Contrary Wife small quilt

This little quilt is the Summer Challenge from: Kathleen Tracy of Country Lane Quilts. The name of the pattern is The Contrary Wife. Mine finished at 19" square, and is made of my Civil War era stash, so yay for stash busting! Due to some health reasons, I have not sewn or quilted much lately. Feeling better and getting back to finishing a larger quilt very soon. Please continue reading for comments, and more info about this quilt.

For the Birds Blog Hop!

Welcome to another day on the For the Birds Blog Hop. My project features Modern Crows, a three options pattern designed by: Sasha's Quilts on Etsy. Don't you just love the pattern's design? The designs on their backs look like little quilts. We have lots of crows here in the South. You know, they really are quite large birds! Interesting fact, a gathering of crows is called a murder. Here is one finished and most of another block. Planning on making them into a table runner. Life got in the way again, so stay tuned for the finished top and quilt. As always, thank you for visiting my space in the blogging world. I love your comments. Be sure to visit all of the other bloggers to see their fun projects.

June 17- Moose Stash Quilting, Karrin's Crazy World, Quilting Between the Rails (Facebook), Selina Quilts, Quilt Doodle Designs

June 18- Homespun Hannah's Blog (you're already here, thank you), BeaQuilter, Words & Stitches, High Road Quilter, Quilted Delights, The Quilted Snail

June 19- Patchouli Moon Studio, A Quiltery, Ms P Designs USA, Stitching Farm Girl, Scrapdash

June 20- Just Let Me Quilt, Isabella’s Whimsy (Facebook), Quilting Gail, Hazel's Daughter, Songbird Designs

Ombré quilt top completed

This will be a quilt for a help program, at my local church congregation. It will be donated, with love, to a mother and her newborn. Stay tuned for the finish.

Pantone® Color of the Year Challenge 2024

The Pantone® Color of the Year is Peach Fuzz. My little pillow is entered in the Challenge at: Saroy's Pantone® Quilt Challenge 2024- link party. Be sure to go check out all of the awesome entries. There are several categories, including quilts, mini/wall quilts, and several others. It is always so much fun. Please keep reading for this pillow's stats and for comments. {I love reading your comments!}

Happy Easter 2024

Happy Easter! Today is also the last day of National Quilting Month. This is another doll from a Sanker Studios pattern. The title is B is for Bunny, and I have named mine Beatrice. She is approx. 23" from tip of her ears to toes, and wears a pink dress with white geometric print. My favorite part of her emsemble is her furry, muslin-lined bunny hood. Isn't it adorable? She was actually made a few years ago. Please continue reading for more, and for comments.

Project Quilting: 15.6: Irish Chain

Good morning friends! 'Time for the final Project Quilting Season 15 Challenge: Irish Chain. My little quilt is made mostly of fabric scraps, and green is my favorite color. For some reason, the Irish Chain pattern always seemed like one that would be super difficult to make. Surprisingly, it was not. So, this Challenge was truly important to me. It is always good to be able to learn a new quilt pattern, isn't it?

Give It A Whirl Blog Hop

Welcome to the Give It A Whirl Blog Hop, hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt. Today is the final day, and I hope you like my project. This is a free pattern from Carolina at Always Expect More, titled: Sewlebrity Quilt Block Tote. What I love is that you can choose any 12 1/2" sewn quilt block pattern for the front. In keeping with the whirl theme of the blog hop, I chose the: Martha Washington Star block from Tara Reed. The main bag is ink navy, with white-on-white hex print and solid grey accents. Can you see the kinda double pinwheel center design? One is ink navy and the other is solid grey. Please continue reading for a list of all of the blog hoppers.

Project Quilting 15.5: Wearables

For this Challenge, the projects must feature wearables- clothing apparel or accessories. Maybe an article of clothing repurposed into a quilt. Or an actual garment (clothing). When I began sewing, it was apparel and then costumes for the theatre stage {my BFA major in college}. As my grandchildren have gotten older, they prefer "store-bought" clothing, you know how that goes, lol.

Back to the Challenge. We can choose to make a quilt that is somehow representative of wearables. The project doesn't have to be a quilt though. My project is a little quilt that features Sunbonnet Sue and Suspender Sam. The patterns are from a book by Eleanor Burns {that I purchased many years ago} titled Sunbonnet Sue Visits Quilt in a Day®, ©1992. This little quilt is based upon Patricia Knoechel's wall quilt {on the book's inside back cover, titled Springtime}. Back in 2014-15, I made the full-size bed quilt for my granddaughter.

Sue and Sam are dressed in traditional Amish-inspired clothing colors. These characters just scream "wearables", don't they? Most of us instantly recognize those little dresses and bonnets, suspenders and hats. My little quilt measures approx. 9" X 11", and is machine quilted with walking foot echo stitching around each child. The children are both machine appliquéd. Project title is Amish Friends. This was my first time using a striped fabric for binding. 'Can see that more precision will be needed in the future with matching those stripes. Have you ever used it? Be sure to visit the party to see all of the creative wearables. Sending many thanks to the Project Quilting hosts for another fun and inspiring Challenge! Oh, and happy National Quilting Month everyone!

♥ Completed WIP/UFO quilts in 2024: 3 ♥
~Project Quilting Season 15.5 Link Party~