Fire and Water

This is Fire and Water. It was a bee quilt with the Erie Street Quilters. Each person have me a couple of blocks with blue scrappy strips with an orange to red strip in the middle.

Back is an old stripe from Connecting Threads.

I trimmed the blocks into rectangles and tried to get the "fire" stripes to touch. It was close.

Simple wavy quilting and a scrappy binding machine sewn.

I used a lightweight poly batting from my stash. Actually this was all from friends and stash. Free Quilt!!

It finished about 58" square.

Still need to make that pesky label.

Really Random Thursday 3.5.20

Finally getting a chance to sit down a blog a bit before I'm off again.  

I've had one kid home sick most of the week.  Fortunately they were all off Monday, he stayed home Tues and Wed, and only managed a half day today.  Current nickname: Captain Croup.

 I made two X+ blocks for one my Erie Street Quilter friends.  She's planning to make charity quilts with her blocks.

 I made a block of Elizabeth's own design for the Gridster Bee February. 

 She also asked for a coordinating envelope for the signature block.

 I included an extra center, because I did not initially follow the directions correctly. 

 For March, Marsha asked for a Drunkard's Path Variation. 

I've also been adding various things to my Etsy Shop.  If anyone is in the market for a vintage Fish Finder, this lovely will be listed soon. :)

To say my offerings are eclectic would be an understatement!

Erie Street Quilters

Late last fall I was graciously invited to join a local group of quilters.  They call themselves the Erie Street Quilters because of their meeting location.  It started out as a group of quilters who wanted to start doing some more modern quilting.  (my area of the often seems very UNmodern)

My day schedule is more free with the kids in school and I was happy to accept the invitation. 

The group has been doing a Queen Bee thing for the past few months, so I've been playing catch-up on the blocks. 

 First up were some feather blocks.  They look weird because we didn't need to trim them square.

 Then some free form roses - again, we were asked not to trim.

 Then words!  We were supposed to choose something fun, or something we say, or something that represents us, or inspires us.  I do catch myself saying "splendid" often.  I think usually in sarcasm.   I paper pieced my letters this time.  To tell the truth, after a year of the "Spelling Bee", I've had my fill of words for a while. 

 My word with some of the others.

 For our January "blocks" we were asked to make Alzheimers Activity Aprons.  You can Google it for free patterns and ideas.  I was happy to use some things I've had for years, like the tassel!

 I also did some paper pieced leaves.  I was given the fabric for the stems, the rest was "sunrise to sunset" colors with a sky blue background.

And, most recently we were asked to make some string pumpkins with gray back grounds. They did come out different sizes.  I have fixed that.  

My month will be March, I can't wait!