Two more finishes

I thought I had already posted about the latest strippie, but the only thing I'd shown so far had been a little bit of the quilting-in-progress.

Here's the whole thing:

70" x 90"

Whither September?

... and when I looked up, it was October already!

 That's how I felt when I realized I hadn't posted anything since the end of August. What the heck, September?? Where did you go while I wasn't looking???

I wasn't idle, that's for sure. This orphaned piece from a year ago . . .

Summoning Fall

A couple of months ago several hunks and kits and collections of fabrics magically appeared on the "Show and Tell" table at the Community First! Quilters' monthly meeting (I suspect someone was clearing out her sewing room in preparation for moving). Once the dust had settled and everyone took what they wanted, I brought the remaining hunks and kits and collections home with me to either add to our stash, or list on ebay.

There were 4 panels that called out to me, however, with a promise of an easy twin-sized quilt to create. And it was! I had plenty of yellows, oranges, greens, and browns to either pull from my 2.5" square collection, or cut from my own drawers of hunks and chunks. (Note to self: 4:30 pm in late August is a terrible time for picture-taking. The sun casts a shadow on the fence, and the temperature is still in the 100s.)

70" x 90"

Circling back

The other day this popped up on my YouTube "Recommended" suggestions:

Bad to the Bone

Another strippie from novelty fabrics, destined for Sleep In Heavenly Peace:

Front: 70" x 90"

Diamonds and Mouse Ears and Bears, Oh My!

I've accepted a

Challenge from another blog.

Platform is haiku. 

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Sixth kiddie quilt done! 

More of those unending "squares"

set in fave pattern. 

Same size as last one.

Batting scraps Franken'ed for this.

Hope rain comes today! 

Squares--so many squares!

In the six or so months during which I wasn't blogging, I was dealing with a large influx of legacy stash donations to Community First! Village (its Art House, from which we got thousands of yards of overflow that couldn't be stored or used there) and also directly to Community First! Quilters. Along with the yardage and FQs and scraps left over from garment making, came really crappily-cut (air quote) six-inch (close air quote) squares, hundreds (perhaps even thousands) of them.

There were several multiples, so I started sorting and matching and grouping things together with an eye toward making simple quilts. The subject matter varied wildly, but it was a fun challenge. With the extra fabric thrust upon us I could flesh out the groups of squares into something that ended up around 59"x79" (5.25" finished in an 11x15 grid).

Yesterday I put the final stitches into one of them:

58" x 78"