Urban planning... Sewing a Village

  Name:  Village

Design:  Village, Jumble, Miss Rosie's Quilt Co by Moda

Size:  70" by 80"

Fabric: Stash scraps fabric, Kona White

Binding:  Clown Stripe in black and white by Timeless Treasures

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white in a 3" grid more or less

Backing:  A crazy black on white quilting village that was just waiting for the right quilt

I had a lot of fun with this one.  Sewing a Village is quite the thing on Instagram but I am never one to follow a schedule and started making it and could not stop!  Big shout out to my buddy Cynthia for her lovely scrap donation that rounded out the last 20 or so houses.

This pattern is a Moda one and easily available.  It is just a whole pile of fun and I am sure I will end up making another one of these just because.  I was telling my husband that I was working on siding or roofing.  I totally went for it with the scraps and used up a ton of white and low volume fabrics.  The backing is a great but crazy print that I bought awhile ago to stash for backing and this was totally the one.  It is a quilter's village for sure.  I quilted this in a 3" irregular grid in Aurifil 50 wt in white.  The binding is a favourite.  Clown stripe in black from Timeless Treasures. This is a big quilt and I think it will live on the guest room bed.  Look at all the clothes pins!

I took these pictures on a dull early spring day a few weeks ago.  We are already looking a lot more springy but man, spring is late this year by a few weeks!

Already for quilting

Sandwiched and spray basted.  Resting on the downstairs living room floor until I can get it quilted on the weekend.  Scrappy blue wonky stars with low volume scrappy background.

A finish... Offset in Emily Colours

    Name:  Offset in Emily Colours

Design:  Offest by Springleaf Studios

Size:  60" by 80"

Fabric: Stash fabrics and scraps

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white in close straight lines

So I started this when my holidays started this summer and in-between a few trips and various berry picking and farm obligations, I finished it before our quilt guild meeting last week.  Just under the wire in fact as I sewed on the binding that morning.  I was dreading sewing the binding as it was so stinking hot.  I ended up using my big sewing table and resting the quilt on it, rather than my lap.  It worked out quite well.  I did not make this quilt with any particular need or idea in mind but as it came together, I realized that I had made it with the colours our daughter has in her living room.  I guess I know where this will end up eventually.  The pattern is a new one that I think was just released in June by Anne and her company Springleaf Studios.  It is a fabulous pattern with tons of options for layouts.  It works well for a scrappy project or for a more defined look. I went scrappy and used an assortment of whites and low volume fabrics for the background and lots of bits and pieces of grey, dark yellow and turquoise.  I managed to use up quite a pile of white scraps that I had cut out for a quilt last year only to find out that I should have checked the pattern corrections online before starting.  Who knew?  Anyway, those whites worked perfectly for this quilt.

Quilted in close straight lines with my favourite Aurifil 50 wt in white, I burned through a lot of thread, let me tell ya!  I just love the texture quilting gives a quilt.  You have the whole thing pieced and done, and it looks good but flat.  And the quilting happens and brings the life to the whole thing.  Wonderful.  And there it is.  Hanging on the barn wall on a hot breezy afternoon in August.  Dragging on the ground a bit because this one is a long one!  Linking Amanda Jean for Finish it Up Friday!

Progress!

I made a bunch more scrappy wonky log cabins for the Scrappy Stash Quilt Along.    I laid them out on the floor in a random fashion.  I tried to have no colours touching diagonally.  It looked okay, but I thought I might have fun with a rainbow.  I needed to make a few more blocks to fill in the holes so I am up to 56 blocks in a 7 block by 8 block layout.  What do you think?  Not bad for 100% scraps!?

While I was working on rainbows, we had our first snow!  Or shall we say slush.  The ground was covered. The trees were hanging with the weight of all that wet snow.  Happily it has all melted away.

Linking up with Judy's Design Wall Monday!