A Prairie Home Quilts

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Okay, on to the finishes! The first three are just to the finished top stage.  I don’t have a picture of the Orange Peel topper [Improved 9 Patch] and I’m house sitting so I’ll try to get a shot of that some time next week.

This little LeMoyne Star wall hanging, Polka Dot & Paisley, I made with the scraps from the table topper.  I watched the free Jinny Beyer episode on The Quilt Show and she demonstrated a better way [than what I was doing] to put together 8 pointed stars.  So, you know, I had to try it out.  I think I’m going to hang this on the wall near the sewing machine when I get it quilted.   This next one is a class sample.  I’m going to teach a Winding Ways class at the LQS at the end of February/first part of March.

I also finished putting the binding on three scrappy quilts.  I made a Scrappy Irish Chain quilt and two matching table toppers as leader/ender projects.  My friend, Stacy at Mimi’s Quilting Cottage, quilted them for me.  I’ve already sold one of the table toppers. Here is the quilt in all it’s scrappy, crinkled goodness…

Now I’m hoping for a repeat performance of finishes for February!

I’ve finished the top finally. It’s all hand pieced. Tonight I hope to make the binding strips and piece the back. . . I’m being frugal and using up some strips that came off the backing of another Christmas quilt hence needing to piece the backing even though this topper is only about 20″ across at its widest point.

Next up will be basting it so that I can hand quilt it.

This is the block I’m using in a quick project I started to have a gift for my mom for her birthday.  It’s going to be a small wall hanging — about 26″ x 26″.  Although, if it were really a “quick project,” I’d have it done already, right?  Maybe it’s just that I’m not quick. . .  I’m using the Free Inklingo Collection to make LeMoyne Star blocks and half LeMoyne Stars to make the bud blocks.  I’ve pieced the inset seams by hand and pieced the rest by machine.  Next time, though, I’m doing the whole thing by hand because I was disappointed that some of my points will be clipped off.  I’m able to be more accurate when I hand piece.

I added a strip of fabric to two sides of the half-star bud block to make it the same size as the full LeMoyne Star block.  I was too lazy to do the “pot” part the correct way  (I found this block in an antique quilt, btw) so I just did a half square triangle block and trimmed it to the correct size.  The finished size of the LeMoyne Star block in the Free Inklingo Collection is 4 1/2″.

I used photo editing software to play around with a cropped image of the block to decide on my setting.  This one just wouldn’t do.

Next up. . .  This one’s better but it’s still not “there” yet.

And finally, yes!  That’s it!  I like this setting the best.  Although we’ll see what happens when I add the border fabrics.

Ludo thinks if he hides this block, he can claim the wall hanging for himself.

He doesn’t know that Grandma has already seen the block and she’s not parting with the wall hanging.