Yay for quilt finishes and sunny days and doggos!
This was a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project I started in January, 2018. My goal was to use reproduction fabrics to make these quarter log cabin blocks, although they were inspired by a quilt from Modern Log Cabin Quilting. My final version measures 84 inches x 84 inches.
It was fun picking out repro fabrics to meet the monthly RSC color challenge.
Diane Knott did the long-arm quilting for me. I hand-stitched the binding in air-conditioned comfort while binge-watching an old, favorite TV show. Thank goodness we have modern conveniences to make our quilting easier! 😃
I'm sending the quilt off to my former neighbor and all-round good friend, who has moved to Texas to be nearer her family. We had a lot of adventures together, and I miss having a "partner in crime"!
And speaking of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge....
I haven't been doing much to bust my scraps lately. I decided I wanted to tackle some of the print fabric scraps that don't seem to make it into my RSC quilts.
For some reason, I was inspired to look back at some of my early quilts, and consult several of my early quilt resource books. After much consideration, I decided to go for this block (again).
The block has many names, but the first time I used it in a quilt, I was following a design called 25 Patch Star from Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel. Her books have always been a great resource for traditional quilt blocks, and even included full size templates for the block components - you know, back in the day before we cut our fabrics with rulers and rotary cutters and stitched them with sewing machines!
I decided I liked the comforting idea of revisiting this quilt block and promptly used my rulers (especially the Easy Angle ruler for the HST blocks) and rotary cutter to prep some scrappy strips.
The RSC color for July is dark blue. No problem finding plenty of scraps to fill the bill. I still have a couple more blocks cut, but not sewn. I'm having so much fun, I may have to work backwards and fill in the previous month's RSC colors.
Are you feeling the need to make nostalgic or comforting quilts during this crazy time?
