Charity Quilts and FREE Pattern
I gave an Atlantan friend 8 quilt tops that she offered to quilt and donate to a local charity. Judy D. sent me photos of 5 of them. I actually forgot about a few of these! Allow me to share them with you, along with a FREE pattern for one of them.
The first is one of my leftover samples from a workshop I taught about 10 years ago! I called it Rainbow Strips and Curves. (You can even see the Rainbow Strips quilt.) This is the same picture frame curved corners as I use in my Photo Corners quilt.
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| Rainbow Curves in browns and golds |
This is the Photo Corners quilt that also uses the same units. Check it out!
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| Photo Corners Quilt. A great way to fussy cut a beautiful motif! |
Here's another leftover from my very popular Gretchen workshop. I have made this quilt almost a dozen times. I'm also teaching this for a Georgia guild in March (via Zoom).
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| Gretchen Quilt |
This 3rd quilt uses some leftover log cabin blocks. But I didn't want it to be square (2 x 2 blocks). I set it in my 1-2-1 assembly and - boom! - a larger, rectangular quilt.
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| Scrappy Logs quilt |
Here is the FREE pattern. I made this quilt using a Windham Fabrics collection called Moonstruck. This was a fun way to play with gentle curves. It also demonstrates my "When 4 Becomes 5 Assembly." I split 1/4 of each of the 4 blocks and turned them so they would create the look of a 5th block in the center.
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| Ezekiel's Wheel: 62" x 62" |
The last of these 5 charity quilts uses a technique that I created about 15 years ago. I always wanted to teach it as a workshop (and I still may). You start with squares that get turned in pieced triangles and then they get cut in a magical way. I call it Star Spinners. I love this pink and chocolate brown version! I pulled out my workshop box and I have another whole set of blocks just itching to become a quilt.
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| Star Spinners |
Thank you, Judy D. of North Georgia. You worked your magic with your longarm, finished them with binding and have given them to a local hospital treating sick children. Blessings on you!
Love the Star Spinners pattern. Friendship Star is a favorite. Hope you have the pattern. Stay safe
ReplyDeleteHi, Nancy. Yes, a good reminder that I must get that box out of the garage and visit those blocks. Thanks for the nudge!
DeleteThese quilts are wonderful and u r so generous to donate them....I had been missing your emails...glad to hear from you...Happy New Year....Lori Holmes
ReplyDeleteHi, Lori. I am slow about replying to this but it was great to hear from you, too! And I'm glad that Judy D. could make good use of the quilts for a noble cause. Isn't that what it's about anyway?
DeleteHow nice of you to donate them! I really like each one of them for different reasons, but the ones I can see myself making are the log cabin and the friendship star ones. Your sense of color and fabric combination always impresses me!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful donation. My favorites are the Rainbow Curves and the Scrappy Log Cabin Stars.
ReplyDeleteYes, that Rainbow Curves was one I first published in Quilt Magazine 15 years ago. The brown one was so large I let someone else "wrestle" it under the needle. Glad it can make someone warm at night!
DeleteI love how you changed the blocks in Ezekiel's Wheel to make the middle block! Also that you changed the third charity log cabin star quilt to 1 - 2 -1 setting to make it a rectangle quilt! And! The chocolate and pink quilt is my kind of quilt not just the color but also the quilting in the stars I see chocolates with pink roses in the stars! Happy Happy! Thanks for sharing! I learned so much!
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