Christmas in July...a finish + liberated log cabin and other projects

 I just had to start and finish a Christmas project in July.  I had some of this fabric left from when I made tabletoppers in 2011 and 2013 and I made one similar to the ones I made back then.  I used machine quilting and hand quilting.

 The back of the mat is Debbie Mumm fabric.

 Here is a photo of half of the batting cut off close to the stitching.  I used the backing as a binding.  I cut it 1" from the outside of the mat and folded over halfway and pressed.  Then I clipped and pinned and did a machine stitch around the outside edge.  I used #332 on my Bernina.  That is the same stitch I used to quilt down the center and across the middle.

 Here is the little quilt I got so excited to start back in June when I watched an old show on TQS.  I blogged about it in this blog post   I was going to make it larger but changed my mind.  It is really difficult to piece something not straight and then try to get the outside fairly straight!  I thought improv making up whatever I wanted would be easier....but there has to be some kind of plan!  I am hand quilting it....fun....fun!  I am calling it Not All Solids.

I decided to do some big stitch quilting on this rail quilt that I had machine quilted about half so far....many many years ago!   I needed some hand work to do.  The tutorial I watched is
https://crafty.house/big-stitch-quilting/     I will go back to machine quilting when I practice some more....I have gotten very rusty with not doing it!!!

This photo is from my 2019 Artfully Inspired Life journal with the class I am taking with Joanne Sharpe.  It is the January page (she says we are NEVER behind)....and under the window shutters are my goals I wrote out for this year.  I had written them in January and just copied into my book this week!  The little shutters were made using my sticker machine and the acrylic papers I had painted and cut into tiny strips!.

I am so excited that I am NOW able to see The Quilt Show and my ruzuku classes on our big TV screen in the living room using Amazon Fire Box.  Really a great way to watch and get my steps at the same time.  Healthy eating and getting my walking exercise every day is a very important part of each day!

Linking to http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/2019/08/oh-scrap-new-color.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

3 by 3 green mini

 This post is about some of the projects I have worked on this past month....
The first one I added the binding this past Tuesday at my quilt group....
It is 1½" strips sewn into in pairs and cut up and made into 4 patches.....

 The back is from an old Debbie Mumm fabric...

 I have blogged before about this log cabin block into a quilt...and it is now 24½".....

 I have been cutting fabrics into 2½" squares and put these together for a block...

 I got the borders on this yellow brick road quilt...info was blogged about it 2/08....

 I got into a bag of scraps I purchased long ago when I didn't have scraps and made two blocks....
Good memories of getting these scraps with my sisters in Rochester, MN and the shop was
Just A Little Something......

Using my scraps and trying out slab blocks from Sunday Morning Quilts book....
Getting a collection of different kinds of blocks....jumping from one thing to another...
Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Linking to Connie Linky Party Tuesday......finish it up Friday.....Link a Finish Friday...
Needle and Thread Thursday.