Aunt Addie is ready for quilting

Aunt Addie's Blue Ribbon Quilt is a sew-along from Kathleen Tracy and the top is finished!  The pieces are quite eclectic, all scraps with no rhyme or reason, but it works.  In the end, I only re-made two blocks.  Both contained one contemporary fabric that just didn't play well with others.  Now it's all pinned and ready to quilt!

Aunt Addie's Blue Ribbon Quilt  40 x 48 inches

Cheddarback monthly update

July's installment of Cheddarback by Sentimental Stitches is finished!  The pattern is available free at her shop during the month of it's release, then for sale afterward  at  https://sentimentalstitches.myshopify.com/

 As usual, there are a couple tweaks to make it my own.  The door and windows on the red schoolhouse didn't play nice, so I just took them off all together.  And, I decided there was going to be  enough of the white sashing fabric (just barely) that I could go all around the whole quilt and then add a border at the end to make it fit our bed.

Cheddarback quilt along - Months 1 through 5.

Forget me not

Here is my version of another of the little quilts being shared as a remembrance of Cheri Saffiote Payne, a wonderful primitive quilt designer.  Many of her designs have been put in files on a Facebook page "Quilts by Cheri - friendship group".  She started the page before her passing, and it is maintained by her dear friends.

Though I never knew Cheri personally, I have enjoyed making a number of her designs.   I frequently use scraps from my dad's clothing in them.  A wonderful way to remember them both.

Forget Me Not  15 x 16 inches