I've been wanting to have a go at making some of these scrappy log cabins for a while & inspired by Kathy at Inspired by Antique Quilts post here, decided to dive in and make some. These are not as small as Kathy's but fun to make, we have 40 so far.
All the scraps left over & too small to make logs are cut into 1.5" squares & made into scrappy 4 patches by being used as leaders and enders. A few others have also been trimmed to make these mini flying geese which are a mere 1.5 x 2.5 inches. All this is really good practice for me as machine piecing has never been my forte!
Small Quilt Challenge
Last autumn I joined Kathy Tracy's Small Quilt Talk yahoo group & each month she challenges the members to make one of the quilts from her books.
3. For February Kathy chose Civil War Scraps from the Civil War Sewing Circle book.
This was really fun to make, more practice for me in machine piecing & I really enjoyed the hand quilting too.
My monthly little quilts will remain unbound as I'm planning on joining them together quilt as you go method to make a large Scrappy Repro sampler as I don't have enough wall space for tons of mini quilts in my little cottage.
4. and finally I played around with some old recycled shirt fabric for some mindless sewing........
...............which is going to evolve into a baby quilt of some sort, after adding some applique to this background. So what did you get up to in February?
Keep on stitching :)
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7 comments:
Your bird is so pretty, Giselle. Love those colors -- like Spring! Julierose
Miss you when you don't blog for a while. I can see that you have been keeping busy though and eventually all those little pieces will be a fabulous quilt. Can't wait to see the next instalment.
First visit to your blog...I love your quilts!
Love the bird -- definitely makes me feel like spring is close. :-)
And I adore your little quilt. There's something so satisfying about making tiny quilts.
Definitely not as much as you have! Well done again. Love the Sue Spargo block and can't wait to see more. Also the mini quilt is divine and I can well imagine a quilt with lots of those little mini quilts! A visit with you is always inspiring!
I was thinking of you and thought I'd come over to see what you've been up to lately. BUSY, busy!! I love the sun shining on the little quilt you made. Also, the old, weathered bldg. it is on is so wonderful! Beautiful job. You are so creative and talented. Glad to see that you are doing well. Love the shirting quilt too!~ Great fun!
Yummm .... I just love what you did with the recycled shirting fabric. I have lots of shirts just waiting to be cut up into something. You have just inspired me to get working on them. Your little minis that you have been making are gorgeous!
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