Friday, November 10, 2017

Periodically {Two Periodic Table Quilts}

If you've been around Little Bunny Quilts for a long while, you might remember that I started this blog while I was in graduate school studying chemistry. This year, my two best friends from undergrad both started teaching chemistry at the college level and I have been secretly working on something special for each of them!

I had actually made a periodic table wall hanging in 2014 for my old adviser so it was easy to repeat the process! I even kept nearly all of the color assignments the same, with the exception of swapping out the black background for white backgrounds in my new versions.



Within each wall hanging, there are no fabric repeats! Each wall hanging has all of the same fabrics, but just laid out differently. I was able to pull all of the squares from gigantic box of 2" squares that I "borrowed" from my mom. 

These two wall hangings are slightly shorter than the original, but I did the same free motion quilting in these -- cursive lettering of all of the chemical symbols for the elements! In the background of each, I did a simple meander.



The backing, binding, and hanging pocket of each quilt came from my box of "large scraps" -- usually the ends of yardage left over from projects. I pieced the battings too -- these were truly scrappy projects!

The first quilt backing is pieced with a large navy and green stripe print and a section of green left from my Christmas Twirls quilt. The second quilt backing is pieced with three different fabrics - a black leaf print, a magenta dot, and the white stripe print leftover from the backing of the Clover Sunshine quilt.


I used the same green floral print for both pockets. I used some of the leftover backing fabric from my Favorite Frames quilt for the binding for the first quilt.



For the second quilt, I used burgundy dot print (also used in one of my Firecracker quilts) for the binding.



These are in the mail to my friends and I can't wait for them to get them!

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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Faceted Friendship Star {New Pattern Available!}

Hooray! The pattern for the Faceted Friendship Star quilt is now available!


A fun thing about the Faceted Friendship Star and Faceted Churn Dash patterns is that the borders are interchangeable! Both patterns are perfect for using up "waste triangles" from stitch and flip units too!

These patterns are perfect for those 2.5" scraps in your stash!

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Monday, November 6, 2017

Magnolia Mystery QAL {Flower Blocks}

A new month means that there are new directions for the Magnolia Mystery Quilt! This month, we are making blocks out of the units we had made in September and October!

This month we made 32 full flower blocks and 8 half flower blocks. Cheryl gave some helpful tips for those of us who are making scrappy versions of the quilt which were great! 

First, I made the sets including half blocks. Each set has one right-facing half block, one left-facing half block, and one full block all with the same blue fabric. 


For the remainder of the full flower blocks, I made them in sets of four. In total, I used seven different blue fabrics and five different red fabrics in my blocks. The green fabric is the same throughout.


Given that we've made half blocks, I think that our quilt will end up on point, but I'm still unsure how everything will come together! We'll also be doing more cutting in a later month, so we'll see where that takes us!


Friday, November 3, 2017

Pink Palaces {RSC October 2017 + IB Giveaway}

I did technically get three pink blocks done for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge done in October! These three pink blocks bring my house block total to 42.


Originally I had planned to make 48 blocks, I realized that butting all of the blocks right up next to each other might look a little odd so I think I am done making blocks for this top. My plan is to put sashing in between the rows of houses to make each row of houses look like they each are on their own road.

I realized that I never had an Island Batik giveaway in October, so that's on the agenda for today as well! Up for grabs is 20 2.5 inch strips from the Northern Woods Collection along with a 1/4 yard cut of one of the brown prints! I used the other half of the strips in my Faceted Friendship Star quilt.



Want to win? Any comment on this post is entered to win and I'll pick a winner on Tuesday!

Our winner is Dianne from Little Penguin Quilts!




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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Brutal Honesty {November 2017}

Yep, it's that time again already! October wasn't extremely productive but I did finish two quilts!

These were my goals for October:

1. Finish Stash Bee Star Quilt - done!
2. Finish October IBA project - done!
3. Start quilting Meadow Mystery Quilt - didn't even touch this project!
4. Put together Top Spin top - done!

1. Farmer's Wife Quilt (RSC 2016 project) -- Hoping to pick up this quilt from Michigan soon.

2. Traveling Quilt Bee (2016) -- My sister has this quilt to add on a section of her choosing.

3. Coast to Coast Bee -- My "quilty wish" was April Showers fabric for my border. I am waiting on a few more packages to arrive before I start!

4. Top Spin leaders and enders -- The top is done! Now to figure out how it will be quilted.


5. Meadow Mystery QAL -- While I wanted to get this done in October, I have things with deadlines to try to get done first so this will have to be pushed back for the time being.

6. Pineapple Stash Bee Blocks -- No progress

7. Summer on the Coast Quilt -- No progress

8. Monthly Wall Hangings -- No progress

9. Sew Kitschy Blocks -- No progress

10. Romantic Garden Quilt -- No progress

11. Mini Monthly Wall Hangings -- No progress

12. Happy Houses blocks -- I cut out parts for 5 houses and have made three thus far -- post coming Friday!

13. Birthstone blocks -- No progress

14. Monthly Island Batik Ambassador projects -- You can see my finished October project here! November is our "off month" so I will be starting on my December and January projects this month.


15. Gathering Mystery Quilt with Cora's Quilts -- Taken to the long arm quilter.

16. Magnolia Mystery QAL -- All done with our October assignment and planning to work on November's assignment this weekend.


17 and 18. Blue in Bloom quilts -- Need to finish by mid-December!

19. Secret scrappy leader and ender projects -- tops are complete and ready to quilt!

New projects:

I am doing a Moda Bake Shop project for this month that will be published around Thanksgiving! No other new projects allowed the rest of this year!

Here are my goals for November:

1. Finish quilt for Moda Bake Shop
2. Start December IBA project
3. Start quilting Blue in Bloom Quilts

Happy Wednesday!