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.
Update SOLD
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.....
