Q3 FAL

Q3

Here we go!  I made some good progress last quarter, even if I didn't work on many items.

1. Lego quilt (M): This is all made and the quilting is up next!  I'm not sure how I'm going to do the bear yet.  His stomach is two different variations of Kona straw (frowny face) so it needs to be semi-dense.  Also, ironically, I had to take the picture outside because the floor I normally take pictures on was too full of Legos.

2. Heidi's Wedding Quilt: I have a pattern and fabrics...this is the next item I will be piecing.

3. Stash Bee: I'm queen bee in July, so I have made my block and more are coming in!

The rest are hold overs from last quarter and I didn't work on them at all...
4. baby girl quilt: This is made but needs to be quilted.

5. Meshing solid HSTs: This needs to be quilted.  Densely, so the grey variations aren't so prominent.

6.  Scrap bee blocks 2017: This got all put together and now needs to be quilted.  I also want a scrap backing, so that needs to be pieced.

7. Temperature quilt.  I need to quilt this.  It's from 2017, so it's rather low on the priority list.

8. Rainbow Log Cabin.  I need to decide what to do with this.  I was thinking of making it reversible.  If I don't want to do that, I need to just finish it up!

9. Scrap quilt. Surprise, surprise, it needs to be quilted.

10. Winter quilt.  I have the fabric and an idea for the pattern.  It involves triangles and a sketch is somewhere on the blog.

11. Pillow with green/purple fabric.  I just want to make an easy pillow.  I just need to do it.

12. Black scrap quilt.  This is so close to being finished.  I want to square it up before binding, and the task seems daunting.

13. Wedding quilt left over HST II (JNK).  While I don't have a pattern in mind yet, finding one for HSTs will be pretty easy.  I was considering adding in some pink to have a pre-made girl baby blanket.

14. Green stripes.  This isn't square.  I don't really know how to square it up well (or easily), so it's been sitting around for a long time.

Things that don't count for the Finish-a-long but I want to remember them:

15. Jeweled floors
16. Wedding quilt pillows
17. Quilt for Ryan  
18. Trying to fit in - left over triangles
19. Fabric from Christmas 

20. baby quilt (BHS)
21. Christen's mom's quilt
22. Quilting some table runners

Joining the Q3 FAL.

Pixel flowers

My niece needed a new quilt.  We went to the fabric store last time she was in town and she loved the bright colored fabrics and fabrics with flowers.  While I didn't buy any of the fabrics that she loved, I still tried to go with the same themes. (Also, her mom wanted a quilt that would grow with her, which makes a slight difference.)

I modified a quilt block from the 2017 Quilter's Planner called Lauren's Doodle block.  As the original stood, it didn't shift the flowers over every row.  It wasn't quite what I was looking for, but with a very slight modification I ended up with a block that didn't have quite such an obvious repeat.

Purple is my niece's favorite color, so the flower centers are all purple (unless the leaves are purple) along with the binding and the minky on the back.

For the quilting, I did leaves with white thread in all the white spaces.  For the flowers, I did an eight-pointed flower in a matching thread.  Yes, this meant I had a ton of ends to bury at the end, but it was worth it, especially when looking at the back.

Do you see the fabric in the center of the purple flower?  I decided that I loved that fabric for the quilt and after a lot of searching I realized that it was out of print and no one had it for a reasonable price anymore.  Oh well.

This was the only thing I managed to finish in Q2 for the FAL, but I'm very happy with it.