Early summer was great with lots of family fun and plenty of quilting time in between. Then, just after my last post in August, my Myasthenia Gravis kicked into high gear. I muddled through the daily challenges until mid September when I ended up in ICU for four days of infusions. It's been a long slog, but I am finally on a new schedule of infusions that is working well and I am back on track. I am thankful to now be spending time each day in the quilting room!
I want to now share some of my summer projects that haven't yet made it to the blog screen!
I went on a "vintage feedsack" kick this Spring. I have been a feedsack collector for 60 years and I dug through lots of scrap boxes and drawers and came up with these.
I am calling this one "Home Cookin". I had a ball rummaging through the solid sack boxes to find the backgrounds and then just started cutting images for the centers. The outer borders went together quickly and I spent evenings appliqueing those little circles in the corners. It is (of course) made in the potholder method (whereby each block is individually quilted and bound and then stitched together) and I had fun choosing all the different novelty prints for the backings.
Next up is one I call "Sugar Pops". I drew these patterns that are based on an antique quilt I saw in the Quilt Engagement Calendar back in the 1980's. There have been a few published patterns based on this quilt over the years. I have always wanted to make one and since I already had the sack scraps out... I think I had more fun with this quilt than any other in years. I just adore it! I enjoyed picking all the feedsack plaids for the backings. I don't use my plaid sacks enough so this made me smile. Again, this one was made in the potholder method.
I had so much fun in fact that I thought I would try another one with my precious Dutch fabrics. I made this block with my favorite colors, but I'm afraid the placement of the red was unfortunate. When I looked at the photo I had taken, it looked like Bozo the Clown. Right?? I knew I could never unsee it, so I will place it on the freebee table at my next quilt meeting and it will go to some unsuspecting quilter at my group.
While I still had the overflowing scraps on my table, I cut some little pieces for this potholder quilt which I donated to the infusion center.
You get terribly cold sitting for hours in those chairs and a quilt is a fun thing to keep you warm!
I still haven't made much of a dent in my sack scraps!
I also finished quilt number one of Taryn Falkner's (Repro Quilt Lover) Tiny Nine Patch Challenge on Instagram. This also went to the infusion center.
I called this one "In the Pink" as I was feeling better by the time I finished it! And, now I am on to quilt number two. I got bored with the shirting background so switched to my favorite color, chrome yellow!
That's all for now. Hope to get back into Blogland slowly but surely!! Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful Fall!
