Quilt of Valor in Progress

 Today is the day to tame this pile.  These have been waiting for a trim for almost 6 months now!

This blocked is based on Bonnie Hunter's String X free pattern.   A little modification by adding the gold around the string section.  Gold measures 1 1/2".  I did some cutting for the gold.  The gold is slightly longer with the ends cut on the diagonal flipping a 45 degree ruler back and forth across the length of the strip.

  

Check out how nicely these come together.

This is the second quilt of this style.....check this one out from a couple years back.  This was presented as a Quilt of Valor in 2019.

The colors are reversed and is missing the gold bars.  It is so fun to just sew scraps together, here red or above in blue....those sets get cut down to the 4 1/2” x 10 1/2” chunks as Bonnie’s pattern instructs.  Then......drum roll.......I use the Block Loc ruler to cut the points on ends.  No template to tape to a ruler.  

Fold the scrap section in half lengthwise, slide the Block Loc ruler to the end and trim,  slide it to the other end and trim.  Presto.....the unit needed, now to just add the corner triangles.

This is a great way to decrease those scrap bins!

Happy Quilting,

Just Another Quilter

A Charming Quilt

The tried and true charms came out last January.  These charms are from a swap with Black/White fabric about 6 or so years ago.  Check out the quilt made.  It is incredibly easy.

                                 

Make it look hard and not be hard....and let the fabric do some of the work.

How does the fabric do some of the work? The black/white fabrics were set into 2 piles, dark or light. The block is just a charm with a frame around 2 side

           

So lets back up, why 2 different color bolts through the quilt?  Not enough of either fabric to stick to a single choice.  As this was a retreat quilt, no additional stash available.  These 2 choices made a nice baby quilt for a unknown sex.  Designs choices on the run.  I have been working out of the stash instead of purchasing fabric.  After the piles were separated, the framing went on each.  The final blocks would finish about 6", so a 8 x 11 layout was planned. That means 88 squares.                    
To start, each pile of the light and dark charms had the 2 different frames attached.  I just sat down and sewed for awhile,  made about 15 of each category-dark charm & green border, dark charm & plaid border, light charm & green border, and light charm & plaid border.  That gave me about 60 to play with. 

                                        
It took some time to be happy.  In the end the quilt comes together with light green charm, light plaid charm, dark plaid charm, dark green charm, repeat.  The frames of like fabrics always touch and the like charms always touch.  Each row just steps to the side once.

     

Hope you enjoy.  It was a fast, easy and fun one to make.  Make those quilts have complexity visually....not necessarily in the construction.

For the quilting nothing more than a loop on the top side of a wavy line here and there as you go across the quilt.  This fast and easy pattern keeps light quilting, just what a baby needs.

Happy Stitching,
Just Another Quilter, Jane

 It's been a long time since anything has been posted here.  I hope to do a better job with that since I am picking up some lecturing gigs.

Here is one of the quilts that was finished during the quarantine.

This totally came out of the stash.  I will say the border stripe has been used in the past....so at least one of those mitered corners is pieced together.   You really can't see the seams.  This picture is not February.....we have it very cold here now.   Temps are in the single digits and the snow is DEEP.

 

Check out the quilting.  Three different flower stencils were randomly placed and circles helped fill in around them.  

I love the inspiration fabric, a Kathy Doughty design (Material Obsession) called Horizons Baob Plains Moody, by Free Spirit. She came to Prairie Star  Quilt Guild back in 2018.  A Different Box of Crayons brought several of her fabrics in for our meeting for us to purchase.  It was great to have the opportunity to see Kathy as she is out of Australia.  I still have some more purchases from that day that are yet to make it into projects.  

Hope to be back soon to show you another project.

Jane

Just Another Quilter