{#41} Mother's Log Cabin Finished

In my last post on this blog I showed you a log cabin quilt made for an upcoming bridal shower at our church.  In the past, my standard gift was a crock pot and some recipes for it from my own recipe box.  In the last year I've changed to making one of these barn raising setting log cabin wall quilts for the bride-to-be.  This one measures 28-1/2" square.  The last post was Bethany's quilt...this one is for her mother (Diane), one of my good friends.  Diane took a quilting class I gave years ago and has kept quilting.  I just machine quilted 1 of 3 tops that are very similar that she just pieced.  See it here.

At the bridal showers our church gives, I often hear mothers say, "Well, my mixer just broke" or "my towels look hideous" or "I want one of those" as their daughter opens gifts.  I thought it would be fun to give Diane one of these as Bethany is opening hers.  I had shown the top to Diane and asked her if she thought Bethany would like it.  Diane responded, "I am so jealous.  I want one just like that to put in my living room where I've had the one I made 5 years ago."  So I thought I'd surprise her at the shower. 

Hope she likes it!

~Joan

{#40} Bridal Shower Quilt Finished

It is finished...pieced, quilted, bound, hanging sleeve, and label!  Ready for the bridal shower.  26-1/2" square.

In today's news...I am hemming 3 bridesmaids' dresses and making 4 sashes for same.

Go to my other blog (http://www.shelbystitcher.blogspot.com/) and see me play with more of these blocks to make something for ME!

~Joan

{#39} More Triangle Log Cabin Blocks

These are in the "Barn Raising" setting of log cabin blocks.  For those of you who are not quilters, there are different layouts you can do with the same blocks.  Since we have friends (hi, Valerie) who are in the process of building a barn, I am showing them in the barn raising setting for now. 

~Joan

{#38} New Log Cabin Blocks

On the left above is another wedding shower quilt, w/o the borders...those are to come soon.

On the right is a quilt I started this AM for a future wedding gift.  I think it's still quite a few months out, will have to check with the MOG.  Anywho...the center for the ones on the right are 4" finished HST and each log is 1" finished, making each block a whopping 10-1/2" square.  The blocks on the left finish at 5" square.  This is entirely acceptable to me because the left set will be a wall hanging and the right ones will be a bed quilt.  This is definitely clearing out my 1-1/2" strips box.

The centers will be a large variety of prints.  I wanted to finish 4 of them this AM so I could determine if this was the size I wanted to use.  So I just grabbed a chunk of fabric off my cutting table (that happened to be the left over border from this) and made 4 of the same centers.  With scrap quilting, the pieces just recycle from quilt to quilt...sometimes it seems they never entirely go away!

Upward and onward with wedding chores to finish...

~Joan