Big Granny Squares

 This is an easy and basic quilt making idea for whole, on point squares or blocks. 

Make a Turnabout Granny Squares Quilt with Jenny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jYpe9JzQAs

Made with a $3 bag of Chibese 4 inch squares and JoAnn Quilters Paradise on sale for $2.99/yard, the main idea was to make a canvas for practicing free motion quilting. 

Angela Walter's is my go to YouTuber for free motion quilting and I filled this one with feathers, swoops, flowers, lines and stars. 

45 x 50. SOLD on etsy

Large Granny Squares

Starting with 4" solid squares and using the Jenny Doan technique for setting on point squares (search YouTube for missouri star turnabout granny squares for idea) I made 4 squares with muted solid leftovers and then put them aside a few years. Searching recently for another project I found the 4 blocks. Set them, and found the border fabric in my stripes stash box. Decided to miter the stripe corners and free motion it. Done! 

My personalized quilt label 

 For sale on etsy!

SOLD

Granny's Flower Garden Charms

Made from 1 sweet charm pack and my half hexagon template plus about a yard of background fabric I was able to make this sweet lap quilt.

The border is a fabric leftover from the fabrics Carrie gave me to make Francie's big girl quilt. 

The border is from Carries scraps, and I used a piece of border fabric to widen the back. This quilt is for sale on my Etsy shop. 

Quilted along the shapes of the hexagon patches.  

Granny Squares Baby Quilt

When I first watched the video tutorial I was smitten!  The block has always made me smile, but it is usually a very labor intensive block.  I KNEW the Missouri Star tutorial would include short cuts.  It did not disappoint!  I used a small package of jelly roll strips, 19 different strips to be exact.  There were 9 white strips.  Then some 1" sashing and a few leftover squares for sashing stones.  It turned out darling!  I used scrappy leftovers to bind this quilt.

https://youtu.be/3jYpe9JzQAs

Sold to Debbie Hickson

Granny Squares

Worked on this quilt off and on for about a week.  It is a large lap quilt, (54 X 62) for naps or an extra blanket on the bed at night.  Quilted with a 4" grid with a flat 100% cotton batting, it's warm and snugly.  It has 420 2" squares, 300 setting triangles, and I worked on it in bits and pieces over 7 days.

The fabrics included a charm pack and some clearance yardage purchased online.  Then some scraps to add some darker color into the mix when it was looking a little too light colored.  The binding was pulled out of my box of leftover bindings; 2 1/2 inch strips already folded, that gets tossed into the box whenever I have a piece left over from another project.  It includes a bright from a baby quilt, some Christmas fabric, a batik from a wedding quilt, and other scraps of treasure.

I didn't have a technique for making the blocks of the Granny Squares, I simply cut piles of 2 1/2 inch squares, white setting triangles, and then pieced each one right at the sewing machine according to the whim of the moment.  When placing them in the quilt, I just tried to mix up the colors,  The reds appear to have been the strongest color statement in the quilt, so I tried to spread them evenly around.