Some of Mh Recent Endeavors

The art quilt group I belong to here in New York (RAFA)  had a challenge where we randomly picked colors by name of paint chips that had silly names so we didn't  know the colors.  We picked three colors. The colors I ended up with were pink, lavender and a slate blue.  I decided to use this photo of a sunset I took at Ft Fisher for my inspiration.

This is the ressulting piece.

I am not sure what inspired this -- probably something I saw on Pinterestl.  It invoerf ccutting a dark and a light nine patch diagonally.

This was the originally planned itieration.I have sewed quarter square triangles from different nine patches.  It is bias all the way around but this really isn't a problem and actually helps when matching seems.  I was not overly fond of this though!!!

  

• This was the finaly iteration.  It is a small neeonatal quilt and is okay.

These last two are potato chip quilts which I do a little differently substituting a white 4 1/2 in square for 2 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 stripss. Each of these is 24 x 40 and also for the neonatal unit up here..

 

Some More Quilts from the 2026 GVQC Sbow

 

Genesee Valley Quiltfest 2026 - Just a Few Pictures!

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The Ones I Left Out on My Last Post!!

 

I haven't been posting for some time, but I have been making lots of quilt tops!  This is one of the easy ones which looks more difficult than it is!

 

I have made a lot of quilts with this design as I have tons and tons of black and white fabric.  I used to buy a lot of the white with patterns as I could overdye.  The centers are just made from all the scraps I havel

This is one of the tops I have made in the last couple of weeks from my "kits" that I brought north.l

This was made from a panel that I really liked with featured Califorrnia sea otters which I loved watchingt when out there.  I surrounded ot with more of those wonky log cabin blocks..  I am ot overly fond of thiss oee and will donate it.

Another baby quilt from the last couple of weeks.  I like this pattern better than the stripey one.  

This was made from long ago constructed stack and whacks.  I am not particularly crazy about it and didn't like the other quilt I made with more of the same blocks some time ago.  Making this is what inspired me to give away other sets of leftover blocks.

Still Alive and Kicking and Quilting up a Storm!

Before I left the south, I put together some kits so that I could finish a bunch of baby quilts when I got back  north!  I have managed to complete seven tops in 14 days so I think that is rather impressive.  They are a bit repetitive but I enjoy all the scrapiness,  This one is my standard baby quilt of 40 inches square and had.  Easy to make as the striped secctions are made up of 2 in wide stripa which frinish to the same size as thosse 5 inch squares.  It is basically an "I Spy" kind of quilt.

This is one of my enhanced "potato chip" quilts where I substitute and 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in white square for the middle of the block instead of the 2 1/2 wide pieces.  I really like this block a lot!!  This is a pretty good sized quilt and will finish to about 50 x 72 when I add borders (after I machine quilt it).

This is one of 2 quilt tops I have made for the local neonatal unit and is 24 x 40.  

Two more of the baby quilts.

A stack and whack quilt in purples that is all finished but it hasn't gone to anyone yet.  Daughter is supposed to find a friend who is into purple as it is very purple!

This was made from "orphan" blocks from two different quilts made quite some time ago.  I have surrounded them withh wonky long cabin blocks made from the tons of brown scraps I have.  I gave a way a whole bunch at quilt club as well as a bag of  orphan blocks that I couldn't stand looking at again.    They were quickly pick up off the free table!  I don't think I am going to donate this oe as I like it and it is fairly good sized.  We shall see.

 

More Hourglass With Table of block Sizes

First step is to sew four blocks together. Sew around the outside all the way around.  This is a follow up to a post I did some time ago about hourgtlass blocks when I was just starting the quilt pictured at the bottom.

Cut diagonally.  You will have bias edges but I didn't find that a problem at all when sewing the blocks together.

This is the quilt I made using 4 inch squares to begin with.

This is a chart I put together showing the different size begining blocks and what size hourglass you get.

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A New Take For the Potato Chip Block!

I saw this version of the quilt on a Facebook post and really like using the white.  I did change it up a bit and used  4 1/2 x 4 1/2 squares to buiod on instead of sewing 2 1'/2 x 4 1/2 strips together.  It went really fast.  I had literally taken 3 bags of random left5oers from other quiots that I had made into 2 1/2 strips and cut them into 4 1/2 and 6 1/2 lengths (I use the longer ones for another quilt I made).  They are really random scraps.  All these baby quilts I have made are 40 inches by 40 inches as that is what is required for the club's neonatal quilts.

This is the backing fabric!

This is the beginning of a more controlled version using just blues and greens.  I am liking this but am actually beginning to run out of strips!!  I will have enough for this quilt but not sure if there is enough for others and I don't have enough of any other colors from these random leftovers.  May actually have to go into my color sorted bags of strips to cut up some more!!!  These were literally made from leftovers from other quilts that Ihad gathered up in overfull bags!