Those Flirty 30's

While cleaning out one of my bins of fabric three days ago, I found a huge baggie marked 300+ charm squares.  All of them were 30's prints, mainly Aunt Grace, but there are some that I can't place.

Quilters Confession:
I have *no* idea where I got these charm squares.  I honestly don't remember ever purchasing them.

I'm not one for 30's prints really, but these are kind of cute and are really growing on me.

Fast Forward:
Staring at the bag, I just felt the absolute need to create something.  Since we're going to visit my Father in Law and Stepmother in Law in 2 weeks, I figured I'd make a gift for them.

A Pinterest minute later, I found the pattern.

Two hours later, I had a quilt top.
Another hour and I had the pieced backing. By then it was 4:30 in the morning so I went to bed for 2 hours.

Then, I quilted it up. All that's left is to bind. I'll do that tomorrow night while watching some Netflix.

Oh.. those tumblers are truly addictive.  Used my MSQC charm tumbler template and cut around 108 of them for the backing. Just pieced them together randomly, grabbed two and just stitched them up.

Quilters Confession #2:
I still have a ton of 30's prints left. Barely made a dent in that baggie.

Tumbling Along

Thanks to Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville,  I've been once again bitten by tumblers. They've always been a fun block to make, and one of my favorites. 

As I showed in a previous post, I cut out 1600 small tumblers. I know, I know this is a leader and ender project, but I had a ton of piecing to do on another quilt top.  That top required a lot of pressing, so between each piece I sewed for the other quilt top, I sewed a "leader and ender" of a tumbler.

After 5 hours of working last night on the other quilt top, I kind of managed to sew over 2/3 of the cut tumblers.

And just to see what a row of beautiful scrappy tumblers would look like, I made a row.  Ok. Ok. 4 rows.. of 40 tumblers in each row.

Look who's peeking out to say hi!

1600 Mini Tumblers

Don't know why this didn't post.. here they are!

Mini Tumbler Explosion

About a week ago, Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville put forth this year's scrappy leader and enders project of Tumblers.  I absolutely love tumblers, and just knew right away that this would be an awesome project for me.

So I got my 2 1/2 inch tumbler template out (I purchased it from MSQC), grabbed a plastic shoebox of 2 1/2 inch strip scraps and went to town cutting.

After a full day of cutting from that ONE box, I have 1600 small tumblers cut out.  Yes, you read that right,  one thousand six hundred tumblers.

The worst part? I barely dented that one box of scraps.  Barely. Dented.  I have 12 more plastic shoe boxes full of scraps, and a big garbage bag of them.

So I just had to order the larger 5 inch template from Missouri Star Quilt Company.   Maybe that will put a dent into more scraps. Maybe. Just maybe.

Without further ado, here's what 1600 miniature tumblers look like sorted into "light" and "darks".  If anyone is interested I got these bins in a 3 pack at Lowe's for about $5.

Early Birthday Gift

I got an early birthday present. :) I've spent hours just looking through it deciding on the first project to make from it.

So far, these are my favorite projects that I hope to make this year.  Ambitious huh?

Harvest Star, Delectable Mountains,  Amish Inspired Shoofly,  Prairie Baskets,  X's and O's, Feedsack Flags, Use A Napkin Only For Your Mouth (and the best part is I have a charm pack I've been saving for the perfect project. So I'll use that for this project)

Scrappy Owl Log Cabins

I got sidetracked last night, must have hit save and not publish.   Anyway,  here are some of my log cabin blocks from scraps. The only thing that is the same with them is that the centers are all owl fabric.

When I get 20 or 25 blocks I'll be putting sashing between the blocks and then doing a piano key border.  Haven't decided on the color of the sashing yet.

Crumb time

Played with some more bits and pieces of fabric.  I just can't part with it.

Whoo Whoo's cute?

Joann Fabrics had this adorable owl fabric. Of course a yard and a half popped into my basket. I fussy cut the owls out and cut up my scraps to make wonky log cabin blocks.  I'm going to make each one measure about 14.5" unfinished so it'll be a really nice size quilt. 

And I'm using up my scraps which will be the best part ever. I have so many scraps I just need to tame them. This should help.

Look - wonky log cabins with the owls as the center:

 

Needing to be trimmed:

 

One complete block done and in the tub:

 

Aww, what a cutie patootie:

Whoo couldn't love those eyes?  Since there's so many colors in the owls anything goes - the best part ever for using my scraps!!