I saw something someplace and was inspired to try and start with a small square, I think it was like a 5" square, cut it, insert a 1" strip, rotate it, slice and repeat 3 more times. I saw the quilt on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wvagent/14926334195
and it was simply a photo on flicker, no sizes or instructions. Just very attractive little quilt!
When Ezekiel first saw this quilt he was delighted. It's TIC TAC TOE, he told me in 5 year old confidence. And so it was named.
There is an exciting announcement in the summer! My nephew and his wife are delighted to learn they will be having a baby girl right before Christmas! I know the Mom loves yellow, so I start scanning my fabrics for yellow and I find some honeybee-hive fabrics, a jelly roll and yardage with a stripe design.
I bought a new ruler to make this one and it was real fun to make. The triangles can be cut into a variety of sizes, I chose 4" (for an 8" square block) and then a selection of vert neutral fabrics that can read "traditional," or "masculine." Just triangles here, but the pattern looks like circles, doesn't it? This quilt was a generous lap sized quilt and it sold pretty quickly for $50 online.
A charm pack of pretty pinks, some white with tiny pink polka dots and a simple pattern for a pretty baby quilt which I quickly sold for the new baby grand daughter of a friend. That's right, starting 2020 I began selling quilts! I retired, and looked around, and KNEW I had to whittle down my collection no matter what! So I'm selling, for pretty low prices frankly, so long as they go to a home where they are loved and hopefully USED. I am enjoying reclaimiNg space.... making room for MORE QUILT MAKING!
Please pay no attention to dates for a time. My blog was ignored for 18 months. I didn;t stop QUILTING, but there was a super slow pandemic, some health challenges, a pandemic (oh yeah) and so the blog and actually photographs got ignored. For a long time. So for awhile, quilts will be added in no particular order. I'll try and remember what they were for and details.
Fun And Bright was an experiment in stack cutting of solids, and ended up around 36 X 45". 20 blocks large, each block ended up around 9". The quilting is freehand lines around every 3 inches.
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Made many many years ago for me to have family sign every year, this quilt carries memories of Christmas' past. My mom and Ruth are in the quilt. My cousin Patti. My son, my friend Sharon and her grandkids. Rebecca, my brother Charlie and his family. This year my grandson, who started kindergarten, was able to sign it for the first time!
When my friend Laketa's daughter was expecting her first baby, I knew it needed to be a very pretty quilt. I found in my stash this gorgeous print of the alphabet and paired it with pieced pastel hourglass blocks. I'm real pleased with how it turned out! Welcome Baby Zara!
I decided to make Christmas Quilts for each of my great nieces this year.
They are for signing, as each niece is now an adult, starting their own families and traditions.
Oh! Years ago I bought some panels at a clearance, for making cute little Advent Calendars. I always liked this particular design. Anyhow, this year I could NOT locate the Advent Calendar I had made for Ezekiel as a baby. Searched high and low. Nope. Gone!
So I put one together with my panel, even got to color December 18 (his birthday) a different color, and hung it up and filled it with chocolates. Then I found the original one.....
This quilt lets the fabrics do the speaking. A charm pack, not cut at all, alternated with blue and white triangles and half-square triangles in an asymmetric setting for a high impact lap quilt.
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I love Jenny Doan's tutorials! When they come out on Friday I can't wait to try a block and often have to sit down and make a quilt immediately! One charm pack and whites and solids from stash came together beautifully to make this lap sized quilt.
Gifted to NEYA
I got a new ruler! A drunkard's path. With a charm I can cut both the circle and the background for a 4" block. Need to try it out right away! A nice bright charm pack, a soothing tone on tone for the "in a square" borders. Viola!
Nice baby sized, or an artsy wall quilt. November 2020.
This quilt is a disappearing quilt! It was taught on MSQC tutorial (look it up on you tube) made completely with scraps. Isn't it darling?
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Another quilt inspired by a charm pack and a tutorial on MSQC. Every Friday they publish a quilt tutorial and I can't wait to go try the techniques and shortcuts! I was able to sell this quilt pretty quickly. I also practiced ruler FMQ in the borders.
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Made from the 5 left-over blocks of another quilt, the pattern is Pony Express and it's made from Layer Cake (10") squares, inspired by a tutorial from Missouri Star Quilts. I made it in 2021, but decided to post it close by the quilt whose blocks I used to make this baby quilt.
For sale on etsy
Made from the leftover strips of a larger abstract quilt. This would make a great baby quilt or decorative wall or table topper.
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I followed a tutorial from Missouri Star Quilts. She named this quilt block Pony Express. Isn't it lovely? I sold the quilt to Mauricio for his sister for Christmas.
I made this quilt for the son of good friends back in 2004. Logan is the fourth child of this family. Well, you know how fourth kids get forgotten? Yeah. I found it in 2020! No joke! So I called his Mom and finally gave him his quilt.
Completely from the scrap bag. I collect 3" squares as I go along with other quilts, or in the scraps I buy by the 10 pound bag for a dollar..... I simply made these all by combining a solid with a pattern sewn right down the diagonal and throw the scraps away. I can afford to throw them away since they were SCRAPS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
When my son's Aunt Amy saw this quilt she fell in love with it. So to her home it happiuly went!
Inspired by a bright collection of repro fabrics (1880) in fat quarter cuts and a block tutorial from Missouri Star (Search CALICO STAR on the tutorials) I made this little wall quilt. I stained it with coffee to make the fabrics appear aged.
Using old ink transfers from Aunt Martha's and then tinting the fabric with ink pens, I reproduced a look from the 50's I have always liked. The quilt was then machine stippled and washed to crinkle. Looks 50 years old, doesn't it?
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My mother taught us both to sew as youngsters. For me it took off and has become a life long passion. Patty, on the other hand, took to it slowly. But she tried her hand at a quilt before becoming a mother and worked on one project. It was all hand cut and hand stitched. She took a class at Parks and Rec. She labored over each sampler block, turning out some spectacular 12" blocks. Then they got stashed away, replaced by her first, then second, then third children.
30 years later, that first child on the brink of marriage, Patti pulled out the blocks and fabrics and asked me if I would finish them for a wedding gift. Since Pat confessed she wasn't likely to make more I asked her if I could turn them into 3 small quilts, so each daughter could have one. Yes! She gave me creative license, a bag with many completed blocks, a couple cut but not completed blocks and fabrics from the original project.
I completed the blocks, added 2 simple blocks of my own, sashed them with Pat's scraps and found 3 great fabrics from my stash for borders. Machine quilted in a meandering pattern, then washed and fluffed. Three magnificent quilts for three beloved daughters!
Made from scraps and bits and pieces. Using a Missouri Star Technique, it's a large modified granny square!
Made in neutra colors with good contrast, and borderless, this simple quilt packs a nice punch. I do love a good Jacob's Ladder Lap Quilt!
This is my third such quilt. I made myself a lap quilt, a baby sized one, and then this one from leftovers and scraps. The fabrics are from garage and estate sales, goodwill and second hand shops, my mother's collections, other random boxes of scraps.
Gifted to Debbie in 2021 after being signed and dedicated by the nurses in NICU.
