I'll be visiting Mom in a week and while I'm there we'll work on two stash quilts together that will be donated at Christmas time through her church's Angel Tree.
We'll make a version of this Sandy Bonsib quilt using a tea dyed muslin I've had for a while for a background and her leftover strips.
We'll also make a green lap size version of this quilt I made for Chris and Becky but we'll use greens and beige fabrics. I have all the strips cut but they've been sitting around for almost a year now so it's time to use them.
Today I pulled fabric and fused the houses for the Bonsib quilt and I'll work on stitching them down by hand using the blanket stitch. There's only 3 of them in the quilt but we're going to add one for a total of 4. Mom doesn't think that's enough of them but I think more would be overkill.
I hadn't pulled out Sandy's Folk Art Quilts book in a while but look at this log cabin on the cover - that would make a great string quilt. I've been wanting to try some free form log cabin blocks using strings anyway so maybe I'll give this one a shot - after I finish up some other projects. Evelyn recently posted a heart quilt that reminded me of one I made from this book.
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I enjoyed looking through your hyperlinks... Have fun!
I still just love that wedding quilt-every time I see it, I want to make at least one! Please make sure to post a picture of the green version. I'm eager to see your Bonsib collaboration quilt, too.
both your plans sound great! I recently won a bunch of double 4-patch blocks in blue & white, similar to your red & white, so I appreciate the inspiration. And, I've made a couple of quilts out of Sandy's book -- love it!
I love the wedding quilt. Does that pattern have a particular name?
Thanks for putting in all the links, it was fun going thru them!
I love that book by Sandy Bonsib. We had her as a guest at guild a couple years ago and got to see almost all the quilts from the book. They are all so wonderful - even way better than they lookin the book!
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