Quilt News!! Another New Batch of Scrappy Improv Logcabin Blocks!! Inspiring Book Twenty Little Logcabin Quilts by Gwen Marston, Machine Quilting with Grids/Cross Hatch

Two of my new scrappy Logcabin Blocks. 

I've finished more 'Classic Tomato Pincushions' for gifts.

Example of crosshatch/matchstick quilting on one of my small scrappy improv quilts.

Pile of scraps and pieces from my ongoing potholders project that went into the scrappy improv quilt above.

The back of the small scrappy improv quilt above with crosshatch/matchstick machine quilting.

One of my new improv Logcabin blocks, the 'logs' are about 1" finished.

Example of my crosshatch machine quilting on one of my finished quilts. The Logcabin Blocks in this little quilt measure approx. 2 1/4". finished.

My copy of Gwen Marston's Twenty Little Logcabin Quilts, great reference and inspiration!!

 

Hello Quilt Friends!! 

Fall leaves are colorful and falling fast in the valley. 

The last couple of weeks I've been using up scraps making a new pile of small improv Logcabin blocks to use in projects.  I enjoy working small! The new blocks will finish at approx. 3" square.

And I'm reading through my copy of Twenty Little Logcabin Quilts by Gwen Marston for inspiration.

I've also finished a few more 'Classic Tomato Pincushions' for gifts. I'm using beautiful striated batiks, a gift to me. There are many good tutorials for tomato pincushions on YouTube. I used the Pin Cut Sew tutorial and tweaked it a little to my liking. 

Do you machine or hand quilt or both?? Do you prefer one over the other, why? 

And that is the quilt news from the compound where fall leaves cover the ground and neighborhood squirrels are busy caching nuts.

I'll be by to visit. 

Quilt News!! Tomato Pincushions Progress Stuffing and Gathering, Star and Broken Dishes Blocks (Improv Design) Quilt Top Finished and Machine Quilted in Angled Crosshatch, Happy October....

Tomato pincushion progress, stuffing...

My Star and Broken Dishes Blocks Quilt machine quilted and trimmed.

I machine quilted with an angled grid.

Two tomato pincushions done. I gather the bottom, stuff, gather the top and secure with buttons.

Machine quilting finish here.

 

 

Hello Quilt Friends!! 

We have sunny October weather today and the fall leaves are getting more colorful!

Tomato Pincushions are taking shape, so far I've finished 3 and given one away. I followed Pin Cut Sew's Classic Tomato Pincushion tutorial . When I have some spare time I pick one up and gather, stuff and sew. They turn out cute, I like them. The button on the top and bottom can be 'enhanced' with a fabric Yo-Yo too, I'll make a few like that.

And last week I finished machine quilting my Star and Broken Dishes Blocks Quilt, 26.5 x 22", machine quilting it in an angled cross hatch. I got the idea from Debbie @ aquilterstable . Next will be the binding.

That is the project progress here in the valley. 

The local farmer's markets are selling pumpkins, squash and Chrysanthemums, lovely colors. 

Are you finishing projects and enjoying fall colors??? Have you had your first piece of pumpkin pie yet? I have, with ice cream, it was so good! 

 I'll be by to visit.