Artful Homemade Quilts Have A Way

[Mr. H.]

Coolvy.

 

[freedombecki]

Thinking Pink! It's that everything's coming up roses color that glorifies spring in tulips, English daisies, buttercups, and plum trees, and it's time to make a pink quilt. So, in addition to my stash, off I go to the quilt store this morning to find some small bits of pretty pinks. And the light print is a perfect backdrop, so it will not have to be the 300 different light pinks search, because the lucky fabric find is going to be IT on the light side. That should be interesting, considering that there are large areas of colors in the light. That's what makes log quilts fun--the unpredictability of a print that's slightly a little too large. So this may never happen again at this address, but now, it is. here's the fabrics and some online spring to early summer flowers:

The light fabric is "Floral Whimsy" 2760 by Northcott Fabrics of Canada.

 

[freedombecki]

Koshergrl, if you're around these parts in the next 3 days or so, I found a sock monkey embroidered baby quilt squares on ebay and thought you would enjoy seeing them:

credits

 

[freedombecki]

Today all I did was fight foot cramps and sew two mockups from stash materials to see how pinks would go along with the pretty fabric purchased at the quilt store. Darn that fibro. Just glad I was able to feed the birds and make a little comeback to make the mockups. Now, tomorrow, the huge task of cutting pieces into 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, and 9.5" stacks of 50 apiece is ahead. That's a chore and an all-day job that often gets pushed over 2 or 3 days due to standing and dealing with fibro's plans for my day.

 

[Mr. H.]

Foot cramps?

Time to upgrade, Ms. b.

 

[freedombecki]

If I had one of those, Mr. H, I'd prolly get more foot exercise, but... it only hurts when the temperature drops. Lately that's about 5 times a day. Fibromyalgia is not for whining sissies like me.

In the meantime, I saw this way too cute another sock monkey quilt, just couldn't resist. I'll post credits. The closeups on these cute little embroidered guys is just over the top cute, and you now scroll over the pictures at the credits link to see closeups.

hehe, all you can post is the thumbnail. lol!

The link: Sock Monkey Quilt

 

[freedombecki]

Nice morning today, no rain, lake is full, heron visits daily, blablablah, and life is good.
This morning, 24 blocks are being prepped for the Pretty in Pink Flow'rs of Spring quilt. The squares are out to stage 5 going on 6 as the 6 plus parts of 6 blocks in progress below:

Edit: Had one more scan to add to the pictures below, so instead of making another post, thought it would save a little space by putting it here (scan 2)

 

[koshergrl]

I put the arms on sock monkey #2 yesterday....

 

[freedombecki]

Since this morning, 4 more rows were added to the 24 squares to put squares at stage 9 in log addition:

 

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And some more:

 

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And more:

 

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Though only 9 logs are on the blocks now, there will be 17 when the blocks are ready to join. 24x17 = 408 logs.

Even more:

 

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I put the arms on sock monkey #2 yesterday....

That's something. Work all day, work all night..

 

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When they're done, the Pretty in Pink Flow'rs of Spring Log Cabin squares will be arranged into pyramids that look like this:



There will be four squares or two pyramids across, and 6 down for 24 squares on the pink quilt. Fortunately, I found only one quilter who does one of the same things I do with log cabin squares, with one minor difference: mine are offset to avoid the "flying geese look. Every other row is offset by one, which gives it the look of points. On this quilt, I may not do that because when it has been done by me in the past, the squares are smaller and there are 3 across on the odd rows and 1/2, 2, and 1/2 on even rows, which makes perfect offset pyramids.

 

[freedombecki]

Work went nicely this morning. I'm loving the colors. Will post only 6 of the blocks that are in the log stage of 13. When they are at log stage 17, they do not fit well across my scanning screen.

 

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Hope to get this done today.

My real dream would to get 24 more hot pink prints, but nobody's open this early in the morning, especially on Saturdays. Oh, well. I'll just have to make do.

 

[freedombecki]

Hmm, I just spent 20 minutes writing a post here that disappeared. Well, to make a long story short, it just said I'm making good progress on the pink quilt, found a couple more pinks at the quilt store and another pile of about 30 pinks I'd overlooked, and that everyone has a lovely weekend.

I'll be in my quilt room, praying for peace.

Love and joy to all,

becki

 

[freedombecki]

This quilt was finished about a half an hour ago. I've been scanning and reducing the size to bring it here.

I love the pyramid shapes. I added a little extra sky at the top and a floor below, resulting in 2 inches six times or 12" in extra length. Rather than burden the Quilting Bees with a huge quilt, I simply omitted a row. that way, it started and ended with 2 full pyramids on the first, third, and fifth rows, and had the half-full-half arrangement to offset the pyramids which makes a good format. The gray one above somewhere is (1) upside down, and (2) arranged in flying geese format with all the pyramids in a couple of tall rows.

Sorry for not having a whole picture true to colors. It's a little darker than shown, so the shades are not true on the picture scanner here. Oh well...

 

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Scans 26, 27, and 28

 

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Scans 29, 30, and 31

She's done!!!!