I love my Grandma Quilt

This is my 7th finish this year. I only finished 5 UFOs last year so I have already passed that. I'm hoping to at least triple last year's finishes. It's nice to see the UFO bin emptying. I have a stack of unfinished projects on the shelves of one of my bookcases and I also have a clear tub with projects that need  finishing. The ones I want to work on first are stored in the clear tub. When that empties I add more.

This came to me in pieces a year or so ago. One of my neighbors was making this for a family member who was having a little girl. She never finished it so she just went out and bought a blanket for the new baby and passed her UFO along to me.  All the blocks were cut out and the top was around half way sewn together. Her plan was to use a soft pink minky backing and a matching pink store bought satin binding. I finished the top and decided to do some hand quilting in some of the squares . I used embroidery floss and stitched hearts into the I love Grandma squares. I also did some straight line machine stitching in the ditch across the rows as back up. Since the embroidered hearts go out near the edge I couldn't use the satin binding. I couldn't find the right color pink fabric in my stash for the binding so it sat for the past month or so. When I woke up yesterday I remembered I had a box of fabric in my closet that had some pink fabric in it and luckily it matched.

I haven't used minky before but it wasn't too bad. I love how soft it feels but I probably won't use it as a backing again for awhile. I think it would make wonderful stuffed friends though.  The blankie still needs to go through the wash to remove the marking pen but I am waiting until I finish another pink UFO I am working on.  I didn't use any batting for this quilt.

I have started a hope chest for when our kids eventually marry and have children. This quilt will be added to the hope chest after it is washed.

Finishes 5 & 6

I'm still making things from a mystery box of fabric I bought 3 years ago. There were enough 6.5" flannel squares cut to make two baby/toddler blankies with a few extra squares left over. I stitched the tops together at least 2 years ago and there they sat. They both measure 36" x 42" . I backed them with flannel but skipped the batting. I wanted something flexible to wrap around a baby and also a bit lighter for a toddler to drag around. No binding, I just stitched and flipped and then added some straight line quilting to hold them together.

I haven't worked with flannels much but I find that I really like how soft and snuggly they are.

~Robin

Baby quilt in reds

I think I put this quilt top together in 2011 or it could have been the early part of 2012. Either way, I was in an online class with Bonnie Hunter and this is one of the designs we worked on. A couple years back I bought a mystery box of fabric and there was a couple quart size ziploc baggies crammed full of HSTs. I pulled out a bunch of red ones and added in the dot fabric from my stash and there it sat until recently. I decided to hand quilt this one. I used 3 strands of white or red embroidery floss to make some chunky quilting lines.

Of course my quilt inspector (Whiskers)  needed to check out my quilting stitches.   This is my fourth finish for 2013. 

~Robin 

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English Paper Pieced Balls

Around four years ago I joined an I Spy charm swap. I had tons of charms to use and made a few different things. One of the things I started was these  balls. I made a few and gave them away at baby showers and used them for stocking stuffers. I love working with hexagons/pentagons. While I was going through my fabric stash I came across three balls that were sewn together but never stuffed.  I fixed that problem.

Now to get the binding added to the two quilts I finally finished.


~Robin L. (3 finishes)  

Baby girl quilt

A couple years back I bought a box of squares and fabrics from another quilter on a quilting board I hang out on. Inside the box was this quilt top. My step-daughter is expecting a little girl in August so I quilted this up and sent it off to Connecticut. Quick and easy. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a nice picture. The pinks looked so washed out. They look like 30's prints so you can almost picture what it really looks like.


This is finish #5 for me. I've been slacking lately. We have 4 new babies due in the next few months so I have been making lots of bibs, burp rags, booties, etc.


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Spooktacular Quilt finish

I received these blocks from a swap back in 2009. I put it together in October of 2009 and that was as far as I got.  This was before I knew how to sew sashing on evenly. I also didn't measure each block trusting that each swapper made their blocks 12.5". I know better now of course. No matter, it's for my bed and I love it!

I pieced the backing. I bought the green bats back in 2009 specifically for this quilt. I meandered quilted it with bright green thread and used a fun orange binding that I had left from some other projects. Of course it wasn't long enough so I added some dark blue left over binding to make it long enough. It's been on my bed for a couple days now and I am very happy with it. This is the first handmade quilt I have ever used. All my quilts have either been sold or given away. Finally one for me. So much different than those store bought ones.

This is my 4th finish.  Robin @  RsIslandCrafts .

Flying kites on a winding day

I started this kite sometime last year. It just needed the binding hand sewn to the back and the tail added. I finished it up while watching the Super Bowl on Sunday.  I used a Moda Bakeshop pattern.  The pattern makes a small kite perfect for a baby's room. I think the next time I will cut the squares larger for a bigger kite. Maybe add an initial or a name  to personalize it. The binding was a bit tricky because of the bottom point but it worked out in the end.

This is finish #3 for me.

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