I am participating in a sew along sponsored by Crazy Moose Quilts in Greenville Maine. We have been getting 4 blocks a month for the past 10 months, pattern is called Women of the Bible. Two patterns arrive on the first of the month and the next two on the 15th. Each comes with a story of the woman it represents. I decided to do my blocks in Christmas reds and greens. It goes together like a puzzle, with filler blocks and partial seams. The picture on the left is part B and will be in the upper right hand corner of the quilt. On the right are parts A and C. Two more sections to put together and it will be ready for borders. Looking forward to seeing the compeleted top!
Even though I am concentrating on getting UFO’s done this year, I saw some blocks on facebood–Bonnie Hunter’s “Crumb”technique reverse appliqued and used in a modern looking quilt–lots of negative space. I had lots of little pieces of fabric left over from my last 2 “Women of the Bible” blocks ( a SAL from Crazy Moose Quilts in Greenville, Maine) and decided to just try one block with those fabrics. I think when I finish this SAL, I may do a few more of these. This combines two of my favorite things to do–crazy patches and applique. 
These are blocks 39 and 40 of the ” Women of the Bible” SAL. We received 4 patterns a month, 2 on the first of the month and 2 on the fifteenth of the month, for a total of 40 blocks. Each was very well written and my blocks came out perfectly to the right size ( a combination of 10 and 15″ blocks). It will be put together with setting blocks and I’ll soon start that part of the project. Each pattern also came with the story of the woman it represents. I used reds and greens throughout, using fabrics from my stash. I don’t think I had to buy more that a couple of fat quarters to add to it.
I finished hand quilting this bow tie quilt made of Christmas style fabrics. This is the first time I kept track of hours of quilting and I put in 61.5 hours on the hand quilting and binding. These blocks were made about 5 years ago.
This is a “disappearing 9 patch” pattern. One of the members of our Georges Valley chapter of the Maine Pine Tree Quilt Guild gave a class on making this block. I wanted to try the technique and used blocks I had made between 15 and 20 years ago! I wondered why I bought some of those fabrics!
This is a Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt from 2017–Alletaire. I only made some of the blocks and did not arrange it in the way she had suggested.
Over the years I have accumulated quite a collection of batiks. This is a crib sized quilt made from left over squares from a queen size simple patchwork quilt. That large one still needs to be machine quilted. I did use quite a bit of my batik in these two quilts. 
This little pillow top was done in needlepunch. I think I got the pattern at Attic Heirlooms in Damariscotta, Maine. 
Last of my latest “old projects” is this 12″ square pillow top using another needlepunch pattern I bought at Attic Heirlooms in Damariscotta, Maine.
I made these blocks in the past 4 to 5 years and found again last year and made them into a top. Now I finally have it pin basted and am hand quilting it. It is in mostly reds and greens, with a few blue blocks thrown in. Most fabrics are wintry prints and I plan to put this out at Christmas time. I used a lot of scrap neutrals for the background fabrics and like the way it has come out. This is the 5th top I am working on, continuing my 2020 goal of finishing up old WIP’s. Finished 4 others, 3 quilted on my domestic machine and one that I sent out to the long arm quilter.
Just finished pin basting two UFO’s from past years. The blue quilt on top was started in late 2019. Blocks for the green and brown snowball quilt were cut out years ago and put together sometime in 2019. I plan to machine quilt the blue one on the diagonal . I will machine quilt the snow ball quilt along the seam lines and then hand quilt a design in the blocks. Hopefully that will be done before the end of spring.
This bow tie quilt has been hanging around for probably 2 years! I am hand quilting this one–nice way to spend the cold Maine evenings!
Last of the pictures! These are the quilts I have finished this year. My goal for 2020 was to get as many UFO’s done as possible, not to purchase any more fabrics/craft supplies until at least 10 are done. I think I am up to 8 finished projects, so it should be a possible goal. The bottom quilt in this pile is a hidden nine patch. One of my quilt groups had a demo of this block at one of our meetings in 2019 and I decided to try this with some of the 12 inch nine patches I have stored in a bin that I did in the late 90’s! Next is a Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt from 2017 ( I think I have the year right)! The next quilt is a batik simple patchwork. I wanted to use up some of the batiks I have collected over the years and this was made from leftover squares from the blue quilt I have in the first picture. Lastly is Wild and Goosey, another Bonnie Hunter block.
This quilt top has been at least 3 years in the making. It is a Bonnie Hunter paper pieced pattern, Wild and Goosey. I am piecing the back from left over fabrics from the top and from large pieces of solids in my stash. I will probably machine quilt this in simple straight lines–hopefully by the end of winter it will be done. Measures about 64″ x 72″.
Little owl pincushion from a pattern I found on the Sewshecan blog site. Enjoyed making this little creature and I am going to try a few other fabric combinations.
This is the last few sprigs of lavender from my garden. I had to replant because my plant did not make it through our last winter. Hopefully I will be luckier next spring.
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