Scrapbox Quilts

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Lil Blu Bear Hug #4

I pulled 2 leftover pieces from the shelf that went together but not with anything else. The navy was a 15 inch piece and the celery green had 18 inchs, there is still a bit left of that. I had fun constructing this little bear quilt which took every bit of the navy blue print, finishing with a narrow binding made from 2 inch strips. I rounded the corners just a teeny bit, so easy to bind.

I used a dark royal blue fleece on the back and included some batting scraps; quilted with cream Glide thread using the walking foot. What a mistake with dark glide in the bobbin as it kept poking up the top no matter what adjustments I tried. Eventually, just went with it as is. It finished at 22" square.

This little stuffed guy was generously sent to me by an online friend, Dee. Many of you here will know of her. lol.

Wish I could get the blog page to permit side by side photos. May be if I try a different template.

But for this week, I'm joining these fun linky parties. Be sure to visit them to see what other quilters are sharing.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Saturday - soscrappy

Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday - Alycia Quilts

Friday, February 14, 2025

Friday Quilt Hop * 2-14-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Star Chain {a FREE Layer Cake quilt pattern} — Material Girl Quilts

scrappy and gorgeous is this Star Chain quilt

Fun quilting projects

click a category on the right side bar to be taken

to it's free options

free-easy-batik-quilt-patterns.pdf

a booklet of 3 patterns

Batik Split Rail Fence Quilt - Freemotion by the River

a batik 4-rail fence quilt; quick and colorful

Wishing everyone a happy creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Thursday, February 13, 2025

SAHRR '25 - Rnd 4

Every Monday morning I spend in EQ8 playing around with possible borders for the new round. This time I settled on a pretty quickly. Now I know there is a quicker, stripset method for making this block style, but I stayed with the plan to cut the fabric apart, insert a strip or two, re-assemble and trim to size.

I started with 4-1/2 inch squares plus the accent strip to be inserted:

Cut them apart to be re-assembled:

I decided to keep it simple and avoid doing angled cuts. Here is my round 4 border. I really like this round! It's now up to 56 x 64. Trying to not let it get much over 60 x 80.

I'm linking up with pieceful wendy . Be sure to visit there to see all the other stay at home round robins being created this year.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Baby Blue Batiks

I seem to be getting ahead of myself with tops lately and neglecting my machine quilting. This top is unusual it how it came together. A few years ago I was sent a small bundle of batik strips won in a blog drawing. Wish I could remember who it was.

Anyway I know I made something (another flimsy inspired by AlyciaQuilts) from the strips. It's stored somewhere. The cutoffs ended up with diagonal cuts at one end of each and they were saved in my blue scrap bin for ages. This month I decided to do something with them so I joined them all together 'jelly roll race' style. This made up the center panel.

Now what? I had only this one piece of batik that would work with the center. It is very light with blue tints. I searched my stash for something to offset these light shades, so you'll find a mix of fabrics making up this top. The pieces of the light are so large and look awkward. I plan to do some fancy quilting there to make sense of those areas. It will finish about 47 x 56.

I'm joining these linky parties this week. Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday - soscrappy

Quilting Patchwork Appliqué

Sunday - Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday - Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

Wednesday - The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday - quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday - Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.

SAHRR '25 - Rnd 3

I have round 3 of my Stay at Home Round Robin project assembled. You can read all about the project and check out the latest creations HERE this week.

I have SO MANY projects on the go because its the beginning of the year and a little birdie whispered in my ear that I could keep up. Hmmm, wonder who that birdie was? He needs to fly south.

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday, February 7, 2025

Friday Quilt Hop * 2-7-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Buzzing and Bumbling: Tutorials

lots of small projects and gift items; a technique for

drawing faces, make your own satin labels, some assorted

useful bags * more

Threadbare Creations: free pattern

lots of scrappy block patterns; love the strippy hearts on page one,

follow thru with the 'older posts' button for several pages

of more free patterns; LOVE the candy apple blocks on page 2

Quilt Patterns and Tutorials — Crafty Staci

lots of unique blocks and projects

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week. Thank so much for stopping by.

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Bear Hugs # 3

Angela of Soscrappy gave us plenty of notice for the RSC challenge that the color for February is blue. I also made a personal challenge this year to make lots of things with rails or bricks AND I joined the Feb & March challenge at Heartstrings making smallish quilts for a bear/stuffed toys donation drive. Funny how a new year makes you think you can take on lots of new challenges.

Here is bear hug # 3 (#2 pink one is not quilted yet). All cut from the blue scrap bin finished at 24" square.

The backing is a royal blue fleece. I always use batting, so I make sure to not quilt it too densely so it stays cuddly. I used a large arc ruler to fmq quilt diagonally over each 4 patch unit and royal blue Glide thread. I purchased some labels to stitch to all the items I make for our church Foster Children Closet.