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Using a layer cake and a modified pattern tutorial by Missouri StarsAnita Rancher Rita
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Thursday, October 10, 2024
Another Baby Geese Quilt
Awwwww geese. Almost feel like I can make them with my eyes closed!
I bought these fabrics together on one of my Anaheim trips. Fun deciding how to pay them out.
For sale on etsy
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Sunday, August 4, 2024
Flying Geese for Baby
I was asked to make a new baby quilt for a Great Grandchild (We are getting to that age!) for the baby of the church's choir director. She expressly asked for the "same quilt" I made for Dawn including the border fabric... a road map in neutral colors. This is the quilt Virginia fell in love with:
http://anita-rancherita.blogspot.com/2023/02/happy-geese-2.html
The request was similar colors, not "baby colors" for a boy arriving in December. Okay!
I used a basic 2“ geese; Cut body 2.5 x 4.5 and wings are 2.5" squares, snowballed on.
I went to Anaheim after searching and not finding any more of the maps in my stash.... no luck finding THAT fabric, but found something similar. And $125 of other necessities. Uh huh.
I did use some greens and blues juvenile fabrics.... cars and animals (and even a little paw patrol!) mixed with floral and geometries. No strong pinks..... still traditional like that.
A large variety of neutrals for the geese wings. Very similar sideways setting, the map border.... simple loops quilting and a swoop border. Great bright stripe binding, blue and white back..... DONE!
Bright and Grey Monkey Wrench
After vacations and busy life excuses, I hadn't finished a quilt for a couple months. Seems like the longer it was, the more I procrastinated. I needed to QUILT something! I made this little beauty with a charm pack for the Grey's and tans, some bright 1 1/2" scraps from my BRIGHTS box, and around a yard of white on white Quilters Showcase (JoAnn Fabric own line) which I buy up when it's on sale for $2.99 a yard.
As I suspected, I had an early quilting flub, causing me to screw up a bobbin and break 2 needles. After disassembling the bobbin area and vacuming it, things went real smooth and I finished this quilt.
Pattern for monkey wrench block by Missouri State Tutorial
https://youtu.be/Y5fen8VLnik?si=Z5RUTn7uNtW2bkRn
For sale on Etsy
In the frame.
Sunday, May 26, 2024
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.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.