Blue for Dawn

 Dawn has been our new associate priest at St Andrews for the past year. A very thoughtful and kind person, she has been offered her own parish in the Midwest and so is leaving us. 

It's a split HST pattern from Missouri Star that I have made before. 

https://youtu.be/GGL2wZwb1H8?si=FiVo0BHft2QqjCfK

I quilted a simple but effective loop de loop in each patch as well as in the 3 inch borders. 

I used a great stripe in these thin borders.

The colors are mostly blue coupled with neutrals, with a red and that same red but used on the other side of the fabric. 

A square for signing. 

I decided I didn't leave enough space for the congregation to participate in the signing of the quilt so I listed this one for sale. 

SOLD! Within a week. 

Half and Half Twist

 This bright little quilt was inspired by Missouri Star Quilts tutorial:

https://youtu.be/GGL2wZwb1H8?si=QOL-G6HInQ7KQbtu

I gathered up a bag of my tone on tone fabrics purchased some time ago in Anaheim and combined them each with the same simple white on white

 Each block starts with a 10" color and a 10" white square and is made into 4 HST blocks. Each block is then cut into quarters and reassembled. ( Thus the TWIST title.) I quickly decided all 4 quarters the SAME was a little dull and mixed them up with a partner. 

I decided to place like colors close, and go with a lap size. The back has a label, a tan on white floral and the binding is a rainbow. 

I quilted a clamshell using the 3" blocks as a rough guide. 

This one used a thin fleece blanket instead of batting, keeping my overall cost to make it quite low. 

For sale on Etsy

Little Churn Dashes Baby Quilt

 I purchased all the fabrics at my favorite fabric warehouse in Anaheim. They sell zillions of fabrics for $3.98 a yard. I usually start by being attracted to one fabric (the border fabric in this case; little woodland forest animals in orange, blue, yellow, gray) and then search for colors to coordinate with it. At this point I don't know anything more than " cute baby quilt"

Then I decide how much to buy of each.... One yard of my focus fabric and 1/4 yard if 4 others. Finally I searched stash at home and added the pale blue tone on tone and went to my "stash stripes" for the binding!

Finally I picked a pattern: 

https://youtu.be/9rgQd6asPQs

BUT I started with 9" squares instead of layer cakes since I had purchased 1/4 yard cuts. Then I removed the pinwheels to center with my focus fabric. And rearranged the black to make churn dashes so..... the pattern was just a suggestion! 

This is a baby quilt for one of the nurses I used to work with. Congratulations Asia for your new baby boy!

Nightfall in Blues

 First finish 2023, New Years Day. 

Inspired by a tutorial on Missouri Star Quilts, https://youtu.be/UhTooAVmjZE

I made this quilt from blues and contrasts purchased at JoAnn Fabrics from their own inexpensive line, Quilters Paradise. On sale for just $2.99 a yard, I bought around 24 quarter yards and added a few fabrics from stash. 

The block is a split HST; easy but busy, and I started with a 9.5 inch (v 10") to accommodate my quarters.  

Patty commented on this quilt that they were "her colors" and ahe told me she was inspired by my CONNECT quilt to set a 2023 intention. Her word would be CARE. So I added a bit to this quilt and gifted it to Patty.