🌈 RSC Light Blue 💠

September's Rainbow Scrap Challenge color is light blue!!! Angela at SuperScrappy posts the color every month.

The pattern I'm using this year is "Scrap Happy Rainbow Connection", by Amy Smart, available on her website or from Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine, Issue 85, where I first spotted it. ⤵️

💛Hope For Ukraine💙

Gudrun @ GE Designs is collecting quilt blocks, tops or finished quilts using her Hope quilt pattern for distribution to Ukrainian refugees!!! The colors are blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukraine flag. Here's a quilt made by my sister, Quilter Bonnie, and me!!!

Quilt Info:

Makers: Quilter Bonnie and Me!!!

Pattern: Hope from GE Designs

➕National Positive Thinking Day ➕

Happy National Positive Thinking Day!!! September 13th! I have a special finish today--this is my 7th National Day quilt out of 8 that I'm finishing this year!!!

Quilt Info:

Contributors: Tama Quilters of Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan

⬒ Topsy Turvy ⬓ PLUS 2 Giveaways!!

This is a super fun quilt to make, "Topsy Turvy", from pattern designer Preeti @ Sew Preeti Quilts. I was honored to make a test quilt, and I highly recommend this pattern from a jelly roll, or from your own collection, like I did!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!

Pattern: Topsy Turvy by Preeti @ SewPreetiQuilts on Etsy

Get On Board 🏄🏽 With Sewing

Yokoso! That means "Welcome" in Japanese!!! Welcome to my stop on the "Get On Board With Sewing" blog hop!!! September is National Sewing month and "tropical"/"surf" is our theme! 

Now, here's my tropical quilt!!! ⤵️ Read on for my story! Plus, read to the end of this post and leave a comment to be entered to win some fabulous quilty gifts!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!

Pattern: Sunrise in Paradise--CUTIE Collections by Elaine Church

Sammy Quilt

Kyle made this fun quilt top from some beautiful Bonnie & Camille prints!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Kyle

Pattern: Sammy from Stripology Mixology 2 by GE Designs

Celestial Strippy Stairways 📶

This is the third Strippy Stairways I've quilted, this time in Zen Chic fabrics!!! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilting Cousin Sue

Pattern: Strippy Stairways from Stripology Mixology 3 by GE Designs

Buzzworthy 🐝 Table Topper

Quilter Bonnie got this table topper kit for her birthday!!! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

Pattern: Buzzworthy Table Topper by Primrose Cottage

🌈 RSC/Bring the Love 🔶

I made 2 more "Bring the Love" mini quilts for the August Rainbow Scrap Challenge, the month of orange--one is orange and the other is rainbow hearts!!! Plus, I made an actual rainbow mini!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!

Pattern: Bring the Love Mug Rugs from Ameroonie Designs

🌈 RSC Orange 🔶

Welcome to Orange, the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for August!!! Angela over at SuperScrappy posted the August color two weeks ago, so I got a jump start on it!

The pattern is "Scrap Happy Rainbow Connection" from Amy Smart, on her website, or from "Love Patchwork & Quilting" magazine, Issue 85, where I first saw it. ⤵️

🌈 RSC Purple 💜

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) for July is purple!!! Here are the purple blocks I made: 

The pattern is Scrap Happy Rainbow Connection from Amy Smart. You can find it on her website, or in "Love Patchwork & Quilting" magazine, issue 85, where it originally appeared:

Baby Elephant Quilt 🐘

 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Susan

Size: 40" x 42"

🍦National Ice Cream Day🍦

Happy National Ice Cream Day!!! July 17th! In 1983, President Ronald Reagan declared the third Sunday in July as the day we celebrate ice cream in the USA!!!

This is my 6th National Day quilt out of 8 that I'm finishing this year!!!

Quilt Info:

Contributors: Tama Quilters of Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan

🌈 RSC/Bring the Love 💜

It's been a few months since I made more "Bring the Love" mini quilts for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I made two for July, the month of purple--one with modern prints and one with Japanese prints!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!

