Calendar Girl

Another finish from the UFO pile!

Calendar Girl 83 x 93 inches

'Calendar Girl' is a queen size Row-by-Row quilt of the months of the year.  It started in 2011 when Lyn Brown posted free patterns on her web site for a monochromatic row-by-row quilt.  Quite a challenge for her students!  But, I saved the patterns and made a number of them in full color rather than monochromatic.

The blocks I used for January, March, May, July, August, and September are all from her patterns.  Then I branched out a bit.  I used her baskets for April, but added Easter eggs from a great pastel striped fabric instead of her rabbits. The rest are other row-by-row patterns I found or blocks that I made up into a row, and are totally different from Lyn's quilt. 

The song 'Calendar Girl' kept running through my head as I quilted, and so that's what I named her in the end.  Why not?

"I love, I love, I love my little Calendar girl.  Every day, every day, of the year!"

Pilgrim Ships

Here it is, March already!  The resolve to finish up some languishing UFO's this winter is still going strong.

The next project I tackled was what to do with this piece of wonderful fabric that I have had for years!  The colors are so soft and lovely.  Rich brown and rust, purple and teal.  It's called Pilgrim Fathers designed by Fabric Freedom, London England.  The squares have tall ships, a deer, a fish and a goose (or brown swan maybe.)

Quiltmaker Magazine had a pattern a few years  back called "Chopsticks."  Some adapting had to be done to fit the size squares from my feature fabric, but all worked out in the end.



Here's the final result.  The quilting and binding was finished by lunch time today, then a quick spin in the washer and dryer to get out the markings in the border.  Whoop Whoop!  Nearly every bit of that fabric was used up too.  There is only one square and four partial squares left for the scrap bin.


This is my third Queen size finished up since New Years.  I'm stuck on the next one, but that's another post.

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