Saturday, March 19, 2016

2016 RSC March Purple and Yellow Week 3, Charity Baby Quilt


This was a good week with lots of fun playing with purple and yellow. I'll add these three 7" x 10" scrappy batik mug rugs to my collection of future gifts, donations. Mug rugs are fun to sew. I think they look like miniature quilts.


I'll also add these four Bonnie Hunter Happy Scrappy Houses to my collection. I need 42 house blocks to make a quilt. To see what others made with their purple and yellow, go here.


This happy, easy charity baby quilt was made using 16 WOF 2.5" strips to make sixteen 8.5" strip blocks. It has a 4" light border.


The backing is a pretty tone on tone blue print. The 6" coin strip sewed into the backing. The strip was pieced using scraps from the 16 WOF strips used in the quilt top. I pulled four 2.5" x 6" pieces from scraps to make the coin strip long enough to fill the width of the backing. When I'm unsure of a binding color, I often pull something red or purple. Red seemed to tie this little quilt together. Everything came from stash. It's quilted with a very loose free motion meander and finished at 39" square. I'll turn it in during our monthly quilt guild meeting Tuesday.


These four patriotic R/W/B 8.5" blocks will be donated Tuesday. One of our guild committees turns donated patriotic blocks into Home Town Hero Quilts.

14 comments:

Angie said...

Great purple houses! I want to live in that neighborhood!

Deb A said...

Minions in the house!!!!! Love the houses you have built this week.

Nell's Quilts said...

Cats and minions live in lovely purple houses. Terrific.

Quiltdivajulie said...

Great work this week -- lots of worthwhile stitching.

The Joyful Quilter said...

Your charity quilt turned out wonderfully!! I'm shocked that you had time for even MORE sewing besides. Got PURPLE?!

Cathy said...

Lots of scrappy goodness!

Elaine/Muddling Through said...

My, oh my! Everything looks great. I really like the donation baby quilt. So bright and happy!

PaulaB quilts said...

All of your projects this week are so colorful. I can't decide which I like best. Probably between the mug rugs and the baby quilt. A very productive week, congrats.

LIttle Penguin Quilts said...

Cute purple houses! They look great with the yellow backgrounds

Mystic Quilter said...

Adorable tilted houses!

Laura said...

Love your purple houses! I spied Minions!! So much fun! The baby quilt is beautiful! You did have a good quilting week :) Happy Spring my friend!

Terri said...

Hi Shelia,
I love all your purply goodies. Everything is so happy! Very pretty! Thanks for sharing your talents.
Hugs

Sally Trude said...

Oh no! I've resisted minion fabric up until now. But a house full on minions is too good to be true.

Bonnie said...

How cute are those happy houses. Your little Minions and critters sure add zest to the houses. Love it.

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