Next Up: Jade Garden

Finally, I have begun work on Jade Garden. This was a Block of the Month project offered by Wilmington Prints in around 2021. When I found the pattern offered for free and the fabrics available, I ordered them. I've looked for the pattern to link it here but it's no longer available.

I've spent the last three days doing all the cutting. Wow, what a project; there are so many fabrics! I cut out the rectangles and squares by hand with a ruler, but most of the rest of the pieces with my Cricut.

I think I am finally finished and can start sewing it together for Friday Night Sew In. I think I'll assemble it from the center out.

This is how far I got by 3AM. LOL It is so difficult for me to be a responsible adult when pieces are just lying there ready to be sewn together!

Fibonacci Fleurish Flimsy!

Jeff's fibonacci quilt has been pieced! It actually went together pretty quickly. I spent a bit of time fixing a mistake I made when I assembly-line pieced these block sets, but it didn't add more than a couple hours. 

I think these fabrics are really amazing. As I recall, they are Island Batik's Morris Mist fabrics I bought on clearance last year.

I'm going to let my husband quilt this one. He wants to do a nerdy math-inspired custom quilting job.

Linking up with:

Brag About Your Beauties
Finished or Not Friday
Off the Wall Friday
TGI Finished Friday

Recent Finishes

I guess I got so busy with sifting and selling off my excess fabric bolts I totally forgot to post my recent finishes. Many I've already posted progress, but I never posted the final photos. I'd been trying to clear some UFOs before I start new projects.

This was the quick Scot's Plaid pattern made with a large-scale Hawaiian fabric I fussy cut for the squares. 

This is the Broken Bricks pattern with the leftover Hawaiian fabrics scraps. Even the border is scraps. I quilted it with Hibiscus Tea by A Bit Orange. And the batting is made up of scraps of Quilter's Dream Green.

This is the Nine Patch Twirl I didn't particularly like last year. I still don't love it, but it has grown on me now that it has been quilted.

All of these quilts are in the pile to find a new home. If someone in the family doesn't claim them in the next year or two, they will ultimately get donated to Comfort Quilts.

Fibonacci Fleurish Design

Many years ago my husband designed a fibonacci quilt and I finished it in early 2010.

We ran across the spreadsheet he made at the time and we decided to try and write it up into a real pattern that could be shared. I've been working on it this week. I've never written up a quilt pattern before so I'm just trying to be as detailed as I can be.

He actually decided to somewhat change the pattern and make it larger. Now it finishes at approximately 70"x70". 

I'm mostly finished with my first draft so now I'm going to test the pattern.

Another Quick Finish

Sometime in the past few years someone from the Northwest Quilter's Guild gave me a big bag of scraps and in it there was a pile of these WOF strips.

There were also quite a few of approx. 4-inch square blocks as well. I had to do a bunch of trimming to actually make them a uniform size. (I would not be surprised if that is why they originally ended up in the scrap bag.) 

I had times when I questioned myself why I was spending time on this project. These are not fabrics I ever would have chosen, but not everyone has the same taste (at least that is what I keep telling myself).

I don't know what the pattern is called, but I've been calling it Basketweave. 

I almost always use Quilter's Dream Green batting. I quilted it with Christy Dillon's Harrison E2E. I used a light purple MaxiLock thread because I hoped it would bring out the purple in the light fabric, but it is almost invisible on the front. It does show up on the back.

I'm actually proud of the binding as this was my first flange binding and I made it from the leftover strips, which weren't wide enough. I found this Flange Binding Tutorial helpful.

Huge Fabric Score!!

Just when I thought I had my fabric shopping tendencies under control, a crazy good opportunity fell in my lap.

I met a retired long arm quilter a couple years ago when she was selling fabric from her stash for $4/yard. I went and bought a lot at the time. After calling her last fall to see if I could schedule another visit to take a friend, she mentioned she was now selling by the bolt. On a lark, I asked her how much she would sell all of them for. She didn't have a price. But about month later, she offered me a price and I accepted it. 

It was 425 bolts! We took over a friend's hatchback and our compact car and it took two trips with them both filled up.

This is what I'm keeping. It's about 140 bolts. I bought the shelves too.

I'm planning to re-sell the rest. I don't have the space to keep it.

Update about a week and a half later:

I sold virtually all the extra fabric (there are about a dozen bolts left). I invited my friends to come shop and then when they were done, I posted photos to my Northwest Quilter's Facebook group and the rest went within just a couple of days! I should not have worried about finding homes for all this fabric!

Finally Made a Quilt

My husband and I have spent the past few months sifting our garage and storage areas and decluttering. In June, we had a garage sale and then donated virtually everything leftover. The house is looking much tidier at the moment.

Last week, I had a couple of paid long arm quilting gigs so it finally spurred me to spend time in my sewing room. There was a pile of bright hibiscus and coordinating fabrics stashed under my long arm so I gathered them up and decided to make something with them. Finally. They've probably been there for two years.

I decided to fussy-cut hibiscus flowers into 4.5" squares then I just made a quick Scot's Plaid block pattern. It was a quick one-day project. I had been planning to add a border with the hibiscus fabric, but it is a large scale print and I decided it wouldn't look good sliced into strips.

I long-arm quilted it with Christy Dillon's Hibiscus Hideaway pantograph with Dark Rose Maxi-Lock thread. As usual, I used Quilter's Dream Green batting.

Of course, once I had the scraps spread all over my table, I couldn't resist working on another Broken Bricks quilt for the Friday Night Sew-In. That is my favorite scrappy quilt pattern. I'll probably finish it this weekend.