I've been busy finishing quilts this summer.
I did two quilts using the
Lone Star Baby Quilt Tutorial from Diary of a Quilter and I will probably do more. It's such an easy pattern that whips up in no time flat, and it uses ten-inch squares and is therefore great for layer cakes and fat quarter collections. Which I have plenty of. I made this first quilt with a pack of five fat quarters of imported French fabric I got at the 2018 AQS Quilt Show in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the second below from an assortment of French Provencal fabrics I've had for years. They were just waiting for the right project.
Both quilts finished at about 40" square, making them a good size for baby or crib quilts. Alternatively, you could add some borders for a larger and more conventional throw size.
For this quilt, I took a bunch of ugly jelly roll strips (ugly to me) and cut them at 8.5 inches, and then cut white fabric 4.5 x 2.5 and sewed them to make a 12" finished strip. Then I just alternated them, kind of. It's a longer story than that but that was the idea. This quilt finished at 48" square and is a great throw size, at least for me.
This arrangement was based on a commercial pattern called
Stick Shift. I revised the measurements for what I had on hand. This quilt will be a charity quilt or a last-minute gift. I like it more than I thought I would, but I don't want to keep it.
The other two quilts I finished recently were (1) a charity quilt for my guild I didn't take a picture of, because I just quilted and finished it only, and (2) a gift I can't post for about six months.
