An email reminder about my guild's annual charity sew-in popped into my Inbox this week. It prompted me to search the studio for any blocks or tops that could be readied for next weekend's group-baste session (an extremely expeditious way to get quilt tops basted).
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| Two completed Cuddle Quilt tops ready for basting. |
The search for tops and blocks
One top made with orphan blocks and the disappearing cutting technique that was finished this January was ready for basting.
A stack of retired fabric samples from a Poppie Cotton fabric collection (Hopscotch and Freckles) was transformed into this second Cuddle Quilt top.
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| Cuddle Quilt top ready for basting. 35" x 43" |
One for the kids, and one for the kitties
Combining the remaining Poppy Cotton fabric swatches, a handful of improv blocks, and other scraps, I got a second, smaller, quilt top for a kitty quilt.
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| Improv scrap blocks in a kitty quilt top. |
This scrappy little kitty quilt top went together quickly.
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| Kitty quilt top combining fabric swatches and scrap blocks. 29" x 25.5" |
And a UFO
And this quilt top that was patiently waiting on the design wall got its borders attached! The blocks are from my 2021 100 Days 100 Blocks Kinship Sampler quilt-along for which I used my favorite Australian aboriginal prints from M&S Textiles Australia.
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| Twenty-five blocks from the 2021 Kinship Ssampler with M&S Textiles Australia. 58" x 58" |
I'm targeting this sampler quilt to satisfy my second "UFO finish" prompt for Make Nine 2022. I just have to pick a backing fabric and then clear off the tables in the workroom for pin basting.
