Scrapbox Quilts: July 2025

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Purple Tops Q4K

It seems I've been churning out tops the last couple months. Time to get really busy with the machine quilting and get these moving on to their new families.

This first one I did probably in May but the fabrics didnt take well to an indoor photo, so I finally got an outside pic this morning. I think it is 36 x 40 ish - a free pattern at Storied Quilts. It truly is a 2-hour quilt. Someday I plan to experiment with a few more fat quarters to make it larger. You can get the pattern HERE .

This little topper took longer to construct but it is really sweet. It measures 42 inches square and it reminds me of buttons and bows, so I call it Purple Bows. I used dimensions shared by our friend Dee of Stashbusters group. I tried the traditional way of constructing, but dont enjoy that method, so I used the chisel die to cut my bricks with the angles cut off for me. I then just had to fold in half to find the center and trim the ends down about one inch to make them come out square. I used a pink with dotsTula print for the background and some purple.

I'm joining these lovely 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

Blog - A Quiltery

Friday - Alycia Quilts

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

Friday, July 18, 2025

Friday Quilt Hop * 7-18-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

PATTERNS & TUTORIALS | Aunt Henri

holiday centerpieces, a few quilts

and videos on drawing faces

Free Patterns – Jinny Beyer Studio

Jinny Beyer shares many free patterns

Project Index - The Polka Dot Chair

pick a category and follow the rabbit hole

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

Saturday, July 12, 2025

More Lil Bear Hug Quilts

I'm joyfully involved in the Bear Hug Project initiated by Mary Johnson of Heartstrings. You can read about it HERE . I've spent some time catching up with some of my larger projects and now I'm back to getting more lil bear hug quilts finished and donated.

These 2 lil quilt tops were made by Teresa G. I quilted and bound them. One is quilted with diagonal crosshatch and the other is quilted with orange peel design which seems to be my favorite at this time for quilting sets of squares. The backing is from a stripe I had in the stash and the colors matched perfectly.

the back......

My next set of lil bear hugs #'s 19 & 20; these started as orphan test blocks and have been hanging around for several years. I added some strips to bring them up to size

the backs are from pieces of fleece

I'm joining these lovely 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

Blog - A Quiltery

Friday - Alycia Quilts

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

Friday, July 11, 2025

Friday Quilt Hop * 7-11-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Freebies - Suzy Quilts

lots of free patterns here; I especially like Cincinnati,

Ahoy Sailor and Thru the Looking Glass

Scrap Fabric Projects Archives - Suzy Quilts

Start here to discover 7 pages of tutes with handy

little projects

Freebies — Sharon Holland Designs

small items

Tutorials — Sharon Holland Designs

many useful tips

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

Friday, July 4, 2025

Help Challenge Quilt - finished !

I learned all my free motion quilting skills from Angela Walters at Quilting Is My Therapy by participating in her semi-annual challenges. She keeps all the video lessons on her you.tube channel where we hope they can live on forever. I have re-visited videos many times.

My "Help-How Do I Quilt It" Challenge was started Summer 2024? I started with her center panel and the first feather border. I thought it too pretty to stop there, surely it should be queen size! So I fussed over more border styles until I finally settled on this pieced ribbon style border. It was alot of work but miraculously fit wonderfully around the quilt without adjustments.

Here is a post when I had the project pin basted; ready for quilting on my "hand-guided" sit-down Janome. If I remember correctly, I started quilting in the center, got about 2/3 of that portion quilted; then took a detour to make christmas projects ! Why does christmas quilting always take you thru January of the new year?!

This quilt spent much time sitting on my sit down machine table while I indulged in the Lil Bear Hugs project. So far, that will be an on-going mission in my life.

Okay, I had to get past this project, so I could move on. I devoted more effort to its finish, all the while telling myself to quit making queen size quilts!!! In Angela's honor, I did quilt it to death, Lots of Glide threads. It finished at 90 x 99 ! It sure feels bigger than that. I forgot to get a photo of the back fabric, it is a wide back I got at my LQS. I love these ones with multiple colors that can compliment so many designs from the tops. The bobbin thread was Bottom Line white/silver. I just took a quick shot of the back that you can see from the tote the quilt is stored in at the moment.

On with the show .......... photo heavy . While I'm fmq, I dont feel that confident, I just keep on. But when its all done and I look back, I think "Did I really do that?"........ always amazed.

Let's begin with some close-ups; scroll to the end for the full quilt.