45 Day Sobriety Chip

 A brave friend of mine started her personal quest for sobriety and opened up to her friends at her 30 day mark, when she earned her 30 day coin.

On day 45 she mused that she wished she had a 45 day chip ....

I love the little Ohio Star Block in the tutorial: https://youtu.be/Dh6K4zUnfw8?si=YCmkOezCCFSwEMxF

Congratulations my dear Cat. I am so proud of you!

Baby Under The Sea

 I just finished another darling baby quilt using the Missouri Star tutorial on the Ohio Star Quilt.    https://youtu.be/Dh6K4zUnfw8?si=9x0Cp4Y-dKvSJKfl

Made for Virginia, the organist at St Andrew's for a grand-nephew. She liked the quilt I made recently for Patty and asked for something like that. https://anita-rancherita.blogspot.com/2023/10/outer-space-baby-quilt.html?m=0

The fabrics for the most part came from my Under The Sea fabric collection, inspired by baby quilts made for my Grandson and other fishy quilts made over the years. 

The back is a great piece I picked up at JoAnn at their Black Friday sale for $3.99/yards and the scraps and bits leftover from the tiny 6 1/2" Ohio Star blocks. 

The sashing is a great watery swirl with cornerstones of shells and fish in a pretty aqua green. 

The overall quilting is big curvy circles and serpentine lines in the borders. 

Floral Ohio Star Quilt

 I made this generous lap quilt from leftover 10" squares from another project (Jacobs Ladder for Erika) and plain white yardage purchased in bulk online for $2.99 a yard. 

It has 20 10 1/2" blocks made from a Missouri Star pattern and it finished at 53 x 66.

https://youtu.be/SeIhkAhS7cY?si=pq9DgFxY5-_hknm7

I like to free motion the borders off the frame on the Juki.

I made swirls all over the place over the quilt body. Serpentine lines on the side borders.  Some feathers and other designs on each top and bottom borders. 

The quilt frame makes all the difference in my free motion quilting. I have space and can glide my quilt over it to quickly and easily fill on my dense designs.

This quilt is listed for sale on etsy for $130. 

SOLD on Etsy

Outer Space Baby Quilt

 Patty asked me to design a baby quilt for Sammy's childhood friend having her first child. The shower invite was the inspiration. 

So I looked at a favorite Ohio Star pattern I have made before in 6 inches. 

https://youtu.be/Dh6K4zUnfw8?si=niBkidwn0unUhKLD

Darling huh? 

The quilt features these 6" star blocks in golds, blues and silver. The border is a sweet sunshine and clouds in the sky. The back is tiny stars and planets on blue. 

I love to use any leftover blocks and scraps to widen the backing. 

I used more angular designs in the border versus curvy. Good old Clamshells quilting thru the body is a good solid choice. 

Christmas Signature Quilt

 I made this quilt with plans to sell it in my etsy store.  My friend Min suggested Ohio Star blicks, and   I thought a signature quilt would be an attractive seller. 

I really like this circle of nine setting. Using only 9 blocks and some spacers, it's very dramatic. This quilt has lots of blank white space for signatures. I left the white space unquited for ease of signing. 

I completed another one from the same set of blocks and also listed it for sale. 

Baby Ohio Star

 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. 

Sold

A warm Christmas Quilt

Big block in traditional colors made this quilt go together quick.  But then I put it away for a few years and pulled it out this Christmas-time to quilt with my new Juki machine.  Machine quilting the bigger quilts is so easy on the Juki!  This quilt went to my grand-niece Jenny for her Christmas season bed!