Pattern: Bring the Love Mug Rugs from Ameroonie Designs

➖Another Strippy Dippy➖

Here's another table runner I quilted from GE Designs' virtual retreat! This is my Quilting Cousin Sue's Strippy Dippy table runner!!! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilting Cousin Sue

Pattern: Strippy Dippy table runner from Gudrun @ GE Designs

Brick Quilt

Here's a DrEAMi (Drop Everything And Make it) finish!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!!!

Fabrics: Sunshine Soul from Create Joy Project

Virtual 💻 Retreat Quilts

At the end of March, my sister Quilter Bonnie, my quilting cousin Sue, and I did Gudrun's @ GE Designs Virtual Retreat, along with 250+ quilters from 45 US states and 9 countries!!! 

Here are all three quilts Bonnie made from her retreat box using the "Passion" fabric line!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

🌈 RSC Blue 💙

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for June is Bright & Dark Blue! Here are my blocks:

The pattern is Scrap Happy Rainbow Connection from Amy Smart! It was originally in Love Patchwork & Quilting, Issue 85, if you have that magazine:

🎉Stripalong 2022 🎉

Gudrun @ GE Designs hosts a stripalong every spring: she refreshes one of her older 2 1/2" strip patterns and spreads the steps out over 3 weeks. Anyone can sew along with free access to her teaching. This year the spring Stripalong ran from April 26th through May 10th!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!

🎶T-Shirt/Red White & Blue🇺🇸/Panel🌵

Susan comes up with such a variety of quilts!!! Here are her three latest:

Quilt Info:

Maker: Susan

🎈National Hot Air Balloon Day🎈

Happy National Hot Air Balloon Day!!! June 5th! I have a special finish today--this is my 5th National Day quilt out of 8 that I'm finishing this year!!!

Quilt Info:

Contributors: Tama Quilters of Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan

🌈RSC Green🌲

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for May was Sage and Forest Green!!! Here are my  blocks:

I'm making blocks from the pattern, Scrap Happy Rainbow Connection, by Amy Smart.

▬ Strippy Dippy Table Runners ▬

This is the third new pattern we received in March as part of Gudrun's @GE Designs virtual retreat, a table runner called Strippy Dippy!!!

I made 6 myself and quilted one each for my sister and my quilting cousin.These are the perfect size for trying out different quilting pantographs, and I had a lot of fun doing just that!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!!!

Pattern: Strippy Dippy Table Runner by Gudrun @ GE Designs

🌟Kaffe Stars 🌟

Here's another beauty, made by Missy!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Missy

Size: 95" X 95"

💎Jewel 💎

Gudrun's virtual quilt retreats are a blast!!! Here's the second quilt I started making during Gudrun's @ GE Designs virtual retreat in March of this year!!!

The first quilt I finished from the same retreat was Strippy Stairways. Watch for the third pattern from the retreat to appear on my blog soon, Strippy Dippy.

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!!!

Pattern: Jewel by Gudrun Erla of GE Designs

Halloween ☗/30's ⬣

Susan made these two quilts for one of the best reasons--just because she wanted to! 

Quilt Info #1:

Mountain 🗻 Baby

Exciting times--our young friends, Mr & Mrs Mountain are expecting their first baby!!! And this seems like the perfect baby quilt for a Mountain baby!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!!!

Strippy Stairways 📶

At the end of March, my sister-Quilter Bonnie, our Quilting Cousin Sue and I enjoyed a real "treat"!!! A virtual quilt retreat, that is, along with 250 other quilters and Gudrun of GE Quilt Designs as our leader and teacher!!! Here's my first quilt finish from our retreat!

