Catching Up

Last week's quilting:

The first photo is a volunteer quilt for wounded soldiers. I have 3 more to quilt for my friend Paula, who makes many of these quilts for such a good cause!

I quilted a meander in the sashings, with continuous curves in the block triangles, and a small feathered wreath in each block center.

One of my regular customers made this quilt (second photo) out of bright pastel jelly roll strips for a friend's recently adopted daughter. It's such a great strippy pattern. I'm actually cutting out strips to make one of my own.

The quilt is quilted with an simple flower meander in the center, and a wavy flower border. The blue thread looks fantastic on it!

I've also been sewing like mad on my scrap quilts. I started piecing the many small blocks for my Burgoyne Surrounded quilt (one of my goals for the year).

The little squares are all 1" finished, so there is a lot of piecing.  I've got about half the blocks done.

I also finished another Bricks and Stones quilt (see below).

I pieced the back like a large log cabin block with a 12" star in the center. It turned out great, it was easy to measure and plan, and I was able to use up a lot of random fabrics in it.

I've completed two more feathered star quilt blocks (the Serenity fabrics look wonderful) so now I'm debating whether to make the quilt with 5 blocks set on point, or make 4 more blocks and set the blocks 3 x 3.

I ordered more Serenity fabrics on the bolt, and they'll arrive this week.

I've also found some new (old) quilt patterns in some magazines that my friend Laura passed on to me - I find it interesting that some quilt magazines, depending on the issue, can have a lot of useful patterns, and sometimes they don't have anything inspiring! I wonder why that is...

I hope October finds all my sewing friends well, warm and cozy! Now I'm off to quilt!!