Next Block

Hi friends!
My next block!

Orange and yellow!

I though i had enough but when i laid them out i still need a few more.

                                       
So i will go one making until i have enough. Just not enough even with saching.

Ohio Star

My finished block, it will be a colorful quilt at any rate.

My last block was a variation of the log cabin block called the courthouse steps.

Have a great day

Hugs

Babs

Log Cabin Block

Hi friends!
My next block is a log cabin block.
To make a lap quilt i need at least one more block,  So i guess maybe next week i will start putting it together to see how it looks.

My quilt wall seems to be getting full.

I am going to have to do something soon i am running out of room.

Have a great weekend

Hugs

Babs

Next block

Hi friends!
Today i am making one of Jenny Doan's disappearing blocks.
This is a disappearing 9 patch., doesn't look much like a 9 patch block does it?
I love her video's! They are really good and i am a visual person , seeing is much better than instructions written down.
If you want to check them out google Missouri Star Quilt Co, and clink videos.
She is a great instructor. I had rather see hers than any one else's but a lot of blogger's are making video's now and it's interesting to see what they are videoing about. You can learn a lot on the Internet. When i started making quilts i bought a book but you can get the same thing on the Internet for free.
Craftsy has some wonderful classes that are free and you can bet i have them all and a few that i bought when i wanted to learn to free motion quilt my own quilts.

While i was at it i went ahead and made three of these to see how they would look in a quilt.. I think it looks a little busy like that , i might look better with saching.
Have a good one
Hugs
Babs

Rail Fence Block

Hi friends!!
My next block is a rail fence block.

You can lay them out like this for a rail fence quilt, i think i have made two of these in recent years.

Of course this is going to be a sampler quilt so it will go with the rest of my sampler blocks until i get enough to have some kind of lay out to see how they work. I made this one from scraps pieces of fabric.

This is a quilt from a jelly roll that  i ordered some where or another , maybe Missouri star quilt co. I just got some burgundy solid and made a great sized quilt out of it.

A jelly roll is 40 2 1/2 inch

strips that works with great pattern. My blocks is a little bigger to go with my sampler blocks.

Have a good one

Hugs

Babs

Jarods Basket

Hi friends!
This is a little smaller than the other's i have made but it's for a boy and you know they don't carry a lot in their pockets when they are driving teens.
It will hold his keys and change and billfold.
It's sitting among scraps waiting to be chopped up!

A side view, he loves the Atlanta Falcons.

Have a great weekend

Hugs

Babs

Churn Dash

Hi friends!
I was tired yesterday from going to a funeral so picked out a easy one.
I have made this one many times and love it.

Cur all my pieces!

Laided them out!

Sewed them all together into a finished block and put it on my wall.

It looks more like a cube!

I didn't have any more green to do the corners makes it cube shaped.

Have a good one 

Hugs

Babs

Card Trick

Hi friends!
This is the block that i wanted to make for my next one.

Working on it right here

The book was using tri angles but i just used 4 inch squares.

Happy finish!

Don't know yet what my next one will be because i haven't looked in the book yet , but i will pick one and hopefully have it ready by Wednesday.

The one next to it is another string block which will make 3 blocks made for it , it's a some day thing . Just making them when i get the notion.

Have a good one

Hugs

Babs

Sampler Blocks

Hi friends!
I am using these books to make a sampler quilt.

Jacobs Ladder is the first one on the list

My first one! I think my next block will be card trick

Not a good picture but it's the one i will do next.

Have a good one 

Hugs

Babs

Making Pillows

Hi friends!
My daughter got her a new living room suite and i am making her some cushions for it.
I got this at Hancocks last week , knew i would find a good use for it!
So far i have made her two reds ones and one from a quilt block.

I am thinking about making my next quilt a samplers quilt. See how many different blocks i can find that i haven't done lately. I still have a Aunt or two that i want to make a quilt for so this could be one for them.

I made one for us a long time ago , the very first quilt i ever made.

I made it with cheap fabric but i had been thinking about trying to make one for a long time.  My Sis has made them for years , so i ordered a book that showed you how  to put one together  and have never looked back.

This is three of the same blocks across. A very simple quilt!

Have a good one

Hugs

Babs

Pauline's Quilt

Hi friends!
It's a finish!
I mailed it off earlier today and she should get it by Monday.

 I had a hard time with it but it finished up very pretty.

I hope she loves it , She fought Cancer a few years ago and won And she will be 90 this year on her birthday.
She is a sweetie!
Have a good weekend
Hugs
Babs

Hemming Paulines Quit

Hi friends!
Still plugging along on the hemming of Pauline's quilt.
I work on it every day when the news come on but should finish tomorrow, then into the wash it will go after pictures.
Hoping to finish it this week!

Still like some on it but wish me luck on finishing it this week. I will be  glad to send this off to her !

I love my aunt Pauline as i love all my Aunts.

Betty Jo called to say she loves hers , after chemo she is down and out for a week and a half so later this week i will call and see how she is , prayers for her please, she is my mothers baby sister , just eight years older than me.

We raised our kids together. they are all about the same age. I went with her to the hospital with her second and they wanted to put me to bed , thought i was ready to have my oldest . but he didn't get here for another few weeks.

Hugs

Babs

Pauline's Quilt

Hi friends!
I finally got it quilted.! This was a hard quilt to quilt , so much time spent  with the seam ripper!

I picked the binding, it's hard to find big enough cut of  fabric to do it . I guess i need more fabric!!! hehe!
I got the binding sewed on.

And started cutting all the extra off!  This has been one a quilt to remember.                                         

I started hemming it this morning and i will work on it some more when the news comes on this evening.

Have a good one 

Hugs

Babs