Finished Triangle Quilt

Hooray! It's finished!

Here are some work in progress pictures that I didn't have a chance to post:

Quilting:

Trimming

Finished Quilt! Sorry, no artsy pictures today because my husband isn't here to hold it up for me and it's raining outside.

I quilted it with a meandering curly cue and found this taupe-grey with metallic dots fabric at Joann to use at the backing that matches perfectly to the fabrics in the quilt! I also used it for the binding.

This was my ALYoF goal for April and I am so excited to be 4 for 4 this year! Now to think of what I need to finish in May!

Linking up with The Sassy Quilter, ALYOF, Fabric Tuesday, and Linky Tuesday!

Finished Ocean Waves Mini Quilt

I think that this quilt had been a WIP for almost 8 (yes, 8!) years. It was high time that it got finished!

This quilt is (sort of) from the book Say It With Quilts and was intended to be a bed sized quilt. But alas, there was an error in the pattern and all my triangles were cut half the size that they were supposed to be! So after a lot of trial and error and seam ripping, this mini quilt was born.

I randomly pieced all of the triangle units together, and there are something like 20 different colors of fabric -- and this was done far, far before the age of pre-cuts!

My mom was lovely enough to machine quilt some simple loops and swirls in black thread on it for me and to machine bind it to perfection! I'm planning to use it as a table topper on our patio.

Quilt Stats:

Pattern: Ocean Waves, based on pattern in Say It With Quilts

Fabrics: mishmash of solids from the almighty scrap bin

Quilting: loops and swirls in black by Lori K.

Size: 27 inches square.

Linking up with Finish It Up Friday! Don't forget to enter the traveling stash giveaway and if you haven't had a chance yet to join in our new QAL, we are only four blocks in and it's easy to catch up!

Traveling Stash Box Giveaway!!!

I've been entering all of the contests for the traveling stash boxes that have been traveling around the quilting blog world since I started blogging and I finally got my hands on one! Woohoo!

I got the box from Jeanne at Pinehurst Projects! Here is all of what was in the box when I opened it:

There are a whole lot of novelty prints in there! Here's what I took:

Here's all that I added:

Yes, that is a copy of Seams To Me by Anna Maria Horner! I'm trying to clear out before we move and it needs a new home!

Here are the rules:

1. You must be an active blogger to receive the box.

2. Anything within the box is free for the taking. Just replace everything that you take with something of comparable quality.

3. Post about receiving the box, host the giveaway to pass on the box to another blogger, and send the box in a timely manner!

4. The box is heavy, so this will open to US bloggers only.

Since this box was split into two boxes by Samantha at Sami's Crafts two years ago, it has visited 32 different bloggers! I am planning to transfer it from its current box to a Flat Rate box so it will be easy peasy to keep passing around.

To enter, just comment with your blog address to confirm that you are an active blogger! I will close the contest next Wednesday and announce the winner next Thursday.

Scrap Happy.

While I was in Michigan this past weekend for Easter, I did my usual raid of the scrap bins at home. I picked a few things with some new projects in mind.

All of these scraps are left over from a project where cutting directions were wrong in the pattern so all of the triangles were half the size that they were supposed to be. Part of the triangles got made into a project (that I'll be showing off later this week!) but I still have a lot of triangles. I'm planning to make them into shelf scarves for my baker's rack.

I also brought one of my mom's books and some fabrics to some blue and grey batiks that I've been collecting and found a great pattern for them.

I made all of the four patches called for in the pattern and then started working on the triangle units.

I made myself a pattern for the triangles to paper piece them, of course. I'm going to have to add in some additional cream or grey background fabric to have enough to make the whole quilt.

Linking up with Freshly Pieced at WIP Wednesday!!

Hip To Be Square Kits Now Available!

We are excited to announce that the Honey, Bunny, and Doll Etsy shop has expanded our fabric shop!

We are starting small, but we hope to expand a lot over this year!

We now have four colors of 108" wide backing fabric as well as black and white Kona cotton! Here are the current colors we have for 108" wide fabric -- at only $13 or $14 a yard, depending on what color you choose!

We are also now offering kits for our Hip To Be Square pattern in the colorway shown in the original quilt including binding!

Don't hesitate to contact us with any questions or requests! We want to offer what our readers are interested in buying!