Summer Solstice QAL {Finished Top}

It's the end of the road for the Summer Solstice QAL, which means it is time to link up all of the finished tops over at Happy Quilting! 

I didn't cut my sashing strips at the beginning because I was a little tight on my background fabric, so I figured out how big I could make my strips with the fabric I had left, and I ended up with 1.5 inch unfinished strips as my sashing.

Here's my finished top!

(Don't mind my lemon print kitchen rugs! My kitchen has the best lighting after dark!)

My quilt top measures 51 inches square, which is a perfect baby quilt size, I think. I do have another black print from this line that is a smaller scale leaf print that I could use for a border (plus pieces of my other black and white fabrics!) but I don't think I am going to do borders with this one and keep it as is.

I am planning to quilt this one myself (at some point!) and it will likely have lots of curls and swirls.

Sharing at Happy Quilting, Fabric Tuesday, and Sew Cute Tuesday!

Lipstick {RSC September}

After unintentionally skipping last month in the RSC, I am back and ready to make some red blocks!

Here's my red stash:

I don't seem to have lots of red scraps, per se -- it seems like I have a lot of larger cuts leftover from borders and backings.

I was able to get one Farmer's Wife block done today:

#78 - Shooting Star

Now on to work on the rest of the blocks!

Sharing at Scrap Happy Saturday and Oh Scrap!

Summer Solstice {Finished Blocks}

After another busy weekend involving over 20 hours in the car over the course of four days, I was finally  able to get back to my sewing machine last night. 

I got working on my Summer Solstice QAL to finish putting together my blocks. I had sewn together the "parts" of the bigger block before our trip two weeks ago and they had been sitting and waiting to be finished. These went together extremely easily for being 24 inch finished blocks with over 50 units in each!

I chose to do the four block layout; here are all four of my blocks together.

Next, I will be working on the sashing and borders to finish up the top, which should be relatively simple but I don't think I have quite enough of my background fabric to sash as the pattern. I have extra of both floral fabrics that I used and I have another yard of a black print that I didn't cut into yet.

For some reason, this fabric (which is definitely mottled) looks more mottled in these pictures and in the blocks than it did as uncut yardage. Hopefully that doesn't take away from the pattern of the blocks!

Sharing at Let's Bee Social!

July and August Stash Bee Blocks

If you hadn't guessed by my lack of posts, August was a blur. Between family visiting the first two weekends of the month and weddings last weekend and this weekend as well as currently being the owner of a mighty fine head cold, sleeping has won out over stitching one too many times. Once we're back next week, things should get back to normal around here.

But until then, here are my last two months' worth of Stash Bee blocks.

In July, we made feather blocks. For some reason, mine came out way too big and I had to remake them. Needless to say, I won't be making a quilt of this one myself.

In August, we made fun tic-tac-toe blocks. I had to dig around for the right color blue, but I did finally find it!

Now on to September! The weather here hasn't permitted me to take pictures of one of my finishes, and I will share that next week! :)

Summer on the Coast QAL: Finished quilt tops!

Today I'm excited to show off some finished quilt tops from our Summer on the Coast quilt along!

Here's my throw sized quilt:

Here's Lori's quilt:

Here's Sylvia's quilt:

Here's TamJane's quilt:

Thank you to all who participated! If you have a finished quilt or quilt top, please share it with me and I will add it to this collection!

Sharing at Sew Cute Tuesday!