Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! I've got a few things on my "design wall" this week.
First, I finished my top for Quilts of Valor. It's so long that you can just barely see my husband's toe peeking under the border! I used the
free pattern that Judy gave out on her blog, but I eliminated the middle 1" border. Although I had plenty of scraps for the main part of the quilt, I did go buy some yardage for the two borders. And I had some leftover to add to my patriotic fabric bin :) I've had such a fun time making this quilt. Red, white, and blue is one of my favorite color combinations, and it was a joy to use many different patriotic fabrics. I know this isn't much, but I hope this quilt will help a soldier to know that we do care; we appreciate what they are doing for us; their sacrifices do not go unnoticed.
While I added the borders to the QOV, I made some more units for block A of Easy Street as leaders/enders. The 4-patches sewn to the double bricks are rotated from the ones I made last week, since you need some of both for this block.
After finishing my QOV, I got to work on the 1st border for my Fibonacci's Challenge quilt.
Here's some information about that quilt. After laying out some fabrics for my border, I decided I didn't like it, so I revamped my plan.
Since this border can only have rectangles, I sewed two 1 1/2" strips of creams and golds together, then cut into 2 1/2" pieces. Then I framed them with green 1 1/2" strips. So the finished width of each piece will be 1" and the finished blocks will be 4" squares. I will be alternating green and red blocks; here are the 8 green blocks I have made.
I'm hoping to finish this border later on today, since I'm off school for Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday.
You can see what's on other quilters' design walls at
Judy's blog.
Happy stitching!
7 comments:
WOW, you have been busy. Love the QOV. I like your color choices for the Easy Street Mystery. Great job on all projects!!
I'm enjoying seeing your Easy Street come together! I'm having to work at it steadily too, and my goal is also to have it done by the end of January, but I'm not so sure if I will make it. Here's hoping we both meet our goal :*)
Thanks for stopping by my blog and your sweet comments. I tried to reply but found that you are a no-reply blogger. You may have that set up that way on purpose, but I thought I'd let you know just in case you were not aware of it.
Have a great week!
I love your QOV! You just can't go wrong with a rail fence block.
Your QOV quilt is lovely. Your Easy Street will be gorgeous - everyone's is! I've enjoyed looking at the different colour choices.
I like your QOV. I need to get my boarders on before the end of the month. Love Judy's pattern.
very pretty quilts! I like the pieced border you have going there. I think you have a very sweet looking Easy street, too. I didn't jump on that mystery, I may need to!
That's a great QOV! What a wonderful donation quilt.
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