Catching Up

It's been four months since I last blogged.  I just haven't done much in the  way of quilting.

A friend's son was headed off to university and he needed a quilt for his dorm room and that was inspiration enough to get me moving.  I don't have a picture of the finished quilt but here's the flimsy.

I went for a modern manly type of quilt - lots of big blocks of green and blue.  My friend, Mary, did the quilting on her long arm - closely spaced straight lines, both vertically, diagonally and horizontally.  It finished up beautifully.  I did an improvisational, scrappy construction for the backing and wouldn't you know it, he preferred the backing to the front of the quilt.  I'll have to get him to take a picture of it in his dorm room so I can share it.

That led to checking out the columns I made for the 2016 So Scrappy Challenge.  I wasn't very happy with the butterflies in purple and yellow so I remade them.

I like these so much better.  They are a lot less scrappy.

Then I finished up the teal and lime green blocks.

And the purple and grey blocks

And the rose and gold blocks

So now I'm all caught up.

Early in August I went on a quilt retreat with some quilting buddies. We brought along some charm squares and sashing in two shades of grey and came up with these rainbow like blocks based on the Paint Chips block found  in the latest 100 blocks magazine.  We had some extra blocks and included them as a column on the back.  The finished quilt has been donated to our Quilters'Guild Community Outreach and will be donated to the Sexual Assault Unit at our city hospital.

It's been slow getting back to quilting but I'll be participating in a few workshops in the next two months and my quilt groups are starting up again so hope to be blogging on a regular basis again.