HST's Done

Bees Knees Block

These are the HST's I started to work on last night. I just finished them and I am happy with the way they turned out. I like the fabric that she chose for the block. It will be a pretty quilt. The block is 24 inches. Each HST was 6.5. They are in the mail tomorrow and now I can get to my projects.

Ooops!

This is for the Bees Knees group that I am in. You might know that the very first one that I did was wrong, at least it was an easy fix. I don't like doing HST's the way she wanted you to do them so maybe I was thinking too much about that. She wanted us to cut our triangles before we sew them and I would much rather put the two squares together, sew and then cut them apart. Much easier for me to do. I will finish them tomorrow.

I hope you all had a nice Christmas with family. And Happy New Year everyone!

Keep Stitching,
kwiltmar

He Likes Yellow!

One of my grandson's loves all things yellow. I think he will like this quilt when it is done, I think it has enough yellow in it. This was not the original fabric for this quilt, well not all of it anyway. You can see the original post here. I made some of the blocks but the orange just was not working. I was a bit bummed out about it so I thought about it for a few days and decided to can the oranges. I went with more blues and greens which has made a much nicer quilt for a boy. He is only 3 and this quilt is huge. It is approximately 62 X 85., honestly I didn't think it was that big. Originally it called for Prairie Points around the edges but I am going to put a border on it instead. I am just trying to figure that out. I was thinking a blue around the outside edge, not too wide then maybe a little more yellow and the blue again for the binding or perhaps just a scrappy binding. The back will be pieced with different fabrics because I don't have enough of one fabric for it. I will post again when I get it done.

I am still working on last months block of the month, I know I am dragging my feet on that one. Plus I already picked up this months BOM as well. Guess I had better get going and get something done. Thanks for looking.

Star Quilt

This is one of those quilts that you make with the half square triangles. I have wanted to make this one for a long time but as I said before I am not that good with HST's. I had a ruler that helps with them and just never tried it out. I can't say I was too happy with the ruler in the end but it was fun making this quilt. I won't use the ruler again because my edges were on the bias. Who needs that?!

One nice thing about this quilt is that I did not buy any fabric for it. It all came from my stash. I pieced the back of it too but I wanted to wait till I had the quilt together before I posted a photo of that. I have a couple of other things to get out of the way before I get this one sandwiched and quilted. I am still practicing the free motion quilting and I think I am doing a lot better at it. The hard part for me has been to get control with the whole speed thing but it seems to be working out OK now. I was hoping to free motion quilt this one but we shall see. It is for my youngest grandson, hopefully before he is four years old. LOL

New Batik Fabric

My LQS has these nice little shopping bags for sale. If you buy one then on the 5Th Saturday of the month you get 20% off every thing you buy. There are several 5Th Saturdays in the year and I think I already saved the price of the bag. I missed the first one they did but this past Saturday was another chance to use my shopping bag. I couldn't wait to get these Batiks for a quilt that I saw in the shop wanted to make. The little guy I am making it for just loves yellow so yellow, some blue and green are the colors. It is made up of half square triangles so it will be a simple quilt to make(I hope). I have a couple of other projects to finish up first but I am so anxious to get going on this. Not only that but I should be outside doing a lot of yard work now that it is very fall like out there. Too many things to do and not enough time to do it all in. Happy Quilting........

BOM******Flying Geese

With the computer in shop all week I had a chance to get my BOM's done. I really like working with the Batiks, they are so vibrant. I am not good at HST's but I thought OK we shall see, I will just take it slow and easy on them. I was amazed that I didn't have any problems. They all went together just fine. I was really pleased with the result and they were fun to do. These are supposed to be a border for the quilt. Can't wait to see what the other blocks are.

I quilted the Pink quilt today, I have to trim it up and get the binding on it then I will post a photo of it. By the way, the Pink pattern is called...Crazy Eights. I know a couple people wondered if it was Yellow Brick Road. I think they do look a lot alike.