Quarter Log Cabins is Finished!

Just in time for tomorrow's quilt guild meeting, my Quarter Log Cabins quilt is finished!

Quarter Log Cabins

53.5" x 63"

Our quilt guild is making throw quilts to be donated to the local chapter of Meals on Wheels. The quilts will be distributed in the fall to clients who are in need of comfort and warmth. 

I received the fabrics for this quilt from the guild's head of community service projects. The design I chose to make is the Quarter Log Cabin pattern from the Sew Can She website. Caroline at Sew Can She offers a huge selection of free patterns on her site, including several of the popular 3-yard patterns. My quilt is a little bigger than the pattern because I had a larger piece of the red print and made my outer border wider.

I got a little carried away with my machine quilting and ended up wishing I'd done something looser and simpler, but it turned out well. I stippled through the logs in the blocks, did a couple wavy lines in the narrow light border, switchbacks in the navy border, and large swirls in the outer red border. I had just enough of the navy print to use for the binding.

The backing fabric is similar to the red print on the quilt front, but a little lighter/duller in color. 

Finishing this quilt was one of the projects on my list for the guild's UFO challenge, and it feels great to be able to cross another item off that list!

Linking up with:

Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter

Needle and Thread Thursday at My Quilt Infatuation

Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA

One Monthly Goal Success!

There's nothing like waiting until the last day of the month, but I got in just under the wire.  It is time to report on the successful completion of my One Monthly Goal for April. My Quarter Log Cabins quilt top is done!

Quarter Log Cabins quilt top

54" x 64"

Our quilt guild is making throw quilts to be donated to the local chapter of Meals on Wheels. They distribute the quilts to clients who are in need of comfort and warmth. 

I received the fabrics from the guild's head of community service projects. The design I chose to make is the Quarter Log Cabin pattern from the Sew Can She website. Caroline at Sew Can She offers a huge selection of free patterns on her site, including several of the popular 3-yard patterns. My quilt is a little bigger than the pattern because I had about 1.5 yards of the red print and made my outer border larger.

I'm joining in with the One Monthly Goal link-up, hosted by Anne-Marie at Stories from the Sewing Room. It's possible that my One Monthly Goal for May will be to quilt and bind this quilt. That is still to be determined.

I'm also linking up with:

Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter

Needle and Thread Thursday at My Quilt Infatuation

Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA

Fabric Serendipity

I hadn't planned to write a blog post today, at least not until I read Alycia's post and saw the photo of her latest quilt. Check it out HERE--go ahead, I'll wait. 

Did you happen to notice the red border on her quilt? That's what especially caught my eye and prompted this post. It's because I've been working on a throw quilt that includes the very same red fabric in the blocks and for the outer border. Mine isn't as far along as Alycia's. The blocks are all made and joined together for the center of the quilt, and the border strips are all cut and ready to be attached.

The pattern I used for this top is "Quarter Log Cabins", a free 3-yard quilt pattern by Caroline Fairbanks of the website Sew Can She. My quilt is going to be a little larger than the pattern because I had 1-1/2 yards of the red print, which made it possible to cut that outer border wider. My quilt should finish at 54" x 64".

Here's an even closer view of a couple blocks and the border strips.

The piece of red fabric that I used for this quilt had one selvage removed, so there wasn't any information about the fabric line/designer. It reminded me of several red, white & blue lines designed by Minick and Simpson for Moda, but it took some serious digging to figure out which one. The fabric line was "Prairie Paisley II", which was issued in 2012. That's some well-aged fabric there! The center cheater print in Alycia's quilt is from the same line. It's a classic line of fabrics that still look beautiful today.

It's time for me to stop babbling about this bit of fabric serendipity and get those borders sewn on to my quilt top.

Linking up with:

Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts

Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty

Happy quilting!

Julie in GA

Design Wall Monday and One Monthly Goal

My design walls currently display a wild variety of projects, ranging from very small, intricate blocks to much larger and simpler blocks. It's that kind of variety that keeps quilting interesting for me.

top: Temperature Quilt

bottom: Quarter Log Cabin

I've posted about the Temperature Quilt project before; you can see a couple of earlier posts HERE and HERE. I've been doing well at keeping up with making the blocks, never getting more than a few days behind. The photo above shows all of the blocks through April 2nd.

