GA

Stash Report and Stitching Time 11/3/2024

The last week seemed like a busy one, but I can't even figure out why at this moment. Maybe I just need to wake up a little and have some more coffee first!

I do know that most of my quilting time was spent on making more placemats for our guild's community service project. All of the placemats we are making will be donated to Meals on Wheels. I made another set in blue and brown, using a combination of fabrics from the guild and some from my stash.

Up next was a set made completely from guild fabrics, all of them featuring red.

Working on projects made from guild fabrics meant not much change to my stash for the week. I did use 1.25 yards of my own fabrics for the blue and brown placemats.

2024 STASH TOTALS

Used last week:                    1.25 yards

Used year to date:           122.875 yards

Added last week:                    0.0 yards

Added year to date:             88.75 yards

Net used in 2024:          34.125 yards

Kate's 15 Minutes to Stitch Challenge at Life in Pieces has us tracking how many days each week we get in at least 15 minutes of quilting time. I've stalled out on most of my on-going projects, but have spent plenty of time making placemats. I also finished the quilting on a baby quilt yesterday and just need to add the binding to it..

15 Minute Challenge for 2024

10/27 - 11/2              7 of 7 days

2024 Total          302 of 307 days

Success rate               98.37 %   

Check out more stash reports at quiltpaintcreate and join the 15 Minutes to Stitch Challenge at Life in Pieces. Thanks so much to Donna and Kate for continuing to host these link-ups.

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA

Stash Report and Stitching Time 10/27/2024

Placemats were my main quilting focus for the past week. Our guild had a community service sewing day to make placemats for Meals on Wheels on Thursday. The community service stash of fabric provided the blue and brown fabrics that I used for this group. None of these fabrics came from my stash, but I'm planning to pull some of my own blue and brown fabrics to make more.

After that, I finished off a set of placemat tops that had been assembled in August. The little bowtie blocks finish at 2" each, and many of them were made in 1999! The second photo shows the two different backing fabrics used to finish the placemats, and those fabrics also date back to at least 1999. I used 7/8 yard for the backings.

My other project for the week was joining the Birthday Blocks from Laundry Basket Quilts into a finished quilt top, which was shared in yesterday's post. The yardage used in making the blocks was already counted, but I used an additional 1.25 yards for framing the blocks.

Altogether, I used just over 2 yards of fabric last week, and there were no new fabric additions to the stash.

2024 STASH TOTALS

Used last week:                  2.125 yards

Used year to date:           121.625 yards

Added last week:                    0.0 yards

Added year to date:             88.75 yards

Net used in 2024:          32.875 yards

Kate's 15 Minutes to Stitch Challenge at Life in Pieces has us tracking how many days each week we get in at least 15 minutes of quilting time. I've enjoyed making placemats and plan to continue with more of those, plus I need to get back to quilting one of the Rail Fence Spinners quilts.

15 Minute Challenge for 2024

10/20 - 10/26            7 of 7 days

2024 Total          295 of 300 days

Success rate               98.33 %   

Check out more stash reports at quiltpaintcreate and join the 15 Minutes to Stitch Challenge at Life in Pieces. Thanks so much to Donna and Kate for continuing to host these link-ups.

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA