Yellow mini Dresden

I have made my yellow mini Dresden block for June.

These are the Dresden's I have made as part of Rainbow Scrap Challenge this year.

They measure about 7 1/2" across, so if I am considering just making nine so I get a nice size wall hanging.  

I think a linen background would be nice, but not sure if I want to use linen for the centres as well. 

What do you think?

Happy quilting, Sue.

Red and White Dresden flimsy finish

There has been a fair bit of denial happening in my sewing room.

 Denial that I had lost my tape measure.  Denial that I would be stupid enough to leave it in a cupboard!

Denial that I had an hour in my day to sew on a border to finish this quilt.

 Sew I stopped fighting the negative thoughts and just got on with it. 

To say I am fairly happy too finish this top is an understatement.  I have had a burning desire to make a red and white Dresden quilt for a long long long time.  And finally here it is.  

Unfortunately there are two quilts ahead of it in the queue at the long arm quilters.  So until there is more cash to be had it will stay a top for awhile longer.

Still it is finished!  And I have "found" my tape measure.  So all is good in my world again.

Happy quilting Sue.  

Quilt Camp - Part 5

Phew, you finally made it to my work from  quilt camp!

I wanted to get this top sewn together, so started off sewing the backgrounds above the flowers and the sashings to join the columns. I was very lucky to get some neutral fabric donated to me, to enable a scrappy pieced background.

Alas once I was done we decided the quilt was plenty long enough but not wide enough!

Searching through the box I found plenty of left over blocks, but not necessarily in the colour I wanted.  So we fiddled and I made a few new blocks to make a sixth row.

I also wasted time making four patches for "dirt" at the bottom of the sprouts and then decided to not use them.  The Scrappy Sprouts quilt finished so much bigger then I expected (88x88") so I sent it off with my friendly long arm quilter.  It was also too big for a good floor photo!

I am really happy with this quilt and cannot wait to get it on my bed when winter arrives.

I couldn't come to a decision about sashing, none of the colours I had with me worked.  So I sewed all the Dresden blocks together and I am nowt contemplating what to do for a border instead.

These half square triangles needed an injection of red.  

But when I went shopping I came home with a red and orange

stripe and a blue and orange stripe instead.

I made triangles from the red/orange stripe and was happy with the extra colour.   Equally excited that I got all the blocks stitched together before I went home from camp!

Now just need to see if the blue/orange strip looks OK for a border : )

Happy quilting Sue.