Your work is absolutely beautiful, Sue! You have real talent at combining the fabrics. They are all just perfect! I quilt, but haven't made that many. I find it hard to put together the color schemes. You've inspired me to get moving and start on a quilt that I planned and cut about 5 years ago!

Finished this pinwheel one a few days ago, cut out and completed within a week. I used a brand new vintage Ralph Lauren flat sheet I found at a thrift store for the backing. Some of the details included: frog and turtle, garden themed text, postage stamps, kitten drinking from bowl, seashells, chickens and a mix of vintage and modern prints. All soft and muted tones for a vintage vibe. It measures 45" x 54", a nice throw size. Will be listing in my shop soon, need some outdoor shots.
As I was cutting this one out, I cut out for 3 more quilts, all HST (half square triangle)

Yah Karen go for it!! That's my favorite thing to do, go through my stash and put together sets or prints for future projects!

From August 2020:

From the low volume light prints to saturated colors, I love it all! Finished this top using mostly my favorite designers Kaffe Fassett Collective and some Anna Maria Horner fabrics and a variety of dark navy blues I've been collecting for a while. It's a simple HST blocks arranged in a starburst pattern. (I haven't quite finished it yet as of 2023)

From Aug 2020:

I've had this autumn tapestry look snowball quilt in my head for a while, an idea from Kaffe Fassett's Museum Quilt book. I've been collecting fabrics for it for a couple of years now. The solids will be the corner triangles, still need to cut out a deeper mustard and a couple of rich olive greens, that current green is a bit too bright so it won't be used.

Here is another one from a pattern out of a book, it was done in all blues but I liked the green blue combo better!

Jan 2021:

I've been sitting in the family room while watching tv and cutting stacks of fabric for 4 quilts so far, stitched up this low volume scrappy goodness in one afternoon, easy peasy 4 patch. Some of the details are bees, mice, Monet water lilies, dragonflies, hummingbirds, tacos and Paris.
At first I had the medium toned colored blocks all randomly placed but it was too busy so I grouped them somewhat in colored hues to emphasize the diagonal lines for a more soothing look. I have two more rows to add to the bottom.
The larger blocks are cut at 5.5" and the smaller ones at 3".

And another friend shared her baby on one of my quilts

From Jan 2021:

Here is an entire quilt all cut & stacked in a handy dandy IKEA utensil tray and on my sewing machine the beginning of my chain piecing the light and dark 2" squares, 400 sets.


And here is the completed top before quilting




I spray baste all my quilts on the garage floor (will soon do it on a new design wall)

Also made this small crib size one, a modern bright design outside my comfort zone, drove my brain nuts plus too many bias cut sides making matching points tricky so won't be making it again. The tiny floral will be the backing.

From Feb 2021:

Just finishing stitching this one up, a quick and easy finish, should be done with it today. I was inspired by a quilt I spotted on Pinterest. I already had most of the exact same prints as it's from a favorite designer Kaffe Fasset.


I also started cutting out my next one, I joined in a sew-along on Instagram for a pattern I have been eyeballing called Campfire Glow. Over 600 sewers signed up! I don't normally commit to a sew-along but the pattern designer had lined up some great sponsors with weekly prizes for the 6 week time frame that I couldn't resist. I will most likely get it done much sooner than 6 weeks but post my required photos along the way to qualify for the weekly drawings. (Week 1: fabric selection, week 2: cutting fabric, week 3: make A blocks, week 4: make B blocks, week 5 make stars, week 6: assemble quilt)
I decided on a scrappy version (of course!) using a collection of batiks, I'm using the limey gold ginkgo leaf one as the stars. Who knows, it may be a hot mess but it will have a bohemian vibe and be so different from everyone else, I know it will be fun!




Oh and here is Kasey posing by my last finish

Started my go-to quick quilt yesterday for a friend, she and her new hubby are celebrating 1 year marriage, never even met him as Covid had just started when they had their wedding planned and ended up eloping.
It will be a bright and cheerful quilt I think.

From early March 2021:

I found this flat sheet last week which went great with the colors of the quilt above but was inches shy for the width so I used a few blocks to make a strip to widen it, included are the couple's initials.



And here is the finished the quilt, that flat sheet backing is a brushed cotton so super soft! I then finished up an oven mitt that just needed the lining added so I included that.

And here is the finished Campfire Glow quilt top, still needs quilting.

From April 2021:

I cut greens from my stash into little strips to sew back together into a bigger piece for blocks.
I found an old 2006 pattern with poppies appliqud to green strips that I fell in love with so I'll be playing with this off and on. My Mom said she would love this as a wall hanging so I'll make it smaller and do that.

From May 2021:

Why yes, that is another quilt up on my design wall! So many stash fabrics, so little time but I'm trying! It's going slower though because the garden is also demanding my attention.

Cut into some of my vintage sheets, stitched the rows together this morning, now I just need to cut and attach the perimeter setting triangles before stitching the rows together. Think I'll cut out another one but one inch smaller blocks so it's more of a toddler or crib quilt size.


And done, even Vera made the cut, see second photo.



A quick backyard ugly fence shot of this completed vintage sheet quilt, will take it out somewhere soon for more full length beauty shots for listing it. There are a couple of all cotton muslin prints but the majority of the sheets were cotton/poly blends so popular back then and are soooo incredibly soft! I found a beautiful vintage new-in the package spring bloom vintage sheet for the backing. The binding is scrappy sheet leftovers.

From July 2021:

I had this one cut out months ago, my first try at curved seams block, quite easy! and last week I finally sat down to put the blocks together. Finished stitching the rows this morning.

From Sept 2021:

I finished this big block quilt, the first of many I hope. This reminds me of a vintage utility type quilt where women used whatever they had to create bedding. This was inspired by a few I follow on Instagram that create these lovely big block vintage inspired quilts and I decided to gather some of my stash together for future sets. All my fabrics came from the local shop that takes in donations so I have a very large stash of vintage and new fabrics. Too many actually which is why I started my destash account.
Anyway, I did an organic straight line quilting, meaning random widths. It created some tummy texture that I love so much!
The main inspiration piece is the sage green floral, a modern textured barkcloth type fabric.

Took my stash of 6 finished quilts out today for a photo shoot with the help of my daughter so I could finally list them in my Etsy shop, here are some favorites.