Bordered Wonky Blocks

And here are the blocks, the beginnings of which I showed the other day - wonky four patch centres, with different neutrals around them. At the moment, no plans to do anything specific with them, so they'll just go back in with the block sets. And wait.

Something else with wonky four patches

I showed some of these wonky four patch blocks in a double four patch setting yesterday; these remaining blocks will get bordered with some neutrals to make larger blocks (which will then eventually get assembled into a top).   Here's the start of it - haven't got very far yet!

Some more of that blue batik

Not a lot of it left - but with the smaller bits which I did have, I made some double four patch blocks, using some small wonky four patches. Haven't had a chancen to stitch them together yet, but that will come!

Rectangular Blocks - and blue batik

... not to be confused with the aqua blue batik from before.  And that's it for these rectangular blocks, at least for the time being!

Rectangular Blocks...and aqua blue batik

Just like the top the other day, except not bright orange. Quite a difference, but equally effective.  One more to come!

More rectangles

Here's a couple of other fabrics I'm going to use with the rectangles. Both have served as borders for Linus quilts already; this is what's left over. Might be able to get another border from it, might not - but they will certainly serve to alternate with these log cabins...

Rectangular Log Cabins with Orange Sunset

Well, I think the setting fabric looks like a sunset... so here's the rectangle crumb log cabins set with some orange alternates. There are more of the rectangle blocks, though, so another quilt top (or two) are in the making...

Rectangular Scrappy Log Cabins

Starting to do something with these scrappy blocks- there are loads of them, so I think they'll be around for a while.  Still, it seemed too good to miss out on, that I had some 6.5" strips of this variegated orange print (I used it as a border, but there wasn't really enough for another border) - same width as the log cabins!  So, I'm pairing them up and setting them alternately in rows. Should be a nice top when it's done.

More scrappy happiness

So, the scraps from yesterday have started going into blocks. I stitched the 3" squares together into twos...

...and then threes.

Then attached a strip to them, and put another row of three down the other side of the strip.

Here's the bunch all in progress - finished blocks on the left, but all the other pieces still waiting.

Using up some scraps

So this weekend I felt like patchwork, rather than putting together blocks or putting borders on tops, or whatever. I took my 3" square stash...

I took some wide strips from my strip stash, though most of them weren't wide enough as I wanted ones which were at least 3" wide and cut them into 8" lengths.

So I moved on over to my box of multi-colour FQs, to slice some more strips from that. Pictures tomorrow of what I've started to put together from them...

Pairing up...

Having attached borders to all of my waiting top centres (which are heading off to my Project Linus contact tomorrow, where she will find someone to back and quilt them), it was time to pair up some assembled top centres with border fabrics. I managed to find reasonable border prints for 10 centres; there are 4 or 5 in the basket for which I don't have anything suitable at the moment.  Something may turn up!

VW bus border

Perfect border fabric for this centre with little bordered novelty blocks...

Angry spots!

This colourful top with lots of spotty fabric wanted something quite striking for a border, but luckily, I had this Star Wars Angry Birds fabric I could use. I think it works pretty well. 

Another bordered top

Another centre to which I've added a border, so it can go in the Project Linus pile. I still have quite a few waiting for borders, not to mention lots of block sets, but I know this is a never-ending cycle, so I don't mind.

Black, white and green with trees

This is one of those tops which started out well, but never quite worked, I think.  Hopefully the tree border will cheer it up a bit and it will make someone a nice snuggly lap quilt...

Blue border

Amidst emptying the scrap basket, there has been a little time for putting borders on quilt centres which are heading to Project Linus; here's one of them!

Chunky Windmills, part 2

These are the base units for the chunky windmills blocks - the main block is composed of four of these, so the next step is to put them together into pairs and then after that, into fours...

A start on something else

Picked up a sheet of instructions for a simple block called the Chunky Windmill block for 50p (to benefit the Farnham Quilters) last weekend at Farnham Maltings Quilt Show & Sale, so I decided to have a go using some small piece of batik fabrics from my batik box - here's a start to it. The pattern trims off the waste triangles, but I have stitched another seam to make them into spare triangles to use in scrappy blocks later, of course.  This is only the first step to making the block; more to come!

Block progress

You can see I've made a little progress on the scrappy blocks started yesterday - they are wonky 4 patches, a favourite for my random sewing projects because they are simple and interesting. I have a big stack still waiting to put together, but it was nice to get something sewed!

A little sewing on a cold day

Not a lot of time to sew today, but a little something started, with some 5" squares and some neutral fabrics...