Just last week, I figured out the layout for my temperature blocks, and I started joining the blocks together into groups. It's tricky to keep them in the right order and pointing in the right direction, so I have to be very careful during this part of the process.

The lower half of that design wall contains my newest project, Quarter Log Cabin blocks. Our guild is having a community service sewing day in late May, and we will be working on throw quilts to be donated to Meals on Wheels, along with the placemats that we give them. The guild's community service chairperson had put together bundles of fabrics that could be used for 3-yard quilt patterns, and I offered to make a sample to show at the next meeting.

Quarter Log Cabin blocks

The design I chose is the Quarter Log Cabin pattern from the Sew Can She website. Caroline at Sew Can She offers a huge selection of free patterns on her site, including several of the popular 3-yard patterns. If you sign up to receive her daily emails, you can get that day's featured pattern as a free pdf download.

I've been enjoying making this quilt because it is coming together so quickly. Using only three fabrics made the cutting much faster than my usual scrap quilts, and the blocks are very easy to put together. They will finish at 10" each, and I need only 20 blocks for the entire quilt. I especially love the red paisley/floral print that was included in the fabric bundle. One selvage was gone, so there was no maker information on it, but it has a wonderfully smooth feel to it.

Finishing this quilt top will be my One Monthly Goal for April. I will need to make 14 more blocks, join them together, then add three borders. The guild meeting is next week Thursday, which gives me only 10 days to get it done.

Completely on the other side of the spectrum as far as block size and complexity are the latest blocks to be finished for my version of the Jane Stickle sampler quilt. I finished four blocks last week, bringing my total number of finished blocks up to 14 (out of a total of 169.) My current goal is to make at least two blocks each week. These blocks will finish at 4.5".

Top row: Blocks C9, D10

2nd row: Blocks E3, I3

Now you can see what I meant at the beginning of this post about the variety of projects I've been working on. When I'm in the mood for something easy, I can make temperature blocks or the log cabins. If I'm ready to be challenged, I can make some of the Jane Stickle blocks or join more of the temperature blocks together. That's all a big part of the reason why I tend to have multiple projects in the works at the same time.

I'm  linking up with:

One Monthly Goal at Stories from the Sewing Room

Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA

Scrappy Rainbow Saturday--Week 39, 2019

It's almost the end of our month of playing with purple scraps for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I made good progress on all of my different RSC projects.

Here we have a Framed Crumb Star (12" block") surrounded by twelve Stairsteps blocks. On the right are eight Orange Peel blocks, plus five Tiny Tuesday blocks.

I also made some Quarter Log Cabin blocks as a sample for a possible RSC project next year.

It seems like we will probably have black and grey or brown as our assigned colors for October. It's almost time to finish making blocks and start getting these quilt tops put together!

I am linking up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge on Saturday and with Oh Scrap! at Quilting is more fun than Housework on Sunday. Be sure to check out all of the wonderful projects that everyone is sharing! 

Julie in GA

Scrappy Rainbow Saturday--Week 37, 2019

I have some catching up to do on a couple of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects. The pieces were all cut for some purple Stairsteps blocks, but instead of sewing them together, I just had to try out a new idea. 

We made Quarter Log Cabin blocks as part of the Tiny Tuesday sampler a few weeks ago. I kept thinking about making a larger version of that pattern as a future RSC quilt. Today was the day to make some sample blocks. The light strips are cut at 1.5" and the dark ones are 2", ending up with 9" finished blocks.

Quarter Log Cabins, 9" finished size

My purple blocks look very dark in the photo. I'm undecided about making them as a new RSC project for next year, but it was fun to experiment with something new this afternoon.

I am linking up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge on Saturday and with Oh Scrap! at Quilting is more fun than Housework on Sunday. Be sure to check out all of the wonderful projects that everyone is sharing! 

Julie in GA