Quilt Info:

Pattern: Strippy Stairways from Gudrun @ GEDesigns

Size: 66" x 81"

Fabrics: Weather Report by Leslie Tucker Jenison for Robert Kaufman

Batting: Quilters Dream 100% Cotton

Thread: Glide--Lead Grey

Quilting: Blender ⤵️ from Modern-Textiles.com

💙Have a Heart💙

 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

Pattern: Have a Heart by J. Michelle Watts

🎄Christmas Dandy Candy 🎄

Here's a quick table runner Quilter Bonnie put together with Christmas charm squares!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

Pattern: Dandy Candy from Pieced Tree Patterns

🚚Two Truck Quilts 🚚

Lynn made two more quilts for a couple of lucky brothers!!! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Lynn

Pattern: 5-Yard Quilt

Floral 🌺 Flannel

Here's a beautiful flannel quilt finish from Kyle!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Kyle

🌈 RSC Pink💗

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for April is pink!!! Here are my blocks:

I'm making blocks from the pattern Scrap Happy Rainbow Connection by Amy Smart! You can find it in Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine, Issue 85 ⤵️, too!!!

Layer Cake Baby Quilts & Update on Jack's Basket

Whenever I have a bit of fabric leftover, I cut it into 10" squares, 5" squares, 2 1/2" strips and then finally 2 1/2" squares. A favorite quilt to make is to sort through my 10" squares and put together quilts--baby size or lap size. Here are 8 baby quilts I've put together using this style this year!!!

Not only is it fast and fun putting these quilts together, I get to use different quilting pantographs, too!!!

Quilter's 🏡 Cottage

Isn't this the cutest quilter's cottage you've ever seen?!!! Kyle and her quilt group friends made this pattern as a sew along. This is Kyle's version!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Kyle

TGIFF & Cherry 🌸 Blossom Quilt

Happy Cherry Blossom season!!! And welcome to this week's TGIFF--Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday!!!

5-Yard Everyday Quilt

A beautiful wedding gift in the making!!! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Karen

RSC Yellow/Gold 💛

 I have a mini for the March Rainbow Scrap Challenge:

Quilt Info: 

Maker: Me!!! 

Then Sings My Soul 🎶

I love the song, "How Great Thou Art" and bought this kit the moment I saw it as part of the 2018 Row By Row Experience!!! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!!!

Spools Wall Hanging

I made a new wall hanging for my studio!!!  

Quilt Info:

Pattern: Hyde Park from Tabletastic!

National Flower💐 Day

Happy National Flower Day!!! March 21st, the day after the first official day of spring in the northern hemisphere. It's a day to look ahead to warm weather and flowers blooming!!!

Quilt Info:

Makers: Tama Quilters, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan

🌈 RSC Yellow/Gold 💛

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for March is Yellow/Gold!!! Here are my blocks:

I'm making my blocks according to the pattern, Scrap Happy Rainbow Connection by Amy Smart. I originally saw this pattern in the Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine, Issue 85: ⤵️

🚚 Trucks & Cats 🐈

Lynn has a couple of super quilt gifts ready for two lucky children!!!

Quilt Info #1:

I-Spy 🔭

These two quilts will be going to Japan to help teach English to children in orphanages!!!

Quilt Info:

Gift for: JOEE for Language Learning, located in Japan

National Dress👗Day

Happy National Dress Day!!! March 6th!!! This is my 2nd National Day/swap quilt that I have finished for 2022!!!

Elle's Batik Charms

 This quilt was made by a talented 11 year old!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Elleanore, with some help from her grandmother, Regina!

Checkered Past/In the Middle Table Runners

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

RSC Teal/Aqua

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for February is Teal/Aqua! I made two projects!!!

The first is blocks using the pattern "Scrap Happy Rainbow Connection" quilt pattern. I worked through my scrap basket and made 21 blocks!!! Evidently I work with teal/aqua quite a bit!

Spiny 🗻 Peaks

This is my quilt that I started for National Sew a Jelly Roll Day, September 18, 2021!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!!!

Gingham🍀Shamrock + Wreath

Quilt Info:

Maker: Me!!!